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Illinois suspends star basketball player Terrence Shannon Jr. following rape charge 12/28/2023 05:24pm • Illinois suspended basketball player Terrence Shannon Jr. on Thursday after he was charged with rape for an alleged incident that happened when the football team played at Kansas in September. The school suspended Shannon from ���all team activities, effective immediately,��� a day after the Douglas Texas has arrested thousands on trespassing charges at the border. Illegal crossings are still high 12/28/2023 03:21pm • EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) ��� Before settling in New York City like thousands of other migrants this year, Abdoul, a 32-year-old from West Africa, took an unexpected detour: Weeks in a remote Texas jail on local trespassing charges after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. "I spent a lot of hours without More than 40 dead in Liberia after leaking fuel tanker exploded as people tried to collect gas 12/28/2023 03:11pm • MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) ��� A leaking fuel tanker exploded earlier this week as people gathered to collect the gasoline, leaving more than 40 dead, authorities in Liberia said Thursday. The blast on Tuesday also injured at least 83 people in the town of Totota in the central part of the West African Teen killed in Australia shark attack 12/28/2023 03:09pm • A teenage boy was killed in a Thursday shark attack, officials said. South Australia Police responded to reports of a shark attack around 1:30 p.m. local time, authorities said. The teen was fatally attacked near Ethel Beach in the Innes National Park, about 180 miles west of Adelaide. "Sadly Jan. 6 rioter who was sentenced in secret provided information to authorities, court papers say 12/28/2023 02:52pm • A Pennsylvania man who was sentenced in secret for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot cooperated with authorities investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack and an unrelated case, according to court documents unsealed this week. The documents provide insight into the unusual secrecy in the case of Sam Why buying gift cards may be 'perilous,' and how can you protect yourself 12/28/2023 02:49pm • Scammers are at it again ��� this time, they're targeting gift cards. Police say gift cards are being stolen from area stores. The scammer will copy the numbers and security codes, then reseal the gift cards and place them back on the shelves. When anyone then loads money onto that gift card, Fairfax Co. police sting operation catches 10 accused child predators 12/28/2023 02:23pm • Ten men are in custody in Fairfax County, Virginia, after meeting with undercover detectives with the intent to commit an illegal sex act with a minor, according to police. Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said in the three-day operation conducted in early December, detectives from the dep 'It is historic': US poised to see record drop in yearly homicides despite public concern over crime 12/28/2023 01:45pm • mbbirdy/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- With 2023 ticking down, the nation is poised to finish the year with its biggest annual drop in homicides on record, according to preliminary data from law enforcement agencies both large and small. The homicide rate in the United States is expected to plummet near 2 men arrested in Fairfax Co. for 'fraud ring' involving altered gift cards 12/28/2023 01:14pm • Two men were arrested and charged for altering gift cards at two Target stores in Virginia as part of a "complex fraud ring," according to Fairfax County police. Police were contacted by the Target store in the Springfield Town Center about two men who they believed were altering gift cards in th Mexico QB Diana Flores leads the charge as women���s flag football makes gains internationally 12/28/2023 11:39am • Diana Flores has starred in a Super Bowl halftime ad, signed a deal with Under Armour and even coached girls at a clinic in Morocco. Mexico���s flag football quarterback did not see this coming. "For a Mexican girl who fell in love with a very American sport at the age of 8, I never imagined that al An 'almost naked' party of Russian elites brings on jail time, a lawsuit and apologies 12/28/2023 10:57am • The nightlife of Russia���s elite has long been famously rakish but a recent party crossed an invisible line and provoked a public scandal. One pop star ended up in jail and several others issued public apologies while an ensuing lawsuit demanded a fortune in reparations. The scandal erupted after Mexico says a drug cartel kidnapped 14 people from towns where angry residents killed 10 gunmen 12/28/2023 09:49am • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� A drug cartel in central Mexico has kidnapped 14 local residents, including four children, in apparent retaliation for an uprising by angry farmers earlier this month that killed 10 cartel gunmen, officials said. Farmers in the village of Texcaltitlan and a neighboring hamlet h Woman critically injured in Fairfax Co. hit-and-run 12/28/2023 08:31am • A woman is critically injured after being hit by a vehicle Wednesday night in Fairfax County, Virginia, and police are looking for the driver. The crash happened around 9 p.m. at the intersection of Huntsman Boulevard and Bridle Wood Drive in Burke. Police said the woman was hit by a white Chevy AP concludes at least hundreds died in floods after Ukraine dam collapse, far more than Russia said 12/28/2023 08:07am • MYKOLAIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� They recognized the TV repairman. The residents of Oleshky in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine could not identify many of those they buried after a catastrophic dam collapse in June sent water coursing through their homes and shattered their lives. The bodies were too bl Chain-reaction collision in dense fog on Turkish motorway leaves at least 10 people dead, 57 injured 12/28/2023 07:20am • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ��� A chain-reaction crash Thursday involving seven vehicles on a motorway in northwest Turkey killed at least 10 people and injured 57 others, officials said. The pileup occurred in dense fog and low visibility on the Northern Marmara Highway in Sakarya province, some 150 kilom