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Were your holiday deliveries stolen? What to know about porch piracy and what you can do about it 12/21/2023 06:49am • NEW YORK (AP) — You found the perfect holiday gift online. You ordered it. A notification arrived on your phone, showing the package had arrived. But when you open your doors, the parcel is nowhere to be found. If this has happened to you, then count yourself among the unlucky group of shoppers w A train in Slovenia hits maintenance workers on the tracks. 2 were killed and 4 others were injured 12/21/2023 04:54am • LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — A passenger train on Wednesday struck a group of maintenance workers on the tracks, killing two of them and injuring four others, police said. The collision happened near the southwestern town of Postojna at around 9 a.m., the official STA news agency said. The report sa India's opposition lawmakers protest their suspension from Parliament by the government 12/21/2023 02:42am • NEW DELHI (AP) — Dozens of opposition lawmakers suspended from Parliament by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government for obstructing proceedings held a street protest on Thursday accusing the government of throttling democracy in the country. They briefly marched outside the Parliament Uvalde school shooting evidence won't go before grand jury this year, prosecutor says 12/21/2023 02:04am • DALLAS (AP) — A Texas prosecutor says a criminal investigation into police failures during the Uvalde school shooting will continue into 2024, pushing back expectations that a grand jury would convene before the end of the year. Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell said earlier this Christian group and family raise outcry over detention of another 'house church' elder in China 12/20/2023 11:00pm • BANGKOK (AP) — Ding Zhongfu was awakened by loud pounding on his door. Five policemen greeted Ding, an elder in a Chinese church. The officers pinned him to the wall that Thursday morning in November and interrogated him while searching the apartment he shared with his wife, Ge Yunxia, and their 6 Texas begins flying migrants from southern border to Chicago. The 1st plane carried over 120 people 12/20/2023 10:17pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas sent a plane with more than 120 migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to Chicago in an escalation of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's busing operation that has given more than 80,000 migrants free rides to Democratic-led cities across the country since last year. The first Argentina’s president announces economy deregulation as thousands protest against austerity 12/20/2023 10:15pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — President Javier Milei announced sweeping initiatives Wednesday to transform Argentina’s struggling economy, including easing government regulation and allowing privatization of state-run industries as a way to boost exports and investment. The right-wing libertari Newly released video shows how police moved through UNLV campus in response to reports of shooting 12/20/2023 10:15pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — Officers shouted over blaring alarms and knocked down reports of additional gunfire while responding to what became a deadly shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, body camera footage released Wednesday showed. In one video, police officers moved hastily through the u A passenger hid bullets in a baby diaper at New York's LaGuardia Airport. TSA officers caught him 12/20/2023 10:09pm • NEW YORK (AP) — It was a loaded diaper, but not like you would think. Security officers found 17 bullets concealed inside a disposable baby diaper Wednesday at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, the Transportation Security Administration said. Officers pulled the otherwise clean diaper from a passeng NYC Council approves bill banning solitary confinement in city jails 12/20/2023 08:54pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Over the objections of Mayor Eric Adams, New York City lawmakers passed legislation Wednesday meant to ban solitary confinement in the city’s jails. Adams, a Democrat, had urged the City Council to reject the bill, arguing it will make jails more dangerous for both inmates and st Paramedics overdosed Elijah McClain with a sedative he didn’t need, prosecutor says 12/20/2023 08:22pm • BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado prosecutor told jurors Wednesday in a criminal trial against two paramedics that they failed to properly care for Elijah McClain when they overdosed the Black man with a sedative that he didn't need, leading to his death following a 2019 police encounter. Aurora p A white couple who burned a cross in their yard facing Black neighbors' home are investigated by FBI 12/20/2023 07:54pm • The FBI is investigating a white South Carolina couple for racial discrimination after they set a cross on fire in their yard last month facing toward their Black neighbors' home. Federal civil rights investigators searched the white couple's home in Conway on Wednesday, according to FBI spokesperso Former NBA player allegedly admitted to fatally strangling woman in Las Vegas, court documents show 12/20/2023 07:31pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former NBA G League player allegedly admitted to fatally strangling a woman whose remains were found earlier this month near Las Vegas, according to court records obtained Wednesday. Chance Comanche, 27, was taken into custody last week in Sacramento, California, where he des In federal challenge to Mississippi law, arguments focus on racial discrimination and public safety 12/20/2023 06:58pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge will consider arguments over racial discrimination, public safety and local democracy as he decides whether to block appointments to a state-run court set to be created on Jan. 1 in part of Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city. Attorneys for Mississipp US senator's son faces new charges in crash that killed North Dakota sheriff's deputy 12/20/2023 06:38pm • BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer's 42-year-old son is facing additional charges in connection with the pursuit and crash that killed a North Dakota sheriff's deputy this month. Ian Cramer, who is in jail, is now also accused of theft, criminal mischief and reckless endangerment for all