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Slovak prime minister's condition remains serious but prognosis positive after assassination bid 05/19/2024 12:45pm • BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, remained in serious condition on Sunday but has been given a positive prognosis four days after he was shot multiple times in an assassination attempt that has sent shockwaves across the deeply polarized European U Prince George's Co. schools investigate teacher after students unbraid his hair, paint his nails in viral videos 05/18/2024 04:53pm • School officials in Prince George's County, Maryland, are investigating a teacher after viral TikTok videos showed students unbraiding his hair and painting his nails in the classroom. In a statement to WTOP, Prince George's County Public Schools said it has reassigned teacher Marquise White Suspected would-be assassin ordered detained as Slovak prime minister's condition is stable 05/18/2024 11:09am • PEZINOK, Slovakia (AP) — The man accused of attempting to assassinate Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was ordered to remain behind bars Saturday as the nation’s leader was in serious but stable condition after surviving multiple gunshots, officials said. Slovakia’s Specialized Criminal Court As Japan's yakuza weakens, police focus shifts to unorganized crime hired via social media 05/17/2024 09:01pm • TOKYO (AP) — A senior member of yakuza was arrested for allegedly stealing Pokemon cards near Tokyo in April, a case seen as an example of Japanese organized crime groups struggling with declining membership. Police agents who were busy dealing with thousands of yakuza members just a few years ago Upside-down flag at Justice Alito's home another blow for Supreme Court under fire 05/17/2024 06:32pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — An upside-down U.S. flag has long been a sign of dire distress and versatile symbol of protest. But in January 2021, when it flew over the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, it was largely seen in connection with a specific cause: the false claim by then-President Donald Justice Alito's home flew a US flag upside down after Trump's 'Stop the Steal' claims, a report says 05/17/2024 05:25pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — An upside-down American flag, a symbol associated with former President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud, was displayed outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in January 2021, The New York Times reported. A photo obtained and published by the newsp Slovakia's prime minister underwent another operation. He remains in serious condition 05/17/2024 03:32pm • BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has undergone another operation two days after being shot multiple times and remains in serious condition, officials said Friday. Fico, 59, was attacked as he was greeting supporters after a government meeting in the former coal mining Japan passes a revised law allowing joint child custody for divorced parents for the first time 05/17/2024 11:21am • TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s parliament on Friday passed a revision to the country’s civil code that will allow divorced parents the option of joint child custody, a change that brings the nation in line with many other countries. The revision, the first to custody rights in nearly 80 years, is to tak Why the speech by Kansas City Chiefs kicker was embraced at Benedictine College's commencement 05/17/2024 08:37am • Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker may have stirred controversy in some quarters for his proclamations of conservative politics and Catholicism on Saturday, but he received a standing ovation from graduates and other attendees of the May 11 commencement ceremony at Benedictine College in Atch Team captain and two other players arrested over alleged soccer match-fixing in Australia 05/17/2024 03:21am • SYDNEY (AP) — Australian professional soccer was rocked Friday by accusations that the captain of A-League club Macarthur FC paid two younger teammates up to 10,000 Australian dollars ($6,600) to deliberately receive yellow cards in a scheme set up by a South American gambling connection. 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The American Civil Judge dismisses lawsuit by Georgia court candidate who sued to keep talking about abortion 05/16/2024 06:31pm • ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by a former Democratic congressman running for Georgia state Supreme Court who claimed a state agency was unconstitutionally trying to block him from talking about abortion. U.S. District Judge Michael Brown ruled John Barrow didn't hav Texas judge orders new election after GOP lawsuit challenged 2022 election result in Houston area 05/16/2024 02:40pm • HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas judge has ruled in favor of a Republican candidate challenging the results in a 2022 judicial race and ordered that a new election be held in the nation’s third-most populous county, a Democratic stronghold that’s been beset by GOP efforts to dictate how ballots are cast Slovak authorities charge 'lone wolf' with assassination attempt on the prime minister 05/16/2024 02:03pm • BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovak authorities charged a man Thursday with attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Robert Fico, saying he acted alone in a politically motivated attack that left the longtime leader in serious but stable condition. Fico’s pro-Russia views have contributed to