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Escaped zebra captured near Seattle after gallivanting around Cascade mountain foothills for days 05/04/2024 02:39pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� A zebra that has been hoofing through the foothills of western Washington for days was recaptured Friday evening, nearly a week after she escaped with three other zebras from a trailer near Seattle. Local residents and animal control officers corralled the zebra named ���Shug��� in A candidate for Germany's key party was beaten up while campaigning for European elections 05/04/2024 02:27pm • BERLIN (AP) ��� A candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz���s center-left party in next month���s election for the European Parliament was beaten up and seriously injured while campaigning in an eastern city, the party said Saturday. The incident raised political tension in Germany ahead of the polls, A group of Republicans has united to defend the legitimacy of US elections and those who run them 05/04/2024 08:32am • ATLANTA (AP) ��� It was Election Day last November, and one of Georgia���s top election officials saw that reports of a voting machine problem in an eastern Pennsylvania county were gaining traction online. So Gabriel Sterling, a Republican who had defended the 2020 election in Georgia amid an onsla Congressman praises heckling of war protesters, including 1 who made monkey gestures at Black woman 05/03/2024 10:43pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� Israel-Hamas war demonstrations at the University of Mississippi turned ugly this week when one counter-protester appeared to make monkey noises and gestures at a Black student in a raucous gathering that was endorsed by a far-right congressman from Georgia. ���Ole Miss takin The Latest | Israel's planned invasion of Rafah risks killing hundreds of thousands, UN says 05/03/2024 07:30pm • The United Nations humanitarian aid agency says hundreds of thousands of people would be ���at imminent risk of death��� if Israel carries out a military assault in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. The border city is a critical entry point for humanitarian aid and is filled with displaced Palestinia Zebra remains on the loose in Washington state as officials close trailheads to keep people away 05/03/2024 06:21pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� A zebra that escaped from a trailer east of Seattle last weekend remained on the lam Friday, as authorities closed off trailheads at a nature area in hopes of keeping people away and easing her capture. The zebra was one of four that escaped as they were being transported from Washi German foreign minister says Russia will face consequences for monthslong cyber espionage 05/03/2024 04:27pm • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� Germany on Friday accused Russian military agents of hacking the top echelons of Chancellor Olaf Scholz���s party and other sensitive government and industrial targets, and was joined by NATO and fellow European countries in warning that Russia���s cyberespionage would have consequ The Latest | Court in Trump's hush money trial adjourns for the day following Hope Hicks' testimony 05/03/2024 04:15pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Hope Hicks took the stand Friday in Donald Trump's hush money case, recounting in her testimony how she followed Trump from the real estate world to politics and how his 2016 presidential campaign was turned upside down following a leak of a video recording in which he boasted abou Families claim Americans are 'unjustly detained' in Turks and Caicos for possession of ammunition 05/03/2024 02:23pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� The families of four Americans charged in Turks and Caicos for carrying ammunition insisted on Thursday that their loved ones were ���unjustly detained��� on the island awaiting legal proceedings. Last week, the government of the Turks and Caicos confirmed that they had charged Universities take steps to prevent pro-Palestinian protest disruptions of graduation ceremonies 05/03/2024 11:47am • ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) ��� With student protests over the Israel-Hamas war disrupting campuses nationwide, several major universities are intent on ensuring that commencement ceremonies ��� joyous milestones for graduates, their families and friends ��� go off without a hitch this weekend. It won't b The Kremlin brands comments on Ukraine by France's Macron and Britain's Cameron as 'dangerous' 05/03/2024 08:13am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Recent statements by France���s president and Britain���s foreign secretary about the war in Ukraine are ���dangerous��� and will deepen international tension around the conflict, the Kremlin���s spokesman said Friday. French President Emmanuel Macron, in an interview publishe Panama Supreme Court rejects challenge to candidacy of presidential frontrunner days before vote 05/03/2024 07:04am • PANAMA CITY (AP) ��� Panama���s Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to the candidacy of leading presidential contender Jos�� Ra��l Mulino on Friday, removing an element of uncertainty two days before the May 5 vote. The court was ruling on a challenge from lawyer Karisma Etienne Karama Hamas is sending a delegation to Egypt for further cease-fire talks in the latest sign of progress 05/03/2024 06:41am • BEIRUT (AP) ��� Hamas said Thursday that it was sending a delegation to Egypt for further cease-fire talks, in a new sign of progress in attempts by international mediators to hammer out an agreement between Israel and the militant group to end the war in Gaza. After months of stop-and-start negotia A former Milwaukee election official is fined $3,000 for obtaining fake absentee ballots 05/02/2024 09:19pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� A former Milwaukee election official convicted of misconduct in office and fraud for obtaining fake absentee ballots was sentenced Thursday to one year of probation and fined $3,000. Kimberly Zapata, 47, also was ordered to complete 120 hours of community service. Prosecutors The Latest | Hamas will send a delegation to Cairo to keep up cease-fire talks 05/02/2024 08:33pm • Hamas said Thursday it will send a delegation to Cairo as soon as possible to keep working on cease-fire talks, in response to Egypt's latest proposal. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said he spoke to Egypt���s intelligence chief and ���stressed the positive spirit of the movement in studying the cease-