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Worst rainfall that triggered floods in Florida is over as affected residents clean up 06/14/2024 08:04pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Although more rain could trigger additional isolated Florida flooding on Friday, forecasters say the strong, persistent storms that dumped up to 20 inches (50 centimeters) in southern parts of the state appear to have passed. Some neighborhood streets in the Miami and Woods misses the cut, extends majors run of over-par rounds in US Open at Pinehurst No. 2 06/14/2024 07:56pm • PINEHURST, N.C. (AP) — Tiger Woods was unable to find the right mix of quality shots and timely breaks at Pinehurst No. 2 to extend his first U.S. Open appearance in four years into the weekend. He's heading home. And he's uncertain if he'll be back. The three-time U.S. Open champion missed the cu NY governor's subway mask ban proposal sparks debate over right to anonymous protest 06/14/2024 06:03pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A new proposal by Gov. Kathy Hochul to ban masks on the New York subway is drawing backlash from civil liberties groups and disability advocates, reviving a long-standing debate about the right to anonymous protest that has only grown more complex since the pandemic. Hochul, a Demo Aides' vehicle in a convoy carrying Mexico's next president involved in a crash that killed 1 06/14/2024 04:30pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — A highway accident Friday involving an SUV carrying aides to Claudia Sheinbaum, who won Mexico’s June 2 presidential elections, has resulted in at least one fatality. Sheinbaum was not injured. Sheinbaum’s spokesman said the advance car hit another vehicle on a highway in th Beachgoer fatally struck by police truck on South Carolina beach, highway patrol says 06/14/2024 02:26pm • MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — A woman has died after being struck by a police truck on a South Carolina beach, authorities said. A Ford Ranger pickup truck was headed north in the Myrtle Beach area just after 1 p.m. Thursday when it hit the beachgoer, who was facing east, Lance Cpl. Lena Butler said i Gov. Hochul considering a face mask ban on New York City subways, citing antisemitic acts 06/14/2024 01:53pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Kathy Hochul said Thursday that she is considering a ban on face masks in the New York City subway system due to concerns about people shielding their identities while committing antisemitic acts. Hochul, a Democrat, told reporters the exact details of the policy are not War in Ukraine will make it hard for UEFA to keep political messages out of stadiums at Euro 2024 06/14/2024 01:39pm • FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — There are UEFA rules against making political statements in stadiums at soccer's European Championship. But they may be harder than ever to police at a tournament that is among Europe's strongest shared cultural experiences. Euro 2024 in Germany is being played over the Tesla driver tells police he was using 'self-drive' system when his car hit a parked police vehicle 06/14/2024 01:10pm • DETROIT (AP) — A Tesla apparently operating on one of the company's automated driving systems crashed into a parked police vehicle Thursday near Los Angeles, narrowly missing an officer who was managing traffic at another crash. The Tesla driver told police in Fullerton, California, that he engage 2 dead after shooting at car meetup in Prince George's Co. 06/14/2024 12:42pm • Two men are dead after a shooting at a car meetup in Prince George’s County, Maryland, on Thursday night — and police are offering a $25,000 reward for information. The shooting happened about 11:45 p.m. Thursday in the parking lot of the Manokeek Village shopping center on Berry Road in Acco Editorial Roundup: United States 06/14/2024 12:41pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: June 9 The Washington Post says freed hostages are good, now it's time for a truce Some 245 days after Hamas kidnapped them from an outdoor music festival on Oct. 7, 2023, four Israeli hostages are free, liberated in a daring daylight Illinois is hit with cicada chaos. This is what it's like to see, hear and feel billions of bugs 06/14/2024 11:31am • RIVERWOODS, Ill. (AP) — The ground had seemed to undulate at night, alive with bugs. Crawling cicada nymphs, striving to get higher after 17 years underground, marched en masse toward and up trees, pausing to shed their skin and emerge as adults. And then the fun began. Cicada chaos is flourishing Anxiety over persistent inflation helps drive down US consumer sentiment for third consecutive month 06/14/2024 11:31am • WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer sentiment fell in June for the third straight month as Americans took a dimmer view of their own finances and worried about persistent inflation. The University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index, released Friday in a preliminary version, dropped to 65.6 this Elon Musk gets 77% approval from shareholders to get back his big, $44.9 billion Tesla pay package 06/14/2024 09:13am • DETROIT (AP) — Tesla shareholders voted Thursday to restore CEO Elon Musk's record $44.9 billion pay package that was thrown out by a Delaware judge earlier this year, sending a strong vote of confidence in his leadership of the world's largest electric vehicle maker. The favorable vote doesn’t Swedish officials say weak replacement parts caused a fatal roller coaster derailment last year 06/14/2024 08:03am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish accident investigators on Friday said the country's oldest amusement park didn't properly test new parts for a roller coaster that derailed last year and sent some passengers plunging to the ground, killing one and injuring nine others, one seriously. The June 2 Godfather of Go-Go's son leads Chuck Brown Band at Maryland concert to ring in Father's Day, Juneteenth 06/14/2024 06:53am • It's time to "bust loose" and ring in both Father's Day and Juneteenth with some go-go music! This Saturday, the Chuck Brown Band headlines a free concert at Watkins Regional Park in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. on a lineup that includes Trouble Funk, the Luther Relives Tr