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They're big. They're colorful. But Joro spiders aren't nightmare fodder 06/05/2024 04:28pm • A large, brightly colored invasive species called the Joro spider is on the move in the United States. Populations have been growing in parts of the South and East Coast for years, and many researchers think it's only a matter of time before they spread to much of the continental U.S. But spider ex UN chief wants a tax on profits of fossil fuel companies, calling them 'godfathers of climate chaos' 06/05/2024 04:27pm • GENEVA (AP) ��� U.N. Secretary-General Ant��nio Guterres called Wednesday for a ���windfall��� tax on profits of fossil fuel companies to help pay for the fight against global warming, calling them the ���godfathers of climate chaos.��� Guterres spoke in a bid to revive the world's focus on climate Michigan's collective starts Walk-On Fund as athletic departments scrambling for money in new era 06/05/2024 04:22pm • ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) ��� Champions Circle, a collective endorsed by the University of Michigan's athletic department, has created a Walk-On Fund in the wake of athletic departments scrambling for money before revenue is shared directly with athletes as soon as next year. The Ann Arbor, Michigan-bas Stitch Fix, CrowdStrike rise; Dollar Tree, Campbell Soup fall, Wednesday, 6/5/2024 06/05/2024 04:16pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Wednesday: CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., up $36.60 to $342.18. The cloud-based security company raised its earnings forecast for the year. Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co., up $1.88 to $19.48. The information technology sup Heartbreak, anger and many questions follow University of the Arts' abrupt decision to close 06/05/2024 04:09pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� Bryant Fleming was looking forward to the fall semester at the University of the Arts, where the rising senior was to choreograph a production of ���Sister Act" ��� the same musical comedy that led him to fall in love with theater in high school. Instead, the musical theater ma Israeli nationalists march in Jerusalem as a far-right minister boasts of Jewish prayer at key site 06/05/2024 03:01pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Thousands of ultranationalist Israelis marched through a sensitive Palestinian area of Jerusalem on Wednesday in an annual procession, chanting racist slogans as the country���s far-right national security minister boasted that Jews had prayed freely at a key holy site in the city Spare a thought for weather watcher Maureen Sweeney who made the right call for D-Day 06/05/2024 02:37pm • VER-SUR MER, France (AP) ��� Along with the generals and the paratroopers, the pilots and the infantrymen, spare a thought for the young Irish woman who may have played the most important role of all in making the D-Day landings a success. Maureen Sweeney was a postal clerk at Blacksod Point on the Sports on TV for Thursday, June 6 06/05/2024 02:10pm • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Thursday, June 6 AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE 7 p.m. NHLN ��� Eastern Conference Final: Hershey at Cleveland, Game 4 AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN���S) 5:30 a.m. (Friday) FS2 ��� AFL: Brisbane at Western CFL FOOTBALL 8:30 p.m. CBSSN ��� Mont South Carolina is trading its all-male Supreme Court for an all-white one 06/05/2024 01:46pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ��� South Carolina is trading its all-male state Supreme court for an all-white one. The General Assembly, which picks almost all state judges, voted 152-0 to elevate Court of Appeals Judge Letitia Verdin to the high court Wednesday. The white woman will take the seat of Chief Ju Will Biden's new border measures be enough to change voters' minds? 06/05/2024 01:42pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden tried to address a major liability for his reelection campaign by taking executive action to significantly restrict asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. But it's unclear whether the Democratic president's efforts will be enough to change the minds of voters who h NHL to broadcast Stanley Cup Final games in American Sign Language, a 1st for a major sports league 06/05/2024 01:41pm • While interpreting the annual pre-Stanley Cup Final state of the NHL address into American Sign Language for the first time in 2022, Brice Christianson worried that it was a one-time thing, his only chance to open the door to hockey for the Deaf community. Two years later, it is difficult for him no Putin says nothing will change in terms of Russia-US relations regardless of who wins US election 06/05/2024 01:37pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) ��� Putin says nothing will change in terms of Russia-US relations regardless of who wins US election. What is enormous and venomous, has 8 legs, travels through the wind and is heading to the DC region? 06/05/2024 01:23pm • Headlines this week are warning of the arrival of a venomous spider, as big as a human palm, that travels through the wind and is heading to the D.C. area. But there is no need to be alarmed. These creepy-crawlies won���t create scenes reminiscent of the movie "Arachnophobia." ���You definitel DC region gains another Fortune 500 company 06/05/2024 01:20pm • The D.C. region counts 20 companies on this year's Fortune 500 list, up from 19 last year, thanks to the relocation of water technology company Xylem Inc. Xylem, whose water system products are used by utilities and industries in 150 companies, moved its headquarters to Cheverly, Maryland, in 202 India's Modi is known for charging hard. After a lackluster election, he may have to adapt his style 06/05/2024 01:16pm • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� Since coming to power a decade ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been known for big, bold and often snap decisions that he���s found easy to execute thanks to the brute majority he enjoyed in India's lower house of parliament. In 2016, he yanked over 80% of bank notes from cir