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Pro-Palestinian protesters block airport access roads in New York, Los Angeles 12/27/2023 07:14pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Pro-Palestinian protesters briefly blocked entrance roads to airports in New York and Los Angeles on Wednesday, snarling traffic as U.S. airlines contended with a rush of holiday travel. The demonstrations stopped cars on the outskirts of New York���s John F. Kennedy International Man fatally shot by Connecticut police was wanted in a 2022 shooting, fired at dog, report says 12/27/2023 06:41pm • STONINGTON, Conn. (AP) ��� A man who was fatally shot by police in Connecticut last week had a pistol and fired at a police dog as he attempted to flee from state troopers and other officers serving a warrant for a 2022 shooting, according to a preliminary report released Wednesday by the state's Of 87-year-old man fatally struck in Reston crosswalk identified 12/27/2023 05:29pm • A man killed while walking "against the signal" in a crosswalk in Reston, Virginia, on Tuesday morning has been identified by Fairfax County police. Peter McCandless, 87, of Reston, was attempting to cross the southbound lanes of Reston Parkway from west to east in the crosswalk but "against the Family of Iowa teen killed by police files a lawsuit saying officers should have been better trained 12/27/2023 05:13pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ��� The family of a 16-year-old who was killed by Des Moines police in December 2022 has filed a lawsuit arguing that the teen never pointed a gun at officers and police should have had better training in de-escalation before the confrontation. The shooting of Trevontay Jenkins Jacksonville, Florida, mayor has Confederate monument removed after years of controversy 12/27/2023 05:07pm • JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) ��� Crews removed a Confederate monument from a Jacksonville, Florida, park Wednesday morning following years of public controversy. Mayor Donna Deegan ordered the removal of the ���Tribute to the Women of the Southern Confederacy��� monument, which has been in Springfield Pa Utah therapist Jodi Hildebrandt pleads guilty to abusing children with YouTube mom Ruby Franke 12/27/2023 05:07pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ��� The Utah mental health counselor arrested alongside parenting advice blogger Ruby Franke pleaded guilty Wednesday to four counts of aggravated child abuse for physically and emotionally abusing Franke's children. Jodi Hildebrandt was the business partner of Franke, a Utah a m Montgomery Co. police identify Rockville woman struck, killed by 2 drivers 12/27/2023 04:25pm • A 70-year-old woman is dead after being struck by two vehicles while crossing a street Tuesday night in Rockville, Maryland. Rockville City Police and Montgomery County Fire Rescue responded to reports of a crash in the area of Veirs Mill Road and Atlantic Avenue around 6:50 p.m., authorities sai Heat exhaustion killed Taylor Swift fan attending Rio concert, forensics report says 12/27/2023 04:22pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� Heat exhaustion is the cause of death of a Brazilian fan who attended a concert of singer Taylor Swift in November, a forensics report obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday shows. Ana Clara Benevides, 23, passed out during Swift's second song in the Nov. 17 concert in Argentina's unions take to the streets to protest president's cutbacks, deregulation and austerity 12/27/2023 04:13pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ��� Thousands of union members and activists took to the streets of Argentina���s capital Wednesday to protest a decree from President Javier Milei that imposes sweeping deregulation and austerity measures meant to revive the country's struggling economy. Unions had ask Bodies suspected to be pregnant woman and boyfriend were shot, police in Texas say 12/27/2023 03:36pm • SAN ANTONIO (AP) ��� The dead bodies that Texas investigators believe to have been a pregnant woman and her boyfriend were found with gunshot wounds days after they were reported missing, police said Wednesday. A medical examiner has yet to confirm that it was the bodies of Savanah Nicole Soto, 18, Gaston Glock, the Austrian developer of the Glock handgun, dies at 94 12/27/2023 03:12pm • Gaston Glock, the Austrian developer of the handgun that bears his name, died on Wednesday. He was 94. The Glock company announced his death, the Austria Press Agency reported. Glock, a reclusive engineer, founded the company in 1963 in Deutsch-Wagram, near Vienna. It has since expanded around the A Russian drone and artillery attack kills 6 in Ukraine and knocks out power in a major city 12/27/2023 03:10pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Russia fired almost 50 Shahed drones at targets in Ukraine and shelled a train station where more than 100 civilians were gathered to catch a train to Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday. The barrages killed at least five people and knocked out power in most of the southe More cold-case sexual assault charges for man accused of 2003 Philadelphia rape and slaying 12/27/2023 01:50pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� A man accused of slashing people with a large knife in recent weeks while riding a bicycle on a trail in Philadelphia and then charged in the cold-case rape and slaying of a medical student has now been charged in several other high-profile unsolved sexual assaults. Elias Diaz, Editorial Roundup: United States 12/27/2023 12:42pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Dec. 22 The Washington Post on the dementia crisis in the US The number of Americans over the age of 65 is rising quickly. In the past century, it has grown at nearly five times the rate of the rest of the population and is now approac Termina muerto tras asesinar a su madre, robar una patrulla y desatar una persecuci��n, seg��n la polic��a 12/27/2023 12:31pm • LAS VEGAS – Un sospechoso habr��a matado a dos personas, incluida a su propia madre, y robado tres veh��culos, antes de morir abatido por la polic��a en Las Vegas. Las autoridades investigan el tiroteo registrado la madrugada de este mi��rcoles en el ��rea de Blue Diamond Road y Durango Dri