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BALTIMORE — During the month of March Baltimore City reported 26 homicides and 60 non-fatal shootings. That is six more homicides and 44 more non-fatal shootings than at this time last year. READ MORE : FACES OF BALTIMORE CITY'S MURDER RATE In September 2020, WMAR-2 News began tracking daily murders and shootings in the city. Here is April: 4/29 - 8:44 pm: Two victims, 33 and the other age unknown, died after being shot in the 3900 block of Liberty Heights. 4/29 - 4:02 pm: A 17-year-old was shot in the abdomen in the 1200 block of Greenmount Ave. 4/29 - 1:20pm: A 23-year-old man was shot in the leg in the 500 block of Northern Glover Street. 4/29 - 12:12am: An unidentified man was shot and killed in the 3600 block of 5th Street. 4/28 - 7:35 pm: A 19-year-old man died after being shot in the 5300 block of Belair Road. 4/28 - 5:21 pm: A woman was found shot to death inside a parked vehicle in the 4100 block of Elkader Road. Investigators believe she had been deceas...

Corrections that appeared in print on Friday, April 29, 2022. FRONT PAGE An article on Thursday about fears in Washington and European capitals that the conflict in Ukraine may soon escalate into a wider war misidentified Seth G. Jones's position at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is the director of the International Security Program, not the European Security Program. INTERNATIONAL An article on Sunday about an Israeli military operation in the West Bank referred imprecisely to Israel's comments on the shooting death of Mohammad Zakarneh. While the military declined to comment to The Times directly, it released a statement describing an incident the same day and place as his death in which soldiers shot someone who had first shot at them. Errors are corrected during the press run whenever possible, so some errors noted here may not have appeared in all editions. To contact the newsroom regarding correction requests, please email nytnews@nytimes.com. To s...

Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram apps are seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Summary Law firms Law would bar large social media companies from banning candidates Judge struck it down after finding it violated companies' free speech rights (Reuters) - Florida on Thursday urged a federal appeals court to revive a controversial state law that prevents large social media companies from banning posts by or about political candidates, which a lower court had struck down as unconstitutional. Brian Barnes, a lawyer with Cooper & Kirk who represents the state, said the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution does not shield social media companies, like Twitter Inc, Facebook and Alphabet Inc's Google, from the law because social media companies are merely relaying speech by others. "The central question in this appeal is whether social me...

The statement reads that the move will bar thousands of people from offering congregational prayers inside the historic mosque. "Since it amounts to direct interference in the people's religious matters, the move is unacceptable and reprehensible,"the statement said. (KNS) Adblock test (Why?)

Four of the 16 judges who comprise the Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal are up for a merit retention election on Nov. 3. The 2nd District judges — J. Andrew "Drew" Atkinson, Morris Silberman, Daniel H. Sleet and Andrea Teves Smith — preside over cases from 14 counties, including Lee, Collier and Charlotte, and five judicial districts, including the 20th, that make up the 2nd District region. Overall in the five Florida Court of Appeal Districts there are 25 seats up for retention, with voters selecting yes or no to retain the candidates for a six-year term.  Judges on the Florida District Courts of Appeal earn $154,140 annually, unchanged since 2013. The 2nd District Court of Appeal, one of the original three appellate regions created in 1956, is headquartered in Lakeland. There is also an office in Tampa. According to the Distric...

It's been a breathtakingly busy few weeks in the world of Google Chrome security and the pace doesn't appear to be slowing down. Hot on the heels of two emergency fixes for in-the-wild exploits, and confirmation of a record number of Chromium zero-days across 2021, comes another truly massive security update for billions of Chrome users. How massive would that be? Well, newly confirmed stable channel update for desktop which takes Google Chrome to version 101.0.4951.41 for Windows, Mac and Linux users fixes no less than 30 security vulnerabilities. No Google Chrome zero-days is no reason for user update complacency Thankfully, for now at least, none of these are zero-days where attackers are known to already be exploiting the vulnerabilities. However, that doesn't mean that user complacency should be the order of the day. As always, I recommend you kick-start the Chrome 101 security update as soon as possible rather than wait for it to be rolled out to you in...

