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Atlanta officer used Taser on church deacon after he said he could not breathe, police video shows 11/22/2023 05:00pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� An Atlanta police officer responding to a minor car crash deployed a Taser on a church deacon who disregarded multiple commands to sign a traffic ticket, shocking the man after he repeatedly said he could not breathe, police body camera video released Wednesday shows. Johnny Hollman JFK assassination remembered 60 years later by surviving witnesses to history, including AP reporter 11/22/2023 04:35pm • DALLAS (AP) ��� Just minutes after President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot as his motorcade rolled through downtown Dallas, Associated Press reporter Peggy Simpson rushed to the scene and immediately attached herself to the police officers who had converged on the building from which a sniper's b Mid Atlantic Daybook 11/22/2023 04:32pm • Associated Press Mid Atlantic Daybook for Wednesday, Nov. 22. 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 Air Force base defends itself from claims of political bias over conservative rally warning 11/22/2023 04:15pm • The Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota is defending itself from claims of political bias after an unofficial message cautioning airmen to not attend a conservative political rally began circulating on social media. At issue is the Dakota Patriot Rally, an event held Friday in Minot featuring a pr Police say some 70 bullets fired in North Philadelphia shooting that left 2 dead, 5 wounded 11/22/2023 02:30pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� Philadelphia police on Wednesday identified two men killed in a city shooting a day earlier in which at least 70 rounds were fired and five other men were wounded. Authorities said no arrests have been made but several guns were recovered from the scene of the shooting that occ A Las Vegas high school grapples with how a feud over stolen items escalated into a fatal beating 11/22/2023 02:28pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� Students at a Las Vegas high school had gone home for the day when an urgent message was broadcast from the intercom: A defibrillator was needed near one of the classrooms. A nurse ran in the direction of the emergency. A group of teachers tried to perform CPR. It wasn't until the Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 11/22/2023 01:11pm • Here���s a look at how AP���s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP���s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov Robbery suspect's colorful underwear helped police arrest him, authorities say 11/22/2023 12:59pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A pair of multicolored briefs peeking out above a robbery suspect's low-slung trousers helped police arrest him more than a year later, federal authorities in New York said Wednesday. The robbery happened at a tobacco shop in Queens on Sept. 14, 2022. Three masked men got out of a Suspected militants kill 5, including 2 soldiers, in pair of bombings in northwest Pakistan 11/22/2023 12:46pm • DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) ��� Suspected militants killed five people on Wednesday, including two soldiers, in a pair of bomb attacks targeting security forces in northwest Pakistan, near the Afghan border, officials said. The first attack occurred in North Waziristan district, in Khyber Pakhtu Incoming Philadelphia mayor taps the city's chief of school safety as next police commissioner 11/22/2023 12:36pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� Philadelphia Mayor-elect Cherelle Parker, who won her post by promising gun-violence-weary residents to get tough on crime, on Wednesday selected longtime police official Kevin J. Bethel to become the next police commissioner of the nation's sixth most populous city. The move i Judge denies corrupt Baltimore ex-detective's request for compassionate release 11/22/2023 10:34am • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� A federal judge has denied a compassionate release request filed by a former Baltimore police officer convicted in 2018 as part of the department���s Gun Trace Task Force corruption scandal. Daniel Hersl, the oldest member of the deeply corrupt and now-disbanded Baltimore police u Albania's prime minister calls for more NATO troops in neighboring Kosovo following ethnic violence 11/22/2023 10:34am • SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) ��� Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama urged NATO on Wednesday to further boost its military forces in Kosovo and secure the country's borders with Serbia, warning that recent ethnic violence in Kosovo could potentially trigger a wider Balkan conflict. Kosovo���s border wi Authorities warn that fake HIV drugs are found in Kenya despite a crackdown on counterfeits 11/22/2023 10:25am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� Kenyan authorities issued a warning Wednesday about the sale of counterfeit HIV prevention drugs in the country, saying their "safety, quality and efficacy cannot be assured.��� The Pharmacy and Poisons Board said the drugs were in two batches falsely labeled as Truvada, a co Black Friday is almost here. What to know about the holiday sales event's history and evolution 11/22/2023 09:55am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� If you didn't already guess it from a barrage of sales ads in your inbox, the holiday shopping season is upon us. And Black Friday is right around the corner. While Black Friday may no longer look like the crowd-filled, in-person mayhem that it was just decades ago ��� in large par Portuguese hacker in Football Leaks scandal handed 6-month suspended sentence by French court 11/22/2023 09:35am • PARIS (AP) ��� A Portuguese hacker whose bombshell revelations on the ���FootballLeaks��� website rocked European soccer was convicted Wednesday by a Paris court and given a suspended prison sentence of six months. Rui Pinto accepted the sentence proposed by the public prosecutor for hacking into Pa