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Marchand may return from injury for Game 6, says part of playoff hockey is 'trying to hurt someone' 05/16/2024 04:00pm • Boston Bruins captain Brad Marchand wasn't too outraged over the disputed hit he took that's sidelined him for the past two games. Because in his view, hurting players comes with the territory in the postseason. ���The more guys you take out, the more advantage your team has," Marchand said Thursday Justice Department formally moves to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in historic shift 05/16/2024 03:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Justice Department on Thursday formally moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift in generations of U.S. drug policy. A proposed rule sent to the federal register recognizes the medical uses of cannabis and acknowledges it has less potential fo Biden marks Brown v. Board of Education anniversary amid signs of erosion in Black voter support 05/16/2024 03:32pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden marked this week's 70th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that struck down institutionalized racial segregation in public schools by welcoming plaintiffs and family members in the landmark case to the White House. The Oval Office visit Thursday to comm 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 Experts say coral reef bleaching near record level globally because of 'crazy' ocean heat 05/16/2024 02:42pm • Ocean temperatures that have gone ���crazy haywire��� hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to making the current global coral bleaching event the worst in history. It's so bad that scientists are hoping for a few hurricanes to cool things off. More than three-fifths ��� 62.9% ��� of the world' Texas judge orders new election after GOP lawsuit challenged 2022 election result in Houston area 05/16/2024 02:40pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� A Texas judge has ruled in favor of a Republican candidate challenging the results in a 2022 judicial race and ordered that a new election be held in the nation���s third-most populous county, a Democratic stronghold that���s been beset by GOP efforts to dictate how ballots are cast A cricket World Cup is coming to NYC���s suburbs, where the sport thrives among immigrant communities 05/16/2024 02:18pm • EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (AP) ��� A towering stadium boasting 34,000 seats and a precisely trimmed field of soft Kentucky bluegrass is rising in a suburban New York park that will host one of the world's top cricket tournaments next month. But on a recent Saturday morning, on the other side of Long Island� Turkey sentences pro-Kurdish politicians to lengthy prison terms over deadly 2014 riots 05/16/2024 01:57pm • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ��� A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced several pro-Kurdish politicians to between nine and 42 years in prison over deadly riots in 2014 by Kurds angered by what they perceived to be government inaction against Islamic State group militants who had besieged the Syrian border to California university president put on leave after announcing agreement with pro-Palestinian group 05/16/2024 01:36pm • ROHNERT PARK, Calif. (AP) ��� The chancellor of the California State University system has suspended the president of its Sonoma campus for announcing an agreement with pro-Palestinian activists to pursue an academic boycott of Israeli institutions as well as ���divestment strategies.��� The message FDIC chair is grilled on Capitol Hill after report outlines agency's toxic workplace culture 05/16/2024 01:21pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg sat for a second day of grilling Thursday on Capitol Hill, this time at the Senate Banking Committee, after a damning report about the agency's toxic workplace culture was released last week. The hearing was called to add Irish interest in NFL heats up as league scouts more international cities to stage games 05/16/2024 01:21pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Several hundred thousand Irish viewers got a tutorial from Charlie Smyth on the difference between lining up a kick in Gaelic football versus a field goal in American football. Smyth, who had just signed a contract with the New Orleans Saints, humbly told ���The Late Late Show's��� n Netflix will carry NFL games on Christmas Day for 3 years, including 2 this upcoming season 05/16/2024 01:15pm • The NFL's Mike North wasn't considering Christmas Day as part of the 2024 regular-season schedule when preliminary planning began. Ratings and interest from current and prospective broadcast partners changed that. Not only is the NFL playing on a Wednesday for only the third time since 1950, it brou Venezuela's barred opposition candidate is now the fiery surrogate of her lesser-known replacement 05/16/2024 12:56pm • SABANA DE MENDOZA, Venezuela (AP) ��� At an intersection packed in four directions, rallygoers scream and light up cellphones in the evening as Venezuelan opposition figure Mar��a Corina Machado climbs onto a flatbed truck like a presidential candidate. She has been barred from the July 28 election. In boost to Olympic ambitions, Istanbul moves closer to hosting 2027 European Games. 05/16/2024 12:36pm • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ��� The European Olympic Committees��� chief and Turkish officials inked an initial agreement on Thursday for Istanbul to host the 2027 European Games, in a move that could boost the city���s chances of staging the 2036 Olympics. The European Olympic Committees picked Turkey���s Maryland governor signs bill to create statewide gun center 05/16/2024 12:03pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ��� Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed a bill into law on Thursday to create a new statewide center to help prevent gun violence. The governor described the center as the first of its kind since the White House urged states to form their own centers to better focus efforts to stop