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Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova urge women's tennis to stay out of Saudi Arabia 01/25/2024 03:27pm • Hall of Famers Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova are calling on the women's tennis tour to stay out of Saudi Arabia, saying that holding the WTA Finals there ���would represent not progress, but significant regression.��� ���There should be a healthy debate over whether ���progress��� and ���engag Biden, eager for a 2020 rematch in November, is quick to anoint Trump as his 2024 rival 01/25/2024 03:27pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden is zeroing in on an expected rematch against Donald Trump after this week���s New Hampshire primaries, eager to sharpen the contrast with his predecessor. Ten months from Election Day, Biden's write-in victory in a New Hampshire race he didn���t formally conte With beds scarce and winter bearing down, a tent camp grows outside NYC's largest migrant shelter 01/25/2024 03:23pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� On any given night, some 3,000 migrants sleep on cots lined up inside huge, heated tents on a small island with sweeping views of the Manhattan skyline. But as New York struggles to house a surging number of immigrants from the U.S-Mexico border, there simply isn���t enough space i Rights group reports more arrests as Belarus intensifies crackdown on dissent 01/25/2024 03:19pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� A rights group on Thursday reported dozens more home raids and arrests across Belarus in the latest intensification of a years-long crackdown on dissent in the country of 9.5 million people. The Viasna human rights center said it knew of at least 159 people targeted by sea Do you know the signs of human trafficking? Montgomery Co. is working to ramp up training on recognizing the crime 01/25/2024 02:47pm • It is Human Trafficking Awareness Month and leaders in Montgomery County, Maryland, say they're focused on educating people to recognize signs of the crime. "Human trafficking cannot be solved by just police alone," said Nick Augustine, assistant chief with the Montgomery County Police Department Girlfriend of suspect in fatal shootings of 8 in Chicago suburb charged with obstruction, police say 01/25/2024 02:44pm • JOLIET, Ill. (AP) ��� The girlfriend of a man suspected of fatally shooting seven relatives and an eighth person last weekend in a Chicago suburb has been charged with obstruction for allegedly trying to prevent her boyfriend's apprehension, police said. Kyleigh Cleveland-Singleton, 21, of Joliet ap Teen fugitive in Philadelphia was picked up by car shortly after escape, authorities say 01/25/2024 02:15pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� A teenager awaiting trial in a homicide case who escaped outside a Philadelphia hospital this week was spotted on video getting into a vehicle that drove him away less than an hour after he fled on foot, authorities said. U.S. marshals and city police continued to search Thursd Colombia declares a disaster because of wildfires and asks for international help 01/25/2024 01:30pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) ��� Colombia���s government declared a disaster Thursday and asked for international help to combat raging wildfires that are expected to worsen in coming days due to warm, dry conditions associated with the El Ni��o weather phenomenon. Officials raised the number of fires fro Ahmaud Arbery's killers get a March court date to argue appeals of their hate crime convictions 01/25/2024 01:03pm • SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) ��� Three white men convicted of hate crimes for chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery in a Georgia neighborhood in 2020 will have their appeals heard by a federal court in March. The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has scheduled oral arguments in the case for March 27 in Atlanta. 4 police officers killed in highway attack in north-central Mexico 01/25/2024 12:48pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Four municipal police officers are dead following an ambush-style attack on a road in Mexico in the north-central state of Guanajuato, authorities said Thursday. The four policemen belonged to the municipal police force of the city of Celaya. The police department said the offic Louisville police are accused of wrongful arrest and excessive force against a Black man 01/25/2024 12:45pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� A 21-year-old Black man has filed a lawsuit accusing officers in the embattled police department of Kentucky's largest city of wrongful arrest and excessive force. Officers with the Louisville Metro Police Department arrested Jahmael Benedict last year as he walked along a s Man denied bail in Massachusetts crash that killed officer and utility worker 01/25/2024 12:43pm • WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) ��� A truck driver who fatally struck a Massachusetts police officer and a utility employee, pulled a knife on another officer, stole his cruiser and crashed has an ���unbroken chain��� of crimes going back to 1996, a prosecutor said at a detention hearing Thursday. A judge orde France's constitutional court rejects several measures in controversial immigration law 01/25/2024 12:23pm • PARIS (AP) ��� France���s Constitutional Council on Thursday rejected several measures in a divisive new immigration law that critics call inhumane, in a new blow to President Emmanuel Macron and his government. The council said in a statement that it threw out all or part of 32 of the law���s 86 ar Taliban is enforcing restrictions on single and unaccompanied Afghan women, UN says 01/25/2024 12:11pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� The Taliban are restricting Afghan women���s access to work, travel and health care if they are unmarried or don���t have a male guardian, according to a U.N report published Monday. In one incident, officials from the Vice and Virtue Ministry advised a woman to get married if sh White officer should go to trial in slaying of Black motorist, Michigan appeals court rules 01/25/2024 11:52am • GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) ��� A former police officer in western Michigan should go to trial for a murder charge in the 2022 killing of a Black motorist, the state Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. The court said in it's 2-1 opinion that it agrees there was ���at least sufficient evidence presented���