Downtown Sparks homicide called justifiable SPARKS, Nev. (KOLO) -A fatal shooting April 6 in downtown Sparks was justifiable homicide, the Sparks Police Department said Thursday. Nicholas Galyon shot and killed Vincent Wilks at about 5:50 a.m. 04/18/2024 - 2:50 pm | View Link
UPDATE: Suspect in downtown Elko shooting death dies John Joshua Jauer, 42, was identified by Elko police after he succumbed to his wounds at Northern Nevada Regional Hospital following a search that ended at Peace Park, closing streets and prompting ... 04/18/2024 - 10:15 am | View Link
Alleged homicide suspect fatally shot by police in San Francisco Bay Area A man linked to a homicide investigation in California's capital was fatally shot Wednesday by police 80 miles (128 kilometers) ... 04/18/2024 - 7:23 am | View Link
Ukraine city hit with Russian missiles, killing at least 14 people and leaving many more civilians wounded At least 14 civilians have been killed in a recent Russian missile attack on the Ukraine. The attack came as the U.S. is in the process of approving a $60 billion aid package to Ukraine. 04/17/2024 - 6:29 am | View Link
14-year-old shot to death in Ohio, feds say. Suspect caught in Georgia months later A fugitive wanted in the “senseless” killing of a 14-year-old in Ohio was found hundreds of miles away in Georgia, according to the U.S. Marshals Service. Ian Price, 21, was arrested on an aggravated ... 04/16/2024 - 5:56 am | View Link
The U. S. blocked on Thursday a draft resolution that would have allowed the United Nations General Assembly to vote on allowing a Palestinian state to become a full member state of the U. N. The move has triggered backlash from other states and pro-Palestinian groups, as global divisions continue to sharpen over Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Apple Inc. said that it removed Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp and Threads from its China apps store after an order from the country’s internet regulator, which said the services pose risks to the country’s security.
The order comes on the heels of a cleanup program Chinese regulators initiated in 2023 that was expected to remove many defunct or unregistered apps from domestic iOS and Android stores.
Israel launched a retaliatory strike against a site in Iran late Thursday night (early Friday morning local time), U. S. officials confirmed to several media outlets, though an Iranian official has downplayed the attack as a “failed and humiliating” drone strike.
ABC News, CBS News, NPR, and others have cited unnamed U.
New York police removed a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at Columbia University on Thursday and arrested more than 100 demonstrators, including the daughter of a prominent Minnesota congresswoman.
Several students involved in the protest said they also were suspended from Columbia and Barnard College, including Isra Hirsi, who is the daughter of Democratic U.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina formally requested on Thursday to join NATO as a global partner, a status that would clear the way for greater political and security cooperation at a time when the right-wing government of President Javier Milei aims to boost ties with Western powers and attract investment.
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The request came as NATO’s Deputy General Secretary Mircea Geoana held talks in Brussels on regional security challenges with visiting Argentine Defense Minister Luis Petri.
Geoana said he welcomed Argentina’s bid to become an accredited partner in the alliance—a valued role short of “ally” for nations that are not in NATO’s geographical area and not required to take part in collective military actions.
A Covid-19 patient with a weakened immune system incubated a highly mutated novel strain over 613 days before succumbing to an underlying illness, researchers in the Netherlands found.
The patient, a 72-year-old man with a blood disorder, failed to mount a strong immune response to multiple Covid shots before catching the omicron variant in February 2022.