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DEA agent leaked secret information about Maduro ally targeted by US, prosecutor says 11/01/2023 04:00pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A federal narcotics agent leaked sensitive case information about one of Washington���s top criminal targets in Venezuela as part of a scheme to sell government secrets to defense lawyers seeking to attract deep-pocketed clients, a jury was told this week. In a wiretapped phone ca Princeton student who stormed Capitol is sentenced to 2 months behind bars 11/01/2023 03:14pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A man who was a Princeton University student when he stormed the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Wednesday to two months of incarceration for interfering with police officers trying to hold off a mob of Donald Trump supporters. Larry Fife Giberson, who graduated from Princeton earl Body of man who had been shot found inside trash can in Southeast DC 11/01/2023 03:10pm • The body of a man who was shot to death was found inside a garbage can in Southeast D.C. on Monday night. D.C. police said officers were called to the 1800 block of Fairlawn Avenue Southeast, after someone found human remains at around 7:30 p.m. Human remains were inside of the trash can in th King Charles III meets in private with the family of the Kenyan rebel leader hanged by the British 11/01/2023 02:45pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� King Charles III on Wednesday held a private meeting with the family of the executed leader of the Kenyan rebellion against British colonial rule, a day after the monarch expressed ���greatest sorrow and the deepest regret��� for the violence of the colonial era. The family o George Mason U. responds to video of woman tearing down posters of kidnapped Israeli children 11/01/2023 01:56pm • George Mason University responded on social media Tuesday to a video of a woman taking down and tearing up a poster "that appears to depict Israeli children kidnapped as part of the Israel-Hamas conflict." The video seems to have been recorded at the Virginia university's Fairfax location and has German government plans to allow asylum-seekers to work sooner and punish smugglers harder 11/01/2023 12:19pm • BERLIN (AP) ��� The German government has approved legislation that would allow asylum-seekers to start working sooner and a plan to stiffen punishment for people who smuggle migrants. The package backed by the Cabinet on Wednesday, which still requires parliamentary approval, is the latest in a ser Israeli envoy to Russia says Tel Aviv passengers hid from weekend airport riot in terminal 11/01/2023 10:59am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� Israel���s ambassador to Moscow gave new details Wednesday of the weekend riot at an airport in southern Russia when a flight from Tel Aviv landed there, saying some of the passengers had to hide in the terminal before being flown by helicopter to safety. Ambassador Alexand 2 men arrested in an investigation into a famous tree that was felled near Hadrian's Wall in England 11/01/2023 10:49am • LONDON (AP) ��� Two more men have been arrested in the investigation into who cut down the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree, police in England said Wednesday. The men, both in their 30s, were released on bail Tuesday without being charged in the felling of the iconic sycamore that stood for about 150 Police: Man killed during early-morning shooting in Southeast DC 11/01/2023 09:24am • A man is dead after a shooting in Southeast D.C. on Wednesday morning. D.C. police told WTOP that the shooting happened just before 3:30 a.m. on the 3900 block of Southern Avenue near Pennsylvania Avenue and Suitland Road. The man killed has not been identified. Police have not released inf 12-year-old arrested in suspected carjacking that led to 13-year-old's shooting death by off-duty officer 11/01/2023 08:54am • A 12-year-old connected to an attempted carjacking that left a 13-year-old dead in D.C.'s Penn Quarter neighborhood Saturday night has been arrested. D.C. police said the 12-year-old, of Southeast D.C., has been charged with armed carjacking. After 10 p.m. on Saturday night, police were called A fire in the Jewish section of a cemetery in Austria's capital causes damage but no injuries 11/01/2023 06:44am • BERLIN (AP) ��� Austria's main Jewish leader said Wednesday that a fire was set during the night in the Jewish section of Vienna's central cemetery and swastikas were sprayed on external walls. Jewish Community of Vienna President Oskar Deutsch wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the fire bu Today in History: November 1, Clarence Thomas joins the Supreme Court 11/01/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Wednesday, Nov. 1, the 305th day of 2023. There are 60 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On Nov. 1, 1991, Clarence Thomas took his place as the newest justice on the Supreme Court. On this date: In 1478, the Spanish Inquisition was established. In Springboks arrive to a heroes' welcome in South Africa after another Rugby World Cup triumph 10/31/2023 10:45pm • JOHANNESBURG (AP) ��� The Springboks returned to a heroes��� welcome in South Africa on Tuesday after retaining their Rugby World Cup title with a narrow 12-11 win over the New Zealand All Blacks in the final in France last weekend. Thousands of supporters braved the cold and wet weather to gather Police arrest an armed suspect after 8-hour hostage drama at a post office north of Tokyo 10/31/2023 10:34pm • TOKYO (AP) ��� Police ended an eight-hour standoff at a post office north of Tokyo by arresting the armed suspect after two hostages were freed safely in an attack authorities said could be related to an earlier shooting at a hospital. The man had entered the post office with a gun in Warabi on Tues Suspect in custody for posting online threats about Jewish students at Cornell University 10/31/2023 09:44pm • ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) ��� A Cornell University student was arrested Tuesday and accused of posting threatening statements online about Jewish students at the school, law enforcement officials said. Patrick Dai, 21, a junior from Pittsford, New York, is charged in a federal criminal complaint with pos