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Former FedEx driver pleads guilty to killing 7-year-old girl after making delivery at her Texas home 04/22/2026 02:14pm • DALLAS (AP) — A former FedEx driver pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing a 7-year-old girl after delivering a Christmas gift to her Texas home, where he told authorities he accidentally struck her with his van and then strangled her in a fit of panic. Tanner Horner faces either the death penalty or l DC’s mayor, US attorney, blast DC Council over curfew vote 04/22/2026 02:13pm • A frustrated Mayor Muriel Bowser was measured in her words, as opposed to the city’s U.S. attorney, when discussing the steps the D.C. Council did and didn’t take regarding a permanent youth curfew. The final vote Tuesday was 8-5 in favor of the curfew, enough to pass a permanent curfew but s Sports on TV for Thursday, April 23 04/22/2026 02:10pm • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Thursday, April 23 AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN’S) 5:35 a.m. (Friday) FS2 — AFL: Melbourne at Richmond COLLEGE BASEBALL 7 p.m. ACCN — North Carolina at Duke ESPN2 — Alabama at Tennessee 8 p.m. SECN — Arkansas at Missouri COL Florida has Draymond Green to thank for Thomas Haugh's return to college 04/22/2026 02:04pm • GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — If Florida wins the national championship next season, Draymond Green should get a ring. The Golden State Warriors forward was instrumental in convincing Gators star Thomas Haugh to postpose his NBA future and stay in school another year. Haugh re-signed with Florida on Tu New study finds 'alarming' high flood risk for 17 million Americans on Atlantic and Gulf coasts 04/22/2026 02:03pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 17 million people along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at the highest risk of being affected by flooding, with New York and New Orleans standing out, according to one of the most comprehensive studies ever of flood risk. Researchers at the University of Alabama u A Moldovan oligarch and ex-opposition leader gets a 19-year sentence in a $1 billion bank fraud case 04/22/2026 01:57pm • CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — A court in Moldova sentenced a former opposition leader and one of the nation's richest men on Wednesday to 19 years in a fraud case that saw a billion dollars stolen from several of the impoverished European country's banks more than a decade ago. The oligarch, Vladimir P Is 50 old enough for elderly parole? California lawmakers rush to change rules for sex offenders 04/22/2026 01:57pm • State legislators are taking aim at California’s parole system after two high profile sex offenders were granted opportunities for release from prison last year. David Allen Funston and Gregory Lee Vogelsang each had been convicted of multiple sexual assaults against young children in the Sacramen Federal appeals court blocks California law requiring federal agents to wear identification 04/22/2026 01:54pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal appeals court blocks California law requiring federal agents to wear identification. 6 people are charged in a plot to steal and resell dozens of cars from the DC area 04/22/2026 01:44pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Six people have been charged with plotting to steal at least 20 cars from the Washington, D.C., area and sell them to buyers in the United States and Ghana in West Africa, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday. Investigators suspect members of the car theft ring ha Some who fled abuses in Equatorial Guinea fear pope’s visit might legitimize longtime ruler 04/22/2026 01:40pm • LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Gutïn Bae Tongala, a 59-year-old cook from the tiny island of Annobon in Equatorial Guinea, is not happy about Pope Leo XIV's visit to his homeland. He left Equatorial Guinea in 2002 to take refuge in Spain, blaming what he said was the government's abuse of minority groups Searchers find the body of 1 of 6 missing crew from a ship that overturned during a typhoon 04/22/2026 01:32pm • SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) — Searchers found the body of one of the six missing crew members from a cargo ship that overturned near the Northern Mariana Islands during a typhoon and were looking for the rest, hoping they might have made it to a life raft. U.S. Air Force divers used an u Navy veteran charged in series of Atlanta-area shootings dies in jail 04/22/2026 01:27pm • A man charged in a string of shootings near Atlanta that left three people dead, including a Department of Homeland Security employee who was walking her dog, died in jail Tuesday night, authorities said. Olaolukitan Adon Abel, 26, was found unresponsive in his cell, according to a statement from th Alleged coup plotters in Nigeria plead not guilty to treason and terrorism 04/22/2026 01:24pm • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Six people accused of plotting to overthrow Nigerian President Bola Tinubu were arraigned in court on Wednesday on charges of treason and terrorism. All six pleaded not guilty to all 13 charges, which were announced on Tuesday. The suspects have been in the custody of the sec US Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat seeking his 13th term in Congress, has died at age 80 04/22/2026 01:03pm • ATLANTA (AP) — US Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat seeking his 13th term in Congress, has died at age 80. A work vehicle hits a stopped Washington Metro train, leaving 11 people with minor injuries 04/22/2026 12:53pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A work vehicle hit a commuter train in downtown Washington early Wednesday, leaving 11 people with minor injuries, officials said. The stationary silver line train was struck just after midnight at the Metro Center station, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority said