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Editorial Roundup: United States 11/07/2023 02:02pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Nov. 3 The Washington Post on House Speaker Mike Johnson: The House passed on Thursday night a proposal by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) that pairs $14.3 billion in emergency funding for Israel with $14.3 billion in cuts to the Internal Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 11/07/2023 01:35pm • 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 Brazil police search Portugal's Consulate in Rio de Janeiro as part of a corruption investigation 11/07/2023 01:33pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� Brazilian federal police conducted searches at five locations, including the Portuguese Consulate in Rio de Janeiro, as part of a corruption investigation Tuesday. Portuguese public prosecutors and Portuguese security agents accompanied the Brazilian officers, according to a PSG fan and police officer stabbed in clashes ahead of Champions League match in Milan 11/07/2023 01:25pm • MILAN (AP) ��� A Paris Saint-Germain fan was seriously injured and a police officer was wounded after both were stabbed during clashes between supporters of the French team and AC Milan. According to Italian media, a group of around 50 Milan fans ��� wearing masks and helmets and throwing flares ��� Ex-gang leader gets June date for Vegas murder trial stemming from 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur 11/07/2023 01:12pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� A Nevada judge set a June 3 date for the murder trial of a former Southern California street gang leader who has become the only person ever charged in the 1996 killing of hip-hop music icon Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas. Duane ���Keffe D��� Davis made a brief court appearance in sha What to know about Elijah McClain's death and the cases against police and paramedics 11/07/2023 01:03pm • BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) ��� A jury has acquitted a Denver-area police officer of manslaughter, following trial testimony that he put Elijah McClain in a neck hold before the Black man was injected with the powerful sedative ketamine by paramedics and died. The acquittal came Monday in the second of thr BU finds Ibram X. Kendi's antiracist research center managed funds properly, despite turmoil 11/07/2023 12:34pm • Boston University said Tuesday that its initial inquiry into the antiracist research center run by best-selling author and academic Ibram X. Kendi found no issues with how it managed its finances. After the announcement, Kendi said he was eager to get back to work. The university launched the inquir Nobel peace laureate Bialiatski has been put in solitary confinement in Belarus, his wife says 11/07/2023 12:12pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� Nobel Peace Prize laureate and activist Ales Bialiatski has been transferred to solitary confinement at his prison in Belarus, his wife said Tuesday. Natalia Pinchuk told The Associated Press that prison authorities have toughened conditions for the 61-year-old Bialiatski, At least 7 civilians killed and 20 others wounded after a minibus exploded in the Afghan capital 11/07/2023 11:14am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� A minibus exploded in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in Afghanistan���s capital, Kabul, killing at least seven civilians and wounding 20 others, authorities said Tuesday. This is the second blast to have struck the area in as many weeks. Police spokesman, Khalid Zadran, said Bangladesh raises monthly minimum wage for garment workers to $113 following weeks of protests 11/07/2023 09:02am • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ��� Authorities in Bangladesh announced a new salary structure on Tuesday for protesting garment factory workers with a 56% increase in the monthly minimum wage to $113 from the previous $75, a decision rejected by some workers' groups as too small. State Minister for Labor a Dozens indicted on Georgia racketeering charges related to 'Stop Cop City' movement appear in court 11/07/2023 06:26am • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Nearly five dozen people indicted on racketeering charges related to protests against a planned police and firefighter training facility near Atlanta appeared in court on Monday as their supporters rallied outside the courthouse. Protests against the proposed training center ��� dub Media watchdog asks Pakistan not to deport 200 Afghan journalists in undocumented migrant crackdown 11/07/2023 05:32am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� An international media watchdog is urging Pakistan not to deport more than 200 Afghan journalists who fled their homeland after the Taliban regained control in August 2021 as U.S. and NATO forces withdrew following more than two decades of war. The plea by Reporters Without Border Bail denied for Prince George's Co. man accused of stabbing, carjacking 75-year-old woman 11/07/2023 03:30am • The man who police said stabbed and carjacked an elderly woman in Prince George's County, Maryland, last Wednesday has been denied bail after Monday's arraignment hearing, a spokesperson for the county's State's Attorney's Office confirmed to WTOP. James Minor, 30, of Clinton, Maryland, faces cha Israeli forces cut off north Gaza to isolate Hamas as an advance on the urban center looms 11/06/2023 11:46pm • KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� The Israeli army severed northern Gaza from the rest of the besieged territory and pounded it with airstrikes Monday, preparing for expected ground battles with Hamas militants in Gaza's largest city and an even bloodier phase of the month-old war. Already, the Pales Rob Dillingham scores 17 points as No. 16 Kentucky beats New Mexico State 86-46 11/06/2023 11:42pm • LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) ��� Rob Dillingham scored 17 points, D.J. Wagner had 13 and No. 16 Kentucky shot 59% in the second half to rout New Mexico State 86-46 on Monday night in the season opener for both teams. Picking up where they left off from winning the GLOBL Jam this summer in Toronto, the Wildca