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Stuck at sea for years, a sailor's plight highlights a surge in shipowner abandonment 05/30/2024 07:04am • Abdul Nasser Saleh says he rarely got a good night���s sleep during the near-decade he spent working without pay on a cargo ship abandoned by its owner at ports along the Red Sea. By night, he tossed and turned in his bunk on the aging Al-Maha, he said, thinking of the unpaid wages he feared he���d 'Just to live their life': Volunteer engineers are matched with people who need adaptive devices 05/30/2024 06:59am • At the recent unveiling of a modified wheelchair ��� one that allows a little girl with cerebral palsy to play lacrosse ��� Michael Zimmerman looked on, smiling. "It's really exciting. It's great to see projects get put into place where they're actually helping people and you can actually see how Israel says it's taken control of key area of Gaza's border with Egypt awash in smuggling tunnels 05/30/2024 06:31am • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Israel���s military said Wednesday it seized control of a strategic corridor along Gaza���s border with Egypt to cut off smuggling tunnels as it tries to destroy the militant Hamas group in a war now in its eighth month. The capture of the Philadelphi Corridor could complicate Isr 12 years later, American Olympic hurdler Lashinda Demus will get gold medal at ceremony in Paris 05/30/2024 06:00am • There's no making up for what Olympic hurdler Lashinda Demus lost on the day she finished .07 seconds behind a Russian opponent who, everyone found out later, was doping. What the American 400-meter hurdles champion will get is a great day under the Eiffel Tower where she'll be presented with the g Oilers beat Stars 5-2 in Game 4 to tie Western Conference final 05/30/2024 02:27am • EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) ��� Kris Knoblauch thought he might be in for a long night. The Edmonton coach was watching a confounding, uninspired, flat start unfold in front of him on the Rogers Place ice. Down 2-1 heading into Game 4 of the NHL���s Western Conference final to Dallas, his team trailed 2- As Maduro shifts from migration denier to defender, Venezuelans consider leaving if he is reelected 05/30/2024 12:07am • SABANA DE MENDOZA, Venezuela (AP) ��� One of the most influential politicians in Venezuela once deemed images of his fellow citizens abandoning their home country the result of a professionally scripted, ���Hollywood-type blockbuster.��� Migration, Diosdado Cabello said, was an issue conjured by a � AP interview: Divisions among the world's powerful nations are undermining UN efforts to end crises 05/30/2024 12:05am • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� Deep divisions especially among the world���s most powerful nations have significantly undermined what the United Nations can do to help nations move from conflict to peace, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said. Jean-Pierre Lacroix told The Associated Press in an interview that t Violence clouds the last day of campaigning for Mexico's election 05/29/2024 11:17pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Mexico held the last day of campaigning Wednesday before Sunday���s nationwide election, but the closing rallies were darkened by attacks on candidates and the country's persistently high homicide rate. Opposition candidate X��chitl G��lvez started her last campaign rallies earl ���Gateway to culture���: How Rasa owners are using their experiences to make Indian food more accessible 05/29/2024 10:38pm • All throughout May, WTOP is��celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month��with stories about the people and places shaping the D.C. region. Sahil Rahman was the only Indian child on his soccer team growing up, and there were a lot of other kids who were part of the carpool Hawaii judge orders a new environmental review of a wave pool that foes say is a waste of water 05/29/2024 10:15pm • HONOLULU (AP) ��� A judge has halted plans for an artificial wave pool until developers can revise an environmental assessment to address concerns raised by Native Hawaiians and others who say the project is unnecessary in the birthplace of surfing and a waste of water. In granting a temporary inju Provinces reject governance change, sparking fears of a "civil war" in New Zealand rugby 05/29/2024 09:35pm • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) ��� Domestic provinces have overwhelmingly rejected a new governance plan for New Zealand Rugby in a move some observers fear will fracture the national sport along amateur and professional lines. At a special general meeting Thursday, the 26 provincial unions voted down Jury deliberations begin in trial of Idaho man charged in triple-murder case 05/29/2024 09:02pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) ��� Jury deliberations began Wednesday in the case of an Idaho man charged with murdering his wife and his girlfriend's two youngest children in what prosecutors said was a callous scheme for money, power and sex. ���Three dead bodies ... and for what?��� prosecutor Lindsey Blake 2 climbers suffering from hypothermia await rescue off Denali, North America's tallest mountain 05/29/2024 08:35pm • JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) ��� Two climbers awaited rescue near the peak of North America���s tallest mountain Wednesday, a day after they and a third climber in their team requested help after summiting Denali during the busiest time of the mountaineering season, officials at Denali National Park and Pres Seattle police chief dismissed from top job amid discrimination, harassment lawsuits 05/29/2024 08:30pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� Seattle���s embattled police chief has been dismissed, Mayor Bruce Harrel said Wednesday. Harrell said at a news conference that he met with Adrian Diaz on Tuesday and they agreed Diaz should step down. He will work on special assignments for the mayor with the police department, H Surprise: Millennials Have the Lowest Mortgage Rates of Any Generation 05/29/2024 08:00pm • What do you call a millennial with a low mortgage rate? Trapped. Starter homes quickly turned into forever homes in 2024 as millions of millennials found themselves locked into Goldilocks mortgage rates -- but with Baby Bear homes. A May 2024 Freddie Mac report showed that millennials are the genera