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Marcus Ericsson crashes in practice but still has no regrets headed into Indy 500 05/16/2024 04:23pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Marcus Ericsson returned to the Indianapolis 500 with zero regrets but ended Thursday with a violent collision late in the first full day of practice. Ericsson hit a curb with just over two hours remaining in the session, causing his car to spin and hit the wall three different Takeaways from the AP's investigation into how US prisoners are hurt or killed on the job 05/16/2024 03:29pm • A sweeping Associated Press investigation into prison labor in the United States found that prisoners who are hurt or killed on the job are often being denied the rights and protections offered to other American workers. These prisoners are being placed in dangerous jobs, sometimes with little or no US prisoners are being assigned dangerous jobs. But what happens if they are hurt or killed? 05/16/2024 03:14pm • PHOENIX (AP) — Blas Sanchez was nearing the end of a 20-year stretch in an Arizona prison when he was leased out to work at Hickman’s Family Farms, which sells eggs that have ended up in the supply chains of huge companies like McDonald’s, Target and Albertsons. While assigned to a machine tha Chiefs kicker Butker congratulates women graduates and says most are more excited about motherhood 05/16/2024 01:51pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The commencement speaker at Kansas' Benedictine College, a private Catholic liberal arts school, congratulated the women receiving degrees — and said most of them were probably more excited about getting married and having children. Harrison Butker, the kicker for the Sup Supreme Court sides with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, spurning a conservative attack 05/16/2024 01:08pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a conservative-led attack that could have undermined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The justices ruled 7-2 that the way the CFPB is funded does not violate the Constitution, reversing a lower court and drawing praises from consume Shaken by the Fico assassination attempt, the EU wonders if June elections can be free of violence 05/16/2024 12:56pm • BRUSSELS (AP) — In an increasingly vitriolic political climate, the last thing needed in the runup to the June European Union elections was an assassination attempt on one of the bloc’s most controversial figures. As Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico lay recovering from Wednesday’s attack, the Murder trial set for September for Minnesota trooper who shot motorist during freeway stop 05/16/2024 12:52pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota state trooper who's charged with murder for fatally shooting a motorist as he tried to pull away from a traffic stop is set to go on trial in September. Trooper Ryan Londregan, 27, pleaded not guilty Wednesday in the death of Ricky Cobb II. It was the first hearing i 4 people die in Croatia when a car carrying migrants hits a wall 05/16/2024 11:44am • ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A car carrying migrants on Thursday skidded off a road and hit a wall in southern Croatia, killing four people and seriously injuring five others, including two children, police said. A Moldovan national who was the driver was killed in the crash, along with three migrants w F1 design great Newey expects to join another team after leaving Red Bull next year 05/16/2024 11:18am • Adrian Newey expects to join another Formula 1 team once he's had a “bit of a holiday” after leaving Red Bull. Newey is stepping down as Red Bull's chief technical officer early next year. He will be free to join another team and could help whichever one he joins to develop its 2026 car when the Today in Sports - Week Ahead, May 17 - May 23 05/16/2024 10:00am • May 21 1881 — A small group of tennis club members meets at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City to form the world’s first national governing body for tennis: the United States National Lawn Tennis Association. The new organization is created to standardize tennis rules and regulations and to One Tech Tip: Protecting your car from the growing risk of keyless vehicle thefts 05/16/2024 07:16am • LONDON (AP) — They appear like ghosts in the night, standing outside your house, one holding up an antenna while the other crouches next to the car parked on the driveway. Within seconds, your car is gone, yet another victim amid a surge in auto theft enabled by the technology designed to make it PGA CHAMPIONSHIP '24: Looking back at Tiger Woods and key anniversaries 05/16/2024 06:00am • A look at some of the anniversaries this year at the PGA Championship: 100 years ago (1924) One year after losing to Gene Sarazen in the championship match, Walter Hagen captured the second of his five PGA Championship titles with a 2-up victory over Jim Barnes in Indiana. He also defeated Barnes in Stock market today: Asian shares advance after another round of Wall St records 05/16/2024 12:16am • Asian shares advanced on Thursday after U.S. stocks rallied to records on hopes that inflation is heading back in the right direction. The optimism came from a report showing U.S. consumers had to pay prices for gasoline, car insurance and everything else in April that were 3.4% higher overall than Florida deputy's killing of Black airman renews debate on police killings and race 05/16/2024 12:11am • WASHINGTON (AP) — In 2020, the top enlisted leader of the Air Force went public with his fear of waking up to the news that a Black airman had been killed by a white police officer. Then four years later, a Florida deputy shot and killed Senior Airman Roger Fortson in his apartment. “I doubt i Japan's economy shrinks on weak consumer spending, auto woes 05/15/2024 11:03pm • TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese economy shrank at an annual rate of 2% in the first quarter of this year, as consumption and exports declined, the government said Thursday. Although unemployment has stayed relatively low in the world’s fourth largest economy at about 2.6%, wage growth has been slow an