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Shrine honors cats at a Japanese island where they outnumber humans 05/25/2024 12:55am • TASHIROJIMA, Japan (AP) — On a small island off Japan’s northeastern coast, visitors make offerings at a shrine for unlikely local guardians: cats. The “Neko Jinja,” or Cat Shrine, mythologizes cats as guardian angels of Tashirojima, where cats outnumber humans. Legend says the island used t Man convicted of murder in death of Washington state police officer shot by deputy 05/24/2024 10:56pm • VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state man was found guilty of murder Friday for his role in the 2022 death of a police officer who was mistakenly shot by a sheriff's deputy. A Clark County jury convicted Julio Segura of Yakima on counts of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, robbery, Older Americans often don't prepare for long-term care, from costs to location to emotional toll 05/24/2024 10:09pm • MANKATO, Minn. (AP) — Seven tough weeks passed with her husband in the hospital before Nancy Gag Braun found long-term care for him. From 2019 up until that point in 2022, Braun had cared for Steven at their Mankato home. A traumatic brain injury in February 2019, followed by his progressive demen Utah man declined $100K offer to travel to Congo on 'security job' that was covert coup attempt 05/24/2024 09:14pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The friend of a prominent Congolese opposition leader’s son said he turned down a six-figure offer to travel there from the U.S. as part of the family’s security detail in what turned out to be a failed coup attempt. Marcel Malanga, the 21-year-old son of eccentric coup l The Latest | Israel must stop Rafah offensive and open border for aid, UN court rules 05/24/2024 08:29pm • The International Court of Justice on Friday ordered Israel to end its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah and to open the nearby border crossing for crucial humanitarian aid. The top United Nations court also said Israel must give war crimes investigators access to Gaza. However, Travelers cope with crowds and high prices on the busiest day of Memorial Day weekend 05/24/2024 06:40pm • Travelers contended with big crowds and flight delays Friday, which was expected to be the busiest day of the Memorial Day weekend. More than 6,000 U.S. flights were delayed by early evening on the East Coast, continuing a trend that has tested the patience of travelers all week. Cancellations were More severe weather moves through Midwest as Iowa residents clean up tornado damage 05/24/2024 06:06pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Several tornadoes were reported in Iowa and Illinois as storms downed power lines and trees on Friday, just days after a deadly twister devastated one small town. The large storm system began overnight in Nebraska before traveling across central Iowa and into Illinois. A we Indy 500: When it starts, how to watch, betting odds for 'The Greatest Spectacle in Racing' 05/24/2024 05:53pm • The 108th running of the Indianapolis 500 takes place Sunday, when a field of 33 cars will thunder across the famed yard of bricks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, though rain is in the forecast for “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.” Scott McLaughlin of Team Penske will be on the pole after brea Police search Gilgo Beach serial killing suspect's home on Long Island for 5th straight day 05/24/2024 05:14pm • MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Investigators in the New York City suburbs continue to scour the home of a Manhattan architect charged in a string of slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings. Friday marked the fifth straight day of the renewed search by state and local police of Rex Heuermann's dil The Beach Boys, going into the sunset, look back on years of harmony and heartache in documentary 05/24/2024 05:13pm • Both the Beach Boys and “The Beach Boys” — the new documentary dropping Friday on Disney+ — are all about blending a range of voices. The three Wilson brothers — Brian, Carl and Dennis — along with cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine, brought a harmonic revolution to group vocals wit DC officer suffered lacerations to his eyes, forehead from glass shards after being shot at, court docs say 05/24/2024 04:18pm • The off-duty D.C. police officer wounded after his vehicle was shot at while he was on his way to work earlier this week suffered "lacerations to his eyes and forehead from glass shards," according to court documents filed in D.C. Superior Court on Friday. The new details on the officer's injurie Pato O'Ward of the Arrow McLaren team goes out of his way to win over Indianapolis 500 fans 05/24/2024 04:13pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The day before the final practice for the Indianapolis 500, Pato O'Ward pulled into a house a couple of blocks from the track, where a gate had been built to mimic the one at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the grass was painted like a checkered flag. O'Ward hopped out with a b Elliott blasts NASCAR for fining Stenhouse $75,000 for All-Star Race fight it used in a promotion 05/24/2024 04:11pm • CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Chase Elliott criticized NASCAR for fining driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. $75,000 for punching Kyle Busch following Sunday night’s All-Star Race after it had used video of the fight on social media. It was the largest fine ever handed down for fighting in NASCAR history. Elliott How DC-area travelers are beating traffic during Memorial Day weekend 05/24/2024 03:28pm • Some drivers in the D.C. area are choosing Friday as their time to get away for Memorial Day weekend, which is historically one of the busiest travel times of the year, but has morphed into a multiday getaway that hasn't caused widespread traffic congestion in the D.C. region. One traveler, A Prosecutor tells jury that self-exiled wealthy Chinese businessman cheated thousands of $1 billion 05/24/2024 02:26pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A self-exiled wealthy Chinese businessman became an internet sensation and conned thousands of people worldwide into sending him $1 billion, enabling him to spend lavishly on a mansion, two yachts and even a $35,000 mattress, a prosecutor told a New York jury Friday at the start of