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Today in History: January 15, Martin Luther King Jr. is born 01/15/2024 12:01am • Today in History: Today is Monday, Jan. 15, the 15th day of 2024. There are 351 days left in the year. This is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 15, 1929, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta. On this date: In 1559, England†Police: 17-year-old killed, 2 others injured in Fairfax County's first homicide of 2024 01/14/2024 09:04pm • A 17-year-old boy is dead and two others are wounded following a stabbing in Annandale, Virginia, on Saturday. The killing marks what police say is Fairfax County's first homicide of the year. It happened at around 11:30 p.m. in the 4200 block of Wadsworth Court, according to Fairfax County polic 2 separate armed assaults in Northwest DC stopped by good Samaritans minutes apart, police say 01/14/2024 08:00pm • Two separate armed assaults allegedly occurred just minutes apart and within a mile of each other on Connecticut Avenue in Northwest D.C. last Thursday. In both instances, police said, the violence stopped when the suspects were confronted by good Samaritans. The first incident was a reported att Father of fallen NYPD officer who advocated for 9/11 compensation fund struck and killed by SUV 01/14/2024 06:41pm • GALLOWAY, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man who became a vocal advocate for families of 9/11 first responders following the death of his NYPD officer son was struck and killed by an SUV in a hospital parking lot, police said Sunday. Joseph Zadroga, 76, of Little Egg Harbor, was the father of Detective Spanish league leader Girona held to 0-0 draw at last-place Almeria 01/14/2024 05:33pm • MADRID (AP) — Girona was held by last-place Almeria to a 0-0 draw in the Spanish league on Sunday, missing a chance to open a bigger gap over Real Madrid while its rival played in the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia. Girona had the chance to move three points clear with a victory at Almeria — District attorney defends the qualifications of a prosecutor hired in Trump's Georgia election case 01/14/2024 04:17pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Sunday defended the qualifications of a special prosecutor she hired for her case against Donald Trump and others over efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia after a defense lawyer accused Willis of professional impropriety. I Vehicle crashes through Whole Foods store in Bethesda 01/14/2024 03:37pm • One person was sent to the hospital Sunday after a vehicle crashed through the front door of a Whole Foods grocery store in Montgomery County, Maryland, according to fire and rescue officials. The vehicle came to a stop at the back of the produce department of the Whole Foods store on 5269 River Fatalities reported in small plane crash with 3 people aboard in rural Massachusetts 01/14/2024 03:24pm • BOSTON (AP) — A small plane carrying three people crashed in a remote, wooded area of Massachusetts on Sunday morning, authorities said. Police reported multiple fatalities. The twin-engine Beechcraft Baron 55 crashed near Leyden, Massachusetts, with three people on board, the Federal Aviation Ad From Berlin to Karachi, thousands demonstrate in support of either Israel or the Palestinians 01/14/2024 03:21pm • KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — From Berlin to London and Limassol to Karachi, tens of thousands of people took to the streets Sunday to mark the 100th day of Israel’s war with Hamas. Opposing demonstrations either demanded the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas or called for a cease-fire in Gaz As diversity, equity and inclusion comes under legal attack, companies quietly alter their programs 01/14/2024 12:16pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Sophia Danner-Okotie’s has ambitious plans for her Nigerian-inspired clothing line but a sense of dread has punctured her optimism as she watches a legal battle being waged against a small venture capital firm that has provided funding instrumental to her boutique brand’s growt A weekend of ferocious winter weather could see low-temperature records set in the US heartland 01/14/2024 09:08am • O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Icy winter weather blanketed the U.S. on Saturday as a wave of Arctic storms threatened to break low-temperature records in the heartland, spread cold and snow from coast to coast and cast a chill over everything from football playoffs to presidential campaigns. As the thre 2 Iranian journalists jailed for their reporting on Mahsa Amini's death are released on bail 01/14/2024 08:37am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Two Iranian journalists who were serving long prison sentences over their coverage of the death of Mahsa Amini have been released on bail pending their appeal, Iranian media reported Sunday. Niloufar Hamedia, who broke the news of Amini's death while in police cu As legal challenges mount, some companies retool diversity and inclusion programs 01/14/2024 08:32am • NEW YORK (AP) — Advocates of diversity efforts are steeling themselves for a fight this year as a growing number of lawsuits take aim at programs intended to advance racial equity in the corporate world. Lawsuits making their way through the courts have targeted prominent companies and a wide arr Indian Ocean island nation of Comoros votes for president in Africa's first election of 2024 01/14/2024 07:12am • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The Indian Ocean island nation of Comoros voted Sunday for president in Africa's first national election of 2024. Incumbent President Azali Assoumani, a former military officer, is expected to win a fourth term despite criticism he has become increasingly authoritari Explosive device kills 5 Pakistani soldiers in country’s southwest 01/14/2024 05:46am • ISLAMABAD (AP) — An explosive device has killed five Pakistani soldiers in the country’s southwest, the army said. It’s the fifth deadly attack on police and troops this year already, and comes weeks before the country holds parliamentary elections. The troops died during an operation on Satur