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Argentina labor unions' 24-hour strike against President Milei paralyzes daily life 05/09/2024 06:06pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s biggest trade unions mounted one of their fiercest challenges to the libertarian government of President Javier Milei, staging a mass general strike on Thursday that led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights and halted key bus, rail and subway line Activist investor wins 3 Norfolk Southern board seats but won’t have control to fire CEO 05/09/2024 04:32pm • Norfolk Southern’s CEO will be under more pressure to improve profits after the railroad’s shareholders voted Thursday to elect three of the board members an activist investor nominated, but he won’t be fired right away. Ancora Holdings had nominated seven directors as part of a bid to take co Ex-Ohio vice detective gets 11-year sentence for crimes related to kidnapping sex workers 05/09/2024 03:29pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former Ohio vice detective who pleaded guilty to federal crimes related to kidnapping sex worker victims under the guise of arresting them was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison. Andrew Mitchell, 60, of Sunbury, will receive credit for the roughly five years he has be Wisconsin woman who argued she legally killed sex trafficker pleads guilty to homicide 05/09/2024 02:20pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Milwaukee woman who argued she was legally allowed to a kill a man because he was sexually trafficking her pleaded guilty Thursday to a reduced count of reckless homicide. Chrystul Kizer's decision means she'll avoid trial and a possible life sentence. It also leaves open th Chevrolet Malibu heads for the junkyard as GM shifts focus to electric vehicles 05/09/2024 01:28pm • DETROIT (AP) — The Chevrolet Malibu, the last midsize car made by a Detroit automaker, is heading for the junkyard. General Motors confirmed Thursday that it will stop making the car introduced in 1964 as the company focuses more on electric vehicles. The midsize sedan was once the top-selling seg Paralympian loses medals and equipment in Brazilian floods but is improvising to qualify for Paris 05/09/2024 01:25pm • PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (AP) — Vanderson Chaves has faced many challenges in more than a decade as a Paralympic fencer, but none as fearsome as the massive floods in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state. The waters washed away his equipment, dozens of medals, his passport — and might have even thwart Colorado woman tried to steal a pickup, but couldn't handle the stick shift, police said 05/09/2024 01:01pm • BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado woman’s attempt to steal a pickup truck — shortly after she was released from jail on a car theft charge — was thwarted not by officers, nor the truck’s owners, but by her inability to drive a stick shift, Boulder Police said. The woman had been released fr Divided Supreme Court rules no quick hearing required when police seize property 05/09/2024 11:54am • WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that authorities do not have to provide a quick hearing when they seize cars and other property used in drug crimes, even when the property belongs to so-called innocent owners. By a 6-3 vote, the justices rejected the claims of two Alabama In new memoir, Tom Selleck looks back at the hard years that made him a star in 'Magnum, P.I.' 05/09/2024 11:35am • NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Selleck starts his memoir in the middle of a car crash. He is 17 and in the passenger seat when he and two friends go airborne in his mom's red Chevy Corvair, tumbling off Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles. Everyone would be eventually fine, but it's a harrowing moment and a uniq Ramón Fonseca, partner in firm at center of "Panama Papers" scandal, dies 05/09/2024 09:47am • Ramón Fonseca, a partner in the Mossack Fonseca law firm at the center of the “Panama Papers” scandal over the hiding of wealth in offshore entities, has died, a lawyer from his firm confirmed Thursday. He was 71. Lawyer Guillermina McDonald told The Associated Press in a phone message that Fon Guns are being stolen from cars at triple the rate they were 10 years ago, a report finds 05/09/2024 09:28am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The rate of guns stolen from cars in the U.S. has tripled over the last decade, making them the largest source of stolen guns in the country, an analysis of FBI data by the gun safety group Everytown found. The rate of stolen guns from cars climbed nearly every year and spiked du Cars.com: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 05/09/2024 07:34am • CHICAGO (AP) — CHICAGO (AP) — Cars.com Inc. (CARS) on Thursday reported first-quarter profit of $784,000. The Chicago-based company said it had net income of 1 cent per share. The online automotive marketplace posted revenue of $180.2 million in the period, which beat Street forecasts. Three ana Japanese automaker Nissan reports 92% jump in profit as sales surge 05/09/2024 05:36am • TOKYO (AP) — Nissan’s profit for the fiscal year through March jumped 92% to 426.6 billion yen ($2.7 billion) as sales grew in all major global markets except China, the Japanese automaker said Thursday. Annual sales surged nearly 20% to 12.7 trillion yen ($81.5 billion), Nissan Motor Co. said. Powerful storms kill 3 as tornadoes tear through central and southeastern US 05/08/2024 11:08pm • COLUMBIA, Tenn. (AP) — Severe storms tore through parts of the U.S. again Wednesday, spawning damaging tornadoes, producing massive hail, and killing two people in Tennessee and one person in North Carolina. A storm that rumbled across northeastern Tennessee brought high winds that knocked down po Fort Washington man pleads guilty to murdering 87-year-old after door ding 05/08/2024 09:00pm • A 27-year-old Fort Washington, Maryland, man pleaded guilty Wednesday to beating an 87-year-old man to death in a parking lot. The brutal beating of Johnny Shepherd, which was captured on surveillance video in June 2022, happened after prosecutors say Shepherd door-dinged Julias Wright's girlfrie