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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene targeted by failed Christmas swatting attempt 12/26/2023 11:40am • Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was the target of a swatting attempt at her Georgia residence on Christmas morning, the congresswoman and local police said, marking the latest instance of someone calling in a fake emergency to draw armed officers or SWAT teams to her home. The Rome Polic Baltimore's new approach to police training looks at the effects of trauma, importance of empathy 12/26/2023 09:36am • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� A three-minute viral video shows an irate Baltimore police officer berating a teenager because he ignored orders to stop skateboarding and called the officer ���dude.��� ���Obviously your parents don���t put a foot in your butt quite enough because you don���t understand the meani 4 young children and their mother were killed in their French home. The father is in custody 12/26/2023 09:03am • MEAUX, France (AP) ��� Four children between nine months and 10 years old and their mother were killed in their apartment east of Paris, in what local authorities called an exceptionally violent crime. The children���s father was arrested Tuesday and is the primary suspect. Neighbors spotted a pool The right to protest is under threat in Britain, undermining a pillar of democracy 12/26/2023 08:46am • LONDON (AP) ��� For holding a sign outside a courthouse reminding jurors of their right to acquit defendants, a retiree faces up to two years in prison. For hanging a banner reading ���Just Stop Oil��� off a bridge, an engineer got a three-year sentence. Just for walking slowly down the street, scor The right to protest is under threat in Britain, undermining a pillar of democracy 12/26/2023 08:45am • LONDON (AP) ��� For holding a sign outside a courthouse reminding jurors of their right to acquit defendants, a retiree faces up to two years in prison. For hanging a banner reading ���Just Stop Oil��� off a bridge, an engineer got a three-year prison sentence. Just for walking slowly down the stree Man dead following Christmas Eve shooting in Prince George's Co. 12/26/2023 07:56am • A man is dead after being shot late Sunday night in District Heights, Maryland. Prince George's County police said the shooting happened at about 11:20 p.m. in the 2900 block of Ritchie Road in District Heights. The man ��� whose identity has not been released ��� was found by police officers 276 Indians stuck in a French airport for days for a human trafficking probe arrive in India 12/26/2023 07:50am • MUMBAI, India (AP) ��� A charter plane that was grounded in France for a human trafficking investigation arrived in India with 276 Indians aboard Tuesday, authorities said. The passengers had been heading to Nicaragua but were instead blocked inside a rural French airport for four days in an excepti The death toll rises to 18 in a furnace explosion at a Chinese-owned nickel plant in Indonesia 12/26/2023 06:55am • PALU, Indonesia (AP) ��� The death toll following the explosion of a smelting furnace at a Chinese-owned nickel plant on Indonesia���s Sulawesi island rose to 18 on Tuesday, as police ordered the plant to stop operations until an investigation is completed. The blast, which occurred on Sunday, was t Egypt floats plan to end Israel-Hamas war. The proposal gets a cool reception 12/25/2023 10:04pm • CAIRO (AP) ��� Israel and Hamas on Monday gave cool public receptions to an Egyptian proposal to end their bitter war. But the longstanding enemies stopped short of rejecting the plan altogether, raising the possibility of a new round of diplomacy to halt a devastating Israeli offensive in the Gaza Suspect found dead after standoff, fire at California home on Christmas Eve 12/25/2023 05:22pm • HERMOSA BEACH, Calif. (AP) ��� An armed man who faced off with officers at a California home for several hours on Christmas Eve was later found dead in the home's garage, authorities told local media. The Los Angeles County Fire Department responded to a 911 call on 11th Street in Hermosa Beach arou Serbian police detain at least 38 people as opposition holds more protests against election results 12/25/2023 05:15pm • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) ��� Serbian police said Monday they detained at least 38 people who took part in a protest against reported widespread irregularities during a recent general ballot that declared the governing populists as winners of parliamentary and local elections. Opposition group Serbia A Man dies after being rescued from car in Anacostia River 12/25/2023 04:49pm • A man died after rescue divers pulled him from a car inside the Anacostia River on Monday, according to DC Fire and EMS. Officials responded to a car in the water in the area of the Anacostia River and the 11th Street Bridge at around 1:30 p.m. DC Fire and EMS deployed its dive team shortly af Christmas Eve shooting at Colorado mall leaves 1 dead and 3 injured 12/25/2023 03:54pm • COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) ��� A man was fatally shot and three people were hurt as gunfire rang out at a shopping center in Colorado on Christmas Eve, police said Sunday. A fight broke out between two groups of people in the afternoon at the Citadel Mall in Colorado Springs and officers receiv Celebrity birthdays for the week of Dec. 31-Jan. 6 12/25/2023 02:26pm • Celebrity birthdays for the week of Dec. 31-Jan. 6: Dec. 31: Actor Anthony Hopkins is 86. Actor Sarah Miles (���The Big Sleep���) is 82. Actor Barbara Carrera (���Never Say Never Again���) is 82. Guitarist Andy Summers of The Police is 81. Actor Ben Kingsley is 80. Singer Burton Cummings of The Gues DC police identify man struck, killed by car in Northeast 12/25/2023 08:48am • Police have identified a Northeast D.C. resident who was struck and killed after being hit by a vehicle Friday. Samuel Thorton, 34, was struck just after 10 p.m. on Dec. 22 while walking through an alley in the 1100 block of 5th Street Northeast, according to a news release. An investigation i