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Canadian youth facing terrorism charges for alleged plot against Jewish people 12/16/2023 07:54pm • OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) ��� Canada���s national police force said Saturday that a youth was arrested and charged with terrorism-related offenses that allegedly targeted Jewish people. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the young person arrested Friday was charged with facilitating terrorist activit Hong Kong's activist publisher to stand trial this week under Beijing's crackdown on dissidents 12/16/2023 07:12pm • HONG KONG (AP) ��� The trial of Hong Kong���s most famous activist publisher who was arrested under China���s crackdown on dissidents will start Monday after being delayed for over a year. Jimmy Lai, 76, broke into the city's once freewheeling media world about three decades ago, armed with the beli Teenager Alex Batty returns to Britain after being missing for 6 years and then turning up in France 12/16/2023 05:26pm • LONDON (AP) ��� British teenager Alex Batty flew back to the U.K. on Saturday, six years after he left home on what was meant to be a two-week family vacation in Spain. Batty never returned from that holiday to his grandmother and guardian in Oldham, near Manchester. Her frantic appeals found no tra Prosecutors say Washington state man charged in 4 murders lured victims with promise of buried gold 12/16/2023 05:20pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� A Washington state man in jail awaiting trial in one murder case has been charged with three more killings, and prosecutors say he lured all four victims by asking them to help dig up buried gold. Richard Bradley Jr., 40, was charged in May 2021 with first-degree murder in the deat Author receives German prize in scaled-down format after comparing Gaza to Nazi-era ghettos 12/16/2023 04:22pm • BERLIN (AP) ��� The Russian-American writer Masha Gessen received a German literary prize Saturday in a ceremony that was delayed and scaled down in reaction to an article comparing Gaza to Nazi German ghettos. The comparison in a recent New Yorker article was viewed as controversial in Germany, Mid Atlantic Daybook 12/16/2023 04:02pm • Associated Press Mid Atlantic Daybook for Saturday, Dec. 16. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Mid-Atlantic bureau is reachable at 202-641-9660 Man convicted in Arkansas graduation shooting gets 105 years in prison 12/16/2023 02:30pm • HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) ��� A jury has convicted a man accused of firing a gun into a crowd following a high school graduation ceremony in Arkansas, killing one and injuring four others. At the end of the five-day trial in Garland County Circuit Court, the six-man, six-woman panel deliberated for les A Black woman was criminally charged after a miscarriage. It shows the perils of pregnancy post-Roe 12/16/2023 01:01pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� Ohio was in the throes of a bitter debate over abortion rights this fall when Brittany Watts, 21 weeks and 5 days pregnant, began passing thick blood clots. The 33-year-old Watts, who had not shared the news of her pregnancy even with her family, made her first prenatal visi UN peacekeeping chief welcomes strong support for its far-flung operations despite `headwinds' 12/16/2023 12:29pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� The United Nations peacekeeping chief says he was very satisfied with the strong support of many countries for its far-flung operations at a recent ministerial meeting, despite ���headwinds and challenges and problems.��� Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the undersecretary-general for pe The leaders of Italy, the UK and Albania meet in Rome to hold talks on migration 12/16/2023 11:52am • ROME (AP) ��� The leaders of Italy and the U.K. agreed on Saturday to tackle irregular migration to Europe, pledging to intensify cooperation in the fight against human trafficking. Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni and U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who held talks in Rome, were also joined by Albani A Black woman was criminally charged after a miscarriage. It shows the perils of pregnancy post-Roe 12/16/2023 11:27am • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� Ohio was in the throes of a bitter debate over abortion rights this fall when Brittany Watts, 21 weeks and 5 days pregnant, began passing thick blood clots. The 33-year-old Watts, who had not shared the news of her pregnancy even with her family, made her first prenatal visit Browns star Myles Garrett fined $25,000 by NFL for criticizing officials after game, AP source says 12/16/2023 11:14am • CLEVELAND (AP) ��� Cleveland Browns star defensive end Myles Garrett was fined $25,000 by the NFL for ���public criticism of officiating" after he made pointed remarks following last week's game against Jacksonville, a person familiar with the punishment told The Associated Press. Garrett was inform Inside the landfill of fast-fashion: 'These clothes don't even come from here' 12/16/2023 09:48am • ▶ Watch Video: Here's where some fast-fashion clothes end up after being thrown away This holiday shopping season, environmental groups are asking shoppers to reconsider buying cheaper fast-fashion items that may only get a few uses. These items often end up discarded quickly, harming China defends bounties offered for Hong Kong dissidents abroad 12/15/2023 11:13pm • BEIJING (AP) ��� China on Friday defended controversial bounties offered for the capture of Hong Kong dissidents who have fled abroad that have been heavily criticized by foreign governments and human rights groups. Rewards of 1 million Hong Kong dollars ($128,000) have been offered for information Dad who said 'If I can���t have them neither can you' pleads guilty to killing 3 kids 12/15/2023 08:29pm • WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) ��� A suburban Chicago man who told his estranged wife ���If I can���t have them neither can you��� pleaded guilty but mentally ill Friday to three counts of first-degree murder for killing their three young children, a prosecutor said. Jason Karels, 36, of Round Lake Beach will