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NATO to buy 6 more 'eyes in the sky' planes to update its surveillance capability 11/15/2023 10:11am • BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO announced Wednesday it has opted to buy six new E-7A Wedgetail surveillance planes built by U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing as the 31-nation military alliance looks to update its eyes in the sky in coming years. NATO’s fleet of 14 Airborne Warning and Control System, or AW 3 French Bulldogs dognapped in Southeast DC armed robbery 11/15/2023 09:46am • Three French Bulldogs were stolen in Southeast D.C. early Tuesday morning and police are asking for the public's help in finding three suspects in the armed robbery. The dogs — named Chewy, Coco and Buttercup — were taken from their owner as he was walking them in the 5200 block of East Capit Suspected German anti-government extremist convicted of shooting at police 11/15/2023 09:25am • BERLIN (AP) — A suspected anti-government extremist was convicted of attempted murder in Germany on Wednesday for firing at police who had come to search his home for an unauthorized weapon. The Stuttgart state court sentenced the 55-year-old German citizen, whose name it didn't release, to 14 1/2 Woman dies after being stabbed in random attack at Louisiana Tech University; 2 others hospitalized 11/15/2023 08:21am • RUSTON, La. (AP) — One of four women stabbed in what officials said was a random attack on a Louisiana college campus has died, the school announced. Annie Richardson had been in critical condition after Monday's attack and she died of her injuries Tuesday evening, according to a statement from Lo Police release video of suspect shopping — with a stolen UDC police cruiser 11/15/2023 06:01am • D.C. police are asking the public for help in finding a suspect who stole a campus police vehicle from the University of the District of Columbia's Van Ness campus last week. Police said surveillance cameras around the school showed the suspect stealing the vehicle around 3:45 a.m. last Friday. T Minibus taxi crashes head on with truck in Zimbabwe, leaving 22 dead 11/15/2023 05:50am • HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A minibus taxi crashed head on with a truck in southwestern Zimbabwe, killing 22 people, police said Wednesday. Two others were injured and taken to a hospital after the accident on Tuesday night, police spokesman Paul Nyathi said. The accident occurred on a highway linking China's state media take a new tone toward the US ahead of meeting between their leaders 11/15/2023 05:44am • Ahead of the highly anticipated meeting on Wednesday between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Chinese state media have taken a new tone toward the U.S. with less negative coverage, calls for a return to warmer ties and stories of Americans with positive connections to the coun Tracy Camilla Johns, star of Spike Lee's 'She's Gotta Have It,' presents photography exhibit in Laurel 11/15/2023 04:35am • She was the lead actress in Spike Lee's breakthrough film "She's Gotta Have It" (1986). Now, Tracy Camilla Johns, 60, presents her photography exhibit at the Laurel Museum, operated by the Laurel Historical Society in Maryland where she's lived for 25 years. The exhibit runs now through Thanksgiv 100 years ago, anxiety prompted invention of yellow traffic light 11/15/2023 04:10am • Some aggressive driving behaviors never change — even as technology has morphed from mechanical to electronic, to computer-driven. Next week marks 100 years since Garrett Morgan was granted a patent for his improved traffic signal, the first signal that contained a step between "stop" and " Live updates | Israel says it has launched an operation inside Gaza hospital 11/15/2023 01:00am • Israel says its forces have entered Gaza’s Shifa hospital, the site of a lengthy standoff. The Israeli army had surrounded the facility as part of its ground offensive against Hamas, claiming the militant group conceals military operations in the hospital complex. But with hundreds of patients an Biden says his goal for Xi meeting is to get US-China communications back to 'normal' 11/15/2023 12:03am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Joe Biden and China's Xi Jinping swept into San Francisco on Tuesday as the two leaders made their final preparations for their first engagement in a year at a historic estate outside of the city. Biden expressed hope that the talks would help put a shaky U.S.-China The man accused of attacking Pelosi's husband apologizes for hammer assault 11/14/2023 11:55pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man accused of attacking former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer apologized Tuesday, echoing right-wing conspiracy theories to explain to jurors that he went to the Pelosis’ home as part of a bigger plot to end what he viewed as government corrup Israeli military forces raid Gaza's largest hospital in operation against Hamas 11/14/2023 11:07pm • KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military raided Gaza's largest hospital early Wednesday, conducting what it called a targeted operation against Hamas as troops seized broader control of northern Gaza, including capturing the territory's legislature building and its police headquarters. 8 high school students in Las Vegas arrested on murder charges in fatal beating of classmate 11/14/2023 09:24pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — Eight high school students in Las Vegas between the ages of 13 and 17 have been arrested on suspicion of murder in the fatal beating of a classmate, authorities announced Tuesday at a news conference. Las Vegas police homicide Lt. Jason Johansson said investigators were still work Maine's yellow flag law invoked more than a dozen times after deadly shootings 11/14/2023 08:50pm • LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — A Maine law used to restrict access to guns during a mental health crisis has been invoked more than a dozen times since the killings of 18 people last month, and several people whose guns were temporarily removed referenced the name of the gunman responsible for the mass sh