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'Juneteenth is a special day': DC celebrates the holiday with a block party 06/19/2024 05:52pm • A Juneteenth celebration in Northeast, D.C., on Wednesday put the focus on wellness and community. Visitors stopped at pop-up vendors selling artisan candles and workout gear as well as sticky snow cones to beat the intense heat. The street festival, at the Bryant Street Northeast development, in Safety upgrades coming to intersection where college student was hit and killed 06/19/2024 04:16pm • New safety features will be added to an intersection where a Howard University student was struck and killed by a car on campus. One Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner suggested these updates should have been done earlier. ���My understanding is that there was a safety walk about eight months ago Survivors of New Hampshire motorcycle crash that killed 7 urge a judge to keep trucker off the road 06/19/2024 04:00pm • Days before the five-year anniversary of a crash that killed seven motorcyclists, relatives and friends urged New Hampshire officials Wednesday not to allow the trucker involved back on the state's roadways. A jury in 2022 found Volodymyr Zhukovskyy not guilty of multiple manslaughter and negligent 2 French boys are accused of raping a 12-year-old Jewish girl in an act of antisemitism 06/19/2024 01:52pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Two adolescent boys in a Paris suburb have been given preliminary charges of raping a 12-year-old girl and religion-motivated violence, French authorities said Wednesday. A Jewish leader said the girl is Jewish. The attack elicited widespread shock and concern, notably after a surge One of Rishi Sunak's bodyguards arrested over alleged bets on UK election date 06/19/2024 01:27pm • LONDON (AP) ��� One of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak���s police bodyguards has been arrested over alleged bets on the date of Britain���s national election made before it was announced, authorities said Wednesday. The Metropolitan Police force said that a constable in the Royalty and Specialist Protect Summer wildfires plague Greece and Turkey. The worst ones have been contained 06/19/2024 01:02pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� Scores of Greek firefighters and water-bombing aircraft succeeded late Wednesday in taming a large wildfire on the fringes of Athens that forced authorities to evacuate two nearby settlements. Summer wildfires also plagued Greece's Mediterranean neighbor Turkey, where two vil Climate protesters arrested over spraying orange paint on Stonehenge monument 06/19/2024 12:53pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Two climate protesters who sprayed orange paint on the ancient Stonehenge monument in southern England were arrested Wednesday after two bystanders appeared to intervene and stop them. The latest act by Just Stop Oil was quickly condemned by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as a ���disgrac Firewall to deter cyberattacks is blamed for Massachusetts 911 outage 06/19/2024 12:45pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� A firewall designed to prevent cyberattacks and hacking was to blame for the 911 outage that hit Massachusetts this week, state officials said Wednesday. Massachusetts' 911 system was down for about two hours Tuesday, making it impossible for anyone to reach emergency services using 'I did not over consume': Md. House GOP leader Jason Buckel charged with DUI 06/19/2024 12:45pm • Editor's note: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Del. Jason Buckel was speeding when he was stopped by police on June 13. Buckel was not speeding. The speeding incident referenced in the earlier version stemmed from a 2023 traffic stop. This story has been updated. Del. Czech police arrest a man who wounded a motorcyclist and 2 other people with a knife in Prague 06/19/2024 12:10pm • PRAGUE (AP) ��� Czech police said they arrested a man who wounded a motorcyclist in the neck with a knife in the capital. Two other people were injured. The attack took place at a gas station in the Prague 7 district around 3 p.m. (1300 GMT) on Wednesday. Police said the 52-year-old suspect's motive Suspected impaired driver strikes Maryland State Trooper patrol vehicle in work zone 06/19/2024 11:36am • Maryland State Police said a trooper was struck while inside his patrol vehicle by a driver suspected to be under the influence. It happened Wednesday just after 1 a.m.��The trooper was inside his marked car with the emergency lights on in lane 1 of a work zone on the Outer Loop of Interstate 495 Former deputy head of Czech soccer association gets suspended sentence in a match-fixing scandal 06/19/2024 08:07am • PRAGUE (AP) ��� Former Czech Football Association deputy head Roman Berbr and other soccer officials were sentenced for their involvement in a match-fixing scandal on Wednesday. According to the verdict issued by the county court in the western Czech city of Plzen, Berbr was convicted of embezzleme New Caledonia police detain independence leader and 10 others in wake of revolt against French rule 06/19/2024 07:28am • PARIS (AP) ��� Police in the restive French Pacific territory of New Caledonia rounded up 11 people Wednesday, including an independence leader, who are suspected of having a role in the deadly violence that wracked the archipelago where Indigenous Kanak people have long sought to break free from Fr French police shoot dead an attacker with a screwdriver in Paris suburbs 06/19/2024 06:50am • PARIS (AP) ��� A French police officer in the northern suburbs of Paris opened fire and killed an attacker on Wednesday who assaulted a cleaning worker with a screwdriver and also injured another police officer, police said. The cleaning worker suffered ���several blows��� with the screwdriver, but Iran���s imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi sentenced to another year in prison 06/19/2024 06:43am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� Iran's imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Narges Mohammadi, has been sentenced to another year in prison over her activism, her lawyer said Wednesday. Mostafa Nili, Mohammadi���s lawyer, told The Associated Press that his client was convicted on a charge of m