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Secret Chinese police station in New York leads to arrests 04/17/2023 06:02pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Two men were arrested Monday on charges that they helped establish a secret police station in New York City on behalf of the Chinese government, and about three dozen officers with China's national police force were charged with using social media to harass dissidents inside the Un AP source: Hurts, Eagles agree to 5-year, $255M extension 04/17/2023 05:31pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jalen Hurts finished runner-up to Patrick Mahomes in AP NFL MVP voting and lost again to him when Mahomes' Kansas City Chiefs beat Hurts' Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl. But no QB is atop Hurts now — Philadelphia's franchise player is about to become the highest-pai Editorial Roundup: United States 04/17/2023 03:01pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: April 13 The Washington Post on Discord, classified information and leaks Any breach in the integrity of the nation’s system of managing secrets is a cause for serious concern. The leaks of classified intelligence documents online, t Chinese national arrested on blasphemy charges in Pakistan 04/17/2023 09:45am • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police arrested a Chinese national on blasphemy charges after he allegedly insulted Islam and the Prophet Muhammad, authorities said Monday. Under Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy laws, a conviction for the offense carries the death penalty. Police identifi Explosive targeting Japan PM renews worries of homemade arms 04/17/2023 09:27am • Japanese police have confiscated metal tubes, tools and possible gunpowder from the home of a man suspected of throwing what was believed to be a homemade pipe bomb at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a campaign event, rekindling worries about the growing threat of easy-to-make weapons in Japan. Witn Liz Weston: Retiring? If you need a home loan, get one first 04/17/2023 08:45am • Retired engineers Kelly and Derek Barkey assumed they would be approved when they applied for a $50,000 home equity line of credit two years ago to fix up their new house. The Barkeys, now 56 and 59, had just sold their longtime home in Southern California and paid cash for a house worth about $8 Joshua Wong sentenced in another Hong Kong activism case 04/17/2023 01:57am • HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong was sentenced Monday to three months in prison for breaching court bans on disclosing personal information about a police officer who injured a protester during 2019 anti-government protests. Wong rose to prominence in 2014 pro-democracy protests in Fire in Dubai kills 16, injures 9 in apartment building 04/17/2023 12:26am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A fire swept through an apartment building in an older neighborhood of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, killing at least 16 people and injuring another nine, authorities said Sunday. The blaze Saturday in the Al Murar area of Dubai's historic Deira neighborhood Progressives focus on local-level wins to counter setbacks 04/17/2023 12:06am • CHICAGO (AP) — For many progressives, the past decade has been littered with disappointments. But recent down-ballot victories are providing hope of reshaping the Democratic Party from the bottom up, rather than from Washington. In Chicago earlier this month, a former teacher’s union organizer Lack of security for Japanese prime minister surprised many 04/17/2023 12:01am • WAKAYAMA, Japan (AP) — The fishermen who tackled the man suspected of the second attack on a Japanese political leader in less than a year were surprised by the lack of security for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. Fisherman Tsutomu Konishi was watching Kishida at a campaign event at this fishing por G-7 talks may measure allies' reaction to US documents leak 04/16/2023 05:13pm • HANOI (AP) — While the Biden administration sees minimal damage from the disclosure of highly classified documents related to the war in Ukraine and U.S. views of its allies and partners, that assessment will get its first real test when U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets in Japan with c He's been Mexico's voice abroad. Now he wants the presidency 04/16/2023 12:07pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — He’s been the face of Mexico internationally for nearly five years and often the country’s leading voice in negotiations with top world leaders — including volatile ones, like former U.S. President Donald Trump. Now Foreign Affairs Minister Marcelo Ebrard is testing wheth G7 vows to step up moves to renewable energy, zero carbon 04/16/2023 08:48am • SAPPORO, Japan (AP) — Energy and environment ministers of the Group of Seven wealthy nations vowed Sunday to work to hasten the shift toward cleaner, renewable energy, but set no timetable for phasing out coal-fired power plants as they wrapped up two days of talks in the northern Japanese city of Former Indian lawmaker, brother fatally shot live on TV 04/16/2023 08:30am • LUCKNOW, India (AP) — A former Indian lawmaker convicted of kidnapping and facing murder and assault charges was shot dead along with his brother in a dramatic attack that was caught live on TV in northern India, officials said Sunday. Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf were under police escort on Inmate stuck on US death row despite vacated death sentence 04/16/2023 07:56am • CHICAGO (AP) — When the U.S. prisons director visited the penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, this past week, she stopped by the federal death row where Bruce Webster is in a solitary, 12-by-7 foot cell, 23 hours a day. Webster's not supposed to be there. A federal judge in Indiana ruled in 201