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Murder trial in killing of pro cyclist Anna 'Mo' Wilson ends with guilty verdict. What happened? 11/16/2023 04:01pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� The murder trial of a Texas woman charged in the May 2022 shooting death of rising professional cyclist Anna ���Mo��� Wilson has ended with a guilty verdict. Kaitlin Armstrong, who fled the U.S. shortly after Wilson was killed and underwent plastic surgery in South America in Man who attacked Pelosi���s husband convicted of federal assault and attempted kidnapping charges 11/16/2023 03:56pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� A jury on Thursday convicted the man who broke into former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi���s San Francisco home last year of federal charges for seeking to hold her hostage and attacking her husband with a hammer. Jurors deliberated for about eight hours before finding David Photographer found shot to death in violence plagued Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez 11/16/2023 03:47pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� A photographer for a newspaper in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, which has been dominated by drug cartels, was found shot to death, prosecutors said Thursday. The body of news photographer Ismael Villag��mez was found in the driver���s seat of a car just after midnigh Fatalities from Maui wildfire reach 100 after death of woman, 78, injured in the disaster 11/16/2023 02:52pm • HONOLULU (AP) ��� The death toll from the wildfire that devastated the historic Maui town of Lahaina last summer has risen to 100 after a 78-year-old woman injured in the disaster died last month, officials said Tuesday. The victim was among those who had been flown to Oahu after the Aug. 8 wildfire Finland will close 4 border crossings with Russia, accusing Moscow of organizing a flow of migrants 11/16/2023 02:17pm • HELSINKI (AP) ��� Finland will close four crossing points on its long border with Russia to stop the flow of Middle Eastern and African migrants that it accuses Moscow of ushering to the border in recent months, the government said Thursday. Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo and Interior Minister 6 police officers, 90 protesters reported injured at cease-fire protest outside DNC in DC 11/16/2023 02:14pm • Violence broke out at a protest outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters in D.C. on Wednesday night with demonstrators calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. U.S. Capitol Police said six of their officers were hurt and their injuries ranged from minor cuts to being pepper-sprayed to Man who attacked Minnesota congresswoman in her Washington apartment building gets 27-month sentence 11/16/2023 02:14pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A man who pleaded guilty to assaulting Democratic Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota in the elevator of her Washington apartment was sentenced to more than two years behind bars Thursday. Kendrid Khalil Hamlin, 27, apologized to Craig and said he wants to get mental health and subs Longtime Israeli policy foes are leading US protests against Israel's action in Gaza. Who are they? 11/16/2023 02:07pm • As the Israel-Hamas war rages in Gaza, there���s a bitter battle for public opinion flaring in the United States, with angry rallies on many college campuses and disruptive protests at prominent venues in several major cities. Among the catalysts are Palestinian and Jewish-led groups that have been Hornets F Miles Bridges set to return after sitting out last season and serving 10-game suspension 11/16/2023 02:05pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� Charlotte Hornets forward Miles Bridges is ���anxious��� to make his return to NBA action, saying it feels ���like the first day of school.��� Bridges is set to return to the court Friday night for the first time in 583 days against the Milwaukee Bucks for an NBA In-Season T In Russia, more Kremlin critics are being imprisoned as intolerance of dissent grows 11/16/2023 02:03pm • Russia under President Vladimir Putin has been closing in on those who challenge the Kremlin. Protesters and activists have been arrested or imprisoned, independent news outlets have been silenced, and various groups have been added to registers of ���foreign agents��� and ���undesirable organizatio Mississippi man had ID in his pocket when he was buried without his family's knowledge 11/16/2023 01:46pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� A Black man who died after he was hit by a police SUV in Mississippi was buried in a pauper's cemetery without his family's knowledge, even though his state ID was in his pocket, indicating a serious effort to cover up the manner of his death, the family's lawyer said Thursda Ex-Pentagon police officer gets 25 years for fatally shooting 2 men in parking lot in 2021 11/16/2023 01:24pm • The former off-duty Pentagon police officer who fatally shot two men in the parking lot of his Takoma Park condo building in April 2021 has been sentenced to 25 years in prison on two counts of second-degree murder. David Hall Dixon, 42, opened fire on a car in the parking lot of the Takoma Park NYC will pay $17.5 million to man who was wrongly convicted of 1996 murders 11/16/2023 12:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� New York City will pay $17.5 million to a man who spent 24 years in prison for a double homicide he did not commit, city officials said Thursday. The settlement in the case of George Bell, one of three men convicted for the 1996 killing of a Queens check-cashing store owner and an Kenya's high court extends a block on sending police to Haiti even as parliament approves deployment 11/16/2023 12:33pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� Kenya���s high court on Thursday extended orders blocking the deployment of police officers to Haiti, even as parliament approved a government request to send 1,000 officers to the Caribbean nation to help deal with gang violence. High Court Judge Chacha Mwita said he would i NYC raids net knockoff bags, apparel, said to be worth $1B if items had been real 11/16/2023 11:31am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Raids on storage facilities in New York City turned up a huge haul of counterfeit handbags, shoes and other luxury merchandise that could have been worth more than $1 billion if the knockoffs had been real, federal authorities announced. Roughly 219,000 items were seized from Manha