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Ceremony marks start of rebuilding for Pittsburgh synagogue targeted in antisemitic mass shooting 06/25/2024 01:25pm • Second gentleman Douglas Emhoff and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro were among the dignitaries marking the groundbreaking Sunday of a new structure replacing the Tree of Life synagogue, where 11 worshippers were murdered in 2018 in the deadliest act of antisemitism in U.S. history. Plans for the new Israel's high court orders the army to draft ultra-Orthodox men, rattling Netanyahu's government 06/25/2024 12:42pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Israel���s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that the military must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men for compulsory service, a landmark decision that could lead to the collapse of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu���s governing coalition as Israel continues to wage war i South Korea says North Korea is again flying balloons toward the South, probably carrying trash 06/25/2024 12:08pm • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� South Korea said North Korea was flying balloons likely carrying trash across the border for a second consecutive day on Tuesday, despite the South���s threat to retaliate with anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts in border areas. The development comes as the latest round Parliament speaker. The Tehran mayor. A heart surgeon. The race is on for Iran's next president 06/25/2024 11:04am • Six candidates have been approved by Iran's theocracy to run in Friday���s presidential election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash with several other officials in May. Among them, Iran���s parliament speaker stands out as the most recognizable figure. A litt Takeaways from AP's report on new footage from the fatal shooting of a Black motorist in Georgia 06/25/2024 10:51am • SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) ��� In the summer following the 2020 police killing of George Floyd, the fatal shooting of Julian Lewis generated headlines far beyond rural Georgia. The Georgia State Patrol quickly fired the trooper who opened fire on Lewis within seconds of forcing the Black motorist to drive i Shot in 1.6 seconds: Video raises questions about how trooper avoided charges in Black man's death 06/25/2024 10:46am • SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) ��� Julian Lewis didn���t pull over for the Georgia State Patrol cruiser flashing its blue lights behind him on a rural highway. He still didn't stop after pointing a hand out the window and turning onto a darkened dirt road as the trooper sounded his siren. Five minutes into a pu Nepalese spiritual leader ���Buddha Boy��� convicted of sexual assault on minor 06/25/2024 10:33am • KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) ��� A court in southern Nepal convicted a controversial spiritual leader known as ���Buddha Boy��� on charges of sexually assaulting a minor. Ram Bahadur Bamjan, who's believed by some to be the reincarnation of the founder of Buddhism, was arrested by police in January on cha Closing arguments begin in Karen Read trial. Jurors must decide: Deadly romance or police corruption? 06/25/2024 10:13am • DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) ��� Closing arguments begin in Karen Read trial. Jurors must decide: Deadly romance or police corruption?. Alabama man accused of killings in 2 states enters not guilty pleas to Oklahoma murder charges 06/25/2024 09:30am • SALLISAW, Okla. (AP) ��� An Alabama man accused in a string of killings in Oklahoma and Alabama has pleaded not guilty to two Oklahoma killings. The pleas were entered on behalf of Stacy Lee Drake, 50, during a Monday court appearance, KHBS-TV reported. He faces two charges of enhanced murder. Drake The first UN-backed contingent of foreign police arrives in Haiti as Kenyan-led force prepares to face violent gangs 06/25/2024 09:20am • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� The first UN-backed contingent of foreign police arrives in Haiti as Kenyan-led force prepares to face violent gangs. Knife attack at a school bus stop in China wounds 3, including a Japanese mother and child 06/25/2024 08:45am • BEIJING (AP) ��� A suspect has been detained in China after a knife attack at a school bus stop that injured three people, including a Japanese woman and her child, a spokesperson for the Japanese Embassy confirmed Tuesday. A man stabbed the woman and her child at a bus stop for a Japanese school, a Death toll from attack in Russia's Dagestan reaches 21 06/25/2024 05:39am • MOSCOW (AP) ��� The death toll in the attack by Islamic militants in Russia's southern region of Dagestan has risen to 21 after a wounded police officer has died in a hospital, officials said Tuesday. Sunday's attack, in which militants attacked Christian and Jewish houses of worship and fired at po South Korean investigators search in factory ruins after fire killed 23, mostly Chinese migrants 06/25/2024 03:25am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� Forensic and other experts combed through the charred ruins of a factory building near South Korea's capital to find the cause of a devastating fire that killed 23 people, mostly Chinese migrant workers, in one of the country's deadliest blazes in years. More than 100 pe Timeline of the Julian Assange legal saga over extradition to the US on espionage charges 06/25/2024 12:59am • LONDON (AP) ��� WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange headed to the Northern Mariana Islands on Tuesday to complete a plea deal with U.S. federal prosecutors that will allow him to walk free in return for a guilty plea. In a deal with the U.S. Justice Department, Assange will plead guilty to an Espionage Hawaii wildfire death toll rises to 102 after woman determined to have died from fire injuries 06/25/2024 12:56am • HONOLULU (AP) ��� The death toll from the deadliest U.S. wildfire in over a century has risen to 102, authorities in Hawaii said Monday. Claudette Heermance, 68, died in hospice care in Honolulu on March 28 of injuries suffered in the fire which devastated the historic town of Lahaina on the Hawaii