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Community mourns teenager's death after gas station owner charged with murder 06/02/2023 10:01pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Elected officials met a South Carolina community mourning the death of a 14-year-old boy who authorities say was fatally shot in the back by a gas station owner with calls to channel their righteous anger into collective support and political action. Over 60 people gathered F Hawaii allows more concealed carry after US Supreme Court ruling, but bans guns in most places 06/02/2023 09:30pm • HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii Gov. Josh Green on Friday signed legislation that will allow more people to carry concealed firearms but at the same time prohibit people from taking guns to a wide range of places, including beaches, hospitals, stadiums, bars that serve alcohol and movie theaters. Private b Sanity evaluation pending, 'shopping cart killer' suspect seeks trial delay 06/02/2023 09:17pm • The lawyer for “shopping cart killer” suspect Anthony Eugene Robinson has asked a judge to delay an August trial because he has yet to receive a mental health evaluation to determine whether Robinson was insane when he allegedly killed two women in the Harrisonburg, Virginia, area in 2021. As Opponents hold 'day without immigrants' in Florida to protest new restrictions 06/02/2023 05:07pm • IMMOKALEE, Fla. (AP) — Across Florida on Thursday, workers didn't show up at construction sites and tomato fields and scores of restaurants, shops and other small businesses never opened their doors to protest a new state law that imposes restrictions on undocumented immigrants. Organizers dubbed Toddler returned to parents after SUV stolen with child inside in Florida 06/02/2023 04:29pm • HOLLY HILL, Fla. (AP) — A toddler was reunited with his parents in Florida shortly after someone stole his mother's SUV with him inside, police said. The vehicle theft occurred Thursday morning outside a Holly Hill home, just north of Daytona Beach, after the 2-year-old boy was left sleeping in a Judge sentences Milwaukee teen to 22 years for role in 12-year-old girl's shooting death 06/02/2023 04:09pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) — A judge sentenced a Milwaukee teen to more than two decades in prison for his role in the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old girl as she helped her family unload groceries outside their home last year, a newspaper reported Friday. Prosecutors charged 18-year-old Benjamin Garrett and Clashes in Senegal kill at least 9; government bans social media platforms and closes university 06/02/2023 03:42pm • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Clashes between police and supporters of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko left nine people dead, the government said Friday, with authorities issuing a blanket ban on the use of several social media platforms in the aftermath of the violence. The deaths occurred mai NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 06/02/2023 01:46pm • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ___ Nothing ‘secret’ about Arizona voting machine National Doughnut Day 2023 deals 06/02/2023 09:28am • National Doughnut Day is Friday and shops across the D.C. area are celebrating with free goodies and deals. National Doughnut Day began in 1938 by the Salvation Army in Chicago as a way to honor the women called “Doughnut Girls” who delivered tasty treats and assistance to troops during World Young Kabuki actor's debut breaks Japanese theater traditions 06/02/2023 08:29am • TOKYO (AP) — Ten-year-old Maholo Terajima Ghnassia loves watching anime and playing baseball. He likes making beats and whisper ASMR. And he's breaking conventions in Japan’s 420-year-old Kabuki theater tradition. In Kabuki, all the roles are played by men, including beautiful princesses — a r Underestimated McCarthy emerges from debt deal empowered as speaker, still threatened by far right 06/02/2023 04:45am • WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is nothing if not a political survivor. Underestimated from the start, the Republican who cruised around his California hometown of Bakersfield and stumbled into a career in Congress was never taken too seriously by the Washington establishment. With Restoration lags for Syria's famed Roman ruins at Palmyra and other war-battered historic sites 06/02/2023 02:28am • PALMYRA, Syria (AP) — At the height of the Islamic State group's rampage across Syria, the world watched in horror as the militants blew up an iconic arch and temple in the country’s famed Roman ruins in Palmyra. Eight years later, IS has lost its hold but restoration work on the site has been h New details of Jeffrey Epstein's death and the frantic aftermath revealed in records obtained by AP 06/02/2023 12:30am • NEW YORK (AP) — Two weeks before ending his life, Jeffrey Epstein sat in the corner of his Manhattan jail cell with his hands over his ears, desperate to muffle the sound of a toilet that wouldn’t stop running. Epstein was agitated and unable to sleep, jail officials observed in records newly ob Jordan's crown prince weds scion of Saudi family in ceremony packed with stars and symbolism 06/01/2023 09:54pm • AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan's crown prince married the scion of a prominent Saudi family on Thursday in a palace ceremony attended by royals and other VIPs from around the world, as massive crowds gathered across the kingdom to celebrate the region's newest power couple. The marriage of Crown Prin 13 Best Places to Celebrate Juneteenth in 2023 06/01/2023 08:00pm • Emancipation Day. Freedom Day. Jubilee Day. Juneteenth is known by many names. On June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger delivered General Order No. 3 to the enslaved people and residents of Galveston, Texas, ending slavery in the state. This order came more than two years after President Abraham L