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Man sentenced to 40 years to life for killing mother after argument over video game volume 06/05/2024 07:25am • MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man has been sentenced to 40 years to life in prison for fatally stabbing his mother after the two had argued about the volume on the video games he was playing. Thomas Humphrey, 47, was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to second-degree murder and ars Police officers in the Philippines arrested for kidnapping 4 tourists and demanding a ransom 06/05/2024 07:09am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Four police officers assigned in the Philippine capital region have been arrested for kidnapping for ransom that victimized four foreign tourists, officials said Wednesday. Two of the officers onboard motorcycles flagged down a luxury car carrying three Chinese and a Ma After crackdown on Hong Kong, overseas communities carry the torch to keep Tiananmen memories alive 06/05/2024 01:10am • HONG KONG (AP) — As the 35th anniversary of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown neared, Rowena He, a prominent scholar of that bloody chapter of modern China's history, was busy flying between the United States, Britain and Canada to give a series of talks. Each was aimed at speaking out for th Today in History: June 5, Robert F. Kennedy assassinated 06/05/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Wednesday, June 5, the 157th day of 2024. There are 209 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 5, 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded after claiming victory in California’s Democratic presidential primary at the Ambassador Hundreds show up to a pool party in a quiet Brandywine neighborhood 06/04/2024 11:38pm • Summertime means time by the pool, but some local pool parties have been getting rowdy. One in Brandywine, Maryland, on Saturday night ended with authorities on the scene. Around 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Charles County Sheriff's officials responded to Inheritance Drive for reports of "an except George defeats two challengers in Ward 4 Democratic primary in race centered on public safety 06/04/2024 11:05pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Janeese Lewis George defeated a pair of challengers in Tuesday’s Democratic primary and will head into November’s general election as a heavy favorite to retain her Ward 4 seat on the D.C. Council. George, a pillar of the council’s leftist wing, defeated Lisa Gore and Pa Asylum-seekers looking for shelter set up encampment in Seattle suburb 06/04/2024 10:58pm • BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Asylum-seekers who have been looking for shelter in Washington state, mainly from Angola, Congo and Venezuela, have set up an encampment in a Seattle suburb. The asylum-seekers moved to the site next to an empty motel south of Seattle in Kent, on Saturday, The Seattle Tim Arizona voters will decide if local police can arrest people for crossing into the US from Mexico 06/04/2024 09:47pm • PHOENIX (AP) — The Republican-controlled Arizona Legislature gave final approval Tuesday to a proposal asking voters to make it a state crime for noncitizens to enter the state through Mexico at any location other than a port of entry, sending the measure to the Nov. 5 ballot. The vote came as Pr Maryland agencies must submit a plan to help fight climate change, governor says 06/04/2024 08:21pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — State agencies in Maryland will be required to submit a plan to help address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, under an executive order signed by Gov. Wes Moore on Tuesday. The plan calls for all state agencies to submit a report to the governor by Nov. 1 sh Columbia University and a Jewish student agree on a settlement that imposes more safety measures 06/04/2024 07:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University has agreed to take additional steps to make its students feel secure on campus under a settlement reached Tuesday with a Jewish student who had sought a court order requiring the Ivy League school provide safe access to the campus amid protests over the Israel-H A tranquilized black bear takes a dive from a tree, falls into a waiting tarp 06/04/2024 07:25pm • CAMP HILL, Pa. (AP) — A young black bear took a dive from a tree Tuesday, landing in a giant tarp held aloft by a group of wildlife, public safety and rescue officials who tranquilized it after it roamed into a suburban Pennsylvania neighborhood. The bruin showed up around lunchtime in a residenti Prosecutor asks Texas court to reverse governor's pardon of man who fatally shot demonstrator 06/04/2024 07:20pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas governor's pardon of a former Army sergeant who fatally shot a Black Lives Matter demonstrator undermines the state's legal system and constitution and should be reversed, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Travis County District Attorney José Garza said he is filing reques Prosecutors spend first day of testimony in Hunter Biden's gun trial detailing his drug problems 06/04/2024 07:02pm • WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Tuesday painted President Joe Biden’s son Hunter as deceptive and driven by addiction, a man whose dark habits ensnared loved ones and who knew what he was doing when he lied on a federal form to purchase a gun in 2018. Jurors also got their first l Trial begins for man charged in 2017 Charlottesville torch rally at the University of Virginia 06/04/2024 06:58pm • CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Seven years after a white nationalist rally erupted in violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, a trial began Tuesday for one of about a dozen people charged with using flaming torches to intimidate counterprotesters. Prosecutors at the trial of Jacob Joseph Dix showed th The Latest | Slovenia recognizes a Palestinian state, and new fighting flares in central Gaza 06/04/2024 06:32pm • Slovenia is the latest European country to recognize a Palestinian state. The country’s parliament voted Tuesday in support of the move, following in the recent steps of Spain, Ireland and Norway. Slovenia's prime minister has said he sped up efforts to recognize a State of Palestine in reaction