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AP Headline News - Apr 18 2024 10:00 (EDT)
AP News, I'm Hyappen Joining. At a news conference, Peel Police Chief Nishan Durea Pasez, nine people are facing charges for stealing millions of dollars worth of gold bars at a Canadian airport a year ago. Exactly one year ago, 6,600 gold bars weighing over 400 kilograms were stolen from Pearson International Airport here in Mississauga and Peel Region. It had a value of over $20 million dollars and this particular theft has become the largest gold theft in Canadian history. And it's one of the largest for that matter in North America. Maine's legislature has approved sweeping gun safety legislation. AP correspondent Donna Warder reports. Almost six months after a mass shooting in Maine, state lawmakers have approved background checks on private gun sales, a 72-hour waiting period for gun purchases, a ban on bump stocks that can transform a weapon into a machine gun and criminalizing gun sales to people not allowed to own guns. The legislation approved early Thursday morning also funds violence prevention and opens a mental health crisis receiving center in Lewiston, where on October 25th an Army reservist opened fire, killing 18 people and wounding 13 before killing himself. There was no action on a proposal to institute a red flag law, which would have allowed family members to petition a judge to remove guns from someone in a psychiatric crisis. I'm Donna Warder. Former US President Donald Trump hosted Polish President Andres Duda for dinner, the latest in a series of meetings with foreign leaders of Europe. And that's not an easy thing to accomplish, but he's done a fantastic job and he's my friend. And we had four great years again, four great years. We may have to do it again. This is AP News. An Abu Ghraib military contractor warned bosses of abuses two weeks after arriving in 2003. During testimony in a lawsuit filed by three Abu Ghraib survivors, jurors saw an October 2003 email from a civilian contractor who worked for military contractor CACI. The civilian contractor sent to work as an interrogator at the prison in Iraq, resigned within two weeks of his arrival and told his corporate bosses that mistreatment of detainees was likely to continue. The former prisoners allege that CACI shares responsibility for the mistreatment that they endured arguing the company took no action after receiving the employee's resignation. Shocking photos of abuse became public in April 2004, resulting in a worldwide scandal that revealed evidence of physical and sexual assaults of inmates. I'm Lisa Dwyer.