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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A senior police officer and two wanted Pakistani Taliban members died in an intense shootout set off when police raided a militant hideout early Tuesday in the country’s northwest, a local police official said. Two other police officers were wounded in the shootout early Tuesday in Mardan, a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The local official, …

Is Michelle Troconis a murderous conspirator who wanted her boyfriend’s estranged wife dead and helped him cover up her killing? Or was she an innocent bystander who unwittingly became ensnared in one of Connecticut’s most enduring missing person and alleged homicide cases? A state jury heard two different tales of the 49-year-old Troconis as the prosecution and defense made their …

Un veterano activista de derechos humanos que habló en contra de la guerra en Ucrania fue condenado el martes a dos años y medio de prisión en una corte de Moscú. Oleg Orlov, de 70 años, fue condenado por “desacreditar de forma reiterada” al ejército ruso en un artículo que escribió en contra de la invasión de Ucrania. Él ha …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The government of Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei on Monday condemned a threat by the governor of the oil-rich province of Chubut to cut off energy supplies to the rest of the country amid a dispute over funding reductions. “(The threat) is not an attack on the federal government, but on all Argentines,” presidential spokesperson …

MANASSAS, Va. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have taken over the case against a northern Virginia man arrested last year on suspicion he was about to embark on a mass shooting at a megachurch. Local prosecutors in Prince William County on Tuesday dropped charges against Rui Jiang, 35, of Falls Church, including a charge of attempted aggravated murder against multiple persons. …

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis suburb where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer has agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused it of operating a so-called debtors’ prison. The legal nonprofit ArchCity Defenders announced the settlement Tuesday with the city of Ferguson, Missouri. The preliminary agreement calls for the money …

WASHINGTON (AP) — La secretaria de Tesoro estadounidense Janet Yellen ofreció el martes su más fuerte respaldo hasta la fecha para la idea de liquidar unos 300.000 millones de dólares en activos del Banco Central de Rusia congelados a fin de usarlos para la reconstrucción de Ucrania. “Es necesario y urgente para nuestra coalición hallar la manera de soltar el …

ÁMSTERDAM (AP) — Una corte holandesa condenó a 17 sospechosos el martes en el largo juicio a una organización clandestina relacionada con una serie de asesinatos. Los jueces impusieron cadenas perpetuas a tres de ellos, incluido el que fuera el fugitivo más buscado del país, Ridouan Taghi. El juicio y otros tres asesinatos vinculados al caso han fascinado y conmocionado …

WEST OLIVE, Mich. (AP) — An embattled public health officer in Michigan will get to keep her job, after a lengthy legal fight with county commissioners over pandemic-era mask mandates concluded Tuesday with the board bowing to the will of a court-ordered arbitrator. The Ottawa County Board of Commissioners voted 11-0 Monday to retain Adeline Hambley as county health officer, …

WASHINGTON (AP) — An active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force has died after he set himself ablaze outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., while declaring that he “will no longer be complicit in genocide.” The 25-year-old airman, Aaron Bushnell, of San Antonio, Texas, died from his injuries, the Metropolitan Police Department said Monday. Bushnell had walked up to …