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El Salvador's Nayib Bukele takes his presidential reelection campaign beyond the country's borders 01/04/2024 11:15am • SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) ��� El Salvador's Nayib Bukele took his presidential reelection campaign beyond his tiny country's borders this week to capitalize on his rising profile across Latin America, and he affirmed that he doesn't aspire to indefinite reelection. During a two-hour forum late Students march in Prague to honor the victims of the worst mass killing in Czech history 01/04/2024 09:52am • PRAGUE (AP) ��� Hundreds of students and other Czechs marched in silence in the Czech capital on Thursday to honor the victims of the country���s worst mass killing two weeks ago that left 14 dead. The march started at an impromptu memorial in front of Prague���s Charles University headquarters whe Police say there has been a shooting at a high school in Perry, Iowa; extent of injuries unclear 01/04/2024 09:47am • PERRY, Iowa (AP) ��� Police say there has been a shooting at a high school in Perry, Iowa; extent of injuries unclear. Delays on I-95 as VDOT prepares roads for weekend snowstorm 01/04/2024 09:17am • Listen to WTOP Traffic on the 8s for the latest on road conditions. Snow is forecast for the D.C. area this weekend, leading to delays Thursday on Interstate 95 as roads are treated to keep ice off major highways. The Virginia Department of Transportation said trucks will be pretreating the hi Car strikes deer, sending it flying into another car, leaving 1 dead in Charles Co. 01/04/2024 07:56am • A driver on Maryland Route 6 near Port Tobacco Road struck a deer that went flying into another vehicle, striking and killing its driver on Tuesday. Maryland State Police arrived on the scene at approximately 3:44 p.m. When they arrived, they found that a Nissan Altima driven by a 50-year-old Wal Taliban arrest women for 'bad hijab' in the first dress code crackdown since their return to power 01/04/2024 06:30am • KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ��� The Taliban have arrested women in the Afghan capital for wearing ���bad hijab,��� a spokesman at the country's Vice and Virtue Ministry said Thursday. It���s the first official confirmation of a crackdown on women who don���t follow the dress code imposed by the Taliban South Korean opposition leader is recovering well from surgery after stabbing attack, doctor says 01/04/2024 04:00am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� South Korea���s main opposition leader is recovering well from surgery after being stabbed in the neck earlier this week, his doctor said Thursday, as a local court issued an arrest warrant to extend the suspect���s custody by police. Lee Jae-myung, head of the liberal De 2 men charged in shooting death of Oakland officer answering a burglary call at a marijuana business 01/04/2024 02:28am • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ��� Two men were charged with murder Wednesday in the death of an Oakland police officer who was shot while answering a burglary report at a marijuana business, authorities said. Charges were filed against Mark Sanders, 27, of Tracy, and Allen Starr Brown, 28, of Chico. The two Unsealed court records offer new detail on old sex abuse allegations against Jeffrey Epstein 01/03/2024 11:43pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Amid great hype, a new batch of previously secret court documents was unsealed late Wednesday related to Jeffrey Epstein, the jet-setting financier who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. Social media has been rife in recent weeks with posts spec Felon used unregistered rifle in New Year's chase and shootout with Honolulu police, records show 01/03/2024 11:01pm • HONOLULU (AP) ��� The subject of an islandwide manhunt New Year���s Day in Hawaii was a felon barred from owning the high-powered rifle he used to open fire on Honolulu police in a shootout that left two officers wounded and the suspect dead, court records show. Sidney Tafokitau was accused of shoot Extreme cold grips Nordic countries, Russia as floods hit western Europe 01/03/2024 10:43pm • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� Europe experienced stark weather contrasts on Wednesday, with extreme cold and snowstorms disrupting transportation and closing schools in Scandinavia while strong winds and heavy rain in western Europe caused flooding and at least one death. Temperatures fell below minu Investigators focus on air traffic communication after a fatal Tokyo runway crash 01/03/2024 10:40pm • TOKYO (AP) ��� A transcript of communication between traffic control and two aircraft that collided and burst into flames at Tokyo���s Haneda Airport showed that only the larger Japan Airlines passenger flight was given permission to use the runway where a coast guard plane was preparing for takeoff Their son died from a fentanyl overdose. Now a Fairfax Co. family has a warning for other parents 01/03/2024 10:10pm • On Jan. 31, 2023, Afrodita Foster woke up just before 7 a.m., as she regularly did. She walked into her son Cayden's room to make sure he was awake and getting ready for school. Cayden attended Centreville High School in Fairfax County, Virginia. She recalls thinking the room was too quiet. Sh Oregon police confirm investigation into medication theft amid report hospital patients died 01/03/2024 09:32pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� Authorities are investigating the theft of medication prescribed to patients at a southern Oregon hospital, police and state medical officials confirmed Wednesday, following a local news report that two people died and others were sickened after a nurse replaced fentanyl intr Prosecutors accuse Rays shortstop Wander Franco of commercial sexual exploitation, money laundering 01/03/2024 09:23pm • SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) ��� Dominican prosecutors on Wednesday accused Wander Franco of commercial sexual exploitation and money laundering following allegations that the Tampa Bay Rays shortstop had a relationship with a minor whose mother also faces the same charges. Prosecutors req