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Warren Buffett has left the table. Homeless charity asks investors to bid on meal with software CEO 04/09/2024 07:29pm • The California homeless charity that received $53 million over the years from investors who wanted a private lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett has found a new business executive to auction off a meal with. The Glide Foundation said Tuesday that it will hold an auction on eBay next month for a pr Tennessee Senate advances bill to allow death penalty for child rape 04/09/2024 07:22pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee's GOP-controlled Senate advanced legislation on Tuesday allowing the death penalty in child rape convictions as critics raised concerns that the U.S. Supreme Court has banned capital punishment in such cases. Republicans approved the bill on a 24-5 vote. It must s Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signs port aid, protections for highway and election workers into law 04/09/2024 07:21pm • Bills providing financial aid to workers affected by disruptions at Baltimore's port and another that formally renames the facility were signed into law by Gov. Wes Moore (D) Tuesday. Both were included in more than 120 bills that received Moore's signature. The total number includes dozens of i Company that made millions of defective sleep apnea machines ordered to overhaul manufacturing 04/09/2024 07:10pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The company responsible for a global recall of sleep apnea machines will be barred from resuming production at U.S. facilities until it meets a number of safety requirements, under a long-awaited settlement announced Tuesday by federal officials. Philips will be required to overh California court affirms Kevin McCarthy protege's dual candidacies on state ballot 04/09/2024 06:56pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a decision that could leave voters doing a double take, a California court ruled Tuesday that a state legislator can appear as a candidate in two races on the November ballot — one for ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy's former U.S. House seat, and the other for the state Assembly Champions League matches go ahead despite Islamic State terror threat 04/09/2024 06:54pm • NYON, Switzerland (AP) — This week’s Champions League games are going ahead as scheduled despite an Islamic State terror threat, the governing body of European soccer said Tuesday. Several posters circulated on social media alleging to be from the Al-Azaim Foundation — a media arm of ISIS-K †New Lady Vols coach Kim Caldwell vows to get historic program back on top 04/09/2024 06:41pm • Kim Caldwell and the Tennessee Lady Vols are taking a very big leap together with the young coach tasked with turning the historic program back into title contenders. Quickly too. Caldwell, who has coached only one of her eight seasons as a Division I head coach, will be working in the shadow cast b Jackpot claimed: What AP knows so far about the $1.3 billion Powerball win 04/09/2024 06:14pm • Someone in Oregon has claimed the $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot won last weekend, which is the eighth-largest lottery prize in U.S. history. Should the winner of Sunday's drawing forgo the rarely claimed option of a payout over 30 years, the lump-sum before taxes would be $621 million. Federal and Real Madrid and Man City draw 3-3 in frantic 1st leg of Champions League quarterfinals at Bernabeu 04/09/2024 06:04pm • MADRID (AP) — Three goals in the first 14 minutes. Back-and-forth attacking. Stunning second-half strikes. It was an instant classic between the newest Champions League rivals, with Real Madrid and Manchester City drawing 3-3 in a frantic first leg of the quarterfinals on Tuesday. “I imagine the As golf's civil war rages, all the top PGA Tour and LIV players are at the Masters this week 04/09/2024 05:56pm • AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — In some ways, golf finds itself at a point in time not unlike pro football in the 1960s, when two rival leagues duked it out but found a path to reconciliation that produced a game far bigger than anyone could've envisioned. Bryson DeChambeau, for one, is hopeful that the still House to delay sending Mayorkas impeachment articles to Senate 04/09/2024 05:53pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Mike Johnson will delay sending the House's articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate this week as previously planned after Republican senators requested more time Tuesday to build support for holding a full trial. The su Two tribal nations sue social media companies over Native youth suicides 04/09/2024 05:43pm • Two tribal nations are accusing social media companies of contributing to the disproportionately high rates of suicide among Native American youth. Their lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles county court names Facebook and Instagram’s parent company Meta Platforms; Snapchat's Snap Inc.; TikTok par Norfolk Southern agrees to $600M settlement in fiery Ohio derailment. Locals fear it’s not enough 04/09/2024 05:19pm • Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay $600 million in a class-action lawsuit settlement for a fiery February 2023 train derailment in Ohio, but residents worry the money not only won’t go far enough to cover future health needs that could be tremendous but also won't amount to much once divvied up. â A new version of Scrabble aims to make the word-building game more accessible 04/09/2024 05:17pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Scrabble is getting a bit of a makeover, at least in Europe. Mattel has unveiled a double-sided board that features both the classic word-building game and Scrabble Together, a new rendition designed to be accessible “for anyone who finds word games intimidating." This new versio Medical care and supplies are scarce as gang violence chokes Haiti's capital 04/09/2024 04:27pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Fresh gunfire erupted Tuesday in downtown Port-au-Prince, forcing aid workers to halt urgently needed care for thousands of Haitians. Weeks of gang violence have forced some 18 hospitals to stop working and caused a shortage of medical supplies as Haiti's biggest seapo