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Extreme cold leaves thousands without power in Nordic countries as floods persist in Germany 01/04/2024 11:04pm • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� Extremely cold temperatures compounded by gale-force winds and snow wreaked havoc across the Nordic region Thursday, leaving thousands without power while others braved the cold for hours stuck in their cars along clogged highways. Heavy rains in Germany, France and the 2 men appear in court on murder charges in shooting of Oakland police officer at marijuana business 01/04/2024 09:43pm • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ��� Two men charged with murder in the death of an Oakland police officer who was shot while answering a burglary report at a marijuana business appeared in court Thursday but didn't enter pleas. Meanwhile, a fourth man was arrested in connection with last week's burglary. Of New York City subway train derails in collision with another train, injuring more than 20 people 01/04/2024 08:47pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A New York City subway train derailed Thursday after colliding with another train at low speed, leaving more than 20 people with minor injuries and causing major service disruptions across Manhattan during the afternoon rush hour, authorities said. At about 3 p.m. on the Upper W Live updates | Hamas loses a leader in Lebanon but holds on in Gaza 01/04/2024 08:45pm • Israel appears far from achieving its goals of crushing Hamas and freeing an estimated 129 hostages still held in Gaza nearly three months after the group's surprise cross-border attack and the Israeli government's declaration of war. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says several thousand Hama Navajo Nation charges 2 tribal members with illegally growing marijuana as part of complex case 01/04/2024 08:43pm • WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) ��� Authorities on the largest Native American reservation in the U.S. have charged two tribal members with illegally growing marijuana on the Navajo Nation, marking just the latest development in a years-long case that also has involved allegations of forced labor. Tribal p New Mexico governor proposes 10% spending increase amid windfall from oil production 01/04/2024 08:01pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) ��� New Mexico's governor is proposing a nearly 10% general fund spending increase for the coming fiscal year to shore up housing opportunities, childhood literacy and health care access, with additional payouts for electric vehicles purchases. Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Gris UC Berkeley walls off People's Park as it waits for court decision on student housing project 01/04/2024 07:52pm • BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) ��� Police officers in riot gear removed activists from Berkeley���s People���s Park and crews began placing double-stacked shipping containers to wall off the historic park overnight Thursday as the University of California, Berkeley, waits for a court ruling it hopes will all Pilot accused of threatening to shoot airline captain midflight calls it a misunderstanding 01/04/2024 07:44pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ��� Attorneys clashed Thursday in a Utah courtroom over opposing characterizations of a fight between two commercial airline pilots in which the co-pilot allegedly threatened to shoot the captain for suggesting they divert the flight for a passenger���s medical emergency. Former Federal appeals court denies effort to block state-run court in Mississippi's majority-Black capital 01/04/2024 07:42pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� A federal appeals court has denied a legal effort to stop Mississippi officials from creating a state-run court in part of the majority-Black capital city of Jackson, over objections from the NAACP. In a Thursday ruling, three judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals FACT FOCUS: Images made to look like court records circulate online amid Epstein document release 01/04/2024 06:33pm • After dozens of previously sealed court documents related to financier Jeffrey Epstein were made public on Wednesday, social media users began spreading false accusations about major public figures whose names appeared in the release ��� and some who hadn���t been named at all. Two people singled ou Editorial Roundup: United States 01/04/2024 05:11pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Dec. 29 The Washington Post on election integrity and GOP officials Since 2022, nine states where Republican officials administer elections have quit a nonprofit, nonpartisan consortium that helps keep voter rolls up to date through in Former journalist whose daughter was murdered to share grief tips from memoir at DC book talk 01/04/2024 05:02pm • An author talk in D.C. this weekend will feature a former journalist sharing tips on how to navigate grief after she went through an unimaginable tragedy. "I did not write the book for myself. I wrote the book for other people," said Michelle Hord, a former journalist who started her career as a US attorney says untold number of police officers injured while protecting Capitol on January 6 01/04/2024 04:57pm • (CNN) — The Justice Department believes more police officers were injured in the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack than have been officially reported, a top prosecutor said Thursday.In a news conference commemorating the third anniversary of the insurrection, Matthew Graves, the US attorney f Founding member of experimental rock band Mr. Bungle suspected of killing girlfriend in California 01/04/2024 04:56pm • CAPITOLA, Calif. (AP) ��� Theo Lengyel, a founding member of the experimental rock band Mr. Bungle, has been arrested on suspicion of killing his girlfriend after human remains were found at a park near San Francisco, police said. Alice ���Alyx��� Kamakaokalani Herrmann was last seen Dec. 3 in Sant Proud Boys member who went on the run after conviction in the Jan. 6 riot gets 10 years in prison 01/04/2024 04:55pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A member of the Proud Boys extremist group who went on the run after he was convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol and then allegedly faked a drug overdose after he was caught was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison. Christopher Worrell, who was convict