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Preakness: How to watch, the favorites and what to expect in the second leg of the Triple Crown 05/17/2024 11:35am • The Preakness Stakes will have a Triple Crown possibility on the line when Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan runs in a field of eight horses on Saturday in the 149th rendition of the race. Mystik Dan is the favorite and won the Derby by a nose in the race's closest finish since 1947. Bob Baffert-trai Japan passes a revised law allowing joint child custody for divorced parents for the first time 05/17/2024 11:21am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Japan���s parliament on Friday passed a revision to the country���s civil code that will allow divorced parents the option of joint child custody, a change that brings the nation in line with many other countries. The revision, the first to custody rights in nearly 80 years, is to tak Gunman's family told deputy before Maine's deadliest shooting that they hadn't removed his weapons 05/17/2024 11:00am • AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) ��� Police have said repeatedly in the aftermath of Maine���s deadliest shooting that officers thought the gunman's family had been taking his weapons away. Testifying before an investigative committee on Thursday, the gunman���s sister-in-law suggested that law enforcement offic Music Review: Billie Eilish's 'Hit Me Hard and Soft' is zealous outsider pop in a league of her own 05/17/2024 10:56am • ���Am I acting my age now?��� Billie Eilish, 22, wonders aloud on the opening track to her ambitious third album, ���Hit Me Hard and Soft.��� "Am I already on the way out?��� The 10-track release sees a once-in-a-generation pop performer once again rewriting the rules: If Eilish���s first record in Klopp takes a walk down memory lane as he prepares for emotional final match as Liverpool manager 05/17/2024 10:52am • As part of a club documentary offering an inside view of his final days at Liverpool, Jurgen Klopp was asked by the filmmakers to stand alone on The Kop one afternoon and gaze out around Anfield. He did it, and didn���t particularly like it. ���I love Anfield to bits,��� Klopp said Friday, ���but I Arrests of US tourists in Turks and Caicos for carrying ammunition prompt plea from three governors 05/17/2024 10:33am • Five Americans are facing prison sentences of up to 12 years in the Turks and Caicos Islands on charges they illegally carried ammunition during recent trips to the popular, upscale tourist destination about 600 miles (965 km) southeast of Miami. Three of the arrests have prompted pleas for mercy NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 05/17/2024 10:30am • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. ___ Replacement of Milwaukee election official unrelated to 2020 electio 8 EU members say conditions in Syria should be reassessed to allow voluntary refugee returns 05/17/2024 09:34am • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) ��� The governments of eight European Union member states said Friday the situation in Syria should be re-evaluated to allow for the voluntary return of Syrian refugees back to their homeland. In a joint statement, officials from Austria, the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Denmark, Gre Taiwan���s foreign minister says China and Russia are supporting each other's ���expansionism��� 05/17/2024 07:57am • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) ��� Russia and China are helping each other expand their territorial reach, and democracies must push back against authoritarian states that threaten their rights and sovereignty, Taiwan���s outgoing foreign minister, Joseph Wu, said in an interview with The Associated Press. His Xavi reportedly under pressure at Barcelona after saying it will struggle to compete with Madrid 05/17/2024 06:44am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ��� Xavi Hern��ndez���s honesty about Barcelona's ongoing financial strife has reportedly not sat well with the club. In a message directed at the Barcelona fans, Xavi said earlier this week that no one should get too excited about the summer transfer market since there is litt What does a DC ward manager do? Meet the first one: Ward 8's Wendy Glenn 05/17/2024 05:39am • In a building off Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Southeast, Wendy Glenn sat behind a desk, helping residents connect to the services that the District has to offer them. She's the city's first ward manager, a position D.C. plans to introduce to all eight wards. Her team will operate out of t Michael Cohen pressed on his crimes and lies as defense attacks key Trump hush money trial witness 05/17/2024 04:07am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Donald Trump's lawyers accused the star prosecution witness in his hush money trial of lying to jurors, portraying Trump fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen on Thursday as a serial fabulist who is bent on seeing the presumptive Republican presidential nominee behind bars. As Trump looke Team captain and two other players arrested over alleged soccer match-fixing in Australia 05/17/2024 03:21am • SYDNEY (AP) ��� Australian professional soccer was rocked Friday by accusations that the captain of A-League club Macarthur FC paid two younger teammates up to 10,000 Australian dollars ($6,600) to deliberately receive yellow cards in a scheme set up by a South American gambling connection. The play J.T. Miller's late goal lifts Canucks past Oilers to take a 3-2 series lead 05/17/2024 03:04am • VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) ��� J.T. Miller scored with 33 seconds remaining to lead the Vancouver Canucks to a 3-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night that put them a win away from the Western Conference Final. Carson Soucy and Phillip Di Giuseppe both scored in their returns to Rangers reach Eastern Conference Final with 5-3 win over Hurricanes in Game 6 05/17/2024 02:22am • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� Chris Kreider had a third-period hat trick to help the New York Rangers erase a two-goal deficit and beat the Carolina Hurricanes 5-3 in Game 6 on Thursday night to advance to the Eastern Conference Final. Kreider single-handedly erased the Hurricanes��� 3-1 lead entering the