Naija News looks at the top happenings making headlines on the front pages of Nigeria's national newspapers today Wednesday, April 27th 2022. The PUNCH : The opposition Peoples Democratic Party said on Tuesday that all those who had purchased the presidential forms were free to contest its presidential ticket regardless of zones. The Guardian : A new guideline released by the leadership of All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday has stipulated that all political appointees who aspire to participate in its primary elections at all levels must resign at least 30 days after the conduct of the primaries. Vanguard : There is a storm in the polity over subterranean plots by some political hawks in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to woo ex-President Goodluck Jonathan to the party and get him fielded as the party's 2023 presidential standard-bearer. This Day: The vice president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, yeste...

Google isn't one to let special days pass by without marking the occasion with a little something. In this case, it's Earth Day, set for Friday April 22. And you can play a super mellow game that'll teach you all about the importance of bees instead of googling whatever it was you visited the search engine for.  Players will take control of a fat little bumblebee tasked with grabbing pollen from ripe and ready flowers. The plants are color-coded, as is the pollen, and there are ready-to-be-fertilized blooms, so you know where to deposit your sweet, sticky load.  The Google Earth Day game appears to be the same one trotted out in 2020 which celebrated the 50th Earth Day. This year's game also starts with a 'happy 50th anniversary of Earth Day' message, so the whole thing looks to have been recycled – which is fitting.  You'll learn all kinds of interesting facts about bees and honey, to the point where you're definitely going to...

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny has called on tech giants Google and Meta/Facebook to help circumvent Putin's grip on the media and get information out to ordinary Russians about what's actually going on in the war in Ukraine by allowing their ad targeting tools and platforms to be selective repurposed to run a nationwide ad campaign that shows the bloody reality of the Kremlin's so-called "special military operation." It's a fascinating — if highly unlikely — idea to try to work around draconian laws Putin's regime has implemented, which mean Russian citizens are risking lengthy jail terms if they post anti-war comments themselves or even just like a social media post with an anti-war message. There would, undoubtedly, be a certain symmetrical irony if Western ad targeting tools that the Kremlin routinely appropriates to spread its propaganda to try to attack the West got redirected and reversed into a firehose of truthful messaging targeted at R...

Turn off weather notifications on the Google Pixel Space in your notification tray is generally pretty valuable, so if one or two notifications are constantly around, it can feel clogged up and inefficient. That's what Google's weather notifications can feel like on your Pixel. So how do you disable them? Well, there are a couple of ways. Table of contents Where do Google weather notifications come from? To handle displaying the current weather for your location, the Google Pixel uses the Google App. The Google App sends tons of notifications during the day, depending on your preferences. Here are just a few examples of the notifications you may see from the Google App: Google Assistant Reminders Tips & tricks Bill reminders Due date reminders Current weather conditions Crisis Alerts Google Assitant Routines Turning off weather notifications… Weather notifications can be very helpful, but sometimes they seem redundant. On the Pixel,...

Welcome to our Leeds traffic news blog for Easter Monday with live updates for the M62 , M621, M1 , and A1 and across the city. Here you'll find live updates on traffic accidents and delays on the roads near you, with updates from National Highways, West Yorkshire Police and our traffic partners INRIX. Scroll down for the latest traffic news including road works and diversions, road closures and live updates on train services , buses and other public transport in Leeds and across Yorkshire. For more traffic and travel news from across Leeds, click here Our reporters will be keeping a close eye on the roads across the morning rush hour, throughout the day, the evening rush hour and into the evening. Want to let us know about an incident causing problems near you? If you can do so safely, email megan.banner@reachplc.com, tweet @leedslivenews or contact us on Facebook here . To get the latest email updates from LeedsLive, click here . Downlo...

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EPA Under the headline "Johnson seeks to delay vote on Partygate", the Daily Telegraph reports on the latest move by Tory whips and ministers to head off a ballot on whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson misled parliament. The Guardian claims Mr Johnson was forced to abandon plans to block the vote outright, in the face of a backbench mutiny. Tory MPs have told the Times that the proposal to hold a vote after senior civil servant Sue Gray has published her report will be be enough to buy off most rebels - but could spell heightened danger for the PM if the Conservatives do badly in next month's local elections. "PM rigs rules to delay probe" is the Daily Mirror's headline. It says it is a "dark day' with the Tories set to "dodge vote over Boris party lies". The prime minister will unveil investment deals worth more than a billion pounds in sectors including healthcare and software engineering on his trade mission to India, according to ...