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Pogacar extends Giro lead to over 7 minutes after winning altered Stage 16 amid protests at start 05/21/2024 12:14pm • SANTA CRISTINA, Italy (AP) ��� After a chaotic, wet and unusual start to the 16th stage of the Giro d���Italia, there was a familiar sight at the finish on Tuesday. Tadej Pogacar won on a much-altered 118.4 kilometers (73.6 miles) route from Laas, and following protests at the start, to extend his c Georgia's auto port has its busiest month ever after taking 9,000 imports diverted from Baltimore 05/21/2024 12:00pm • SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) ��� The Georgia Ports Authority reported Tuesday that April was its busiest month ever for automobile shipments as the Port of Brunswick took in thousands of additional car and truck imports that needed rerouting from Baltimore in the aftermath of its deadly bridge collapse. The s Germany's foreign minister says in Kyiv that air defenses are an 'absolute priority' for Ukraine 05/21/2024 10:37am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Sending air defense systems to Ukraine to help protect it from Russian cruise missiles, rockets and drones is an ���absolute priority,��� Germany���s foreign minister said in Kyiv on Tuesday after visiting a local power plant that was largely reduced to ruins by a recent barra Trump or Biden? Either way, US seems poised to preserve heavy tariffs on imports 05/21/2024 06:46am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� As president, Donald Trump imposed a 25% tariff on foreign steel, which hurt Clips & Clamps Industries, a Michigan auto supplier ��� raising its materials prices, making it harder to compete with overseas rivals and costing it several contracts. Jeff Aznavorian, the company p Italian women's prison, hundreds of residents evacuated after 4.4 magnitude quake in southern Italy 05/21/2024 06:22am • MILAN (AP) ��� A women���s prison near Naples was evacuated as a precaution Tuesday following a 4.4 magnitude quake with an epicenter at an active volcano west of the southern Italian port city that forced hundreds of residents to sleep in tents or cars. No injuries and only minor damage was reporte Trump or Biden? Either way, US seems poised to preserve heavy tariffs on imports 05/21/2024 06:05am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� As president, Donald Trump imposed a 25% tariff on foreign steel, which hurt Clips & Clamps Industries, a Michigan auto supplier ��� raising its materials prices, making it harder to compete with overseas rivals and costing it several contracts. Jeff Aznavorian, the company p France is trying Syrian ex-officials for the torture and killing of a father and son. Here's why 05/21/2024 04:40am • PARIS (AP) ��� The Syrian soldiers came first, at night, for the son, Patrick, a 20-year-old psychology student at Damascus University, and said they were taking him away for questioning. They came back the next night for his father, Mazen. Five years later, in 2018, death certificates from Syrian Australia and New Zealand begin evacuating nationals from unrest in New Caledonia 05/21/2024 04:06am • NEWCASTLE, Australia (AP) ��� Australia and New Zealand sent airplanes to New Caledonia on Tuesday to begin bringing home stranded citizens from the violence-wracked French South Pacific territory. Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Australia had received clearance from French authorities f Indian voters dissect Modi's politics while traversing the country by train 05/21/2024 12:23am • ABOARD THE THIRUKKURAL EXPRESS, India (AP) ��� The 1,800-mile (2,900-kilometer) journey south from New Delhi to Kanyakumari is one of the longest train rides in India, passing through cities, villages, scrub forests and deep ravines. The 22-car Thirukkural Express is a microcosm of India, carrying p 'It means so much': Prince George's Co. teacher of the year awarded new car 05/20/2024 10:30pm • She's been on the job for 26 years, and her boss says she embodies everything you want in a teacher. So it only makes sense that Kathy Russell, a third grade teacher at Fort Washington's Rose Valley Elementary School, would be the Prince George's County Public School Teacher of the Year. R Haiti���s main airport reopens nearly 3 months after gang violence forced it closed 05/20/2024 10:12pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� Haiti���s main international airport reopened Monday for the first time in nearly three months after relentless gang violence forced authorities to close it. The reopening of the Toussaint-Louverture airport in the capital of Port-au-Prince is expected to help ease a c Americans in alleged Congo coup plot formed an unlikely band 05/20/2024 09:30pm • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) ��� Three Americans involved in a brazen weekend attack on Congo's presidential palace formed an unlikely band under the leadership of eccentric opposition figure Christian Malanga, who dabbled in gold mining and used cars before persuading his Utah-born son to join in the foiled Corn, millet and ... rooftop solar? Farm family���s newest crop shows China���s solar ascendancy 05/20/2024 09:09pm • JINAN, China (AP) ��� Shi Mei and her husband earn a decent enough living by growing corn and millet on their small farm in eastern China's Shandong province. In 2021, they diversified by investing in solar energy ��� signing a contract to mount some 40 panels on their roof to feed energy to the gri Elon Musk's Record of Overpromising and Underdelivering 05/20/2024 08:00pm • Elon Musk is a popular and controversial South African-born American entrepreneur who is also one of the three wealthiest people in the world. Musk is best known for his role as an early investor in electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc. (ticker: TSLA), where he has served as CEO since 2008. Musk also co How to Retire in Africa for $1,200 a Month 05/20/2024 08:00pm • The U.S. Department of State estimates that approximately 9 million Americans live overseas. However, only a small percentage have made their home in Africa -- fewer than 115,000 in sub-Saharan Africa, according to 2018 numbers from the Federal Voting Assistance Program. Southeast Asia and Central A