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South Carolina Senate approves ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors 05/02/2024 07:57pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ��� The South Carolina Senate on Thursday approved a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors after supporters defeated efforts to only ban treatments that would be considered irreversible. The 27-8 vote in favor included all Republicans present and one Democrat voting Arkansas governor says state won't comply with new federal rules on treatment of trans students 05/02/2024 07:25pm • LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) ��� Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared Thursday that the state won't comply with a federal regulation that seeks to protect the rights of transgender students in the nation���s schools, joining other Republican-led states that are defying the new rules. Sanders sign Death toll from heavy rains in southern Brazil jumps to 29, with 60 more still mising 05/02/2024 07:24pm • The death toll from heavy rains in Brazil���s southern Rio Grande do Sul state jumped to 29 as of Thursday night, with another 60 people missing, according to the state's civil defense agency. The agency had said in its prior report, at noon, that 13 people were dead and 21 people missing, just sli United Methodists remove anti-gay language from their official teachings on societal issues 05/02/2024 07:23pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� United Methodist delegates on Thursday removed a 52-year-old declaration from their official social teachings that deemed ���the practice of homosexuality ... incompatible with Christian teaching��� ��� part of a wider series of historic reversals of the denomination���s lon Cavaliers, Mavericks trying to close out 1st-round NBA playoff series in Game 6s 05/02/2024 07:17pm • The Orlando Magic desperately want an opportunity to go back on the road. The Los Angeles Clippers are hoping to go home, though not for good. There are two more elimination games in the NBA playoffs Friday night, with the Magic hosting the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Clippers visiting the Dallas Ma Sports on TV for Friday, May 3 05/02/2024 07:15pm • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Friday, May 3 AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN���S) 5:30 a.m. FS2 ��� AFL: Collingwood at Carlton 11:30 p.m. FS1 ��� AFL: Greater Western Sydney at Sydney 5:30 a.m. (Saturday) FS2 ��� AFL: Geelong at Melbourne AUTO RACING 12:25 p.m. ESPN2 Kyiv's forces are up against a concerted Russian push in eastern Ukraine, a military official says 05/02/2024 06:55pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� The situation on the front line in eastern Ukraine is worsening but local defenders are so far holding firm against a concerted push by Russia���s bigger and better-equipped forces, a senior Ukrainian military official said Thursday. Nazar Voloshyn, spokesperson for Ukrainian Georgia's Kirby Smart becomes the nation's highest-paid college football coach at $13m annually 05/02/2024 06:37pm • ATHENS, Ga. (AP) ��� Georgia's Kirby Smart agreed to a contract extension Thursday that makes him the highest-paid coach in college football with an annual salary of $13 million. Smart got a bump in salary of $1.75 million annually as part of the deal, which ties him to the Bulldogs through 2033. He Lower speed limits coming to 5 Arlington roads 05/02/2024 06:31pm • The speed limit is being lowered along portions of five roads in Arlington, Virginia, as part of a plan to make them safer. Last month, the Arlington County Board voted to approve changing the speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph along parts of the following five roads: Military Road from Nelly Paying college football players could reverse trend of bowl game opt-outs, boost non-CFP postseason 05/02/2024 06:23pm • SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) ��� With the expanded College Football Playoff locked in through 2031, questions still remain about what the rest of the postseason will look like. One thing is certain, there will still be bowls. ���College football cannot have a postseason that only provides 12 opportunities Student journalists are covering their own campuses in convulsion. Here's what they have to say 05/02/2024 06:23pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Ordered by police to leave the scene of a UCLA campus protest after violence broke out, Catherine Hamilton and three colleagues from the Daily Bruin suddenly found themselves surrounded by demonstrators who beat, kicked and sprayed them with a noxious chemical. On American campuses Maternal deaths have fallen to pre-pandemic levels, new US data says 05/02/2024 06:14pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� U.S. deaths of moms around the time of childbirth have fallen back to pre-pandemic levels, new government data suggests. About 680 women died last year during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth, according to provisional CDC data. That���s down from 817 deaths in 2022 and 1,205 i Blue Jays adapt to new field dimensions after renovations make Rogers Centre more compact 05/02/2024 06:04pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� The renovations at the Blue Jays' home ballpark have altered the field���s dimensions, with this year���s changes shrinking the foul areas at Rogers Centre after last year's initial phase, which brought in the outfield walls and made them higher. Some of those reconfigured walls are Fox News' Bill Hemmer heads north ��� way north ��� for look at U.S. military preparedness 05/02/2024 05:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer needed a chain saw to complete one of his latest assignments. Hemmer traveled north for ���Battle for the Arctic,��� a documentary on the Fox Nation streaming service about the U.S. Navy's preparedness in the region, where he took a brief ride on a nucle A $5,000 check won by Billie Jean King 50 years ago helped create Women's Sports Foundation 05/02/2024 04:44pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Billie Jean King���s $5,000 check sure went a long way for women���s sports. King used the money from a sportswoman of the year award to launch the Women���s Sports Foundation in 1974. Since then, the foundation has invested more than $100 million to help girls and women gain oppor