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Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters march in Malmo against Israel's Eurovision participation 05/09/2024 05:27pm • MALMO, Sweden (AP) ��� Not everyone in Malmo was welcoming the Eurovision Song Contest to town. Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested in the Swedish port city on Thursday against Israel���s participation in the pan-continental pop competition. Protesters waving green, white, black and Iowa law lets police arrest migrants. The federal government and civil rights groups are suing 05/09/2024 05:23pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ��� The U.S. Justice Department sued Iowa on Thursday over its new law that would give the state the authority to arrest and deport some migrants, making it the second lawsuit filed in a single day that seeks to block legislation passed earlier this year by state lawmakers. Bot Suns fire coach Frank Vogel after getting swept out of the playoffs in the opening round 05/09/2024 05:22pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� Frank Vogel's tenure as coach of the Phoenix Suns is done after one disappointing season that ended without a playoff victory. The franchise fired the 50-year-old Vogel on Thursday, less than two weeks after getting swept out of the first round of the NBA playoffs by the Minnesota T Union push pits the United Farm Workers against a major California agricultural business 05/09/2024 05:20pm • In a meeting room at a hotel in California's crop-rich Central Valley, a fight is taking place that could help shape the future of farm labor in fields that grow a chunk of the country's food. The battle between a unit of the Wonderful Co. ��� one of the state's most well-known farm companies that g US utility pledges more transparency after lack of notice it empowered CEO to make plant decisions 05/09/2024 05:05pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� The nation's largest public utility on Thursday pledged to be more transparent after it took months to disclose that a general budget vote by its board last year also gave the CEO the final decision over several proposed natural gas power plants. The Tennessee Valley Author Racial bias did not shape Mississippi's water funding decisions for capital city, EPA says 05/09/2024 04:41pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it found ���insufficient evidence��� that racial discrimination shaped decisions made by two Mississippi agencies about water system funding for the state's majority-Black capital city of Jackson. The EPA's Office of External Civi 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 Airbnb, Topgolf Callaway fall; AppLovin, Cheesecake Factory rise, Thursday, 5/9/2024 05/09/2024 04:25pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Thursday: Airbnb Inc., down $10.85 to $147.05. The vacation rental app's second-quarter revenue forecast fell short of analysts' expectations. Equinix Inc., up $79.72 to $772.43. The real estate investment trust said a Metro's future of bus service could bring new routes and end some familiar stops 05/09/2024 03:59pm • The future of Metrobus service could include 30 new bus lines, overnight rides to the airport and buses getting you to your destination faster, but the change would come at a cost ��� the ending of 600 bus stops. The possible changes come as Metro leaders presented their 2025 Better Bus Network p Biden administration will seek partial end to special court oversight of child migrants 05/09/2024 03:48pm • SAN DIEGO (AP) ��� The Biden administration will seek to partially end the 27-year-old court supervision of how the federal government cares for child migrants traveling alone, shortly after producing its own list of safeguards against mistreatment, an attorney involved in the case says. The Justice Judge finds Beach Boys' Brian Wilson needs conservatorship because of mental decline 05/09/2024 03:31pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� A judge found Thursday that Beach Boys founder and music luminary Brian Wilson should be in a court conservatorship to manage his personal and medical decisions because of what his doctor calls a ���major neurocognitive disorder.��� At a hearing, Los Angeles Superior Court Judg Naomi Osaka is in a good place mentally. And her clay game is improving as she heads back to Paris 05/09/2024 03:10pm • ROME (AP) ��� A first career victory over a top-20 player on clay. In heavy and slow conditions. In a match that was suspended for about an hour because of rain. Naomi Osaka couldn���t be happier with her progress at the Italian Open, where she beat 20th-ranked Marta Kostyuk 6-3, 6-2 on Thursday to Fight over foreign money in politics stymies deal to assure President Joe Biden is on Ohio's ballot 05/09/2024 02:59pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� The question of whether Democratic President Joe Biden will appear on Ohio's fall ballot has become entangled in a partisan legislative fight to keep foreign money out of state ballot campaigns, a year after cash tied to a Swiss billionaire boosted a successful effort to ensh Men behind the doomsday seed vault in the Arctic win World Food Prize 05/09/2024 02:52pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ��� As Cary Fowler and Geoffrey Hawtin began thinking about ways to prevent starvation and protect the world's food supply, they came up with what Fowler called ���the craziest idea anybody ever had��� ��� a global seed vault built into the side of an Arctic mountain. About 20 Club World Cup: Why FIFA is facing pushback over US-staged tournament 05/09/2024 02:43pm • MANCHESTER, England (AP) ��� FIFA is facing renewed pushback over its expanded Club World Cup just over a year before the tournament is due to be staged in the United States. World players' union FIFPRO and the World Leagues Association want the event to be rescheduled and the international match ca