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Israeli-Palestinian Cauldron Tests US as Blinken Visits
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Israeli-Palestinian Cauldron Tests US as Blinken Visits

JERUSALEM (AP) — An alarming spike in Israeli-Palestinian violence and sharp responses by both sides are testing the Biden administration as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken plunges into a cauldron of deepening mistrust and anger on visits to Israel and the West Bank this week.What had already been expected to be a trip fraught with tension over differences between the administration and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new far-right government has grown significantly more complicated over the past four days with a spate of deadly incidents. Blinken’s high-wire diplomatic act begins on Monday after he completes a brief visit to Egypt that has been almost entirely overshadowed by the deteriorating security situation in Israel and the West Bank.U.S. officials say the main...
5 Police Officers Fired After Memphis Man’s Arrest, Death
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5 Police Officers Fired After Memphis Man’s Arrest, Death

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Five Memphis Police Department officers have been fired for excessive use of force, failure to intervene and failure to render aid — stemming from an arrest during a traffic stop of a man who later died in a hospital, officials said Friday.The police chief said Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills, Jr. and Justin Smith were involved in the Jan. 7 arrest of Tyre Nichols, 29, who was Black. The Memphis Police Department conducted an internal investigation into the arrest of Nichols, who died three days later, and the discipline came after the probe's conclusion, authorities said.The five officers who were fired are all Black, according to the Memphis Police public information officer.The U.S. Justice Department has opened a civil rights i...
Rival Libya PM Calls for US to Release Lockerbie Accused
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Rival Libya PM Calls for US to Release Lockerbie Accused

CAIRO (AP) — One of Libya's rival prime ministers called Tuesday for the release of the former Libyan intelligence officer accused of making the bomb that downed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing all onboard, after he surfaced in U.S. custody earlier this week.American authorities said Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimihad been arrested and would face trial in the United States. On Monday, he appeared in a Washington, D.C., federal court, where he was charged with an act of international terrorism.“My question directed to the American administration is how...he reached Washington,” Fathi Bashagha, one of Libya’s rival prime ministers, told a local Libyan television channel as he was leaving a meeting of the country’s East-based parliament. “What we thin...
Vigil held for Calgary fatal shooting victim – Calgary
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Vigil held for Calgary fatal shooting victim – Calgary

Family and friends of a man killed in Calgary gathered on Sunday night to remember the father of two. The victim has been identified as Nathan Ward.He was gunned down in the northeast neighbourhood of Falconridge on Saturday morning.The vigil was held at the location where the 41-year-old was killed.“My friend was the best man in the world. I’ve known him for 26 years. He never ever tried to fight. He never hurt anybody,” said Michael Dove, who was at the vigil. Dove said Ward’s death has had a devastating impact on him and his family.“That’s my best friend.  I’m mad –  who wouldn’t be mad? You’d be mad if you lost a family member, especially to violence,” Dove said. Story continues below advertisement “He loved his kids. He had his problems ju...
Man Charged in Fatal ND Factory Shooting Will Go to Trial
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Man Charged in Fatal ND Factory Shooting Will Go to Trial

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A man charged with three counts of murder in the shooting deaths of two co-workers and their unborn child at a North Dakota factory last year has changed course and wants to proceed with a trial, the defense said during a change of plea hearing Monday.Anthony Reese Jr., of Moorhead, Minnesota, dropped a plan to enter guilty pleas to the charges, according to the Clerk of District Court's Office in Cass County.Reese, 36, is charged with killing 43-year-old Richard Pittman and 32-year-old April Carbone, who was eight months pregnant with a child they had planned to name Layla, according to a criminal complaint.Police responded to multiple 911 calls reporting an active shooter last Nov. 17 at Composite America in Fargo and found the victims. Carbone died at the scene and...
Crime and Policing and the 2022 Elections | Elections
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Crime and Policing and the 2022 Elections | Elections

Crime – and its cousin, policing – have become central issues in the 2022 midterms. But the approach by candidates, and responses by voters, have flipped back and forth with events, leaving unclear who the electoral beneficiaries will be.Early in the 2022 election cycle, concerns about heavy-handed (and even deadly) policing were still very much in the minds of voters, particularly Democrats upset about the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota and other cases where police were accused of using over-aggressive methods in dealing with Black and Hispanic people. In April 2021, a jury found a white police officer guilty of murdering Floyd, and there appeared then to be a strong chance that a bipartisan team of lawmakers – Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Republican Sen. Tim Sco...
Michigan Teen Pleads Guilty to Killing 4 in School Shooting
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Michigan Teen Pleads Guilty to Killing 4 in School Shooting

By COREY WILLIAMS and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER, Associated PressPONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A teenager pleaded guilty Monday to terrorism and first-degree murder in a Michigan school shooting that killed four students and put an extraordinary focus on the boy's home life and the alleged role of his parents in the tragedy.Ethan Crumbley pleaded guilty to all 24 charges, nearly a year after the attack at Oxford High School in southeastern Michigan. In the gallery, some relatives of the victims were weeping as assistant prosecutor Marc Keast described the crimes.“Yes,” he replied, looking down and nodding in affirmation, when asked if he “knowingly, willfully and deliberately” chose to shoot other students.The prosecutor's office said no deals were made ahead of Monday's plea. A first-degree murder conv...
Violent video games can lead to violent behavior
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Violent video games can lead to violent behavior

HASTINGS, Neb. (KSNB) - The type of video games kids play can impact who they become. Multiple studies have shown violent games can impact children by making them immune or numb to violence.“Kids that are playing these first-person-shooter online things, they’re interacting with real people and I think that’s the big difference right there because there’s a lot of cuss words, racial slurs, et cetera because, again, you’re behind a computer or video game screen,” said Dr. Zachary Keller, a psychiatrist with CHI Health.With more than half of all video games, rated by the Electronic Software Ratings Board, containing some form of violence — youth are at huge risk of being exposed to real world slander when they play online.“Humans at that age is just not really designed to kind of handle a...