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In initial win for Argentine President Milei, senators approve his key bills after violent protests 06/12/2024 11:52pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s Senate narrowly approved key state overhaul and tax bills proposed by President Javier Miliei, delivering an initial legislative victory to the libertarian leader in his efforts to enact his promises of radical change. Senators voted 37 to 36 late Wedn He rambled to reporters after a downtown Atlanta shooting. Then, police say, he hijacked a bus 06/12/2024 10:33pm • ATLANTA (AP) — As police responded to reports of multiple people shot at a downtown Atlanta food court, Joseph Grier was on the sidewalk outside, rambling to reporters about his mental health, criminal record and banking history. “I’m bipolar, I’m gonna tell you all that, and I’m off my me Has a 'scofflaw' driver figured out how to avoid getting towed? 06/12/2024 10:10pm • WTOP is continuing its exclusive coverage on D.C.’s efforts to go after what it calls "scofflaw drivers" — drivers who don’t pay the automated traffic enforcement cameras and parking tickets they rack up. But one city resident is wondering whether his neighbor found a loophole. Records Macron suspends voting reform in New Caledonia that had sparked violence 06/12/2024 09:20pm • PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron announced Wednesday the suspension of controversial voting reforms in New Caledonia, following a spate of deadly unrest in the French Pacific territory. The reforms, which would have altered voting rights, are feared by the Indigenous Kanak people who Woman with gun taken into custody after standoff at FBI building in Seattle, authorities say 06/12/2024 08:52pm • SEATTLE (AP) — A woman armed with a handgun was taken into custody after an hourlong standoff at the FBI building in Seattle on Wednesday, authorities said. The woman walked into a publicly accessible area where people have to wait to be buzzed into the lobby, according to FBI spokesperson Steve B Police seeking car in investigation of man found dead outside Inova Alexandria Hospital 06/12/2024 08:01pm • The Alexandria Police Department is investigating the death of a man who was apparently dumped outside a Virginia hospital early Wednesday morning. Police responded to the Inova Alexandria Hospital at 3:03 a.m. following a report of a man found on the ground outside of one of the hospital’s ent South Carolina man pleads guilty in federal court to fatally shooting Virginia police officer 06/12/2024 07:46pm • ABINGDON, Va. (AP) — A South Carolina man pleaded guilty to federal charges Wednesday in the shooting death of a police officer in southwest Virginia in 2021. Michael Donivan White, 36, of Cross, South Carolina, had already pleaded guilty to first-degree murder charges in state court. The federa Apparent Gaza activists hurl paint at homes of Brooklyn Museum leaders, including Jewish director 06/12/2024 07:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) — People purporting to be pro-Palestinian activists hurled red paint at the homes of top leaders at the Brooklyn Museum, including its Jewish director, and also splashed paint across the front of diplomatic buildings for Germany and the Palestinian Authority early Wednesday, promptin Thefts of charging cables pose yet another obstacle to appeal of electric vehicles 06/12/2024 07:28pm • DETROIT (AP) — Just before 2 a.m. on a chilly April night in Seattle, a Chevrolet Silverado pickup stopped at an electric vehicle charging station on the edge of a shopping center parking lot. Two men, one with a light strapped to his head, got out. A security camera recorded them pulling out bol Florida's DeSantis cuts $1B to bring state budget to $116.5B, slightly less than the current plan 06/12/2024 06:29pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis spent more than an hour talking about what is in the $116.5 billion budget he signed Wednesday, but he left out the most important part of the announcement: What was in the nearly $1 billion he vetoed. Overall, the state spending plan is slightly NYC considers ending broker fees for tenants, angering real estate industry 06/12/2024 06:27pm • NEW YORK (AP) — It’s a familiar and agonizing experience for legions of New York City renters: before moving into a new apartment, a tenant must first shell out thousands of dollars in fees to a real estate broker, even if that person was hired by the landlord. The hefty one-time payments, know 3 deputies shot while responding to northern Illinois home, suspect also wounded, official says 06/12/2024 06:27pm • DIXON, Ill. (AP) — Three sheriff’s deputies were shot Wednesday while responding to a northern Illinois home, and the suspect was also wounded, authorities said. Ogle County Sheriff Brian VanVickle said the deputies were responding to a report that someone inside the home in the Lost Lake commun The Latest | Hezbollah rocket barrage ups pressure on Israel as Gaza cease-fire negotiations drag on 06/12/2024 06:07pm • The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah fired hundreds of rockets toward northern Israel on Wednesday, hours after an Israeli airstrike killed a senior commander — the hightest-ranking member of the group to die in eight months of fighting. The Israeli military said some of the 215 projectiles were Ex-officer in Mississippi gets 1 year in prison for forcing man to lick urine off jail floor 06/12/2024 05:57pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A former Mississippi police officer was sentenced Wednesday to a year in federal prison for forcing a man he had arrested to lick urine off the floor of a jail cell. Michael Christian Green received the maximum prison time on the misdemeanor charge of acting under the color o UCLA names new chancellor as campus is still reeling from protests over Israel-Hamas war 06/12/2024 05:57pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The president of the University of Miami was chosen Wednesday to become the next chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles, where the retiring incumbent leaves a campus roiled by protests over Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. Dr. Julio Frenk, a Mexico City-bor