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Hong Kong's top court restores activist's conviction over banned vigil on Tiananmen crackdown 01/25/2024 05:20am • HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s top court on Thursday restored a prominent detained activist’s conviction over a banned vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, marking the latest setback for the city’s democracy supporters. Chow Hang-tung, a former leader o Proud Boys member sentenced to 6 years in prison for Capitol riot role after berating judge 01/25/2024 04:40am • WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who stormed the U.S. Capitol with fellow Proud Boys extremist group members was sentenced on Wednesday to six years in prison after he berated and insulted the judge who punished him. Marc Bru repeatedly interrupted Chief Judge James Boasberg before he handed down the se South Korean police say a lawmaker has been injured in an attack in Seoul 01/25/2024 04:20am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police say a lawmaker has been injured in an attack in Seoul. Witness says fatal shooting of American-Palestinian teen in the occupied West Bank was unprovoked 01/25/2024 02:27am • AL-MAZRA’A ASH-SHARQIYA, West Bank (AP) — The fatal shooting of an American-Palestinian teen driving a pickup truck in the occupied West Bank was unprovoked, the sole passenger told The Associated Press, describing apparent Israeli fire hitting the back of the vehicle before it overturned severa A fire in China's Jiangxi province kills at least 39 people, state media says 01/25/2024 12:57am • BEIJING (AP) — A fire broke out in a commercial building in China’s southeastern Jiangxi province on Wednesday, killing at least 39 people and injuring nine others, state media said. Officials for the Yushui district of Jiangxi province said that the fire broke out in the basement of a shopping Minnesota trooper is charged with murder in shooting of motorist Ricky Cobb II during a traffic stop 01/25/2024 12:36am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota state trooper was charged with murder Wednesday in the shooting of motorist Ricky Cobb II, who failed to get out of his car during a July traffic stop and took his foot off the brake when officers tried to arrest him. In announcing charges of second-degree uninten 2 monuments symbolizing Australia's colonial past damaged by protesters ahead of polarizing holiday 01/25/2024 12:17am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Two monuments symbolizing Australia's colonial past were damaged by protesters on Thursday ahead of an increasingly polarizing national holiday that marks the anniversary of British settlement. A statue in Melbourne of British naval officer James Cook, who in 1770 chart Law enforcement officers in New Jersey kill man during shootout while trying to make felony arrest 01/24/2024 09:41pm • MONMOUTH JUNCTION, N.J. (AP) — Law enforcement officers in New Jersey killed a man in a shootout Wednesday while trying to arrest him on several felony charges, authorities said. Officers with a regional task force of the U.S. Marshals Service and agents with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco YouTuber accused of topping 150 mph on his motorcycle on Colorado intestate wanted on multiple charges 01/24/2024 08:21pm • DENVER (AP) — A motorcyclist who authorities say posted a video of himself on YouTube speeding from Colorado Springs to the Denver metro area on Interstate 25 in 20 minutes — a trip that typically takes about an hour — is wanted on multiple charges. Rendon Dietzmann, a 32-year-old from Texa Nearly 50-year sentence for man who killed Md. woman he was seeing after learning she was transgender 01/24/2024 08:10pm • A Prince George's County, Maryland, man learned Wednesday he'll serve nearly 50 years behind bars for murdering a transgender woman. Prosecutors said now-29-year-old DeAllen Price was in an intimate relationship with 20-year-old Taya Ashton when she was killed in July of 2021. Prosecutors said Pr Mexican tourist haven and silversmithing town of Taxco shuttered by gang killings and threats 01/24/2024 07:35pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — The bullet-ridden bodies of two detectives were found on the outskirts of Taxco, a colonial town in central Mexico that draws throngs of tourists to its silver workshops, authorities said Wednesday. Prosecutors in the violence-plagued state of Guerrero said the two detectives wo Man arrested outside Taylor Swift's Manhattan townhouse reportedly spotted there about 30 times 01/24/2024 07:33pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A man charged with stalking and harassment after his arrest near singer Taylor Swift's Manhattan townhouse had been spotted there dozens of times in the past two months and was repeatedly asked to leave, according to court documents released Wednesday. David Crowe, 33, of Seattle Montana man convicted of killing eagles is sentenced to 3 years in prison for related gun violations 01/24/2024 07:32pm • BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana felon previously convicted of killing eagles to sell their parts on the black market was sentenced to three years in federal prison on Wednesday for related gun violations. U.S. District Judge Susan Watters in Billings sentenced Harvey Hugs, 60, after he pleaded gu Live updates | Tank rounds slam into crowded Gaza shelter, killing 9, UN says 01/24/2024 06:35pm • Fierce battles are tearing through the Gaza Strip’s second-largest city, Khan Younis, where United Nations officials say tank rounds hit a U.N. facility sheltering displaced Palestinians, killing at least nine people and wounded 75 others. The Israeli military said its forces were battling militan Arizona GOP boss quits after leaked tape shows him floating a job for Kari Lake to skip Senate race 01/24/2024 06:25pm • PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Republican Party Chairman Jeff DeWit resigned Wednesday after he could be heard in a leaked recording offering a job and asking U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake to name a price that would keep her out of politics. DeWit's departure shakes up the Republican Party in a battleg