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Schumer, Democrats urge Justice Department to prosecute alleged oil industry collusion, price-fixing 05/30/2024 03:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and 22 other Democratic senators are calling on the Department of Justice to ���use every tool��� at its disposal to prevent and prosecute alleged collusion and price-fixing in the oil industry. In a letter Thursday to Attorney General Merric Chicago woman gets 30 years for helping mother kill pregnant teen who had child cut from her womb 05/30/2024 03:57pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� A Chicago woman who pleaded guilty to helping her mother kill a pregnant teenager in 2019 before the baby was cut from her womb with a butcher knife was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison. Desiree Figueroa, 29, had pleaded guilty to murder in January for helping her mother, Cl Officer who arrested Scottie Scheffler criticizes attorney but holds 'no ill will' toward golfer 05/30/2024 03:30pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� The Louisville police officer who arrested Scottie Scheffler said he has ���no ill will��� toward the pro golfer for injuries he said he suffered while directing traffic after a fatal accident during the PGA Championship. A Louisville prosecutor dropped charges against Schef Roger Penske tells AP cheating scandal overblown by critics because there's 'blood in the water' 05/30/2024 02:33pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� Roger Penske is well aware his integrity has been questioned because of a cheating scandal that cost Josef Newgarden his season-opening IndyCar victory. ���It always bothers you when people take shots at you,��� Penske said in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday. ���B Truckers suing to block New York's congestion fee for Manhattan drivers 05/30/2024 02:14pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Add truckers to the list of opponents seeking to block New York���s first-in-the-nation congestion fee for driving into Manhattan. The Trucking Association of New York filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which developed the toll schem Man accused of driving toward people outside New York Jewish school charged with hate crimes 05/30/2024 01:41pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� New York City police arrested a man on hate crime charges after they say he shouted antisemitic threats while trying to mow down people with his car outside of a Jewish school. Asghar Ali, 58, is charged with attempted murder as a hate crime, menacing as a hate crime and reckless d Movie Review: Muppets creator Jim Henson gets a documentary as exciting as he was 05/30/2024 01:05pm • There are moments when the spark of creation suddenly ignites and history stops. Like when the Wright brothers got a plane to fly. Or when Oreo added double filling. Maybe just as resonant was when Jim Henson cut up his mother���s green coat into odd shapes and added ping-pong balls for eyes. At tha From electric vehicles to deciding what to cook for dinner, John Podesta faces climate challenges 05/30/2024 09:03am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� John Podesta was two months into his new role as President Joe Biden���s top climate diplomat when he faced his first international crisis ��� what to serve for dinner. He had invited his Chinese counterpart, Liu Zhenmin, over to his house but learned that his guest ��� perhaps n Stuck at sea for years, a sailor's plight highlights a surge in shipowner abandonment 05/30/2024 07:04am • Abdul Nasser Saleh says he rarely got a good night���s sleep during the near-decade he spent working without pay on a cargo ship abandoned by its owner at ports along the Red Sea. By night, he tossed and turned in his bunk on the aging Al-Maha, he said, thinking of the unpaid wages he feared he���d Today in History: May 30, Joan of Arc burned at the stake 05/30/2024 12:01am • Today in History Today is Thursday, May 30, the 151st day of 2024. There are 215 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On May 30, 1431, Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen (roo-AHN���), France. On this date: In 1922, the Lincoln Memor Iran says Saudi Arabia has expelled 6 state media journalists ahead of the Hajj after detaining them 05/29/2024 09:42pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� Iran said Wednesday that Saudi Arabia expelled six members of a crew from its state television broadcaster after they had been detained for nearly a week in the kingdom ahead of the Hajj. Saudi Arabia said the men had been working in violation of the visas they r Four dead after vehicles collide on Virginia road, police say 05/29/2024 07:16pm • SHEPPARDS, Va. (AP) ��� Four motorists were killed when a car crossed the center line of a Virginia road and struck vehicles going in the opposite direction, state police said on Wednesday. The multi-vehicle crash occurred shortly before noon on Tuesday south of the Sheppards community in Buckingham At Sen. Bob Menendez's bribery trial, prosecutors highlight his wife's desperate finances 05/29/2024 07:14pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Prosecutors at Sen. Bob Menendez���s bribery trial showed jurors hundreds of texts, emails and phone calls over two days that show his girlfriend-turned-wife's desperate financial situation before New Jersey businessmen she had long known came to the rescue. Prosecutors elicited th Massachusetts fugitive dubbed the 'bad breath rapist' captured in California after 16 years at large 05/29/2024 06:41pm • DANVILLE, Calif. (AP) ��� A fugitive dubbed the ���bad breath rapist��� has been arrested in the San Francisco Bay Area more than 16 years after he fled following his conviction for sexually assaulting a coworker in Massachusetts, authorities said this week. Tuen Kit Lee was found guilty at a 2007 AUTO RACING: Newgarden goes back-to-back at Indy. Bell wins in NASCAR and Leclerc wins in F1 05/29/2024 05:56pm • All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES Enjoy Illinois 300 Site: Madison, Illinois. Schedule: Saturday, practice, 9:30 a.m., and qualifying, 10:15 a.m.; Sunday, race, 3:30 p.m. (FS1). Track: World Wide Technology Raceway. Race distance: 240 laps, 300 miles. Last year: Kyle Busch won after starting on