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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 Justice Department report details how the shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas, unfolded 01/18/2024 06:08pm • UVALDE, Texas (AP) ��� A scathing Justice Department report released Thursday into law enforcement failures during the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, includes a minute-by-minute account of missteps by police at the scene. Heavily armed officers did not kill the 18-year-old gunman Gangs in Haiti have attacked a community for 4 days and residents fear the violence could spread 01/18/2024 05:56pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� Gang members have raided a key community in Haiti���s capital that is home to numerous police officers and has been under siege for four days in an ongoing attack, with residents fearful of the violence spreading throughout Port-au-Prince. The pop of automatic weapons Prosecutors arrest flight attendant on suspicion of trying to record teen girl in airplane bathroom 01/18/2024 05:47pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� Police arrested an American Airlines flight attendant on Thursday on suspicion of trying to secretly record a 14-year-old female passenger using a bathroom aboard an airplane he was working on last September. Police also allege Estes Carter Thompson III, 37, of Charlotte, North Carol Man arrested in series of New York City stabbings, police say 01/18/2024 05:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� New York City police have arrested a hospital worker from Queens after a series of recent stabbings, officials announced Thursday. NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban described the six attacks over the past 10 days, none of which were fatal, as ���random, unmotivated violence��� at a ne Police in Brazil arrest a suspect in the brutal slaying of a Manhattan art dealer 01/18/2024 05:28pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� A suspect was arrested in the brutal killing in Brazil of an American art dealer who was the co-owner of a prominent gallery in Manhattan, police said Thursday. Brent Sikkema, 75, was found dead on Monday with 18 stab wounds in his Rio de Janeiro apartment. Rio state police a Kidnapping of California woman that police called a hoax gets new attention with Netflix documentary 01/18/2024 05:28pm • VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) ��� The ordeal of Denise Huskins, whose kidnapping from her boyfriend���s Northern California home was first dismissed as a hoax by law enforcement, is getting renewed attention as the subject of a new Netflix docuseries, ���American Nightmare.��� Here���s a look at the facts of The federal debt tops $34 trillion and some in Congress want a commission to find ways to tackle it 01/18/2024 05:25pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A bill to create a bipartisan commission that would tackle the nation���s soaring debt and make policy recommendations to Congress won approval Thursday from a House committee. House Republicans are making the bill a priority, and the chairman of the House Budget Committee said � Trial underway for California man who fired shot at car on freeway, killing boy in booster seat 01/18/2024 05:17pm • SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) ��� A prosecutor said Thursday that a California man acted callously in pulling out his gun and firing a shot at a car traveling on the freeway, killing a 6-year-old boy who was riding in the back in a booster seat. Marcus Eriz, who is now 26, sat in the courtroom during openi 'Stop Cop City' attacks have caused costs to rise for Atlanta police training center, officials say 01/18/2024 05:00pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� The longstanding and at times violent protests against Atlanta's planned police and firefighter training center are partially responsible for a nearly $20 million rise in costs connected to the project, city officials said. The 85-acre (34-hectare) project, which critics call ���Co Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen backs anti-LGBTQ bill and tax cuts in state of the state address 01/18/2024 04:14pm • LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) ��� In his second state of the state address to Nebraska lawmakers, Gov. Jim Pillen on Thursday covered everything from praising the state's response to recent winter storms to supporting a divisive bill that would restrict transgender student participation in high school sports a Donkey cart loaded with explosives kills a police officer and critically injures 4 others in Kenya 01/18/2024 04:12pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� A donkey cart carrying a suspected improvised bomb blew up at a checkpoint on the Kenya-Somalia border Thursday, killing one Kenyan police officer and critically wounding four others, authorities said. A Kenyan police report seen by The Associated Press said the cart pulled b 1 dead, at least 6 injured in post-election unrest in the Indian Ocean island nation of Comoros 01/18/2024 02:39pm • MORONI, Comoros (AP) ��� A second day of unrest in the Indian Ocean island nation of Comoros on Thursday left one person dead and at least six others injured, a health official said. The protests came after incumbent President Azali Assoumani was declared the winner in an election held over the wee What to know about the Justice Department's report on police failures in the Uvalde school shooting 01/18/2024 02:37pm • A Justice Department report released Thursday details a myriad of failures by police who responded to the shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas, when children waited desperately for over an hour before officers stormed a classroom to take the gunman down. The federal review, which was launched just Slovenia to set up temporary facilities for migrants at Croatia border, citing surge in arrivals 01/18/2024 12:53pm • LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) ��� Slovenia will set up temporary facilities for handling migrant arrivals at the border with Croatia, citing a surge in arrivals, the government announced Thursday. Authorities will put up a fence, two accommodation containers, tents and sanitary facilities at the former b