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Authorities: 5 people including 3 young children die in house fire in northwestern Arizona 12/17/2023 05:03pm • BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. (AP) ��� Five people, including three young children, have died in a house fire in northwestern Arizona, authorities said Sunday, adding it appeared no adults were home at the time. Bullhead City police said the fire broke out around 5 p.m. Saturday and the victims did not make Colombia's leftist ELN rebels agree to stop kidnapping for ransom, at least temporarily 12/17/2023 05:00pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) ��� Rebels from Colombia's leftist National Liberation Army said Sunday they have agreed to stop using kidnapping as a fund-raising tactic, if the current cease-fire with the government is extended. The pledge came at the end of a round of talks between the two sides over the Judge overturns Mississippi death penalty case, says racial bias in picking jury wasn't fully argued 12/17/2023 04:16pm • GREENVILLE, Miss. (AP) ��� A federal judge has overturned the death penalty conviction of a Mississippi man, finding a trial judge didn't give the man's lawyer enough chance to argue that the prosecution was dismissing Black jurors for discriminatory reasons. U.S. District Judge Michael P. Mills rul Black American solidarity with Palestinians is rising and testing longstanding ties to Jewish allies 12/17/2023 04:13pm • Cydney Wallace, a Black Jewish community activist, never felt compelled to travel to Israel, though ���Next year in Jerusalem��� was a constant refrain at her Chicago synagogue. The 39-year-old said she had plenty to focus on at home, where she frequently gives talks on addressing anti-Black sentime Florida Republican Party suspends chairman and demands his resignation amid rape investigation 12/17/2023 04:02pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� The Republican Party of Florida suspended Chairman Christian Ziegler and demanded his resignation during an emergency meeting Sunday, adding to calls by Gov. Ron DeSantis and other top officials for him to step down as police investigate a rape accusation against him. Zieg 3 bystanders were injured as police fatally shot a man who pointed his gun at a Texas bar 12/17/2023 12:31pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� Police in Texas are trying to determine who injured three bystanders as officers shot and killed a man who pointed a firearm at them at a bar in an Austin entertainment district. Police said three officers fired at the suspect, who was shot multiple times late Saturday night. Finland seeks jailing, probe of Russian man wanted in Ukraine over alleged war crimes in 2014-2015 12/17/2023 12:21pm • HELSINKI (AP) ��� Finnish police on Sunday sought a court order to imprison a Russian man who had been living under an alias in the Nordic country and is accused of committing war crimes against wounded or surrendered soldiers in eastern Ukraine in 2014 and 2015. Yan Petrovsky, who had been living i Black American solidarity with Palestinians is rising and testing longstanding ties to Jewish allies 12/17/2023 11:04am • Cydney Wallace, a Black Jewish community activist, never felt compelled to travel to Israel, though ���Next year in Jerusalem��� was a constant refrain at her Chicago synagogue. The 39-year-old said she had plenty to focus on at home, where she frequently gives talks on addressing anti-Black sentime Confederate memorial to be removed in coming days from Arlington National Cemetery 12/17/2023 11:02am • ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) ��� A Confederate memorial is to be removed from Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia in the coming days, part of the push to remove symbols that commemorate the Confederacy from military-related facilities, a cemetery official said Saturday. The decision ignores a re Charles M. Blow on reversing the Great Migration 12/17/2023 10:25am • ▶ Watch Video: Charles M. Blow on reversing the Great Migration Our commentary is from New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow, whose new HBO documentary "South to Black Power" is now streaming on Max: At the end of the Civil War, three Southern states (Louisiana, South Carolin The jungle between Colombia and Panama becomes a highway for migrants from around the world 12/17/2023 09:22am • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Once nearly impenetrable for migrants heading north from Latin America, the jungle between Colombia and Panama this year became a speedy but still treacherous highway for hundreds of thousands of people from around the world. Driven by economic crises, government repression and Belarus political prisoners face abuse, no medical care and isolation, former inmate says 12/17/2023 12:04am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� During his three years in a Belarusian penal colony, human rights activist Leanid Sudalenka says he and other political prisoners were regularly deprived of family visits, phone calls and parcels. He nearly died when COVID-19 swept through the facility. And he was forced to Today in History: December 17, the Wright Brothers��� first flight 12/17/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Sunday, Dec. 17, the 351st day of 2023. There are 14 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On Dec. 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright of Dayton, Ohio, conducted the first successful manned powered-airplane flights near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, using the Police: Suspect in hit-and-run of 3 people outside Montgomery Co. courthouse still at large 12/16/2023 08:40pm • Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, are looking for a suspect they say struck three people outside a courthouse in Rockville this week. Rockville City Police say 44-year-old Walter Giovanni Marquez-Aviles, of Gaithersburg, is charged with three counts of attempted murder and three counts of fi Police: Victim identified in Northeast DC hit-and-run 12/16/2023 08:18pm • D.C. police have identified the man killed in a hit-and-run in Northeast's Kingman Park neighborhood. The victim was 54-year-old Maurice Oliver, of Northeast D.C., police said in a Friday news release. According to a preliminary investigation, an unknown vehicle hit Oliver while moving westbou