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Maine bars Trump from ballot as US Supreme Court weighs states' authority to block former president 12/29/2023 12:27am • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ��� Maine���s Democratic secretary of state on Thursday removed former President Donald Trump from the state���s presidential primary ballot under the Constitution���s insurrection clause, becoming the first election official to take action unilaterally as the U.S. Supreme Court Dominican baseball player Wander Franco fails to appear at prosecutor's office amid investigation 12/29/2023 12:01am • SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) ��� Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco failed to show up Thursday for a meeting with a prosecutor who is investigating him for an alleged relationship with a minor. Prosecutor Olga Din�� Llaver��as said the investigation will continue regardless of Franco's Democrats in Prince George���s County select appointee to vacant state house seat 12/28/2023 11:37pm • The Prince George���s County Democratic Central Committee selected Denise Roberts on Thursday to fill a vacant seat in the House of Delegates. The central committee will forward Roberts��� name to Gov. Wes Moore (D), who has up to 15 days to confirm the appointment. Roberts, who worked as comm Death of ���Parasite��� star puts spotlight on pressures facing South Korean celebrities 12/28/2023 11:32pm • Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Actor Lee Sun-kyun���s sudden death this week is the latest in a string of shock celebrity losses in South Korea, a country with one of the world���s highest suicide rates and where public figures are often expected to be paragons.Lee, who received acclaim for his ro DC city administrator speaks on combating 'stubborn' spike of violent crime 12/28/2023 11:00pm • As a new year approaches, the District is set to end 2023 with a 39% increase in violent crime ��� and the numbers, according to D.C. police, would include the highest number of homicides the city has seen in 20 years. A total of 199 homicides took place in D.C. in 2022; as of December 28 of this Prince William County teacher arrested for assault on 9-year-old girl 12/28/2023 10:51pm • A teacher at Marshall Elementary School in Prince William County was arrested Wednesday for assaulting a 9-year-old student. The incident happened Nov. 29 at Marshall Elementary School at 12505 Kahns Road, police said. The teacher, identified as��Christine Annette Mitchell, 60, of Manassas, has b Suspect identified in Georgia Avenue-Petworth Metro shooting 12/28/2023 09:36pm • A suspect in the Dec. 8 shooting of a teenage boy inside of the Georgia Avenue-Petworth Metro station has been identified, the U.S. Marshals Service announced in a release Thursday. Officials say 25-year-old Jaleel Fowler is wanted for shooting and injuring the boy, who was transported to a hospi Man shot his mother then led Vegas police on chase as he carjacked bystanders, killing father of 7 12/28/2023 09:17pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� A man who authorities say fatally shot his mother two days after Christmas led police officers on a chase through the suburbs of Las Vegas and, along the way, stole a police vehicle and carjacked bystanders at gunpoint, shooting and killing one of them. The victim killed in what L Arizona man seeks dismissal of charge over online post after deadly attack in Australia 12/28/2023 08:12pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� An Arizona man is asking a U.S. court to dismiss a charge of making threatening online comments toward law enforcement days after participating in an online exchange with people who had carried out a deadly attack in Australia. A lawyer for Donald Day Jr. of Heber, Arizona, said in Arizona man charged over online posts that followed Australian attack in which 6 died 12/28/2023 07:39pm • CANBERRA, Australia (AP) ��� A U.S. citizen has been charged in Arizona with making threatening online comments that followed what police describe as a ���religiously motivated terrorist attack��� in Australia a year ago in which six people died, officials said Wednesday. Queensland state police off Live updates | Israel expands offensive as Hamas warns only permanent ceasefire will free hostages 12/28/2023 07:10pm • A Hamas official said Thursday that a ���partial or temporary cessation of aggression��� wouldn���t be enough to free the more than 100 hostages who Israel says remain in captivity in Gaza. The Israeli-Hamas war has already driven around 85% of Gaza's 2.3 million people from their homes, leveling t Missouri school board to reinstate Black history classes with new curriculum 12/28/2023 06:46pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) ��� Students at a suburban St. Louis school district can continue to take elective Black history courses, school leaders announced Thursday in a reversal of a vote last week by the conservative-led school board to end the classes. But the Francis Howell School District board first mus Reston man charged with filing false stabbing report, embezzlement in Sterling 12/28/2023 05:44pm • A man who claimed he was stabbed by two masked strangers outside Dulles Town Center in November now faces charges of filing a false report and embezzlement from the mall's Sports Nation store where he worked. On Nov. 10, Fawad Fafa, 44, filed a report with the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office clai Storm Gerrit disrupts trains and leaves thousands without power as it batters northern UK 12/28/2023 05:43pm • LONDON (AP) ��� A storm that battered the U.K. with high winds and heavy snow and rain damaged houses, canceled trains and left thousands of people without electricity on Thursday across Scotland and parts of northern England. Workers faced wind speeds of 80 miles (128 kilometers) per hour in some c Bills' Von Miller calls domestic abuse allegations against him '100 percent false' 12/28/2023 05:26pm • Buffalo Bills edge rusher Von Miller on Thursday disputed the allegations that he assaulted his pregnant girlfriend, calling them ���100 percent false��� and ���blown out of proportion.��� Addressing the media for the first time since turning himself into police in suburban Dallas on Nov. 30, Miller