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Europeans want governments to focus more on curbing migration than climate change, a study says 05/08/2024 05:17am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� Europeans focus more on curbing immigration than on climate change and less than 15% of those interviewed across the globe consider climate issues to be among the top three priorities for their government, according to a global study on Wednesday. ���Many European countr The Eurovision Song Contest kicked off with pop and protests as the war in Gaza casts a shadow 05/08/2024 04:31am • MALMO, Sweden (AP) ��� Competition in the 68th Eurovision Song Contest kicked off Tuesday in Sweden, with the war in Gaza casting a shadow over the sequin-spangled pop extravaganza. Performers representing countries across Europe and beyond took the stage in the first of two semifinals in the Swedis Q&A: Maryland Democratic Senate candidate David Trone 05/08/2024 04:21am • Rep. David Trone is serving his third term in the U.S. House representing the 6th District. He's��running for the Democratic nomination for Senate. Read the full story: Trone and Alsobrooks on issues facing Maryland and the Senate�� Listen to the full interview above. The transcript below Mexico tightens travel rules on Peruvians in a show of visa diplomacy to slow migration to US 05/08/2024 03:54am • BOULEVARD, Calif. (AP) ��� Julia Paredes believed her move to the United States might be now or never. Mexico was days from requiring visas for Peruvian visitors. If she didn't act quickly, she would have to make a far more perilous, surreptitious journey over land to settle with her sister in Dalla Rape, terror and death at sea: How a boat carrying Rohingya children, women and men capsized 05/08/2024 01:43am • MEULABOH, Indonesia (AP) ��� The boat glided across waters that were dark and still, under a night sky that was cloudless and calm. But on board, the 12-year-old girl quaked with fear. The captain and crew who she says had tortured her and three other women and girls were not finished. And the punis Stock market today: Asian shares mixed after calm day on Wall St 05/08/2024 01:08am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Asian shares were mixed on Wednesday after U.S. stocks held relatively steady on Wall Street. U.S. futures and oil prices slipped, while the yen weakened further against the U.S. dollar. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 lost 1.5% to 38,244.76. Nintendo Co.���s share price sank 5.2% after the comp Grit, humor, grief and gloom mix as Ukrainians face a dangerous new phase in the war 05/08/2024 12:20am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Paintbrush in hand, Anastasiya Sereda is working on a painting of a chubby-faced panda in the uniform of a Ukrainian soldier. Propped on her easel is the reason why ��� a photo of her boyfriend Bohdan, a burly serviceman with a gentle smile. ���He looks like a panda,��� Sereda Future of MLB's Tampa Bay Rays to come into focus with key meetings on $1.3B stadium project 05/08/2024 12:08am • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) ��� The future of the Tampa Bay Rays is about to come into clearer focus as local officials begin public discussions over a planned $1.3 billion ballpark that would be the anchor of a much larger project to transform downtown St. Petersburg with affordable housing, a Black Can you afford to take care of your children and parents? Biden revives effort to lower costs 05/08/2024 12:08am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� As President Joe Biden runs for reelection, he���s resurrecting proposals to reshape American life from the cradle to the grave by lowering the cost of child care, expanding preschool opportunities and making home aides more available to the elderly. The initiatives were once pa Transgender activists flood Utah tip line with hoax reports to block bathroom law enforcement 05/07/2024 11:26pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ��� Transgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new bathroom law with thousands of hoax reports in an effort to shield trans residents and their allies from any legitimate complaints that could lead to an investi Israel seizes Gaza's vital Rafah crossing, but the US says it isn't the full invasion many fear 05/07/2024 11:02pm • CAIRO (AP) ��� Israeli troops seized control of Gaza���s vital Rafah border crossing on Tuesday in what the White House described as a limited operation, as fears mount of a full-scale invasion of the southern city and talks with Hamas over a cease-fire and hostage release remain on a knife���s edge New Md. schools superintendent speaks on performance rankings, pays raises for teachers and more 05/07/2024 10:52pm • Dr. Carey Wright has only been the fulltime State Superintendent of Maryland Schools for two weeks but she's ready to make some changes. Maryland's public schools have often been ranked by various groups as some of the best in the nation. Previous state school leaders have touted the performance During Southeast prayer walk, DC's police chief calls for healing, end to gun violence 05/07/2024 10:18pm • As religious leaders prayed in front of D.C. Police���s Seventh District station along Alabama Avenue in Southeast on Tuesday night, Chief Pamela Smith watched closely. She closed her eyes, lowered her head and at times clapped as community members prayed for safety in their neighborhood, for From flooding in Brazil and Houston to brutal heat in Asia, extreme weather seems nearly everywhere 05/07/2024 10:14pm • In sweltering Brazil, flooding killed dozens of people and paralyzed a city of about 4 million people. Voters and politicians in India, amid national elections, are fainting in heat that hit as high as 115 degrees (46.3 degrees Celsius). A brutal Asian heat wave has closed schools in the Philippine On the field at least, the Nationals and Orioles have had a pretty friendly rivalry 05/07/2024 10:06pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Dave Martinez was asked about the rivalry between the Nationals and Orioles ��� specifically, whether it's actually become much of one ��� and his answer was blunt. ���Honestly, no,��� Washington's manager said. ���It really hasn't.��� That might come as news to quite a few fans