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Late last year, Mayor Eric Adams signed the Sweet Truth Act, which will require chain restaurants to conspicuously express warnings next to menu items with high volumes of added sugar and, beginning later this month, restaurants with prepackaged food will face fines per violation if they do not comply. After years of a push for sugar legislation in New York …

A former Georgia police officer charged with murder in the death of 16-year-old Susana Morales rejected the prosecution’s plea deal before jury selection began Monday. Miles Bryant, 23, told the court he was ready to go to trial on murder charges in connection with the girl’s death. He is accused of kidnapping and killing her as she was walking home …

A 29-year-old German police officer has died of injuries suffered during a knife attack that left five other people injured in the central square of Mannheim, officials said Sunday. The officer was stabbed several times in the head and neck by a 25-year-old immigrant from Afghanistan and underwent emergency surgery after the attack Friday, officials said. The officer was placed …

Japanese police are searching for suspects in the spray-painting of the word “toilet” on a Tokyo shrine that commemorates the country’s war dead, in an apparent protest against the ongoing release of treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, news reports said Monday. The red graffiti on a stone pillar at the entrance of Yasukuni Shrine was discovered …

Dozens more former youth inmates filed lawsuits seeking millions of dollars in damages for sexual abuse they allegedly endured at Illinois detention centers dating back to the late 1990s. Thirteen women and 95 men filed two separate lawsuits on Friday in the Illinois Court of Claims against the state Department of Corrections and the state Department of Juvenile Justice. Each …

A man with a gun was fatally shot in a confrontation with police officers outside a Lowe’s home improvement store. Police in Nashua responded Sunday night to a report from police in Pelham that he had left his home there with a gun. “Two officers ultimately discharged less-lethal munitions, and one officer discharged a firearm. Life saving measures were attempted, …

Gunmen fatally shot a police officer assigned to protect polio workers in Pakistan’s northwest, an official said Monday. At least 11 police have died this year while on security duty for vaccination campaigns in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The gunmen fired at a team working in the Wargari area of Lakki Marwat district, said police official Sajid Khan. One of the …

The body of an unidentified man was recovered Sunday off a beach northeast of the Greek capital with a 22-pound barbell attached to his leg with a rope, the coast guard said. Authorities were alerted to the presence of the body at Schinias Beach near the town of Marathon, early Sunday afternoon. A diver retrieved the body about 110 yards …

A federal appeals court upheld a ruling that defendants in Oregon who have been in jail for more than seven days without a defense attorney must be released from custody. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in its 2-1 decision on Friday that Oregon’s public defense system is a “Sixth Amendment nightmare,” referring to the part of the …

A foreign citizen was detained in Romania’s capital on Monday after allegedly attacking the entrance of the Israeli Embassy with a Molotov cocktail, causing a small fire but no casualties, local media and police reported. A 34-year-old man was apprehended by anti-terrorist officers from the Romanian Intelligence Service before police arrived at the scene, police in Bucharest said, adding that …