Oklahoma AG drops charges against officer who threw 71-year-old man to the ground during traffic stop

Oklahoma’s Attorney General announced Friday that he was dismissing criminal charges filed against a police officer who threw a 71-year-old man to the ground during a traffic stop in October. Attorney General Gentner Drummond said in a statement that he was dropping the aggravated assault and battery charge filed by Oklahoma County District Attorney Vicky…

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Google CEO Pichai struggled to navigate a pressure-filled year

Google’s blowout earnings report in April, which sparked the biggest rally in Alphabet shares since 2015 and pushed its market cap past $2 trillion for the first time, tempered fear that the company was falling behind in artificial intelligence. As executives enthusiastically talked about the results with Google’s employees at an all-hands meeting the following week, it was clear that Wall…

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Man suspected of fatally setting woman on fire on NYC subway charged with murder, arson

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Man accused of fatally setting New York City subway rider on fire indicted on murder and arson charges

The man accused of killing a New York City subway passenger by setting her on fire was charged Friday with four counts of murder and one count of arson, prosecutors announced. Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, 33, a Guatemalan national, had been charged by police with first-degree murder, second-degree murder and first-degree arson in connection with setting the…

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Azerbaijan Airlines says doomed flight saw ‘external and technical interference’ before it crashed

An investigation into the fatal crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines flight in Kazakhstan earlier this week came after the passenger plane experienced “external physical and technical interference,” the airline said Friday. The Embraer 190 crashed near the Kazakh city of Aktau on Wednesday, killing 38 of the 67 people on board while en route from…

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Hospital in Gaza under siege as Israeli military forces evacuations

One of northern Gaza’s last functioning hospitals, Kamal Adwan in Beit Lahia, is “undergoing a suffocating siege,” Gaza’s Health Ministry said Friday after Israeli forces stormed inside and evacuated workers. health workers, patients and families. “The surgical and surgical departments, laboratory, maintenance and emergency units have been completely burned and the fire is now spreading…

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