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Crime scene analysts testify in trial of woman accused of killing boyfriend with SUV 06/03/2024 05:34pm • Crime scene analysts testified Monday about the SUV prosecutors say a Massachusetts woman was driving more than two years ago when she backed into her Boston police officer boyfriend and left him to die in a snowbank. Karen Read is charged with second-degree murder in the January 2022 death of John Hong Kong detains an artist on the eve of the 35th anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown 06/03/2024 04:53pm • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Hong Kong police briefly detained a performance artist on the eve of the 35th anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown, underlining the city's shrinking freedom of expression. Police on Monday took away Sanmu Chen on a street of Causeway Bay, a busy Hong Kong shopping di Fauci pushes back partisan attacks in fiery House hearing over COVID origins and controversies 06/03/2024 04:32pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert until leaving the government in 2022, was back before Congress on Monday, calling ���simply preposterous��� Republican allegations that he'd tried to cover up origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. A GOP-led subcommittee has sp Dozens more former youth inmates sue over alleged sexual abuse at Illinois detention centers 06/03/2024 04:17pm • Dozens more former youth inmates filed lawsuits seeking millions of dollars in damages for sexual abuse they allegedly endured at Illinois detention centers dating back to the late 1990s. Thirteen women and 95 men filed two separate lawsuits Friday in the Illinois Court of Claims against the state D Police: Elderly passenger dead after female suspect steals vehicle, crashes into downtown DC building 06/03/2024 04:01pm • An elderly woman is dead after a vehicle she was inside was stolen at Washington Hospital Center and later crashed into a building in downtown D.C. on Monday afternoon, police say. A white SUV was stolen at Washington Hospital Center in the 100 block of Irving Street just before 1:15 p.m., accord Fraud trial juror reports getting bag of $120,000 and promise of more if she'll acquit 06/03/2024 03:54pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� A juror was dismissed Monday after reporting that a woman dropped a bag of $120,000 in cash at her home and offered her more money if she would vote to acquit seven people charged with stealing more than $40 million from a program meant to feed children during the pandemic. ���T Police probing deadly street party in Ohio believe drive-by shooter opened fire 06/03/2024 03:34pm • AKRON, Ohio (AP) ��� Police investigating a shooting at a street party in Akron over the weekend think at least one person opened fire on the crowd from a vehicle, killing one person and wounding 24 others. Investigators found more than 35 shell casings littered across the block where the shooting h Memorial for Baltimore bridge collapse victims vandalized 06/03/2024 03:17pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� A memorial for the six victims of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore was vandalized over the weekend. The elaborate display near the south end of the bridge has grown to include decorated wooden crosses and a red pickup truck suspended from nearby tree branches, Police arresting Palestinian supporters who occupied the lobby of a San Francisco building housing the Israeli Consulate 06/03/2024 03:17pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Police arresting Palestinian supporters who occupied the lobby of a San Francisco building housing the Israeli Consulate. Neighbors react after rowdy Potomac, Md. pool party: 'Where was the county?' 06/03/2024 03:10pm • Mindy Farber and John Camp came home from dinner on Saturday, May 25, and found their quiet neighborhood packed with cars. ���I've never seen anything like it,��� Farber told WTOP. The house near them on Stapleford Hall Drive had become the site of a reportedly raucous pool party, with tic Proposed Gaza cease-fire puts Netanyahu at a crossroads that could shape his legacy 06/03/2024 03:09pm • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) ��� The cease-fire proposal announced by President Joe Biden has placed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a crossroads, with either path likely to shape the legacy of Israel���s longest-serving and deeply divisive leader. The proposal offers the possibility of ending Israel' Wives of mobilized Russian soldiers hold rare protest at defense ministry demanding their return 06/03/2024 02:59pm • A group of about 20 women got down on their knees outside Russia's Defense Ministry on Monday to hold a rare protest and demand the return of their mobilized soldier husbands and sons from Ukraine. Groups of women who are the relatives of men who were mobilized into the Russian army by President Vla Police: Prince George's Co. man arrested after 4-year-old finds ghost gun, sustains 'self-inflicted gunshot wound' 06/03/2024 02:20pm • A Cheverly, Maryland, man has been charged with multiple firearm offenses after his four-year-old family member was hospitalized Sunday night, following what Prince George's County called a "self-inflicted gunshot wound." The ghost gun that police believe a four-year-old accidentally set off whi Mother of airman killed by Florida deputy says his firing, alone, won't cut it 06/03/2024 01:13pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� The mother of an Air Force airman who was fatally shot in the doorway to his home by a Florida sheriff's deputy said Monday that the deputy's firing was not justice for her son's killing. Chantemekki Fortson spoke at a news conference in Atlanta accompanied by her attorney, Ben Crum Iran's hard-line parliament speaker emerges as the theocracy's top figure in the presidential vote 06/03/2024 12:59pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� Iran's hard-line parliament speaker emerged on Monday as the most-prominent candidate from within the country's Shiite theocracy in the race for the June 28 presidential election to replace the late Ebrahim Raisi, killed in a helicopter crash last month. The ent