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Northeast DC man arrested for series of 'social media platform robberies' 12/09/2023 12:12am • A Northeast D.C. man has been arrested for robbing multiple victims he met through Facebook Marketplace. D.C. police Fifth District Commander Sylvan Altieri says police arrested 19-year-old Elijah Porter without incident after he robbed four separate victims who fell for digital selling scams. Today in History: 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' premieres 12/09/2023 12:01am • Today in History Today is Saturday, Dec. 9, the 343rd day of 2023. There are 22 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: In 1965, ���A Charlie Brown Christmas,��� the first animated TV special featuring characters from the ���Peanuts��� comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, premiered on CB Prince George's Co. parent-led school groups demand safer roads after 2 kids killed in crosswalk 12/08/2023 10:40pm • In November, two young students at Riverdale Elementary School ��� 10-year-old Shalom Mbah and 5-year-old Sky Sosa ��� were in the crosswalk on Riverdale and Taylor Road when they were struck and killed by a driver making a left turn. The crosswalk had no crossing guard. Weeks after the tragedy, Recorded 911 calls underscore the real time terror of the deadly Las Vegas university shooting 12/08/2023 09:54pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� Fire alarms blared in the background of 911 calls that police released Friday, amplifying the terrified voices of students and faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as they hid inside locked offices and under desks while a gunman fired shots outside, killing three profess Europe reaches a deal on the world's first comprehensive AI rules 12/08/2023 09:19pm • LONDON (AP) ��� European Union negotiators clinched a deal Friday on the world's first comprehensive artificial intelligence rules, paving the way for legal oversight of AI technology that has promised to transform everyday life and spurred warnings of existential dangers to humanity. Negotiators fr Police still investigating motive of UNLV shooting; school officials cancel classes, finals 12/08/2023 08:54pm • Three University of Nevada, Las Vegas faculty members died this week and another was critically injured when a lone gunman walked onto campus and opened fire in the building housing the business school. The shooting stoked fear on the 30,000-student campus just miles from the Las Vegas Strip where t Live updates | UN resolution demanding immediate cease-fire in Gaza fails 12/08/2023 08:35pm • The United States vetoed a United Nations resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza, where Israeli troops rounded up Palestinian men in the northern part of the territory for interrogation, seeking Hamas militants. The U.N. vote came after Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Nashville Police investigation into leak of Covenant School shooter's writings is inconclusive 12/08/2023 07:39pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Nashville Police have ���exhausted all available investigative avenues��� in the hunt for the person who leaked pages from a school shooter���s journals to a conservative commentator, the department announced in an email sent to media late on Friday. The writings are part o Man who fired shotgun outside New York synagogue cited events in the Mideast, federal agent says 12/08/2023 06:31pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ��� A man who fired a shotgun into the air outside a synagogue in New York's capital city is an Iraqi-born U.S. citizen who told investigators he felt affected by events in the Middle East, a federal agent said in a court filing. No one was injured by the gunfire Thursday afternoon US Sen. Kevin Cramer's son makes court appearance after crash that killed North Dakota deputy 12/08/2023 06:22pm • MANDAN, N.D. (AP) ��� The 42-year-old son of U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer made his first court appearance Friday on manslaughter and other charges after authorities say he fled from police and crashed into a squad car, killing a North Dakota sheriff's deputy who was taking cover behind the vehicle. Ian Cr Arkansas man sentenced to 5 1/2 years for firebombing police cars during 2020 protests 12/08/2023 06:14pm • LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) ��� The ringleader of a group who admitted to firebombing several police cars in Arkansas during the 2020 protests over the killing of George Floyd has been sentenced to five and a half years in federal prison, while three of his co-defendants were sentenced to 18 months each. Six French teens convicted over their roles in an Islamic extremist's killing of a teacher 12/08/2023 06:03pm • PARIS (AP) ��� A French juvenile court on Friday convicted six teenagers for their roles in the 2020 beheading of a teacher by an Islamic extremist, an attack that shocked the country and shone a light on the real-world dangers of online hate speech. Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, was High-profile attacks on Derek Chauvin and Larry Nassar put spotlight on violence in federal prisons 12/08/2023 05:59pm • Derek Chauvin was stabbed nearly two dozen times at a federal prison in Arizona. Larry Nassar was knifed repeatedly at a federal penitentiary in Florida. The recent assaults of two high-profile federal prisoners by fellow inmates have renewed concerns about whether the crisis-plagued federal Bureau Report: Deputies were justified when they fired at SUV that blasted through Mar-a-Lago checkpoint 12/08/2023 05:54pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) ��� Two Florida sheriff's deputies were justified when they fired numerous shots at a Connecticut opera singer whose speeding SUV blasted through a checkpoint outside then-President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club almost four years ago, an internal affairs investigation con Boy shot inside Georgia Ave-Petworth Metro, photos of suspect released 12/08/2023 05:47pm • A boy was shot inside the Georgia Avenue-Petworth Metro station on Friday afternoon, according to Metro officials. In an email to WTOP, Metro said the juvenile boy was shot in the "unpaid mezzanine area" of the station. Medics arrived and transported him to a hospital with non-life-threatening