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Florida Democrats hope abortion and marijuana questions draw young voters despite low enthusiasm 04/30/2024 12:42pm • WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) ��� Jordan Vassallo is lukewarm about casting her first presidential ballot for President Joe Biden in November. But when the 18-year-old senior at Jupiter High School in Florida thinks about the things she cares about, she says her vote for the Democratic incumbent is an Ralph Lauren goes minimal for latest fashion show, with muted tones and a more intimate setting 04/30/2024 11:58am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Ralph Lauren has been known for many a grand fashion show over the years: taking over Central Park for a sumptuous anniversary celebration, for example, or staging a runway show amid his eye-popping classic car collection. But for his Fall/Holiday 2024 collection, he decided to go Lottery bids for skilled-worker visas plunge in the US after changes aimed at fraud and abuse 04/30/2024 11:40am • SAN DIEGO (AP) ��� Lottery bids for highly educated worker visas plunged nearly 40% this year, authorities said Tuesday, claiming success against people who were ���gaming the system��� by submitting multiple, sometimes dubious, applications to unfairly increase chances of being selected. Major tech Finnish hacker imprisoned for accessing thousands of psychotherapy records and demanding ransoms 04/30/2024 10:56am • HELSINKI (AP) ��� A Finnish court on Tuesday sentenced a 26-year-old man to six years and three months in prison for hacking tens of thousands of patient records at a private psychotherapy center and seeking ransom from some patients over the sensitive data. The case that was initially revealed in O Murray scores 32 and hits game-winner in Nuggets' 108-106 series-clinching victory over Lakers 04/30/2024 10:19am • DENVER (AP) ��� Jamal Murray overcame a strained left calf, management's suggestion he sit this one out and another haymaker from the Los Angeles Lakers to score 32 points and sink the game-winner with 3.6 seconds left Monday night. That sent LeBron James to his earliest playoff exit ever and the De In unusual push, funders band together to get out grants around election work 'early' 04/30/2024 09:49am • A small portion of the billions spent around the November election will go to nonprofits working to boost voter participation and access to voting around the country. And usually, those funds flood into counties and cities right before Election Day. This year, a coalition of funders tried to change 'Shardlake' is a Tudor-era mystery series. It's also a win for disabled characters, its star says 04/30/2024 09:36am • LONDON (AP) ��� Matthew Shardlake steps out of the pages of the late C.J. Sansom's popular historical mystery novels and into a new show, bringing with him disability representation. ���We don���t see a lot of leading disabled characters,��� says Arthur Hughes, who plays the title character. ���Well Md. public school superintendent announces accountability task force to assess academic achievement 04/30/2024 08:11am • Five days after the Maryland State Board of Education unanimously voted to appoint��Carey Wright��as the state���s permanent superintendent of schools, she held a news conference on Monday to announce the creation of a task force to assess academic achievement. Wright said members of this group w At plastics treaty talks in Canada, sharp disagreements on whether to limit plastic production 04/30/2024 07:52am • OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) ��� Nations made progress on a treaty to end plastic pollution, finishing the latest round of negotiations in Canada early Tuesday amid sharp disagreements about whether to put global limits on plastic production. For the first time in the process, negotiators discussed the tex Trump promised big plans to flip Black and Latino voters. Many Republicans are waiting to see them 04/30/2024 06:50am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Donald Trump says he wants to hold a major campaign event at New York's Madison Square Garden featuring Black hip-hop artists and athletes. Aides speak of Trump making appearances in Chicago, Detroit and Atlanta with leaders of color and realigning American politics by flipping Dem Unable to get on a WNBA roster, ex-LSU star Alexis Morris signs with Globetrotters, plays overseas 04/30/2024 06:00am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Former LSU star Alexis Morris knows firsthand how hard it is to make a WNBA roster. The guard was drafted in the second round by the Connecticut Sun a few weeks after helping the Tigers win the national title in 2023, but was cut before the season started. And when this year's camp Thunder brushed off questions about youth, inexperience, in first-round playoff sweep of Pelicans 04/30/2024 06:00am • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� The Oklahoma City Thunder entered the playoffs facing questions about their relative youth and playoff inexperience. Four games later, the Thunder is on to the second round after a convincing sweep of the New Orleans Pelicans. ���That���s another thing for us to not think about, EU legal adviser says some FIFA player transfer rules may breach EU law 04/30/2024 05:50am • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� FIFA rules on transfers can conflict with European Union legislation relating to competition and freedom of movement because they limit possibilities for players to change clubs, and for clubs to hire, a senior EU legal adviser said on Tuesday. Advocate General Maciej Szpunar gave AP WAS THERE: Mexico's 1938 seizure of the oil sector from US companies 04/30/2024 04:21am • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� EDITOR���S NOTE: Mexico took control of its most precious natural resource by seizing the oil sector from U.S. companies in a move that���s taught starting in first grade today and celebrated each year as a great patriotic victory. The woman holding a double-digit lead in the Ju These cities raised taxes ��� for child care. Parents say the free day care 'changed my life' 04/30/2024 03:11am • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� Last summer, Derrika Richard felt stuck. She didn���t have enough money to afford child care for her three youngest children, ages 1, 2 and 3. Yet the demands of caring for them on a daily basis made it impossible for Richard, a hairstylist, to work. One child care assistance pr