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Palestinian activist is expelled by Israeli forces from his home in a volatile West Bank city 10/26/2023 10:30am • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Israeli troops expelled a prominent Palestinian activist from his home in a West Bank city at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, after he hosted a foreign journalist and a well-known Israeli activist. Critics accused the military of using the cover of the Israel-Hamas South Africa begins an inquiry into a building fire that killed 76 people in Johannesburg in August 10/26/2023 10:16am • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) ��� An inquiry began Thursday into an apartment building fire that killed 76 people in South Africa in August and laid bare the deep problems of poverty and neglect in parts of Africa's richest city. The nighttime blaze swept through a five-story building in the Marshall Person of interest sought in death of woman pushed in front of vehicle on U Street 10/26/2023 09:52am • D.C. police have released surveillance footage showing a person of interest in the death of a woman in Northwest earlier this month. Early on the morning of Oct. 14 around 4:20 a.m., the victim, identified as 30-year-old A'nee Roberson, was assaulted and allegedly intentionally pushed in front of An increase in harassment against Jewish and Muslim Americans has been reported since Hamas attacks 10/26/2023 09:46am • Muslim and Jewish civil rights groups say they���ve seen large increases in reports of harassment, bias and sometimes physical assaults against members of their communities since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks. The Anti-Defamation League and the Council on American-Islamic Relations saw increases in repor Greek army destroys World War II bomb found during excavation for luxury development near Athens 10/26/2023 09:20am • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� Greek army specialists Thursday destroyed an unexploded World War II bomb discovered during work on a massive urban development project at a coastal area south of Athens. Authorities said the 500-pound bomb was destroyed without a detonation after traffic in the area was halt 1 dead, 1 arrested after 2 carjacked vehicles crash in Northeast DC, police say 10/26/2023 08:52am • Police find a car flipped over on Brentwood Road in Northeast D.C. (WTOP/Kyle Cooper) One person is dead and a juvenile has been arrested following two crashes involving carjacked vehicles in Northeast D.C. early Thursday morning. D.C. police told WTOP they got a call around 3 a.m. for crashe Norwegian police investigate claim by Ingebrigtsen brothers that their father and coach was violent 10/26/2023 08:37am • Norwegian police launched an investigation Thursday into allegations by the three Ingebrigtsen brothers that their father, who had been their track coach at the Olympics and other events, was violent and abusive when they were growing up. On Oct. 19, the three brothers ��� Jakob, Henrik and Filip �� Swedish court acquits Russian-born businessman of spying for Moscow 10/26/2023 07:08am • STOCKHOLM (AP) ��� A Russian-born Swedish businessman was acquitted on Thursday of collecting information for Russia's military intelligence service, the GRU, for almost a decade. Sergey Skvortsov, 60, had been accused of ��� gross illegal intelligence activities against Sweden and against a foreign Australian police charge 7 with laundering hundreds of millions for Chinese crime syndicate 10/26/2023 05:22am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� Australian authorities have charged seven people with helping launder hundreds of millions of dollars for a Chinese crime syndicate. Police said Thursday the arrests came after a 14-month investigation that involved multiple Australian agencies and the U.S. Department DC police increase patrol in Bloomingdale neighborhood after attack on teachers 10/26/2023 04:08am • D.C. police have increased their presence in the Bloomingdale neighborhood and escorted kids at the Petit Scholars day care on walks this week, after officials said a homeless man attacked two teachers walking with young kids on Monday. During a Ward 5 safety call Wednesday afternoon, Council mem First ever Florida Man games will feature beer belly wrestling and 'evading arrest' obstacle course 10/26/2023 04:07am • ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) ��� It ain���t the Olympics, but a group of Floridians plan to host competitions themed according to the collective antics of the beer-loving, gator-possessing, rap-sheet heavy, mullet-wearing social media phenomenon known as ���Florida Man.��� Organizers of the ���Florid Democrats' divisions on Israel-Hamas war boil over in Michigan as Detroit-area Muslims feel betrayed 10/26/2023 12:11am • DEARBORN, Michigan (AP) ��� Many of Michigan's top Democrats, including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, took part in a huge pro-Israel rally at a suburban Detroit synagogue days after Hamas' deadly attack on the country earlier this month, with some of them dancing and joining in chants of ���Am Yisrael Chai Firearms instructor recently treated at mental health facility is person of interest in Maine massacre, police say 10/25/2023 11:15pm • LEWISTON, Maine (AP) ��� Firearms instructor recently treated at mental health facility is person of interest in Maine massacre, police say. Dozens of union workers arrested on Las Vegas Strip for blocking traffic as thousands rally 10/25/2023 11:11pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� Thousands of hotel workers fighting for new union contracts rallied on the Las Vegas Strip on Wednesday evening, halting rush-hour traffic before dozens were arrested for sitting in the street. The stepped-up labor unrest aimed to draw attention to negotiations with three major ca Who is Mike Johnson? New House speaker is a strong Trump ally and a quiet force among Republicans 10/25/2023 10:18pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A low-key lawmaker in Congress for less than a decade, new House Speaker Mike Johnson isn���t recognizable to most Americans. But the social conservative and devoted ally of former President Donald Trump has been a quiet force within the Republican conference he now unexpectedly