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Today in History: June 5, Robert F. Kennedy assassinated 06/05/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Wednesday, June 5, the 157th day of 2024. There are 209 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 5, 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded after claiming victory in California’s Democratic presidential primary at the Ambassador Hundreds show up to a pool party in a quiet Brandywine neighborhood 06/04/2024 11:38pm • Summertime means time by the pool, but some local pool parties have been getting rowdy. One in Brandywine, Maryland, on Saturday night ended with authorities on the scene. Around 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Charles County Sheriff's officials responded to Inheritance Drive for reports of "an except Parnelli Jones, previous oldest living Indianapolis 500 winner, dies at 90 06/04/2024 09:22pm • TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) — Parnelli Jones, the 1963 Indianapolis 500 winner, died Tuesday at Torrance Memorial Medical Center after a battle with Parkinson's disease, his son said. Jones was 90. At the time of his death, Jones was the oldest living winner of “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.” FBI investigator gives jury at Sen. Bob Menendez's trial an inside account of surveillance 06/04/2024 08:16pm • NEW YORK (AP) — An investigator provided a New York jury a riveting account on Tuesday of an evening in Washington, D.C., in 2019 when an FBI surveillance team came across Sen. Bob Menendez and his girlfriend at a fancy restaurant. The investigator, Terrie Williams-Thompson, told the jury at Menen Prosecutors spend first day of testimony in Hunter Biden's gun trial detailing his drug problems 06/04/2024 07:02pm • WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Tuesday painted President Joe Biden’s son Hunter as deceptive and driven by addiction, a man whose dark habits ensnared loved ones and who knew what he was doing when he lied on a federal form to purchase a gun in 2018. Jurors also got their first l Trial begins for man charged in 2017 Charlottesville torch rally at the University of Virginia 06/04/2024 06:58pm • CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Seven years after a white nationalist rally erupted in violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, a trial began Tuesday for one of about a dozen people charged with using flaming torches to intimidate counterprotesters. Prosecutors at the trial of Jacob Joseph Dix showed th Review: Will Smith is back in 'Bad Boys: Ride or Die,' with Martin Lawrence riding shotgun 06/04/2024 06:00pm • “Bad Boys: Ride or Die,” the fourth installment in the Will Smith-Martin Lawrence action-comedy series, is about a fight to redeem a tarnished legacy. No, not that one. The reputation of Conrad Howard (Joe Pantoliano), the beloved captain of detectives Mike (Smith) and Marcus (Lawrence), has bee Family of Minnesota man killed by police criticize local officials and seek federal intervention 06/04/2024 05:41pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Nyra Fields-Miller was making breakfast for her family last weekend when the county attorney’s office called with an urgent request to speak with her in person. Hours later, officials told her that prosecutors were dismissing murder and manslaughter charges against the Minneso Execution date set for Missouri inmate, even as he awaits hearing on claim of actual innocence 06/04/2024 05:38pm • The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday set a Sept. 24 execution date for Marcellus Williams, even as the inmate awaits a court hearing on his claim that he was not involved in the murder that landed him on death row. The state Supreme Court set the date hours after it ruled that Republican Gov. Mike Police ID woman killed after stolen SUV crashes into DC building; suspect charged with murder, kidnapping, carjacking 06/04/2024 05:01pm • A woman is facing charges after police say she carjacked an SUV with a passenger inside from in front of a D.C. hospital and then crashed into a building Monday afternoon. The 55-year-old passenger, Leslie Marie Gaines, of Northeast D.C., died following the incident, police said. The suspect, Stolen classic car restored by Make-A-Wish Foundation is recovered in Michigan 06/04/2024 04:23pm • LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A classic car restored with help from the Make-A-Wish Foundation was recovered Tuesday, two weeks after it was stolen with a flat tire from the side of a Michigan highway, authorities said. Police got a tip and discovered the 1968 Ford Galaxie in a yard in Vevay Township, the Feds seek woman who left bag of $120,000 as bribe with promise of more at home of food fraud juror 06/04/2024 03:54pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal authorities in Minnesota have confiscated cellphones and taken all seven defendants into custody as investigators try to determine who attempted to bribe a juror with a bag of cash containing $120,000 to get her to acquit them on charges of stealing more than $40 million Q&A: Tom Tykwer, Franka Potente on the frenzy of ‘Run Lola Run’ and its theatrical re-release 06/04/2024 03:12pm • Lola’s red hair might have been a mistake. Not the color, mind you. Franka Potente’s electric locks in “Run Lola Run” are as intrinsic to the adrenaline rush of her sprint through Berlin as the film’s heart-racing electronic score. Given the choice now, however, Potente would say no to ble CEOs got hefty pay raises in 2023, widening the gap with the workers they oversee 06/04/2024 03:09pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The typical compensation package for chief executives who run companies in the S&P 500 jumped nearly 13% last year, easily surpassing the gains for workers at a time when inflation was putting considerable pressure on Americans' budgets. The median pay package for CEOs rose to AUTO RACING: Cindric wins in NASCAR when Blaney runs out of gas. Dixon gets IndyCar win No. 58. 06/04/2024 03:04pm • All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES Toyota / Save Mart 350 Site: Sonoma, California. Schedule: Friday, practice, 5:05 p.m; Saturday, qualifying, 6 p.m.; Sunday, race, 3:30 p.m. (FOX). Track: Sonoma Raceway. Race distance: 110 laps, 218.9 miles. Last year: Martin Truex Jr. won after starting eight