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How changing a word on a sign could help Alexandria keep pedestrians safer 11/17/2023 05:23am • Alexandria is considering a change to the city's code that would help keep pedestrians safe and help police identify drivers who don't stop for them while they're trying to cross the street. Christopher Ziemann, the Virginia city's transportation planning division chief, said the change would alt Gang attack on Haitian hospital leads to a call for help and an unlikely triumph for police 11/17/2023 12:27am • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� The bullets began piercing the windows of the hospital as women cradling young children ran from room to room searching for a safe place to hide while the heavily armed gang drew closer. The louder the gunfire grew, the more the women screamed until a hospital employee AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean 11/17/2023 12:03am • Nov. 10-16, 2023 It���s still spring in Brazil, but a dangerous heat wave is sweeping across large swathes of the country. Protesters gathered in Mexico City over the violent death of Jes��s Ociel Baena, the first openly nonbinary person to assume a judicial post in Mexico. A heavily armed gang surr Today in History: November 17, Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes governor of California 11/17/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Friday, Nov. 17, the 321st day of 2023. There are 44 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On Nov. 17, 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Austrian-born actor who had become one of America's biggest movie stars of the 1980s and '90s, was sworn in as the 38t Biden tells Asia-Pacific leaders US 'not going anywhere' as he looks to build economic ties 11/16/2023 11:45pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� President Joe Biden on Thursday made America's case to national leaders and CEOs attending the Asia-Pacific summit that the United States is committed to high standards in trade and to partnerships that will benefit economies across the Pacific. ���We're not going anywhere,��� Live updates | Gaza loses communications due to lack of fuel. Israel signals forces may move south 11/16/2023 11:31pm • A dire lack of fuel in the Gaza Strip shut down all internet and phone networks Thursday, the main Palestinian telecom provider said, effectively cutting off the besieged territory from the outside world. In a signal that Israel���s ground invasion could soon expand to the south, Palestinians in par Illinois earmarks $160 million to keep migrants warm in Chicago as winter approaches 11/16/2023 11:19pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Thursday that Illinois will funnel an additional $160 million to help migrants arriving in Chicago to resettle, including $65 million to help the city launch ���winterized��� temporary shelter to avoid people sleeping outdoors in cold weather. The announ Prince George���s Co. Council passes flurry of bills as 2023 winds down 11/16/2023 11:11pm • A new council that began the year with ambition and promises to do big things started winding down 2023 by passing a flurry of legislation this week in Prince George���s County, Maryland. Much of the legislation passed unanimously, as the county council spent months amending and improving bills b Man fatally shot in the head in Northeast; DC police search for dark van 11/16/2023 10:58pm • A man has died after being shot in the head on Thursday evening in Northeast and D.C. police are looking for a van believed to be connected to the homicide. The man was critically injured when police arrived to the scene in the 2200 block of New York Avenue NE just after 5:15 p.m., a police spoke After kidnapping, father of Colombia striker Luis D��az celebrates son's goals vs. Brazil 11/16/2023 10:40pm • BARRANQUILLA, Colombia (AP) ��� Days after he was released by kidnappers, the father of Colombia striker Luis D��az was in tears on Thursday after he watched his son score both goals in a 2-1 win over Brazil in a World Cup qualifying match. Wearing a Colombia jersey and a necklace, Luis Manuel D��az Internet, phone networks collapse in Gaza, threatening to worsen humanitarian crisis 11/16/2023 10:17pm • KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� Internet and telephone services collapsed across the Gaza Strip on Thursday for lack of fuel, the main Palestinian provider said, bringing a potentially long-term blackout of communications as Israel signaled its offensive against Hamas could next target the south, w 6-year-old boy struck by FedEx driver in Montgomery Co. 11/16/2023 09:22pm • A child was injured when a FedEx truck struck him Wednesday afternoon in Silver Spring, Maryland, according to Montgomery County police. Officials told WTOP it happened at approximately 4 p.m. in the area of Manchester Road and Schuyler Road. Police responded to the report of a struck pedestrian Families of 5 Minnesota men killed by police sue agency to force release of investigation files 11/16/2023 08:52pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� The families of five Minnesota men who were killed by police officers announced a lawsuit Thursday to force the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to release its investigative files on their deaths, saying the state agency has failed to comply with Minnesota's open records law. The New York judge lifts gag order that barred Donald Trump from maligning court staff in fraud trial 11/16/2023 08:27pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A gag order that barred Donald Trump from commenting about court personnel after he disparaged a law clerk in his New York civil fraud trial was temporarily lifted Thursday by an appellate judge who raised free speech concerns. Judge David Friedman of the state���s intermediate app Mistrial declared after federal jury deadlocks in trial of ex-officer in deadly Breonna Taylor raid 11/16/2023 08:26pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� Jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict on federal civil rights charges Thursday in the trial of a former Louisville police officer charged in the police raid that killed Breonna Taylor, prompting the judge to declare a mistrial. Brett Hankison was charged with using exce