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How the deep friendship between an Amazon chief and Belgian filmmaker devolved into accusations 12/14/2023 12:11am • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� It was considered to be among the world���s most productive partnerships between an Indigenous chief and a Westerner. For five decades, the Amazonian tribal leader and Belgian film director enlisted presidents and royals, even Pope Francis, to improve the lives of Brazil���s Today in History: December 14, U.S. COVID vaccinations begin 12/14/2023 12:05am • Today in History Today is Thursday, Dec. 14, the 348th day of 2023. There are 17 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On Dec. 14, 2020, the largest vaccination campaign in U.S. history began with health workers getting shots on the same day the nation���s COVID-19 death toll hit 30 Lawsuits target Maine referendum aimed at curbing foreign influence in local elections 12/13/2023 10:21pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ��� Two utilities and two media organizations are suing over a referendum in Maine that closed a loophole in federal election law that allows foreign entities to spend on local and state ballot measures. The three lawsuits take aim at the proposal overwhelmingly approved by vote Stranger charged with break-in and murder in slaying of Detroit synagogue leader 12/13/2023 08:42pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� A stranger accused of breaking into the home of a Detroit synagogue leader was charged with her murder Wednesday, nearly two months after her body was found outdoors with multiple stab wounds, authorities said. There was not a ���shred of evidence��� that Samantha Woll was killed as New Mexico Supreme Court weighs whether to strike down local abortion restrictions 12/13/2023 08:22pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) ��� The New Mexico Supreme Court is weighing whether to strike down local abortion restrictions by conservative cities and counties at the request of the attorney general for the state where abortion laws are among the most liberal in the country. The high court heard oral argume Lawyers and prosecutors make final arguments in trial of 3 Washington state officers 12/13/2023 08:06pm • TACOMA, Wash. (AP) ��� Lawyers for three Washington state officers charged in the death of a Black man who was beaten, shocked and hogtied facedown on a sidewalk made their final arguments to the jury Wednesday before the prosecution had the final say and the jury was told to return Thursday to begi Texas woman who fled to Cambodia ahead of trial found guilty of murder in stabbing of Seattle woman 12/13/2023 08:04pm • DALLAS (AP) ��� A Texas woman who cut off her ankle monitor and fled the country while awaiting trial last year was found guilty of murder on Wednesday in the fatal stabbing of a 23-year-old Seattle woman. She was sentenced to life in prison. A jury in Dallas convicted Lisa Dykes of murder and tampe Suicide attacker used 264 pounds of explosives to target police station in Pakistan, killing 23 12/13/2023 07:30pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� The suicide bomber who rammed his car into a police station's main gate iand killed 23 officers n Pakistan's northwest used 120 kilograms (about 264 pounds) of explosives, authorities said Wednesday. The attack on Tuesday ��� one of the deadliest in months ��� also wounded 32 off Football player Matt Araiza dropped from woman's rape lawsuit and won't sue for defamation 12/13/2023 07:22pm • SAN DIEGO (AP) ��� Former Buffalo Bills punter Matt Araiza is being dropped from a lawsuit filed by a woman who alleged she was raped by San Diego State University football players in 2021. The woman agreed Tuesday to dismiss Araiza from the lawsuit she filed last year, while Araiza agreed to dismis Off-duty police officer indicted in death of man he allegedly pushed at a shooting scene 12/13/2023 06:42pm • MONACA, Pa. (AP) ��� A Pennsylvania police officer has been indicted on involuntary manslaughter and other charges after prosecutors say he pushed and fatally injured a man at a shooting scene. The state Attorney General's Office announced the indictment Wednesday against John J. Hawk, 37, who serve Woman who Montana police say drove repeatedly through religious group pleads not guilty 12/13/2023 06:41pm • BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) ��� A Montana woman who police say was intoxicated when she drove her vehicle repeatedly through a group of religious demonstrators, wounding one person, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to multiple felony charges. Genevienne Marlene Rancuret, 55, was arraigned in state district Bulgaria dismantles a Soviet army monument that has dominated the Sofia skyline since 1954 12/13/2023 06:19pm • SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) ��� Bulgaria on Wednesday began dismantling a monument to the army of the Soviet Union that dominated the skyline of the capital, Sofia, for nearly 70 years and was widely seen as a symbol of Russia���s influence in the Balkan country. The monument was erected in 1954 to commemo Somalia's president says his son didn't flee fatal accident in Turkey and should return to court 12/13/2023 05:55pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� Somalia���s president says his son didn���t flee Turkey after he was involved in a fatal highway crash in Istanbul, and adds that he has advised his son to go back and present himself to court, which has issued an arrest warrant. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said in an int Congressional group demands probe into Beijing's role in violence against protesters on US soil 12/13/2023 05:35pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A congressional commission is asking the Justice Department to investigate the role of Beijing after protesters claimed they were beaten and harassed by Chinese government agents in November in San Francisco during an official visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping. The protesters Israel-Hamas war tensions roil campuses; Brown protesters are arrested, Haverford building occupied 12/13/2023 05:15pm • Dozens of student protesters at Brown University were arrested, and a weeklong sit-in at Haverford College ended Wednesday under threat of disciplinary action as U.S. college campuses continue to be roiled by tensions over the Israel-Hamas war. Brown's police department charged 41 students with tres