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FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2021, file photo, Danville Police Officer Andrew Hall stands on Court Street after leaving the A.F. Bray Courts Building in Martinez, Calif. The California police officer was convicted Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021, of assault with a firearm in the 2018 fatal shooting of an unarmed, mentally ill man in a wealthy San Francisco suburb. (Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

Family: Deputy's conviction for killing is 'partial justice'

An attorney says the family of a mentally ill man who died in a California police shooting received only partial justice after jurors convicted a sheriff's deputy of assault with a gun but deadlocked on a charge of voluntary manslaughter
FILE - In this May 27, 2016, file photo, Sunao Tsuboi, right, a survivor of the 1945 Atomic Bombing and chairman of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers Organization, talks with then U.S. President Barack Obama, center, accompanied by then Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan. Tsuboi, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, who made opposing nuclear weapons the message of his life, including in a meeting with then President Obama in 2016, has died. He was 96.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Hiroshima atomic bombing survivor Sunao Tsuboi dies at 96

Sunao Tsuboi, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing who made opposing nuclear weapons the message of his life, including in a meeting with President Barack Obama in 2016, has died
A medical worker administers a shot of Russia's Sputnik Lite coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center in the GUM, State Department store, in Red Square with the St. Basil Cathedral in the background, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021. The daily number of COVID-19 deaths in Russia hit another high Tuesday amid a surge in infections that forced the Kremlin to order most Russians to stay off work starting this week. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Russia marks another daily coronavirus death high

Russia has hit another record for daily COVID-19 deaths as authorities across the country moved to keep most people off work in line with a Kremlin order aimed at stemming the spread

Northern Illinois police fatally shoot sword-wielding man

Police say a northern Illinois police officer shot and killed a man after he approached officers with a Samurai sword raised over his head and pointed the weapon at them
Warsaw court bans far-right march, nationalists plan appeal
A Polish court has upheld the Warsaw mayor's ban on an annual march organized by nationalists on Poland's Independence Day
Somali artist Sana Ashraf Sharif Muhsin, 21, sits with some of her paintings at her home in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. Among the once-taboo professions emerging from Somalia's decades of conflict and Islamic extremism is the world of arts, and this 21-year-old female painter has faced more opposition than most. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
In Somalia, a rare female artist promotes images of peace
Among the once-taboo professions emerging from Somalia's decades of conflict and Islamic extremism is the world of arts, and a 21-year-old female painter has faced more opposition than most
FILE - In this Oct. 25, 2021, file photo, President Jair Bolsonaro attends the launching ceremony of the National Green Growth Program at the Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil. A Brazilian Senate committee will vote Tuesday, Oct. 26, on a report recommending Bolsonaro face a series of criminal indictments for actions that allegedly added to the world's second-highest COVID-19 death toll. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)
EXPLAINER: Brazil senators urge COVID charges for Bolsonaro
A Brazilian Senate committee has recommended that President Jair Bolsonaro face a series of criminal indictments for actions and omissions related to the world's second highest COVID-19 death toll
Wayne Village President Eileen Phipps
Authorities: Man harassed Wayne village president over Ludwig the dog shooting
A Schaumburg man is charged with threatening Wayne Village President Eileen Phipps over her husband's deadly shooting of his next-door neighbor's dog, Ludwig.
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Naperville man facing child pornography charges
A Naperville man faces six felony charges related to child pornography.
Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza, left, and Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies exit the sheriff's office to address the media at a news conference in Santa Fe, N.M. Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. New Mexico authorities said Wednesday they have recovered a lead projectile believed to have been fired from the gun used in the fatal movie-set shooting. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)
Sheriff: Movie set showed 'some complacency' with weapons
Investigators say there was 'some complacency' in how weapons were handled on a movie set where Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed a cinematographer and wounded another person
FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2013, file photo, Britain's Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, speaks during the opening session of the Japan-UK security cooperation conference in Tokyo. A 2008 settlement agreement that a lawyer for Prince Andrew says would protect him against claims that he sexually abused an American when she was 17 can remain secret, a New York judge ruled Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)
Judge in Prince Andrew suit says key document can be secret
The New York judge assigned to a lawsuit alleging Prince Andrew sexually abused an American when she was 17 says a 2008 legal agreement that his lawyer says would protect him against the claims can remain secret
In addition to a collection drive for veterans, the Doodlebug Workshop in Wheaton is participating with the Warrenville American Legion in “Old Glory on Display,” a fundraising program encouraging businesses and restaurants to display their custom-made American flag kits between Nov. 1-11.
Wheaton's DoodleBug Workshop supporting veterans
In addition to a collection drive for veterans, the Doodlebug Workshop in Wheaton is participating with the Warrenville American Legion in "Old Glory on Display," a fundraising program encouraging businesses and restaurants to display their custom-made American flag kits between Nov. 1-11.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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In this Feb. 15, 2001 file photo, Secretary of State Colin Powell looks on as President Bush addresses State Department employees at the State Department in Washington. Powell, former Joint Chiefs chairman and secretary of state, has died from COVID-19 complications. In an announcement on social media Monday, the family said Powell had been fully vaccinated. He was 84.
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