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Ukraine by rail: Inside Zelenskyy's efforts to buoy a nation 03/30/2023 04:34am • ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — The caravan of unmarked vehicles tears across the muddy grass next to the playground. On the merry-go-round, the children stop swinging and spinning. The curious — parents and other residents of this southeastern town — gather around. Car doors swing open, and heav Virginia updates its Move Over Law to protect motorists in disabled vehicles 03/30/2023 04:30am • Angela Hurley, 49, of Mechanicsville, Virginia, was extremely creative, according to her sister Latane Flanagan. Her creativity fostered a career as a hairstylist, during which she had the opportunity to cut the hair of country music legend Kenny Rogers. More Virginia News More Loca Alonso seeks 33rd Formula 1 win after 100 podium finishes 03/30/2023 03:47am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — After claiming his 100th podium in Saudi Arabia in confusing and controversial circumstances, Fernando Alonso is looking for a better result at Sunday's Australian Grand Prix than his two third-place finishes so far this Formula One season. Maybe even his 33rd Formula O Australia makes biggest carbon polluters curb emissions 03/30/2023 01:28am • CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian Parliament created landmark new laws Thursday that will make the nation’s biggest greenhouse gas polluters reduce their emissions or pay for carbon credits. The center-left Labor Party administration said the so-called Safeguard Mechanism reforms are ess Piastri is back at an Australian GP in a far different role 03/30/2023 01:20am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Oscar Piastri is hoping his debut Formula One drive on home soil at the Australian Grand Prix on Sunday will be more successful than the first time he stood on the grid in Melbourne. The first-season driver, who grew up in a nearby suburb to the Albert Park circuit, was Jalen Williams' late tip-in gives Thunder win over Pistons 03/30/2023 12:21am • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Rookie Jalen Williams' putback with less than a second remaining gave the Oklahoma City Thunder a 107-106 win over the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday night. The pressure was on for the Thunder, who entered the night two games under .500 and hanging on to the final Western Confer Senate votes to repeal Iraq War approval many see as mistake 03/29/2023 10:35pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted Wednesday to repeal the resolution that gave a green light for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a bipartisan effort to return a basic war power to Congress 20 years after an authorization many now view as a mistake. Iraqi deaths are estimated in the hundreds of thousan How to Get a $2,000 Loan 03/29/2023 08:00pm • Cars break down, medical emergencies come up and unexpected payments rear their ugly heads. There are countless situations where you might need a specific amount of money in a pinch, and many can't cover the unexpected with emergency savings. 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Seattle prev Jury awards nearly $5M verdict in Chicago police chase crash 03/29/2023 07:23pm • CHICAGO (AP) — A Cook County jury awarded nearly $5 million Wednesday to the family of an 84-year-old retired teacher who was killed when a police cruiser crashed into a police van and careened into a car in which she was a passenger. The jury awarded $4.75 million to the estate of Verona Gunn and Militants kill 9 soldiers in attack on Colombia's military 03/29/2023 06:14pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Militants in Colombia killed nine soldiers and wounded nine others in an attack early Wednesday on a military unit securing a northern pipeline, officials said, complicating efforts by the country’s new leftist president to negotiate a lasting peace. The assailants attack Suarez fined $50,000 by NASCAR for hitting cars on pit road 03/29/2023 05:39pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR fined Daniel Suarez $50,000 on Wednesday for hitting another vehicle on pit road following the race at Circuit of the Americas. The fine was classified as a behavioral penalty and cited "contact with another vehicle on pit road after the race." Suarez hit both his Tr Man gets 25 years in roadside killing of Tennessee nurse 03/29/2023 05:20pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The man who shot and killed a Tennessee nurse as she was driving to work two years ago was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Wednesday, according to the Nashville district attorney's office. In January, a jury found Devaunte Hill guilty of murder in the death of 26-year-ol Court hears appeal of ruling favoring Musk in SolarCity deal 03/29/2023 04:19pm • DOVER, Del. (AP) — Attorneys for a group of Tesla shareholders are asking the Delaware Supreme Court to overturn a judge’s decision in favor of CEO Elon Musk in a lawsuit challenging the electric car maker’s $2.4 billion acquisition of a solar panel company founded by two of his cousins. The p