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1 dead, 6 hurt after crash on Capital Beltway, causing delays for morning commute 06/05/2024 02:04pm • Listen to WTOP for traffic updates on the 8s. A man is dead and six others hurt after a three-vehicle crash on the inner loop of the Capital Beltway near Georgia Avenue in Montgomery County, Maryland, early Wednesday. The overnight crash investigation prompted hourslong closures on the interst Judge dismisses cruelty charges against trooper who hit loose horse with patrol vehicle 06/05/2024 01:50pm • WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — A judge has dismissed felony animal cruelty charges brought against a Pennsylvania state trooper who hit a loose horse with a patrol vehicle multiple times and pinned it to the pavement, where it was then euthanized. The ruling came Tuesday after Chester County District At Will Biden's new border measures be enough to change voters' minds? 06/05/2024 01:42pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden tried to address a major liability for his reelection campaign by taking executive action to significantly restrict asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. But it's unclear whether the Democratic president's efforts will be enough to change the minds of voters who h They went in for dental work, but Howard Co. police say they left not knowing they had been violated 06/05/2024 01:31pm • Authorities in Howard County, Maryland, have indicted a man they say was a "peeping Tom," but it wasn't windows he was looking into. It was people's cell phones. Police started looking into 43-year-old Delano Draine, of Owings Mills, back in December, when he was accused of trying to record a 16- 17-year-old charged in shooting death of 15-year-old in Prince William Co. 06/05/2024 01:26pm • A Virginia teenager faces murder charges following a shooting that killed another teenager and wounded three other people in Prince William County. Police said the 17-year-old boy fired a gun toward a group of five people on Monday night on the 3700 block of Masthead Trail in Triangle. Prince Wil Amanda Knox reconvicted of slander in Italy for accusing innocent man in roommate’s 2007 murder 06/05/2024 01:17pm • FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — An Italian court reconvicted Amanda Knox of slander Wednesday, quashing her hope of removing a legal stain against her that has persisted after her exoneration in the brutal 2007 murder of her British roommate while the two were exchange students in Italy. The decision by a Death toll from floods across southern Germany rises to 6 06/05/2024 12:38pm • BERLIN (AP) — The death toll from floods across a large part of southern Germany rose to six on Wednesday as police recovered the body of a woman missing since the weekend from a canal in Bavaria. The 79-year-old failed to return home after being seen on a bicycle in Jettingen-Scheppach, near the Event management firms are the latest target in Belarus crackdown on dissent 06/05/2024 11:59am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Police in Belarus have raided dozens of event management companies suspected of opposition ties as part of on ongoing crackdown against dissent, a human rights center says. Authorities released videos of detained staffers seemingly admitting to links with opposition leaders Silence and heavy security in China and Hong Kong mark 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown 06/05/2024 10:21am • BEIJING (AP) — Beijing's Tiananmen Square had checkpoints and police vehicles Tuesday as China tried to silence the 35th anniversary of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests. Hong Kong police arrested four people and swarmed a handful of others who tried to protest or commemorate as the eff South Africa Cabinet minister arrested over bribery allegations amid the country's coalition talks 06/05/2024 10:07am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African Cabinet minister who is a senior member of the African National Congress was arrested and appeared in court on Wednesday over allegations of bribery, just as his party was meeting for talks to work out a way forward for the country after an election deadlock. Sp AI could supercharge disinformation and disrupt EU elections, experts warn 06/05/2024 09:40am • BRUSSELS (AP) — Voters in the European Union are set to elect lawmakers starting Thursday for the bloc's parliament, in a major democratic exercise that's also likely to be overshadowed by online disinformation. Experts have warned that artificial intelligence could supercharge the spread of fake France hurries to let New Caledonia vote in European elections after its deadly unrest. Few want to 06/05/2024 08:28am • NICE, France (AP) — Days after France lifted emergency measures in New Caledonia to quell the worst unrest in decades in its Pacific territory, it is hurrying to ensure that residents of the troubled archipelago can vote in the upcoming European elections. But many, especially among the Indigenous A member of a German far-right party stabbed and wounded in another attack on a politician 06/05/2024 07:37am • BERLIN (AP) — A member of a German far-right party was stabbed and wounded in the southwestern city of Mannheim, German news agency dpa reported Wednesday, only days after a knife attack killed one police officer and left five other people injured in the same city. Dpa reported that a candidate wi Construction company and contractor Webber responsible for dumping bear carcass in Arlington 06/05/2024 07:35am • The Virginia Department of Transportation has named the contractor responsible for throwing a bear carcass that ended up near an Arlington, Virginia, trail off an overpass. VDOT confirmed to WTOP that Webber, which has an office in Fairfax County, was the contractor involved and the company has a A Russian cyber gang is thought to be behind a ransomware attack that hit London hospitals 06/05/2024 07:31am • LONDON (AP) — A Russian cyber gang is believed to be behind a ransomware attack that disrupted London hospitals and led to operations and appointments being canceled, the former head of British cybersecurity said Wednesday. A group known as Qilin is most likely behind the attack on Synnovis, which