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Pulitzer Prizes in journalism awarded to The New York Times, The Washington Post, AP and others 05/06/2024 10:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times and The Washington Post were awarded three Pulitzer Prizes apiece on Monday for work in 2023 that dealt with everything from the war in Gaza to gun violence, and The Associated Press won in the feature photography category for coverage of global migration to the Pro-Palestinian protesters break through barricades to retake MIT encampment 05/06/2024 10:21pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters that had been blocked by police from accessing an encampment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Monday broke through fencing, linked arms and encircled tents that remained there, as Columbia University canceled its university-wide commencemen Hamas accepts Gaza cease-fire; Israel says it will continue talks but presses on with Rafah attacks 05/06/2024 10:11pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas said Monday it accepted an Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal, but Israel said the deal did not meet its core demands and it was pushing ahead with an assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah. Still, Israel said it would continue negotiations. The high-stakes diplomatic For a Louisiana lawmaker, exempting incest and rape from the state's abortion ban is personal 05/06/2024 09:25pm • For Louisiana Rep. Delisha Boyd, the uphill battle she faces to exempt pregnancies that are the result of rape and incest from Louisiana’s strict abortion ban is not just morally right — it’s also personal. With a GOP-dominated legislative committee set to debate and vote on Boyd's exemption b Spurs' Victor Wembanyama named NBA Rookie of the Year after a record-setting season 05/06/2024 09:06pm • Victor Wembanyama had a year like no rookie in NBA history. Others scored more points, others grabbed more rebounds, others had more blocks, others made more steals. But never had there been a player who, in Year 1 of his career, posted all these averages — at least 21.4 points, 10.6 rebounds, 3.9 Trump fined $1,000 for gag order violation in hush money case as ex-employee recounts reimbursements 05/06/2024 08:22pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money trial fined him $1,000 on Monday and, in his sternest warning yet, told the former president that future gag order violations could send him to jail. The reprimand opened a revelatory day of testimony, as jurors for the first time heard the 9 of the Best Bond ETFs to Buy Now 05/06/2024 08:00pm • Bill Gross, often referred to as the "Bond King," issued a cautionary view on the state of bond funds recently. As a pioneering fixed-income manager and co-founder of Pimco, where he ran the influential Pimco Total Return Fund (ticker: PTTRX), Gross once set a high standard for active bond investing What a Ban on Noncompete Agreements Would Mean for You 05/06/2024 08:00pm • The Federal Trade Commission's ban on noncompete agreements could increase mobility for workers nationwide, eliminating contractual barriers that bar employees from seeking new job opportunities or starting competing companies for a prescribed time period. The rule, which the FTC approved on April 2 Georgia court candidate sues to block ethics rules so he can keep campaigning on abortion 05/06/2024 07:46pm • ATLANTA (AP) — A former Democratic congressman running for Georgia State Supreme Court filed a federal lawsuit Monday claiming a state agency is unconstitutionally trying to block him from talking about abortion. John Barrow sued hours ahead of a deadline to reply to a complaint that he is violati Harper homers, Wheeler strikes out 11 as Phillies complete 4-game sweep of Giants with 6-1 win 05/06/2024 07:43pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Zack Wheeler struck out 11 in seven innings, Bryce Harper hit a three-run homer and Kyle Schwarber added a solo shot to help the Philadelphia Phillies complete a four-game sweep of the San Francisco Giants with a 6-1 win on Monday. Harper went deep off Giants rookie Mason Black A judge is forcing Hawaii to give wildfire investigation documents to lawyers handling lawsuits 05/06/2024 07:33pm • HONOLULU (AP) — A judge on Friday forced the Hawaii attorney general's office to turn over to lawyers involved in the hundreds of lawsuits over last summer's Maui wildfires all documents, interviews and data collected by the outside team hired to investigate the disaster. Attorneys representing p Rotting bodies and fake ashes spur Colorado lawmakers to pass funeral home regulations 05/06/2024 07:08pm • DENVER (AP) — Colorado lawmakers passed a bill Monday to overhaul the state’s lax funeral home oversight, joining a second measure aimed at regulating the industry that passed last week. Both follow a series of horrific incidents at funeral homes, including sold body parts, fake ashes and the d Sports on TV for Tuesday, May 7 05/06/2024 07:05pm • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Tuesday, May 7 BASKETBALL AFRICA LEAGUE Noon NBATV — Rivers Hoopers vs. US Monastir, Diamniadio, Senegal 3 p.m. NBATV — AS Douanes vs. APR, Diamniadio, Senegal COLLEGE BASEBALL 6 p.m. ACCN — Auburn at Georgia Tech PAC-12N — Port What you'll learn about DC when you walk every street in every ward 05/06/2024 06:35pm • What do you learn about D.C. when you walk down every street and every alley in all eight wards? Ask the man who did it, Austin Graff. "Yeah, that’s exactly what I did," he told WTOP. Graff said it took him two years to cover all 131 neighborhoods, and then write a guide on what to eat, drin California reports the first increase in groundwater supplies in 4 years 05/06/2024 06:07pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — After massive downpours flooded California’s rivers and packed mountains with snow, the state reported Monday the first increase in groundwater supplies in four years. The state saw 4.1 million acre-feet of managed groundwater recharge in the water year ending in Septem