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In reversal, Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to 2 schools 05/10/2024 04:54pm • A Virginia school board voted Friday to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high school and an elementary school, four years after the names were removed amid nationwide protests calling for a reckoning over racial injustice. In a reversal experts believe was the first of its kin Giants trade Daulton Jefferies to Pirates, Mitch White to Brewers 05/10/2024 04:39pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� The San Francisco Giants acquired minor league outfielder Rodolfo Nolasco from the Pirates on Friday in a trade that sent right-hander Daulton Jefferies to Pittsburgh. San Francisco also dealt right-hander Mitch White to the Milwaukee Brewers for cash. The 28-year-old Jefferie Sweetgreen, Natera rise; Collegium Pharmaceutical, Akamai fall, 5/10/2024 05/10/2024 04:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Friday: Sweetgreen Inc., up $8 to $31.56. The salad restaurant chain beat analysts' first-quarter revenue forecasts. Mettler-Toledo International Inc., up $219.83 to $1,510.25. The maker of lab testing equipment for the NASCAR teams, drivers will celebrate the sports' roots at Darlington Raceway 05/10/2024 04:26pm • Josh Berry's path to the NASCAR Cup Series was filled with missteps and doubts he'd ever make it to the sport's premiere level. Berry, who took over the Stewart-Haas No. 4 seat previously occupied by NASCAR champion Kevin Harvick, spent a decade or so sweating it out at small, tight tracks like near Bill Callahan says it's a 'no-brainer' to work for his son coaching the Titans' O-line 05/10/2024 04:24pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Bill Callahan never thought he'd work for his son in the NFL. Not at his age and after all his years in the league. As Brian Callahan interviewed for head coaching jobs in 2023, father and son talked at length about the idea, leaving Bill convinced he wouldn't join his son Rangers aim for sweep of Hurricanes in 2nd round of NHL playoffs 05/10/2024 04:06pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� The New York Rangers have carried the form that made them the NHL's best regular-season team straight into the postseason. And that has them within a win of becoming the first team into the conference finals. The Rangers visit the Carolina Hurricanes in Saturday night's Game 4 Mark Jackson grew up playing Gaelic football. He's taking a shot at the American kind in Pittsburgh 05/10/2024 03:54pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) ��� Mark Jackson does not look out of place. Standing inside the Pittsburgh Steelers practice facility on Friday, Jackson's yellow No. 2 blends in with the other 42 players trying to catch head coach Mike Tomlin's attention during the team's rookie minicamp. At 6-foot-1 and a solid 2 Pro-Palestinian protesters demand endowment transparency. But it's proving not to be simple 05/10/2024 03:50pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� On college campuses across the country, a rallying cry of pro-Palestinian protesters has been ��� Disclose, divest! We will not stop, we will not rest.��� Now some are winning the first of those two demands: Promises to provide information about how much university endowment mon New York's legal weed program plagued by inexperienced leaders, report finds 05/10/2024 03:27pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ��� New York���s legal cannabis market has been hampered by inexperienced leaders who treated the state licensing agency like a ���mission-driven��� startup rather than a government office, according to an internal review released Friday. The report detailed several problems at the Iranians vote in a parliamentary runoff election after hard-liners dominate initial balloting 05/10/2024 03:20pm • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ��� Iranians voted Friday in a runoff election for the remaining seats in the country���s parliament after hard-line politicians dominated March balloting. Voting was extended for four hours because it was a weekend holiday. The official IRNA news agency said that counting began im Virginia budget leaders reach compromise with governor on state spending plan 05/10/2024 02:26pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� Virginia budget negotiators and Gov. Glenn Youngkin have reached a compromise on the next two-year state spending plan that would include 3% raises for state employees and teachers while not raising taxes and risking a potential veto by Youngkin. House Appropriations Chairm How West Virginia's first transgender elected official is influencing local politics 05/10/2024 02:17pm • WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) ��� When Rosemary Ketchum gets introduced as the first openly transgender person to win elective office in West Virginia, there's often a shocked look that comes across people's faces. ���Folks will be like, ���How did that happen?��� As if it's like I won the lottery or solved Former United States Olympic and Michigan swim coach Jon Urbanchek dies at 87 05/10/2024 01:43pm • FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) ��� Jon Urbanchek, an International Swimming Hall of Famer who was an assistant for several United States Olympic teams and led Michigan to a national championship, has died. He was 87. Urbanchek died Thursday surrounded by family. No cause of death was given. Urbanchek was bo How far has Spain moved past Catalonia's secession crisis? Voters will decide in regional election 05/10/2024 12:51pm • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ��� Carles Puigdemont, Catalonia���s fugitive former leader, stares confidently out the backseat window of a car, the sun illuminating his gaze in a campaign poster for Sunday���s critical elections in the northeastern Spanish region. The image plays on another one imagined fro Biden White House highlights a coming showdown with GOP over 2017 tax cuts that are due to expire 05/10/2024 11:42am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The winner of November's presidential election will face an epic challenge next year with the coming expiration of nearly $4 trillion in tax cuts ��� an issue that the Biden White House is highlighting in the runup to November. Lael Brainard, director of the White House National