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Teen charged in Georgia school shooting and his father to stay in custody after hearings 09/06/2024 02:13pm • WINDER, Ga. (AP) — The 14-year-old suspect in a shooting that killed four people at a Georgia high school and his father, who was arrested for allowing his son to have a weapon, will stay in custody after their lawyers decided not to seek bail Friday. Colt Gray, who has been charged with four coun Bomb threat forces Vistara airline plane en route to Frankfurt to land in Turkey 09/06/2024 12:36pm • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Vistara airline flight en route to Germany from India made a forced landing in Turkey on Friday following a bomb threat, Turkish officials said. Flight VTI027 from Mumbai to Frankfurt, with 234 passengers and 13 crew members on board, landed at the airport in Erzurum, in ea Pope arrives in Papua New Guinea for the second leg of his Southeast Asia and Oceania trip 09/06/2024 09:36am • PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) — Pope Francis arrived in Papua New Guinea on Friday for the second leg of his four-nation trip through Southeast Asia and Oceania, becoming the second pope to visit the poor, strategically important South Pacific nation. A cannon salute and marching band greete Georgia school shooting stirs debate about safe storage laws for guns 09/06/2024 09:21am • Just a couple of weeks ago, a special panel of Georgia state senators convened to study potential laws aimed at keeping firearms safely locked up and out of the hands of children. A day after a 14-year-old was charged in a deadly shooting at his Georgia high school, that same panel gathered again T Venezuela's Machado calls on the international community to step up the pressure on Maduro 09/06/2024 12:40am • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado on Thursday vowed to keep the pressure on President Nicolás Maduro to leave office in January. She also urged the international community to rise to the occasion by immediately recognizing her faction’s presidential ca Father of Georgia school shooting suspect arrested on charges including second-degree murder 09/05/2024 11:20pm • WINDER, Ga. (AP) — The father of a 14-year-old boy accused of fatally shooting four people at a Georgia high school was arrested Thursday and faces charges including second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter for letting his son possess a weapon, authorities said. It’s the latest example 7 Times to Stop Saving for Retirement 09/05/2024 08:00pm • Saving for retirement is critical to achieving financial security. However, there are times when you may have to temporarily pause retirement account contributions to address a pressing financial issue. Whatever your reason, it's important to understand the long-term implications of redirecting mone Election 2024 Latest: Trump and Harris focus on tax policy ahead of next week's debate 09/05/2024 06:42pm • Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will debate for the first time next Tuesday as the presidential candidates fight to sway voters on the biggest stage in U.S. politics. The meeting comes just 75 days after President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance triggered a political earthquake that ultim US secures the release of 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners 09/05/2024 05:22pm • GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The U.S. government announced Thursday that it secured the release of 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners, who have arrived in Guatemala where they will apply for entry to the United States or other countries. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said in a statement that th Ugandan Olympic athlete dies after being set on fire by her partner 09/05/2024 05:05pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died at a Kenyan hospital where she was being treated after 80% of her body was burned in an attack by her partner, a hospital official confirmed Thursday. She was 33. Owen Menach, a spokesperson at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospi US widens indictment of Russians in 'WhisperGate' conspiracy to destroy Ukrainian and NATO systems 09/05/2024 03:41pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has widened its indictment of Russians in the so-called WhisperGate malware attacks aimed at destroying computer systems in Ukraine and 26 NATO allies including the United States. A superseding indictment announced Thursday names five Russian military i Munich police fatally shoot a man they believe was planning to attack the Israeli Consulate 09/05/2024 12:16pm • MUNICH (AP) — Police in Munich exchanged fire with a gunman near the Israeli Consulate in Munich on Thursday, fatally wounding him. Authorities said they believe he was planning to attack the consulate on the anniversary of the attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics. No one else was hurt in the shooto Cambodia's leader says arrested protesters were trying to overthrow the government 09/05/2024 11:54am • PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s leader on Thursday condemned international human rights groups for criticizing the arrest of nearly 100 people for protesting against a decades-old regional development agreement with neighboring countries. London-based Amnesty International and New York-ba Meta oversight panel says political content cuts could limit dissent in crises including Venezuela's 09/05/2024 06:52am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Meta’s efforts to scale back political content on its platforms could limit the reach of people’s expressions of dissent or awareness during crises, including Venezuela’s post-election situation, the company’s oversight panel said Thursday in a decision on cases involvin For many investors and intellectuals leaving China, it's Japan — not the US — that's the bigger draw 09/05/2024 12:54am • TOKYO (AP) — One by one, the students, lawyers and others filed into a classroom in a central Tokyo university for a lecture by a Chinese journalist on Taiwan and democracy — taboo topics that can't be discussed publicly back home in China. “Taiwan’s modern-day democracy took struggle and bl