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Homicide suspect fatally shot by New Carrollton police after stealing multiple vehicles and shooting at least 2 victims, officials say 01/31/2024 05:22am • The suspect in a string of shootings and carjackings that stretched from D.C. into Prince George's County, Maryland, over 12 hours and left one person dead and another wounded was fatally shot by two New Carrollton police officers early Tuesday, authorities said. The man, who was armed, was shot France downsizes Paris 2024 opening ceremony crowd to around 300,000 spectators 01/31/2024 04:59am • PARIS (AP) ��� French Interior minister Gerald Darmanin said Wednesday that some 300,000 spectators will be able to attend the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics, about half the size of what was originally planned. The giant show on the River Seine on July 26 will mark the first time that an op There���s a new category for African musicians at the Grammys. Here���s what you need to know about the nominees 01/31/2024 04:52am • Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) ��� For the first time, African music will have its own category at the Grammys. The Recording Academy will showcase three new categories for this year���s awards, including ���Best African Music Performance��� ��� featuring some of Afrobeats��� global superstars. ���By intro South Korean opposition leader who was stabbed in an attack accuses president of divisive politics 01/31/2024 02:51am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� A South Korean opposition leader who was stabbed in an attack and underwent surgery earlier this month accused the country's conservative president on Wednesday of promoting divisive politics and worsening an already toxic discourse in the nation. Lee Jae-myung also urge El Salvador VP acknowledges mistakes in war on gangs but says country is 'not a police state' 01/30/2024 09:36pm • SAN SALVADOR (AP) ��� El Salvador���s government "made mistakes��� in its war against the country���s gangs, but has never undermined the country���s democracy to consolidate power, according to the man likely to be reelected vice president. F��lix Ulloa, temporarily on leave as El Salvador���s vice Hours of additional video show what officers did and said after fatal beating of Tyre Nichols 01/30/2024 09:33pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ��� About 21 hours of newly released video and audio are revealing more about what first responders including the five fired police officers charged in the violent beating death of Tyre Nichols did and said the night Nichols was pulled over and mortally injured. The dozens of rec Maine governor announces series of proposals following state's deadliest shooting 01/30/2024 08:45pm • AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) ��� Maine Gov. Janet Mills called Tuesday evening for strengthening the state's yellow flag law, boosting background checks for private sales of weapons and bolstering mental crisis care, telling lawmakers that there's broad support for action to prevent future tragedies followin Friends, family speak out after former DC BOE member shot during carjacking spree 01/30/2024 08:36pm • The friend of a man who was critically injured during a string of shootings and carjackings that spanned from D.C. to Prince George's County, Maryland, says he can't make sense of the attack. While D.C. police have not publicly identified Mike Gill as one of the victims of the violent rampage, fa Police in Sri Lanka use tear gas to disperse opposition protest against dire economic conditions 01/30/2024 08:28pm • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) ��� Sri Lanka's police used Tuesday tear gas and water cannons to disperse an opposition protest in the island nation facing its worst economic crisis while gearing up for a national election later this year. Protesters from the main opposition United People���s Power party 4 NHL players have been charged with sexual assault in a 2018 case in Canada, their lawyers say 01/30/2024 08:27pm • NHL players Carter Hart of the Philadelphia Flyers, Michael McLeod and Cal Foote of the New Jersey Devils and Dillon Dube of the Calgary Flames have been charged with sexual assault in connection with an alleged assault by several members of Canada���s 2018 world junior team. Attorneys representing Protesting farmers have France's government in a bind 01/30/2024 08:17pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Farmers have captured France's attention by showering government offices with manure and besieging Paris with traffic-snarling barricades of tractors and hay bales. The farmers say their protests aren't a moment too soon. Grievances have long been brewing in the European Union's lead Fentanyl state of emergency declared in downtown Portland, Oregon 01/30/2024 08:06pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� Several elected leaders in Oregon declared a state of emergency on Tuesday for downtown Portland over the public health and public safety crisis fueled by fentanyl. Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson made the d Hong Kong begins work on its own National Security Law, years after a similar law crushed dissent 01/30/2024 07:43pm • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Hong Kong began public consultation on a local National Security Law on Tuesday, more than three years after Beijing imposed a similar law that has all but wiped out dissent in the semi-autonomous city. The new law could expand the government's ability to prosecute residents for o Man wounded in shooting in Dupont Circle 01/30/2024 07:36pm • A man is in the hospital following a shooting during rush hour in the Northwest D.C. neighborhood of Dupont Circle. It happened around 4 p.m. in the 1900 block of Q Street Northwest near the north entrance of the Dupont Circle Metro station. Police found a man who had been shot inside a vehicl US Sen. Joe Manchin���s wife Gayle, who leads economic development group, hospitalized after car crash 01/30/2024 07:23pm • BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) ��� Gayle Manchin, U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin's wife, who leads an economic development partnership of the federal government and 13 state governments, and a colleague of hers have both been hospitalized following a car crash in Alabama. Gayle Manchin, 76, and Guy Land were injured