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Woman killed in hit-and-run on Md. Route 214 near Capital Beltway 01/29/2024 07:55am • Listen to WTOP Traffic on the 8s for the latest. A woman is dead following a hit-and-run in Prince George's County on Maryland Route 214 Monday morning, police say. Seat Pleasant Police��responded to a report of a collision involving a pedestrian eastbound on the off ramp to Central Avenue fro How Taiwan beat back disinformation and preserved the integrity of its election 01/29/2024 07:12am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The rumors about vote fraud started swirling as the ballots in Taiwan���s closely watched presidential election were tallied on Jan. 13. There were baseless claims that people had fabricated votes and that officials had miscounted and skewed the results. In a widely shared video, Central Park 5 exoneree and council member says police stopped him without giving a reason 01/29/2024 06:13am • New York City Council Member Yusef Salaam, a member of the exonerated group of men known as the Central Park Five, says he was stopped and pulled over by police without being given an explanation. The police stop in New York City on Friday casts a renewed light on a police transparency bill, called Zebras, camels and flames, oh my! Circus animals rescued after truck catches fire on Indiana highway 01/29/2024 05:57am • MARION, Ind. (AP) ��� A truck hauling zebras and camels for a series of weekend circus performances caught fire early Saturday on a northeastern Indiana highway, prompting a police rescue of the animals, which roamed along the freeway, some munching on grass. The tractor-trailer caught fire about Ex-Philippine leader Duterte assails Marcos, accusing him of plotting to expand his grip on power 01/29/2024 05:49am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) ��� Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is throwing allegations at his successor, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., and even raising the prospect of removing him from office, bringing into the open a long-rumored split between the two. In an expletive-laden speech late Sunday, t A group of Japanese citizens launches lawsuit against police to stop alleged 'racial profiling' 01/29/2024 04:26am • TOKYO (AP) ��� A group of Japanese citizens, including a man of Pakistani descent, launched a civil lawsuit against the country's police on Monday, accusing the authorities of racial profiling and discrimination and demanding an end to the alleged practice. The case, to be heard in Tokyo District Co Carroll Co. firefighter charged with intentionally setting series of fires 01/28/2024 08:14pm • A Carroll County, Maryland, volunteer firefighter was arrested Saturday after authorities connected her to a string of fires set throughout last year in the Eldersburg and Liberty Reservoir areas. Twenty-year-old Allison Nicole Creutzer, of Eldersburg, faces charges of intentionally setting fire Police in Rome detain man who had knife in bag on boulevard leading to Vatican, Italian media say 01/28/2024 07:03pm • ROME (AP) ��� Police detained an Italian man found with a knife in his bag on the boulevard leading to St. Peter���s Square hours before Pope Francis made his weekly appearance at a Vatican palace window Sunday. The Italian news agency ANSA said the knife was discovered during an inspection of the b Report: California officers shot in ambush were not verbally warned that suspect had gun, was on PCP 01/28/2024 06:43pm • EL MONTE, Calif. (AP) ��� A California police dispatcher failed to tell two officers before they were fatally shot by a convicted gang member that the suspect reportedly had a gun and was under the influence of PCP and methamphetamine, according to a 911 recording. El Monte Police Department Office 2 officers on Florida's Space Coast wounded from gunfire but will survive 01/28/2024 05:43pm • PALM BAY, Fla. (AP) ��� Two police officers along Florida's Space Coast were wounded by gunfire and had non-life-threatening injuries after responding to a domestic call Sunday, authorities said. The wounded officers from the Palm Bay Police Department were being treated at a hospital and are going A Rolex seller meets up with a Facebook Marketplace thief. It goes all wrong from there 01/28/2024 05:36pm • Massapequa Park, N.Y. (AP) ��� An $8,000 Facebook Marketplace deal has gone bad on Long Island, with a man who was selling a Rolex watch jumping onto the hood of the thief's car in a quixotic attempt to keep from being robbed. ���I was not going to roll over and let this man take it ... without a fi 2 masked men kill a person in attack on Catholic church in Istanbul. Officials detain 2 ISIS members 01/28/2024 05:27pm • ISTANBUL (AP) ��� Two masked assailants attacked a Roman Catholic church in Istanbul during a Sunday Mass, killing one person, Turkish officials said. The armed assailants attacked the Santa Maria Church in the Sariyer district at 11:40 a.m., Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said in a statement on th French farmers aim to put Paris 'under siege' in tractor protest. Activists hurl soup at 'Mona Lisa' 01/28/2024 05:06pm • PARIS (AP) ��� France's interior ministry on Sunday ordered a large deployment of security forces around Paris as angry farmers threatened to head toward the capital, hours after climate activists hurled soup at the glass protecting the ���Mona Lisa��� painting at the Louvre Museum. French farmers a Ex-NHLer Alex Formenton has been charged by police in Canada and turned himself in, his lawyer says 01/28/2024 04:10pm • Former NHL player Alex Formenton turned himself in to police on Sunday in connection with an investigation into an alleged sexual assault by several members of Canada���s 2018 world junior team. Formenton���s legal team confirmed to The Associated Press that police in London, Ontario, have charged F Man in his 80s kills wife, 2 adult children in murder-suicide at Los Angeles home, police say 01/28/2024 03:41pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� A man in his 80s shot and killed his wife and two adult children before killing himself Saturday at a Los Angeles home, authorities said. A witness at the residence reported a shooting around 7 p.m. in the Granada Hills area, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Res