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Coroner���s service says there are fatalities after charter plane crashes in northwest Canada 01/24/2024 02:32am • FORT SMITH, Northwest Territories (AP) ��� A coroner's service in Canada's Northwest Territories said there are fatalities from Tuesday's plane crash near the community of Fort Smith. The Northwest Territories Coroner���s Service did not say how many have died or give further details, saying it must Disney asks for delay in DeSantis appointees' lawsuit, as worker describes a distracted district 01/24/2024 12:06am • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) ��� Disney this week requested a second delay in a state court case involving its legal battle with Gov. Ron DeSantis' appointees over who controls Walt Disney World's governing district, as the company accused them and the governor's office of stonewalling requests for documents Artist-dissident Ai Weiwei gets 'incorrect' during an appearance at The Town Hall in Manhattan 01/23/2024 11:01pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist and dissident who believes it his job to be ���incorrect,��� was hard at work Tuesday night during an appearance at The Town Hall in Manhattan. ���I really like to make trouble,��� Ai said during a 50-minute conversation-sparring match with author-int 'Gone Mom' prosecutors show shirt, bra, zip ties they say link defendant to woman's disappearance 01/23/2024 10:49pm • Prosecutors in Connecticut's infamous ���Gone Mom��� case presented evidence Tuesday that they say links defendant Michelle Troconis to the 2019 disappearance of her boyfriend's estranged wife, Jennifer Dulos. The evidence included what appeared to be a blood-soaked shirt and bra, as well as zip tie Poland's president pardons 2 imprisoned politicians from previous conservative government ��� again 01/23/2024 09:55pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) ��� Poland���s president said Tuesday he was once again pardoning two politicians who were arrested earlier this month amid a bitter standoff between the new centrist government and the previous conservative administration. President Andrzej Duda made the announcement shortly aft Md. appeals court tosses conviction of ex-intelligence official's daughter for 2020 murder 01/23/2024 09:31pm • She was supposed to serve 35 years for fatally stabbing her longtime friend in 2020, but the Maryland appeals court tossed out Sophia Negroponte's conviction and ordered a new trial for the daughter of a former diplomat. Three judges with the Appellate Court of Maryland said the trial court made With Oregon facing rampant public drug use, lawmakers backpedal on pioneering decriminalization law 01/23/2024 09:01pm • SALEM, Ore. (AP) ��� Democratic lawmakers in Oregon on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping new bill that would undo a key part of the state���s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law, a recognition that public opinion has soured on the measure amid rampant public drug use during the fentanyl crisis. Editorial Roundup: United States 01/23/2024 08:50pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Jan. 21 The Washington Post on SCOTUS, ���Chevron deference��� To hear some describe the stakes, a pair of cases argued before the Supreme Court on Wednesday could create a watershed moment in American government. Business lobbies and Judge says Canada's use of Emergencies Act to quell truckers' protests over COVID was unreasonable 01/23/2024 08:39pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� A Canadian judge has ruled that the government���s use of the Emergencies Act to quell weeks of protests by truckers and others angry over COVID-19 restrictions in 2022 was unreasonable and unconstitutional. Up to thousands of protesters clogged the streets of the capital of Ottawa Dueling political factions demonstrate in Venezuela's capital as presidential election race heats up 01/23/2024 08:19pm • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ��� Dueling political factions took to the streets of Venezuela's capital on Tuesday for the first competing rallies of the presidential election year, showcasing their ability to draw people en masse, as voters grapple with political disappointments and uncertainty over the 911 calls show fears of residents and friends after a young man got shot entering the wrong home 01/23/2024 08:15pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ��� A concerned college student asked police if they'd seen his fraternity brother early one Saturday morning after he'd sent the 20-year-old home from a sports bar in an Uber. He hadn't heard from his friend in the hours since, but the rideshare driver had let him know that the Gangly adolescent giraffe Benito has a new home. Now comes the hard part ��� fitting in with the herd 01/23/2024 08:02pm • PUEBLA, Mexico (AP) ��� A 4-year-old giraffe named Benito arrived Tuesday at his new home in a large animal park in central Mexico. Now starts the hard part for the gangly post-adolescent: fitting in with the other giraffes in the neighborhood. The 7.5-acre (3-hectare) enclosure at the Africam Safa Driver who struck LA sheriff's recruits in deadly crash pleads not guilty to vehicular manslaughter 01/23/2024 07:56pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� A driver who plowed into a group of Los Angeles County sheriff���s recruits on a training run last year, killing one and injuring two dozen others, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to vehicular manslaughter. Nicholas Gutierrez, 23, entered pleas to an 11-count grand jury indictment Denver police officer pleads guilty to accidentally wounding 6 bystanders while firing at armed man 01/23/2024 07:51pm • DENVER (AP) ��� A Denver police officer pleaded guilty Tuesday to wounding six bystanders in a crowd while firing at an armed man as bars let out, a shooting that still haunts the victims. Brandon Ramos, 30, did not speak in court except to acknowledge that he understood his rights in pleading guilt A divided federal appeals court won't revive Texas online journalist's lawsuit over 2017 arrest 01/23/2024 07:36pm • A divided federal appeals court refused on Tuesday to revive the lawsuit of a Texas-based online citizen journalist who said she was wrongfully arrested for seeking and obtaining nonpublic information from police in a case that drew attention from national media organizations and free speech advocat