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KAA Gent and Israeli side Maccabi Haifa will meet with no fans over fears of Gaza-related trouble 01/19/2024 06:25am • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� A soccer match between KAA Gent and Maccabi Haifa scheduled next month in Belgium should be played without fans because of fears of serious riots linked to the Israel-Hamas war, local authorities have ruled. According to Belgian media reports, Ghent mayor Mathias De Clercq took the Sri Lanka has arrested tens of thousands in drug raids criticized by UN human rights body 01/19/2024 04:59am • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) ��� Sri Lankan authorities have arrested tens of thousands of people in a monthlong crackdown on drugs, and vowed to continue despite U.N. criticism of possible human rights violations during the ���heavy-handed��� operation. Since the operation began in December, heavily ar ���Freaky Tales,��� Kristen Stewart and Christopher Nolan help kick off Sundance Film Festival 01/19/2024 02:26am • PARK CITY, Utah (AP) ��� Thousands of cinema lovers, Hollywood celebrities, industry executives and filmmakers from around the world have arrived in a very snowy Park City, Utah, for 10 days of movie watching. The 40th edition of the Sundance Film Festival, the world���s premier showcase for indepen AP Week in Pictures: Asia 01/19/2024 12:54am • Jan. 12-18, 2024 People cast their votes in Taiwan's presidential election, Indian pilgrims visit the sacred Pashupatinath temple in Nepal, police investigate an explosion at a firework factory in Thailand's Suphan Buri province, Thailand, and players compete in Australian Open tennis championships What to know about Texas' clash with the Biden administration over Border Patrol access 01/18/2024 10:26pm • McALLEN, Texas (AP) ��� Texas' refusal to allow Border Patrol agents into a park along the U.S.-Mexico border is a new marker in the state's deepening rift with the Biden administration over immigration. For nearly a week as of Wednesday, Texas has denied entry to Border Patrol agents around Shelby Mexican marines detain alleged leader of Gulf drug cartel, the gang that kidnapped, killed Americans 01/18/2024 10:09pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Mexican marines detained one of the top leaders of the Gulf drug cartel, the gang that kidnapped four Americans and killed two of them in March 2023. The public safety department of the border state of Tamaulipas said the suspect was arrested in the neighboring state of Nuevo L Police: Truck driver charged in Frederick Co. murder may have been serial killer 01/18/2024 10:00pm • A man charged in connection with a Frederick County, Maryland, murder and who recently died in prison may have been a serial killer, according to Maryland State Police. Garry Artman, 64, was facing charges in the murder of Dusty Shuck, a 24-year-old woman whose body was found near a rest stop in The police response to the Uvalde shooting was riddled with failures, a new DOJ report says 01/18/2024 09:56pm • UVALDE, Texas (AP) ��� Police officials who responded to the deadly Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting waited far too long to confront the gunman, acted with ���no urgency��� in establishing a command post and communicated inaccurate information to grieving families, according to a Justice De Man cleared in a 1996 Brooklyn killing said for decades he knew who did it. Prosecutors now agree 01/18/2024 09:36pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A man who served 14 years in prison for a deadly 1990s shooting was exonerated Thursday after prosecutors said they now believe the killer was an acquaintance he has implicated for decades. ���I lost 14 years of my life for a crime that I didn���t commit,��� Steven Ruffin told a Br Lawsuit in Chicago is the latest legal fight over Texas moving migrants to U.S. cities 01/18/2024 09:02pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� A Texas transportation company is taking the nation���s third largest city to federal court, ratcheting up a legal battle over the migrant crisis that���s left U.S. cities struggling for more than a year. The lawsuit against Chicago comes amid a larger political battle involving fed Remains of fireworks explosion victims taken to Thai temple where families give DNA to identify them 01/18/2024 08:36pm • MUEANG SUPHAN BURI, Thailand (AP) ��� Rescue workers carried out the grim task Thursday of recovering the remains of the 23 apparent victims of a fireworks factory explosion in central Thailand. Only part of the building frame stood at the site of the devastated factory in an otherwise-empty rice fi Nearly 30 years later, family of slain California college student sues school for wrongful death 01/18/2024 08:11pm • SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) ��� The family of a California college student who vanished nearly three decades ago sued the school on Thursday, alleging it caused Kristin Smart's murder through negligence. Smart, then 19, disappeared from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo on What Is an Affidavit? 01/18/2024 07:00pm • In legal matters, live testimony is one of the strongest forms of evidence. But what if that isn't possible? An affidavit is a legal document that provides a written statement or declaration of facts. For it to be valid, the individual -- commonly referred to as an affiant -- must swear that it is t Family of Atlanta church deacon who died after struggle with police officer files lawsuit 01/18/2024 06:22pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� The family of a church deacon who died after struggling with an Atlanta police officer following a minor car crash sued the city, the officer and the police chief on Thursday. Officer Kiran Kimbrough used excessive force while trying to get 62-year-old Johnny Hollman to sign a citat North Dakota lawmaker who insulted police in DUI stop gets unsupervised probation and $1,000 fine 01/18/2024 06:16pm • BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) ��� A North Dakota lawmaker who insulted police with vulgar, homophobic and anti-migrant comments during an arrest last month for drunken driving was sentenced to serve nearly a year of unsupervised probation and to pay $1,000. Republican state Rep. Nico Rios, of Williston, recei