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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 What to know about a bus crash that killed 8 Mexican farmworkers in Florida 05/15/2024 10:28pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A bus carrying farmworkers to a watermelon field in central Florida was sideswiped by a drunk driver and overturned in a field, killing eight people and injuring dozens of others, authorities said. The man accused of causing Tuesday's crash has a lengthy driving recor Driver said he smoked pot oil, took medication before Florida crash that killed 8 Mexican workers 05/15/2024 10:27pm • OCALA, Fla. (AP) — A man with a long record of dangerous driving told investigators he smoked marijuana oil and took prescription drugs hours before he sideswiped a bus, killing eight Mexican farmworkers and injuring dozens more, according to an arrest report unsealed Wednesday. Bryan Maclean Howa Barge hits bridge connecting Galveston and Pelican Island, causing partial collapse and oil spill 05/15/2024 09:24pm • GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — A barge slammed into a bridge pillar in Galveston, Texas, on Wednesday, spilling oil into waters near busy shipping channels and closing the only road to a small neighboring island. No injuries were reported. The impact sent pieces of the bridge, which connects Galveston to Massive search in France for prison-break gang that killed 2 officers 05/15/2024 09:20pm • PARIS (AP) — A massive search was underway in France on Wednesday for armed assailants who ambushed a prison convoy, killing two prison officers, seriously injuring three others and freeing the inmate they were escorting. The prime minister vowed the gang would be caught, saying, “They will pay. Lawyer opens defense of US Sen. Bob Menendez in his corruption trial by blaming his wife 05/15/2024 08:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez blamed the politician’s wife Wednesday for his legal problems, telling a jury at the start of a corruption trial that the Democrat wasn’t aware his spouse had taken gifts from a trio of businessmen and didn't know about cash and gold bars hid Delaware police exchange gunfire with woman in police chase through 2 states that ends in her death 05/15/2024 08:55pm • A police pursuit through two states that involved two separate shootouts with law enforcement officers and several crashes ended with the death of the woman being sought, authorities said. Wilmington police said they began their pursuit of Yazmyn Stewart, 23, shortly before noon Tuesday at a Delawar The Latest | Palestinians mark 76 years of their dispossession as more catastrophe unfolds in Gaza 05/15/2024 08:42pm • Palestinians are marking 76 years of dispossession on Wednesday, commemorating their mass expulsion from what is today Israel, as a potentially larger catastrophe unfolds in Gaza where over a quarter of the population has been displaced by fighting in the last few days alone. Israel has been pressi Connor Ingram wins the Masterton Trophy for perseverance and dedication to hockey 05/15/2024 08:00pm • Connor Ingram, the goaltender who shared his battle with an undiagnosed obsessive-compulsive disorder that led him to drink to cope with anxiety and has blossomed into a full-time NHL player, has won the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy for perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey. Ingram Latina Creators Who are Building Generational Wealth -- And What You Can Learn From Them 05/15/2024 08:00pm • Wanting to provide financial resources to family members is a universal human desire. However, not everyone starts out on the same economic starting line. Demographic inequities persist. According to a 2023 Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis report, Hispanic families owned only about 23 cents for eve Texas man accused of killing New Mexico women and kidnapping an infant faces federal charge 05/15/2024 05:22pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A Texas man accused of fatally shooting two New Mexico women and taking one of their children and seriously injuring another is now facing a federal kidnapping charge. Alek Isaiah Collins, 26, appeared Tuesday before a federal judge in Abilene, Texas. He will remain in fe How Cannes works, from the standing ovations to the juries to the Palm Dog 05/15/2024 05:05pm • CANNES, France (AP) — The Cannes Film Festival is hallowed ground in cinema but understanding its unique landscape can be confounding. The Côte d’Azur festival, which kicked off Tuesday, is a 10-day ballet of spectacle and film where even the photographers wear tuxedos, standing ovations are ti Colorado teen pleads guilty in death of driver who was hit in the head by a rock 05/15/2024 04:59pm • GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — A second teen pleaded guilty on Wednesday in the death of a 20-year-old driver who was hit in the head by a rock that crashed through her windshield in suburban Denver last year. Under a plea deal with prosecutors, Nicholas Karol-Chik, 19, pleaded guilty to second-degree murde Review: Apple's 'Sugar' is an unpredictable neo-noir starring Colin Farrell as a cinephile detective in LA 05/15/2024 04:04pm • Critics recently took a bite out of Apple for its tone-deaf iPad commercial crushing centuries of culture in a vice, followed by a proposed streaming bundle with Netflix and Peacock that gives cord cutters another option but could be a slippery slope to the very cable monopolies that streaming w After slow start to IndyCar season, Arrow McLaren tries to get back on track at Indianapolis 500 05/15/2024 01:33pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Pato O’Ward picked up his first trophy in nearly two years when he arrived at Arrow McLaren's team lounge in Indianapolis Motor Speedway last weekend. No, it wasn’t the victory celebration O’Ward had planned for his first IndyCar win since July 2022, but it was unusual: H