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Young Palestinian girl killed when Israeli police fire at suspected attackers in West Bank unrest 01/07/2024 02:25pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Israeli police on Sunday opened fire at a pair of suspected attackers who rammed their car into a West Bank checkpoint, fatally shooting a young Palestinian girl in an adjacent vehicle, according to police and medical officials. The two suspects were also shot, while a young po Carnival begins in New Orleans with Phunny Phorty Phellows, king cakes, Joan of Arc parade 01/07/2024 11:55am • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� The countdown to Mardi Gras begins Saturday in New Orleans as Carnival season kicks off with dozens of costumed revelers and a brass band set to crowd onto a streetcar for a nighttime ride down historic St. Charles Avenue. Meanwhile, a walking club in the French Quarter will mar Islamic State group claims responsibility for a minibus explosion in Afghan capital that killed 5 01/07/2024 10:01am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a minibus explosion in the Afghan capital late Saturday that killed at least five people. The Sunni militant group said its members detonated an explosive device on the bus carrying Shiite Muslims, whom they called disbelievers, City of Fairfax police introduce new 'cruise mode' for police lights 01/07/2024 08:47am • When you see police lights in your rearview mirror, it can be bad news ��� but you may not mind seeing these lights being used more on police cruisers. Patrol vehicles in Fairfax, Virginia, now have what are being called "cruise mode lights." "These low-intensity, steady burning lights are des Maryland State Police on the hunt for new fire marshal 01/07/2024 07:55am • Maryland's Department of State Police has announced a search for a new State Fire Marshal. Contenders for the position will head the Office of the State Fire Marshal, leading its operations and ensuring compliance with Maryland's fire codes, according to a news release announcing the position. Md. man arrested in Thanksgiving weekend shooting death of DC man 01/07/2024 05:20am • A Maryland man was arrested Thursday in connection to the Thanksgiving shooting death of a D.C. man in Northeast, police said. D.C. police officers responded around 9:10 p.m. on the night of Nov. 25 to the 13-hundred block of Florida Avenue in Northeast for reports of a shooting victim. When o Grande arrest made in Mocha dognapping 01/07/2024 05:04am • French bulldogs may be able to (metaphorically) breathe a little bit easier, after D.C. police said a suspect in the dognapping of Mocha was arrested. Kyrie Holmes, 24, of Southeast, was arrested Friday for armed robbery in the December snatching of the Frenchie. Mocha was stolen on Dec. 22 at Norwegian mass killer attempts to sue the state once more for an alleged breach of human rights 01/07/2024 01:34am • STAVANGER, Norway (AP) ��� Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian right-wing extremist who killed 77 people in a bomb and gun rampage in 2011, will try for the second time Monday to sue the Norwegian state for allegedly breaching his human rights. Norway���s worst peacetime killer claims his solitary As police lose the war on crime in South Africa, private security companies step in 01/07/2024 12:10am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) ��� Thamsanqa Mothobi was going about his life in Johannesburg when he was carjacked and taken to an informal settlement where robbers accessed his mobile banking apps. ���They had guns and demanded the PIN codes for my apps. They increased the withdrawal limits in my accounts and Isaacs scores 21 to lead Texas Tech over No. 20 Texas 78-67, a day after assault lawsuit 01/06/2024 11:26pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� Pop Isaacs scored 21 points to lead Texas Tech to an 78-67 Big 12-opening win over No. 20 Texas on Saturday night, a day after he was named in a lawsuit alleging sexual assault of a minor. Isaacs was booed by Texas fans whenever he touched the ball, and at one point put his f Attack in southern Mexico community killed at least 5 people, authorities say 01/06/2024 10:32pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� An attack in a remote community in the southern Mexico state of Guerrero killed at least five people, the Guerrero state prosecutor's office said late Saturday A rights group said at least six other people were wounded, but officials said they had not been able to confirm anyone Trump downplays Jan. 6 on the anniversary of the Capitol siege and calls jailed rioters 'hostages' 01/06/2024 10:25pm • NEWTON, Iowa (AP) ��� Former President Donald Trump, campaigning in Iowa Saturday, marked the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol by casting the migrant surge on the southern border as the ���real��� insurrection. Just over a week before the Republican nomination proces Protesters calling for cease-fire in Israel-Hamas war block freeway in Seattle for several hours 01/06/2024 08:35pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� Protesters calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war blocked northbound traffic on Interstate 5 in Seattle for several hours Saturday. Additional demonstrators on a nearby overpass cheered in support of the blockade, which began around 1:15 p.m., the Seattle Times reported. Things to know about a school shooting in the small Iowa town of Perry 01/06/2024 07:11pm • A small town in Iowa is stunned but pulling together after a school shooting in which a 17-year-old killed a sixth-grade student and wounded seven other people before authorities say he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Many questions remain about how the shooting unfolded and what might have 11-year-old killed in Iowa school shooting was a joyful boy known as 'Smiley,' his mother says 01/06/2024 07:09pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ��� Ahmir Jolliff dashed out of his home in Perry Thursday morning, eager to see his friends on the first day back to school after winter break. It was vintage Ahmir ��� known as ���Smiley��� around his house ��� an 11-year-old whirlwind of cheerful activity. He kept a trunk of