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Declared missing as a child, British teenager lives off-grid for 6 years, then pops up in France 12/15/2023 02:50pm • LE PECQ, France (AP) ��� The vehicle's headlights silhouetted the exhausted teenager walking alone in the rain in deepest rural France, with a skateboard tucked under his arm. ���I said to myself, ���That���s strange. It���s 3 am in the morning, it���s raining, he���s all by himself on the road bet Bull on tracks disrupts trains between Newark and New York 12/15/2023 02:05pm • NEWARK, N.J. (AP) ��� A loose bull in New Jersey's largest city found its way onto train tracks, snarling rail traffic for a while Thursday before it was captured, authorities said. The ruddy brown bull with long, dark-tipped horns stood on the tracks at Newark Penn Station, prompting a police respo Spanish police arrest 14 airport workers after items go missing from checked-in luggage 12/15/2023 01:37pm • MADRID (AP) ��� Fourteen workers at one of Spain's main airports for tourists were arrested on suspicion of stealing items from checked-in luggage, police said Friday. Police seized allegedly stolen items worth almost 2 million euros ($2.2 million), including around 13,000 euros ($14,000) in cash, f Prince Harry's phone hacking victory is a landmark in the long saga of British tabloid misconduct 12/15/2023 01:32pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Prince Harry���s victory against Mirror Group Newspapers on Friday over what a British judge called ���habitual��� illegal activity is a landmark moment in the long and twisting saga of lawbreaking by Britain���s tabloid press. Judge Timothy Fancourt ruled that Mirror newspapers h Michigan State reaches settlements with families of students slain in mass shooting 12/15/2023 01:12pm • EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) ��� Michigan State University trustees have approved settlements with the families of three students slain during a mass shooting earlier this year on the school's campus. Trustees voted unanimously Friday to approve separate claims with the families of Brian Fraser, Arielle Vermont, ranked as one of the safest states, sees dramatic spike in gun violence 12/15/2023 12:31pm • BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) ��� The recent shootings of three college students of Palestinian descent in Vermont���s largest city come as the small rural state, often ranked as one of the nation's safest, is grappling with a spike in gun violence. Two days after the students were shot and seriously wounded Nigeria's Supreme Court reinstates terrorism charges against separatist leader 12/15/2023 12:20pm • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) ��� Nigeria���s Supreme Court on Friday overturned a lower court ruling dismissing terrorism charges against a popular separatist leader whose trial has been blamed for an outbreak of violence in the country���s southeast region. The Court said Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigeno 85-year-old DC man stabbed wife to death after arguing over pancakes, prosecutors say 12/15/2023 12:19pm • The 85-year-old man charged with fatally stabbing his wife in Northwest D.C. will be spending Christmas in custody, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for D.C. Prosecutors said Steven Schwartz stabbed his wife, 81-year-old Sharron Schwartz, after they argued over him not wanting to eat the p Man in central Illinois killed three people and wounded another before killing self, authorities say 12/15/2023 12:05pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) ��� A man is believed to have killed three women and wounded a man before killing himself during a traffic stop in central Illinois, authorities said. Police were called to a home in rural Ashland, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) west of Springfield, in response to a report of US national security adviser says a negotiated outcome is the best way to end Lebanon-Israel tension 12/15/2023 10:58am • BEIRUT (AP) ��� U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Friday that he has discussed with Israeli officials the volatile situation along the Lebanon-Israel border, adding that a ���negotiated outcome��� is the best way to reassure residents of northern Israel. Speaking to reporters in Jeru School zone speed cameras coming to Fauquier County within weeks 12/15/2023 10:41am • Speeding in a school zone in Fauquier County, Virginia, will soon cost drivers $100. Starting in January, Fauquier will be the latest county to install cameras and a radar system to automatically issue citations. Fauquier County Sheriff Jeremy Falls told the county school board Monday, Dec. 11 th 5 officers and 5 militants die after attacks on police office and 2 army posts in northwest Pakistan 12/15/2023 09:25am • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) ��� Militants attacked a regional police headquarters and two military posts in northwest Pakistan early Friday, triggering firefights that killed five security personnel and five insurgents, police and the military said. The attacks came three days after a suicide bomber in Police officer fatally shoots 19-year-old in Mesquite, Texas, suspect in a vehicle theft 12/15/2023 09:07am • MESQUITE, Texas (AP) ��� Police in Mesquite, Texas, say an officer investigating a stolen vehicle fatally shot a 19-year-old man who was in another vehicle. The officer saw the stolen vehicle being followed by a second vehicle, then both stopped at a convenience store early Thursday in the east Dal Review: Timoth��e Chalamet waltzes through the whimsical 'Wonka' but Roald Dahl's daring is missing 12/15/2023 07:50am • The original 1971 ���Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory��� may have been a delicious dream, lined with trees of gumballs and fields of lollipops. But never has there been a more cautionary tale about the danger of too much of a good thing. Magical as that Roald Dahl-scripted film was, it remai More than 100 injured in a Beijing rail collision as heavy snow hits the Chinese capital 12/15/2023 07:03am • BEIJING (AP) ��� Two subway trains collided in heavy snow in Beijing, sending 515 people to the hospital, including 102 with broken bones, authorities said Friday. The accident occurred Thursday evening in Beijing���s mountainous west on an above-ground portion of the sprawling subway system���s Cha