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Live updates | Day 5 of the latest Israel-Palestinian war 10/11/2023 09:57pm • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Hamas militants beheaded soldiers and raped women in their attack on Israel, and he vowed that Israel would ���crush and destroy��� Hamas in response to the attack. Netanyahu said every Hamas member was a ���dead man.��� Netanyahu made th France's top body rejects contention by campaigners that racial profiling by police is systemic 10/11/2023 09:55pm • PARIS (AP) ��� France���s highest administrative authority on Wednesday rejected an effort by rights campaigners to end what they allege is a systemic and generalized practice by French police of targeting Black people and people of Arab descent for stops and checks. Local grassroots organizations a Finland police investigate undersea gas pipeline leak as possible sabotage 10/11/2023 09:21pm • HELSINKI (AP) ��� Finnish police said Wednesday they have launched a criminal investigation into possible sabotage of an undersea gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia that was shut down over the weekend following a leak. Finland���s National Bureau of Investigation, or NBI, says it has started g Woman accused of falsely reporting she was abducted after seeing child on road seeks to avoid jail 10/11/2023 08:14pm • HOOVER, Ala. (AP) ��� An Alabama woman accused of falsely telling police she was abducted after stopping to check on a toddler wandering along the highway is appealing her municipal court conviction in an effort to avoid a yearlong jail sentence sought by prosecutors. A municipal judge on Wednesday New York officer fatally shoots man in fencing mask who charged police with 2 swords, police say 10/11/2023 08:04pm • ELWOOD, N.Y. (AP) ��� A police officer fatally shot a man who charged at authorities with two swords on Long Island, New York, and the police commissioner said Wednesday that the shooting appeared to be justified. Alan Weber, 54, was pronounced dead at a hospital after Tuesday night's shooting in El A Chinese Australian journalist detained for 3 years in China returns to Australia 10/11/2023 08:01pm • CANBERRA, Australia (AP) ��� A Chinese Australian journalist who was convicted on murky espionage charges and detained in China for three years has returned to Australia, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Wednesday. Cheng Lei, 48, worked for the international department of China's state broadcast An Oklahoma judge could be removed from office for sending more than 500 texts during a murder trial 10/11/2023 07:36pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ��� A new Oklahoma judge could lose her job for sending more than 500 texts to her bailiff during a murder trial, including messages mocking the prosecutor, praising the defense attorney and calling a key witness a liar. The chief justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court recommended Tense moments at BWI Marshall: Person in custody after incident brought airport to standstill 10/11/2023 06:50pm • A person was arrested at BWI Marshall Airport Wednesday afternoon, but authorities haven't said exactly what sparked the large police response and shut down all traffic for an hour. A statement from the Maryland Transportation Authority said, "Based on statements made by the individual, officers Man who found bag of cash and claimed finders-keepers pays back town, felony charge dropped 10/11/2023 06:45pm • A Connecticut man who found a bag containing nearly $5,000 in cash outside a bank and claimed ���finders-keepers��� had a criminal charge against him dropped Wednesday after he gave the money back. Robert Withington, 57, went to Bridgeport Superior Court for a scheduled court hearing, and a state pr Vermont police release sketch of a person of interest in the killing of a retired college dean 10/11/2023 06:14pm • CASTLETON, Vt. (AP) ��� Vermont State Police on Wednesday released a sketch of a person of interest in the killing of a retired college dean who was shot dead last week while walking on her favorite trail near the Vermont State University campus. The crime has shaken the small college town of Castle Prominent patrol leader in NYC Orthodox Jewish community sentenced to 17 years for raping teenager 10/11/2023 05:55pm • New York (AP) ��� The founder of an influential anti-crime group was sentenced to 17 years in prison Wednesday for raping a teenage girl placed in his care as a result of his prominent position in Brooklyn���s Orthodox Jewish community. Jacob Daskal, 64, pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges i Ex-NFL player Sergio Brown arrested in Southern California in connection to mother's slaying 10/11/2023 05:42pm • Former NFL player Sergio Brown was arrested in Southern California in connection with the death of his mother, authorities said, as he tried to reenter the United States from Mexico just weeks after the 73-year-old woman was found slain behind her suburban Chicago home. Brown, 35, was detained Tuesd Alexandria man charged in death of woman found dead in Fairfax Co. hospital parking lot 10/11/2023 05:14pm • One of the people accused of concealing the body of a woman and leaving her in the parking lot of a Virginia hospital has now been charged with murder, according to Fairfax County police. Eric Antonio Rubio, 36, of Alexandria, now faces a charge of second-degree murder in the death of 33-year-old Prosecutors say a reckless driving suspect bit an NYPD officer's finger tip off 10/11/2023 04:49pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A New York City police officer lost his left ring finger up to the first knuckle when a reckless driving suspect bit him, prosecutors said Wednesday. Lenni Rodriguez Cruz, 28, could be sentenced to 25 years in prison for leading police on a wild car chase, crashing into several veh Traffic resumes at Baltimore/Washington International Airport after law enforcement clears vehicle 10/11/2023 04:38pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� Traffic has resumed at the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport after a closure Wednesday afternoon while law enforcement investigated a vehicle near the terminal, officials said. People already inside the terminal were asked to remain in place for over an