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A child's body was found encased in concrete in Colorado as the search for 2 other kids continues 02/01/2024 05:51pm • PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — A child’s body was found encased in concrete in a Colorado storage unit, and officers in Pueblo announced this week they are searching for two other children as part of the homicide investigation to determine if they are safe. The remains were discovered on Jan. 10 when the What to know as Republicans governors consider sending more National Guard to the Texas border 02/01/2024 05:33pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — As Republicans cheer on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's escalating feud with the Biden administration over immigration enforcement, some governors are considering deploying National Guard members to the border — again. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday was among the first to c In California, Black lawmakers share a reparations plan with few direct payments 02/01/2024 05:31pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California's Legislative Black Caucus released a slate of reparations bills to implement ideas from the state's landmark task force on the issue. The proposals include potential compensation for property seized from Black owners, but do not call for widespread direct cash paym Climate activist Greta Thunberg goes on trial in London for blocking oil and gas conference 02/01/2024 04:53pm • LONDON (AP) — Climate activist Greta Thunberg spoke defiantly about her mission outside court Thursday on the first day of her trial for refusing to leave a protest that blocked the entrance to a major oil and gas industry conference in London last year. Thunberg, 21, was among more than two dozen Girl stabbed with box cutter during fight at Montgomery County middle school 02/01/2024 04:52pm • A girl was stabbed during a fight Thursday afternoon at a Montgomery County, Maryland, middle school, according to authorities. The fight happened at Benjamin Banneker Middle School in Burtonsville just before 2 p.m., according to a Montgomery County police spokeswoman. One girl stabbed another w UN warns of spike in killings and kidnappings across Haiti as deployment of armed force stalls 02/01/2024 04:47pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — More than 2,300 people were killed, injured or kidnapped in Haiti from October to December last year, a nearly 10% increase compared with the previous quarter, according to a new U.N. report released Thursday. The number of killings alone spiked to more than 1,600 duri Biden sanctions Israeli settlers accused of attacking Palestinians and peace activists in West Bank 02/01/2024 04:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday issued an executive order that targets Israeli settlers in the West Bank who have been accused of attacking Palestinians and Israeli peace activists in the occupied territory, imposing financial sanctions and visa bans in an initial round against f Live updates | UK could recognize Palestine before a final peace deal with Israel, Cameron says 02/01/2024 04:33pm • Britain could officially recognize a Palestinian state after a cease-fire in Gaza without waiting for the outcome of future talks between Israel and the Palestinians on a two-state solution, U.K. Foreign Secretary David Cameron said Thursday. However, Cameron said no recognition could come while Ham Who freed Flaco? One year later, celebrity owl's escape from Central Park Zoo remains a mystery 02/01/2024 04:16pm • NEW YORK (AP) — This New York love story begins with a criminal act of sabotage. Under cover of darkness a year ago Friday, someone breached a waist-high fence and slipped into the Central Park Zoo. Once inside, they cut a hole through a steel mesh cage, freeing a majestic Eurasian eagle-owl na Former Auburn star receiver, College Football Hall of Famer Terry Beasley dies at 73 02/01/2024 03:50pm • AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Terry Beasley, a former Auburn star receiver and College Football Hall of Famer, has died of an apparent suicide, according to police. He was 73. St. Clair County Coroner Dennis Russell said Beasley was declared dead at about 5:15 p.m. Wednesday. Moody Police Chief Reece Smith Police in Georgia responding to gun shots at home detain 19 people, probe possible sex trafficking 02/01/2024 03:15pm • SOUTH FULTON, Ga. (AP) — Police in an Atlanta-area city responding to shots fired at a home on Thursday found numerous women there and are investigating the possibility the residence was used for sex trafficking, authorities said. South Fulton police detained 19 people at the home, most of them wo Arkansas police chief arrested and charged with kidnapping 02/01/2024 02:56pm • EUDORA, Ark. (AP) — The police chief in Eudora, Arkansas, has been arrested and charged with kidnapping. The felony kidnapping charge stems from Police Chief Michael Pitts’ actions in October 2023, Arkansas State Police said in a statement. “Chief Pitts denies the allegations and we intend to 23 people arrested after demonstrators block traffic in DC, briefly snarling morning commute 02/01/2024 02:30pm • Nearly two dozen people were arrested Thursday morning after Pro-Palestinian demonstrators blocked several major roadways in D.C., briefly snarling traffic Thursday morning. A total of 23 people were arrested on charges of "crowding, obstructing or incommoding" which is the legal term for blockin Prosecutors detail possible expert witnesses in federal case against officers in Tyre Nichols death 02/01/2024 02:19pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis Police Department trainers are prepared to testify in the federal civil rights case against four former Memphis police officers in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols that the officers used force inconsistent with their training and failed to prevent their colleagues fr California teenager charged with swatting faces adult charges in Florida 02/01/2024 01:56pm • SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A California teenager accused of swatting a Florida mosque has been arrested and transported across the country to face felony charges. Alan Winston Filion, 17, was arrested Jan. 18 by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on a warrant from Seminole County, Florida, ac