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Utah Republicans to select nominee for Mitt Romney's open US Senate seat 04/26/2024 04:59pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Nearly a dozen Utah Republicans vying to replace Mitt Romney in the U.S. Senate are set to square off Saturday for the party nomination in a race expected to reveal the brand of political conservatism that most appeals to modern voters in the state. Romney has long been the f Why you might have heard Paul Simon’s ‘The Sound of Silence’ at Spanish Mass 04/26/2024 04:57pm • (RNS) — One song has stuck with Julio Cuellar Gonzales for practically his entire life. Among his first memories of church in the 1970s in Villa Serrano, a town in the Bolivian region of Chuquisaca, Cuellar remembers singing a specific version of the Our Father. At the time, Cuellar thought it wa Some Prince George's County schools will change their start times next year 04/26/2024 04:49pm • The time school starts can vary wildly for students across Prince George’s County, Maryland. A few blocks could be the difference between school starting up to an hour later. But that will all change next year. Prince George's County Public Schools announced on Thursday new start times f Ex-Iowa offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz lands at Maryland as a senior offensive assistant 04/26/2024 04:43pm • COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Former Iowa offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz has joined the Maryland football staff, a spokesman for the Terrapins said Friday. Ferentz, the son of Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz, is a senior offensive assistant and does not count as one of the 10 on-field coaches. Brian Commerce Department announces new restrictions on U.S. firearms exports 04/26/2024 04:42pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Commerce Department on Friday announced new restrictions on U.S. firearms exports in an effort to prevent the guns from ending up in the hands of drug traffickers and criminals in other nations. Oversight of legal firearms exports has become a political struggle in Washington Alphabet, Snap rise; Intel, Boyd Gaming fall, Friday, 4/26/2024 04/26/2024 04:26pm • Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Friday: Microsoft Corp., up $7.28 to $406.32. The software maker's fiscal third-quarter financial results beat analysts' forecasts. Alphabet Inc., up $15.95 to $171.95. Google's parent company beat Wall Street's first-quarter earnings fo Former Virginia hospital medical director acquitted of sexually abusing ex-patients 04/26/2024 04:25pm • NEW KENT, Va. (AP) — The former medical director of a Virginia hospital that treats vulnerable children and young adults was acquitted Friday of sexually abusing two teenage patients during physical exams. Dr. Daniel Davidow worked for decades as the medical director of the Cumberland Hospital Southwest Airlines is considering changes to its quirky boarding and seating practices 04/26/2024 04:13pm • DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines is studying changes to its quirky boarding and seating policies as it searches for ways to raise more revenue. Airline officials say they are studying possible changes but won't have anything to announce until September. That tease is leading to speculation about w JPMorgan's Dimon hopes for soft landing for US economy but says stagflation is a possible scenario 04/26/2024 04:08pm • NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says he’s hopeful the Federal Reserve can bring down inflation without causing a recession but wouldn’t rule out more troubling possibilities, such as stagflation. In an interview with The Associated Press at a Chase branch opening in The Bronx, D The National Enquirer was the go-to American tabloid for many years. Donald Trump helped change that 04/26/2024 03:51pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Catch and kill. Checkbook journalism. Secret deals. Friends helping friends. Even by National Enquirer standards, testimony by its former publisher David Pecker at Donald Trump's hush money trial this week has revealed an astonishing level of corruption at America's best-known tabl Oregon State and Washington State face player exodus amid realignment 04/26/2024 03:34pm • Perhaps the biggest blow for Oregon State in recent weeks was the departure of running back Damien Martinez, who had previously pledged his loyalty to the Beavers. The former Pac-12 Freshman of the Year had proclaimed in interviews and on social media that he was not abandoning the team as the scho Animal groups are urging tourists not to visit Wyoming after a man hit a wolf then took it to a bar 04/26/2024 03:33pm • CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — As Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming opens for the busy summer season, wildlife advocates are leading a call for a boycott of the conservative ranching state over laws that give people wide leeway to kill gray wolves with little oversight. The social media accounts of Wyom Fed's preferred inflation gauge shows price pressures stayed elevated last month 04/26/2024 03:26pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A measure of inflation closely tracked by the Federal Reserve remained uncomfortably high in March, likely reinforcing the Fed's reluctance to cut interest rates anytime soon and underscoring a burden for President Joe Biden's re-election bid. Friday's report from the government New leaders take on Haiti's chaos as those living in fear demand swift solutions to gang violence 04/26/2024 03:05pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — It has been only a day since the transitional presidential council was installed in Haiti, and the list of demands on the Caribbean nation's new leaders is rapidly growing. Haitians want security, food, jobs — and they want them now. The members of the council, taske Orbán challenger leads protest calling for child protection after sexual abuse scandal in Hungary 04/26/2024 02:51pm • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — An aspiring challenger to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán renewed his calls for change Friday as he led a protest of several thousand people demanding a more robust child protection system and the resignation of Orbán's government. The demonstrators gathered outsi