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Faceless people, invisible hands: New Army video aims to lure recruits for psychological operations 05/02/2024 04:36pm • FORT LIBERTY, N.C. (AP) ��� The video is unsettling, with haunting images of faceless people, fire and soldiers. The voiceover is a cascade of recognizable historical voices as the screen pulses cryptic messages touting the power of words, ideas and ���invisible hands.��� Hints of its origin are tuc Average game time drops 1 minute to 2:36 in second season of MLB pitch clock 05/02/2024 04:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The average time of a nine-inning game is 2 hours, 36 minutes through the first full month of the major league season, down 1 minute from 2023 in the second year of the pitch clock. Over objections from the players' association, MLB lowered the timer to 18 seconds from 20 with runn Kentucky Derby: How to watch, the favorites and what to expect in the 150th running of the race 05/02/2024 04:34pm • The Kentucky Derby turns 150 years old this year, extending its run as America's longest continuously held sporting event. Twenty horses stampeding 1 1/4 miles around Churchill Downs on the first Saturday in May is considered 2 of the most exciting minutes in sports. There will be some 150,000 fans Qualcomm, Carvana rise; DoorDash, Qorvo fall, Thursday, 5/2/2024 05/02/2024 04:32pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Thursday: Qualcomm Inc., up $15.99 to $180.10. The chipmaker gave investors an encouraging earnings and revenue forecast. DoorDash Inc., down $13.15 to $114.31. The delivery company's first-quarter loss was bigger than Abortion is still consuming US politics and courts 2 years after a Supreme Court draft was leaked 05/02/2024 04:32pm • Two years after a leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion signaled that the nation's abortion landscape was about to shift dramatically, the issue is still consuming the nation's courts, legislatures and political campaigns ��� and changing the course of lives. On Wednesday, a ban on abortion a Iowa investigator's email says athlete gambling sting was a chance to impress higher-ups and public 05/02/2024 03:32pm • A criminal investigator for the state of Iowa suggested to colleagues last year that busting college athletes for online sports betting would impress the public and ���the powers that be��� and perhaps nudge lawmakers toward updating gambling laws. ���If they get suspended or get a scholarship taken Transgender Tennesseans want state's refusal to amend birth certificates declared unconstitutional 05/02/2024 03:17pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� A federal appeals court heard arguments on Thursday over a decades-old Tennessee policy that does not allow transgender people to change the sex designation on their birth certificates. The lawsuit was first filed in federal court in Nashville in 2019 by transgender Tennes IRS acts to address wide disparity in audit rates between Black taxpayers and other filers 05/02/2024 03:15pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The IRS said Thursday that it has taken steps to address a wide disparity in audit rates between Black taxpayers and others filers, and is more closely examining the returns of larger numbers of wealthy people and major companies. ���We are overhauling compliance efforts to advan Man who bragged that he 'fed' an officer to the mob of Capitol rioters gets nearly 5 years in prison 05/02/2024 02:51pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A Georgia business owner who bragged that he ���fed��� a police officer to a mob of rioters storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced on Thursday to nearly five years in prison for his repeated attacks on law enforcement during the insurrection. Jack Wade Whitton s What defines a heartbeat? Judge hears arguments in South Carolina abortion case 05/02/2024 02:16pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ��� South Carolina's ban on abortions after roughly six weeks, before many women know they are pregnant, returned to court Thursday with Planned Parenthood and the state arguing over what could be two different ways to define a heartbeat in the law. Even the state Supreme Court j Thousands rally in Slovakia to protest a controversial overhaul of public broadcasting 05/02/2024 01:59pm • BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) ��� Thousands of Slovaks rallied in the capital on Thursday to protest ��� again ��� a controversial overhaul of the country���s public radio and television services, a move that critics say would result in the government taking full control of the media. The coalition gove What is at stake in UK local voting ahead of a looming general election 05/02/2024 01:57pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Millions of voters in England and Wales cast ballots Thursday in an array of local elections amounting to the last big test before a U.K. general election that all indicators suggest will see the Conservative Party ousted from power after 14 years. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will ho Cavs center Jarett Allen doesn't practice with rib injury and status for Game 6 in Orlando uncertain 05/02/2024 01:19pm • INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) ��� Cleveland Cavaliers starting center Jarrett Allen did not practice as he continues to be slowed by a painful rib injury that could keep him out of Friday night's critical Game 6 in Orlando. Allen didn't dress for Cleveland's 104-103 win in Game 5 on Wednesday. The team sa Kentucky judge declines, for now, to lift ban on executions 05/02/2024 01:09pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� A Kentucky judge has declined to remove a court injunction that has blocked executions in the state for more than a decade. Franklin County Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd, whose order blocked Kentucky's lethal injections in 2010, wrote in a ruling Wednesday he would hold off North Carolina bill ordering sheriffs to help immigration agents closer to law with Senate vote 05/02/2024 12:59pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� Sheriffs would be required to temporarily hold inmates in jail that federal immigration agents believe are in the country illegally under a bill passed by the North Carolina Senate on Thursday. But unlike two previous versions of the bill successfully shot down by Democratic G