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ABBA get a prestigious Swedish knighthood for their pop career that started at Eurovision 05/31/2024 09:24am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� The four members of the Swedish pop quartet ABBA, who triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the peppy love song ���Waterloo,��� on Friday got one of the most prestigious knighthoods in Sweden from the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf. The Order of the Vasa was h Slovak prime minister who was shot in an assassination attempt is released from the hospital 05/31/2024 05:10am • BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) ��� Slovakia���s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, has been released from a hospital where he was treated after an assassination attempt. Miriam Lapunikova, the director of the hospital in the central city of Banska Bystrica, said on Friday that Fico was transported to Pat Owtram used her language skills to listen in on German U-boats during WWII 05/31/2024 01:54am • LONDON (AP) ��� Pat Owtram didn���t need to go to war. It came to her. As the Nazis took control of Germany and Austria, her father hired Jewish refugees to cook and clean at the family home in Lancashire, where the Owtram family raised pedigreed shorthorn cows and Pat rode a pony named Dolly. One r Dorothea Barron watched over men who tested portable harbors for D-Day 05/31/2024 01:51am • LONDON (AP) ��� Dorothea Barron got a preview of the D-Day invasion from a watchtower on the coast of Scotland. During the spring and summer of 1943, she and her colleagues kept watch over the troops as they tested the prototypes for two portable harbors that would be used at Normandy to ease the de Israel could have used smaller weapons against Hamas to avoid deaths in Gaza tent fire, experts say 05/30/2024 07:28pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Defense experts who have reviewed debris images from an Israeli airstrike that ignited a deadly fire in a camp for displaced Palestinians questioned why Israel did not use smaller, more precise weapons when so many civilians were nearby. They said the bombs used were likely U.S.- Louisiana may soon require public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments 05/30/2024 06:20pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) ��� Louisiana could soon become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom ��� in another expansion of religion into day-to-day life by a Republican-dominated legislature. The legislation received final approval from the Roberts rejects Senate Democrats' request to discuss Supreme Court ethics and Alito flag controversy 05/30/2024 04:20pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday declined an invitation to meet with Democratic senators to talk about Supreme Court ethics and the controversy over flags that flew outside homes owned by Justice Samuel Alito. Roberts' response came in a letter to the senators a day afte The special Tony Award for educators goes to Baltimore community artist CJay Philip 05/30/2024 09:00am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The special Tony Award that honors educators is going to a Baltimore-based actor, educator, choreographer and Broadway veteran who has created arts opportunities for everyone from kindergartners to senior citizens. CJay Philip, founder and artistic director of the multidisciplin More players accused in Australian soccer match-fixing investigation 05/30/2024 01:46am • Two more players could be involved in the Australian soccer match-fixing case that has already resulted in three Macarthur FC players being charged. Midfielder Kearyn Baccus appeared in court Thursday to face charges relating to an illegal betting plot to receive yellow cards during A-League matches What Is a Cardless ATM? 05/29/2024 08:00pm • The use of cardless ATMs is on the rise. Thanks to technology like QR codes and mobile apps, cardless ATMs allow customers to withdraw money without having to swipe, insert or tap with a plastic card. Read along to learn how cardless ATMs work, as well as their pros and cons. How Do Cardless ATMs Wo Digital Curb Appeal: The Secret to Selling Your Home Online 05/29/2024 08:00pm • If you've ever put your home up for sale, you know how important curb appeal is to attracting the right buyer quickly. If your house doesn't have that little something when they pull up, they might not even come inside. And today, as more people find your home online long before they show up in the To recuse or refuse? A look at Supreme Court justices��� decisions on whether to step aside in cases 05/29/2024 05:19pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� In declining to step aside from two high-profile Supreme Court cases, Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday provided a rare window on the opaque process by which justices decide to step aside from cases. Alito faced calls from Democrats to recuse from two cases involving former Presi Medical pot user who lost job after drug test takes case over unemployment to Vermont Supreme Court 05/29/2024 04:43pm • MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) ��� A Vermont man who lost his job after he said a random drug test showed he had used medical marijuana off duty for chronic pain has appealed to the Vermont Supreme Court saying he should not have been denied a portion of his state unemployment benefits. Ivo Skoric, 59, repres Alito rejects calls to quit Supreme Court cases on Trump and Jan. 6 because of flag controversies 05/29/2024 04:35pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Justice Samuel Alito is rejecting calls to step aside from Supreme Court cases involving former President Donald Trump and Jan. 6 defendants, saying his wife hoisted the two controversial flags that flew above their homes. ���My wife is fond of flying flags. I am not,��� Alito Wisconsin judge hearing lawsuit challenging union law appears to have signed Walker recall petition 05/29/2024 01:45pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� A judge overseeing a challenge brought by unions trying to undo Wisconsin's law that bans nearly all collective bargaining for public workers appears to have signed a 2011 petition to recall then-Gov. Scott Walker from office because of anger over that law. Dane County Circuit