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DC's acting police chief approved by council to serve on permanent basis 11/07/2023 05:29pm • D.C. Acting Police Chief Pamela Smith has been approved by the D.C. Council to lead the city's police department on a permanent basis. Smith's unanimous confirmation Tuesday comes as homicide and violent crime levels in the District reach levels not seen since the 1990s. Smith took over as act Jets sign Perrion Winfrey to the practice squad. He was cut by Browns in July following legal issues 11/07/2023 05:28pm • FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) ��� The New York Jets signed defensive tackle Perrion Winfrey, who was released by Cleveland in July following some legal issues, to the practice squad. The Jets released defensive lineman Bruce Hector from the practice squad Tuesday to make room for Winfrey. Winfrey was draf 5 years after California's deadliest wildfire, survivors forge different paths toward recovery 11/07/2023 04:52pm • PARADISE, Calif. (AP) ��� On the day Paradise burned, Gwen Nordgren stopped her car just long enough to rescue a young woman escaping by foot. By that time on Nov. 8, 2018, the sky was black even though the sun had been up for hours. Both sides of the street were on fire as Nordgren grabbed the woma Man killed after pointing gun at Baltimore police, officials say 11/07/2023 04:52pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� Baltimore police officers shot and killed a man who pointed a gun at them following a foot pursuit Tuesday afternoon, officials said. Police Commissioner Richard Worley said officers were patrolling an area in southwest Baltimore known for frequent gun violence when they encounter Portugal's prime minister resigns as his government is involved in a corruption investigation 11/07/2023 04:50pm • LISBON, Portugal (AP) ��� Portuguese Prime Minister Ant��nio Costa resigned Tuesday after his government was involved in a widespread corruption probe, sending a shock wave through the normally tranquil politics of the European Union member. The 62-year-old Costa, Portugal���s Socialist leader since Mid Atlantic Daybook 11/07/2023 04:31pm • Associated Press Mid Atlantic Daybook for Tuesday, Nov. 07. 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 a Cornell student accused of threatening Jewish people had mental health struggles, mother says 11/07/2023 04:29pm • The mother of a Cornell University student accused of making online threats against Jewish people on campus said Tuesday he had mental health struggles and posted an apology soon after the posts. Patrick Dai, 21, faces a federal charge of posting threats to kill or injure another using interstate co South African government minister and bodyguards robbed at gunpoint on major highway 11/07/2023 04:21pm • JOHANNESBURG (AP) ��� South African police are on a manhunt for suspects who robbed a government minister at gunpoint and disarmed her two bodyguards of their pistols on a busy Johannesburg highway, police said Tuesday. The robbery took place while Transport Minister Sindisiwe Chikunga���s bodyguard Man with gun arrested near US Capitol 11/07/2023 04:20pm • A man was arrested in a park near the U.S. Capitol in D.C. Tuesday after police said he had a gun. U.S. Capitol Police said the man will be charged with having a firearm on Capitol grounds, which is a violation. Police are working to determine whether the gun was legal and whether it was register A Meta engineer saw his own child face harassment on Instagram. Now, he's testifying before Congress 11/07/2023 03:44pm • On the same day whistleblower Frances Haugen was testifying before Congress about the harms of Facebook and Instagram to children in the fall of 2021, a former engineering director at the social media giant who had rejoined the company as a consultant sent an alarming email to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerbe Lawsuit alleges 'widespread' abuse at shuttered youth facility operated by man commuted by Trump 11/07/2023 03:29pm • LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) ��� Eight former residents of a youth treatment center that was run by an Arkansas man whose bribery conviction was commuted by former President Donald Trump have filed a lawsuit claiming they were victims of ���systematic and widespread��� abuse at the now-shuttered facility. Former Montgomery Co. teacher charged with sexually abusing a student 11/07/2023 03:22pm • A former middle school teacher in Montgomery County, Maryland, has been charged with sexually abusing a student. Police said they conducted an investigation last month into allegations of sexual abuse made by a former student at Montgomery Village Middle School against 31-year-old Melissa Curtis, Nashville police chief confirms authenticity of leaked Covenant school shooter's writings 11/07/2023 03:12pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Nashville Police Chief John Drake says he's ���disturbed��� over the unauthorized release of writings from the shooter who killed six people, including three children, at The Covenant School in March. Drake confirmed the authenticity of the writings in a statement late Mond Voters in Lewiston are overcoming fear and sadness to do their civic duty after mass shooting 11/07/2023 03:10pm • LEWISTON, Maine (AP) ��� Less than two weeks after 18 people were killed by a gunman in their small New England city, residents headed gingerly to cast ballots Tuesday for a slate of municipal races in an election that took on a more subdued and somber tone after the tragedy. Citing civic duty and a A Utah woman who had leg amputated after dog attack has died, police say 11/07/2023 03:08pm • TAYLORSVILLE, Utah (AP) ��� A 63-year-old Utah woman who had a leg amputated after being attacked by her son���s dogs in her yard in a Salt Lake City suburb last week has died. The woman, whose name has not been released, died Monday, Taylorsville Police Lt. J. Fowler said Tuesday. The woman called