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France's president is accused of siding with Depardieu as actor faces sexual misconduct allegations 12/21/2023 02:17pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Women���s rights activists criticized French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday for appearing to take sides with actor G��rard Depardieu by saying the film star who is facing sexual misconduct allegations ���makes France proud.��� Speaking on Wednesday night on TV channel France 5 A woman shot with a crossbow and a priest stabbed in a rectory shake a small Nebraska town 12/21/2023 01:46pm • FORT CALHOUN, Neb. (AP) ��� The grisly killings of a retiree and then a priest has shocked everyone in tiny Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, including Sheriff Mike Robinson. He���s lived in the community just north of Omaha for 62 years and can���t recall a single homicide before these two. ���It really is o Man charged in fatal stabbing of DC woman arrested in Indiana 12/21/2023 01:42pm • A man wanted in the deadly attack on a woman in Northwest D.C. Tuesday has been apprehended in Indiana. Alberto Valle-Carranza, 54, of Northwest D.C. was located and arrested in Michigan City, Indiana, Wednesday on charges of second-degree murder while armed, a D.C. police news release said.��The Key takeaways from an AP investigation into how police failed to stop a serial killer 12/21/2023 01:02pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� DeAngelo Martin killed four women and raped two others over a 16-month span before he was captured. Only now, a year after Martin was sent to prison, is it clear that police failed repeatedly to follow up on leads or take investigative steps that may have averted the killing spree, Ecuador investigates the kidnapping of a British businessman and former honorary consul 12/21/2023 12:58pm • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) ��� Ecuadorian authorities said Thursday they are investigating the kidnapping of a British businessman and former honorary consul, who was rescued by police after being abducted over the weekend. The prosecutors' press office said that several units are following some leads afte A police SUV slammed into a bar in St. Louis. Police response drawing scrutiny 12/21/2023 12:53pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) ��� St. Louis police are pledging a thorough investigation after a police SUV slammed into a bar. But supporters of the bar question why one of the owners was arrested in the aftermath of the accident, while the officers in the SUV were not tested for intoxication. No one was hurt ear Hundreds alleged assault by youth detention workers. Years later, most suspects face no charges 12/21/2023 12:13pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� Zach Robinson spent decades trying to fight off nightmares about being raped as a child at New Hampshire���s youth detention center. He died last month, still waiting for accountability for his alleged abusers. ���I know that I���ll never forget about what happened,��� he said Prague police chief identifies shooter as student at university where at least 15 people killed 12/21/2023 12:00pm • PRAGUE (AP) ��� Prague police chief identifies shooter as student at university where at least 15 people killed. Man indicted in tourist stabbing death at DC hotel 12/21/2023 11:19am • A D.C. man was indicted Wednesday on five counts stemming from the March 2023 stabbing murder of a 31-year-old Virginia woman in Northeast D.C. George Sydnor Jr., a 44-year-old from D.C., was indicted by a D.C. Superior Court��on charges of first-degree murder while armed, burglary, kidnapping an Czech police say a shooting in downtown Prague has killed an unspecified number of people 12/21/2023 09:50am • PRAGUE (AP) ��� Czech police say a shooting in downtown Prague has killed an unspecified number of people. Pakistan arrests activists to stop them from protesting in Islamabad against extrajudicial killings 12/21/2023 09:25am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� Pakistan's police used water cannons, swung batons, and arrested dozens of activists in an overnight crackdown to stop protesters from entering the capital to denounce the forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in the militancy-ravaged southwest, the organizers said Thur Lincoln Memorial steps vandalized with red paint, messages reading 'Free Gaza' 12/21/2023 09:20am • U.S. Park Police are investigating after vandalism was found near the Lincoln Memorial in D.C. Wednesday afternoon. Messages and red paint were splattered on the steps between the Lincoln Memorial and the Reflecting Pool. Among the painted messages were "Free Gaza." The Lincoln Memorial it Israeli police are investigating 19 prison guards in the death of a 38-year-old Palestinian prisoner 12/21/2023 08:39am • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) ��� Nineteen Israeli prison guards are under investigation in the death of a 38-year-old Palestinian security prisoner in their custody, police said Thursday. Thaer Abu Assab was found with ���severe signs of violence" on his body, according to the Palestinian Prisoners' Club, US, Venezuela swap prisoners: Maduro ally for 10 Americans, plus fugitive contractor 'Fat Leonard' 12/21/2023 07:16am • MIAMI (AP) ��� The United States freed a close ally of Venezuelan President Nicol��s Maduro in exchange for the release of 10 Americans imprisoned in the South American country and the return of a fugitive defense contractor known as ���Fat Leonard��� who is at the center of a massive Pentagon bribe France's Macron says a security crisis could force rethink of Paris' huge Olympic opening show 12/21/2023 07:05am • LE PECQ, France (AP) ��� The giant opening ceremony extravaganza that Paris is planning to hold on the River Seine to launch the Olympic Games could be moved if France is hit again in the run-up by extremist attacks, French President Emmanuel Macron said. Macron's comments in a television interview