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8 hours ago

Female Referees To Officiate Men’s World Cup for 1st Time

GENEVA (AP) — Female referees will make World Cup history this year by working games at a major men’s tournament for the first time in Qatar.

10 hours ago

Justices Allow Admissions Policy at Prestigious High School

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has turned away a plea from parents to block a new admissions policy at a prestigious high school in northern Virginia that a lower court has found discriminates against Asian American students.

10 hours ago

Amber Heard Cross-Examined About Fights With Johnny Depp

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Lawyers for Johnny Depp on Tuesday questioned the truthfulness of Amber Heard's accusation that Depp sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle.

12 hours ago

EXPLAINER: What Is Monkeypox and Where Is It Spreading?

LONDON (AP) — European and American health authorities have identified a number of monkeypox cases in recent days, mostly in young men. It's a surprising outbreak of disease that rarely appears outside Africa.

12 hours ago

Spy Agencies Urged To Fix Open Secret: A Lack of Diversity

WASHINGTON (AP) — The peril that National Security Agency staff wanted to discuss with their director didn’t involve terrorists or enemy nations. It was something closer to home: racism and cultural misunderstandings inside America’s largest intelligence service.

12 hours ago

Grand Jury Indicts Man in Buffalo Supermarket Shooting

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white man accused of killing 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo appeared in court Thursday, standing silently during a brief proceeding attended by some relatives of the victims after a grand jury indicted him.

05/17/22

Musk: Doubt About Spam Accounts Could Scuttle Twitter Deal

DETROIT (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk gave the strongest hint yet Monday that he would like to pay less for Twitter than his $44 billion offer made last month.

05/17/22

Buffalo Shooter’s Previous Threat Raises Red-Flag Questions

Less than a year before he was accused of opening fire and killing 10 people in a racist attack at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store, 18-year-old Payton Gendron was investigated for making a threatening statement at his high school.

05/16/22

Buffalo Shooting Latest Example of Targeted Racial Violence

Black people going about their daily lives — then dying in a hail of bullets fired by a white man who targeted them because of their skin color.

05/16/22

Buffalo Shooter’s Prior Threat, Hospital Stay Under Scrutiny

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white gunman accused of committing a racist massacre at a Buffalo supermarket made threatening comments that brought police to his high school last spring, but he was never charged with a crime and had no further contact with law enforcement after his release from a hospital, officials said.

05/16/22

Buttigieg Sends $5B to Cities for Safety As Road Deaths Soar

WASHINGTON (AP) — With upcoming data showing traffic deaths soaring, the Biden administration is steering $5 billion in federal aid to cities and localities to address the growing crisis by slowing down cars, carving out bike paths and wider sidewalks and nudging commuters to public transit.

05/16/22

McDonald’s To Sell Its Russian Business, Try To Keep Workers

More than three decades after it became the first American fast food restaurant to open in the Soviet Union, McDonald's said Monday that it has started the process of selling its business in Russia, another symbol of the country’s increasing isolation over its war in Ukraine.