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More than $950,000 raised for Palestinian student paralyzed after being shot in Vermont 12/04/2023 04:37pm • More than $950,000 has been raised for the recovery of one of the three college students of Palestinian descent who was shot in Vermont and is currently paralyzed from the chest down, according to a GoFundMe page set up by his family. One of the bullets that hit Hisham Awartani on Nov. 25 is lodg Jonathan Majors assault trial starts with competing versions of a backseat confrontation 12/04/2023 04:24pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Jonathan Majors listened silently, head-cocked and eyes down, as a Manhattan prosecutor and his defense attorney offered competing accounts of a violent confrontation in the backseat of a car that led to assault charges against the film star and put his rapid Hollywood ascent on pa Prince George's Co. officer charged with murder in 2020 cruiser shooting testifies in his own defense 12/04/2023 03:25pm • The first Prince George's County, Maryland, police officer ever charged with murder while in the line of duty took the stand Monday in his own defense. After nearly four years, this was the first time that Cpl. Michael Owen had ever put his version of what happened on the record. He is charged wi 62-year-old man identified as pilot killed in Fauquier County plane crash 12/04/2023 03:01pm • A pilot who died in a plane crash over the weekend in Fauquier County, Virginia, was identified by state police on Monday. Simmie Adams, 62, of Bealeton was trying to land a 1975 Beechcraft plane at Warrenton-Fauquier Airport just before 4 p.m. when the aircraft hit several trees, Virginia State Virginia officer seriously wounded in gunfire exchange that left stabbing suspect dead, police say 12/04/2023 12:01pm • ROANOKE, Va. (AP) ��� A Virginia police officer was shot and seriously wounded in an exchange of gunfire that fatally injured a suspect in a stabbing death, officials said. Roanoke police officers who went to a home on Lawrence Avenue Southeast on Sunday morning for a well-being check, found a man Sports minister reacts to Nantes soccer fan's death by mooting idea of travel ban for away games 12/04/2023 11:17am • PARIS (AP) ��� France's sports minister wants "a global and extraordinarily determined response��� to violence in soccer after the death of a Nantes supporter over the weekend. Speaking to France Inter radio on Monday, Amelie Oudea-Castera said preventing fans from traveling to away matches could fo The trial of 4 Egyptian security officials in the slaying of an Italian student is set for February 12/04/2023 11:03am • ROME (AP) ��� Court officials in Rome set a new trial date Monday for four high-level Egyptian security officials in the 2016 abduction, torture and slaying of an Italian doctoral student in Cairo. Lawyers and the parents of Giulio Regeni, whose mutilated body was found along a highway in Egypt, sai Berlin police investigate a suspected arson attempt at Iran opposition group's office 12/04/2023 10:03am • BERLIN (AP) ��� Police in Berlin are investigating a suspected arson attempt early Monday at the office of an Iranian opposition group. Members of the group noticed flames at a window of the building in Berlin's Schmargendorf district at about 2:15 a.m. and were able to extinguish them before they After a fatal attack near the Eiffel Tower, French investigators look into suspect's mental health 12/04/2023 09:52am • PARIS (AP) ��� French investigations into a fatal weekend attack near the Eiffel Tower were looking Monday into the mental health of the suspected assailant, who swore allegiance to the Islamic State group before stabbing a German-Filipino tourist to death and injuring two other people with a hammer Man arrested and charged in fatal shooting of DC man inside social services building 12/04/2023 09:41am • D.C. court documents have shed more light on a deadly shooting inside a private social services building in Northeast on Friday. Brandon Lewis, 23, was at DC Doors in the 900 block of Rhode Island Avenue, Northeast, just before 6:40 p.m. when the shooting took place. Clarence McKnight, 22, was A toaster placed under a car to heat up the battery likely sparked a fire in Denmark, police say 12/04/2023 06:54am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� A toaster placed under an electric vehicle by its owner to warm up its battery likely caused a fire that destroyed the car and damaged a nearby house in southern Denmark, police said Monday. Police said that they ���strongly discourage��� people to use that method to hea Pakistan arrests 17 suspects in connection to the weekend bus shooting that killed 10 12/04/2023 05:20am • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) ��� Police in Pakistan arrested at least 17 suspects in the weekend bus shooting that left 10 people dead and 25 others wounded, authorities said Monday. Security forces raided several areas in the northern Gilgit Baltistan region ��� where the attack took place ��� and arre South Africa intercepts buses carrying more than 400 unaccompanied children from Zimbabwe 12/04/2023 05:09am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) ��� Border officials in South Africa say they have intercepted dozens of buses carrying more than 400 young children from Zimbabwe without parents or legal guardians in an anti-trafficking operation. The officials say the children were being ���trafficked��� into South Africa, alth 6 Prince George's Co. firefighters hospitalized after truck overturns 12/04/2023 04:18am • Prince George's County, Maryland, fire and rescue officials say six first responders have been hospitalized after an incident late Sunday night. The department said firefighters were on the scene of a structure fire near Good Luck Road and Kenilworth Avenue just before 11 p.m. when a��"fire appar Heavy snow in northern England causes havoc on highways and knocks out power 12/04/2023 02:13am • AMBLESIDE, England (AP) ��� Heavy snow in northern England forced motorists to seek shelter or spend the night in their cars and knocked out power to more than 2,500 customers, officials said Sunday. Trucks jackknifed in the snow, blocking highways, as drivers reported taking hours to complete short