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Seeking asylum and work, migrants bused out of NYC find hostility 05/24/2023 11:54am • NEWBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — Before he left Mauritania, the West African nation of his birth, Mohamed thought of New York as a place of “open arms,” a refuge for immigrants fleeing dire circumstances. Now that he’s here, seeking political asylum from a government he feared would kill him, he doesn' Just in case: Anxious retirees, social service groups among those making default contingency plans 05/24/2023 11:28am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Phoenix retiree Saundra Cole has been watching the news about the debt limit negotiations in Washington with dismay — and limiting her air conditioning use to save money just in case her monthly Social Security check is delayed due to a default. For her, air conditioning is no Best ways to spend your tax refund 05/24/2023 11:25am • With tax filing season in the rearview mirror, most Americans have received their refunds -- or will soon. But what should you do with the money once it arrives? Whenever you get a windfall, it can be tempting to splurge on something fun. While it can be great to treat yourself with extra cash, a German soccer clubs reject selling stake in media rights to investors 05/24/2023 10:41am • FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — German soccer clubs rejected a proposal to sell a one-eighth share of future worldwide media rights to investors in a vote Wednesday, following anger from fans. At a meeting of the 36 clubs from the Bundesliga and the second division, 20 voted in favor of the proposal, s South Korea experts say Japan carefully answered questions on plan to release radioactive water 05/24/2023 09:38am • TOKYO (AP) — The head of a South Korean team of experts said Wednesday they saw all of the facilities they had requested to visit at Japan’s tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant and Japanese officials had carefully answered their questions about a contentious plan to release treated but still Turkish anti-migrant party backs Erdogan's rival in presidential runoff 05/24/2023 06:05am • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A hard-line, anti-migrant party on Wednesday threw its weight behind the opposition candidate who is running against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in this weekend’s runoff presidential race. Umit Ozdag, the leader of the far-right Victory Party, announced his suppo UK inflation falls to lowest level in over a year but food prices keep decline in check 05/24/2023 04:04am • LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the U.K. has fallen to its lowest level since the immediate aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, though elevated food prices meant it didn't fall as much as anticipated. The Office for National Statistics said Wednesday that the inflation rate, as measured by the Texas lawmakers set new standards to ban books from schools for sexual content 05/24/2023 02:19am • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas would set new standards and ratings for sexually explicit material in order to ban books from public and charter school libraries, under a bill given final passage by the state Senate late Tuesday night and sent to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. The Texas move is the lates Israel's Netanyahu and allies pass new budget with sweeping grants for settlements, ultra-Orthodox 05/24/2023 01:45am • JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government on Wednesday passed a new two-year budget, a step that could bring some stability to his coalition and clear the way for it to press ahead with its religious, pro-settlement agenda. While the budget could buy Netanyahu some quiet in Trout on tying DiMaggio with 361st career home run: 'It means a lot' 05/24/2023 01:39am • ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Mike Trout is going to tie and pass many greats on his climb up the home run list. Yet, there is something special when for a couple days you can say you are tied with The Yankee Clipper. Trout's two-run homer in the eighth inning of Tuesday night's 4-0 win over the Boston R Stars lose Jamie Benn, pull Jake Oettinger early in Game 3 to fall into 0-3 hole in West 05/24/2023 01:21am • DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas Stars could be without captain Jamie Benn for more than all of that time he missed in Game 3 of the Western Conference Final after being ejected for his ugly hit early against Vegas captain Mark Stone. An NHL suspension is possible for Benn, who got a game misconduct for North Carolina gerrymander ruling gives electoral gift to GOP in Congress 05/24/2023 12:10am • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina redistricting ruling has set up a possible electoral windfall for congressional Republicans in preserving their U.S. House majority next year, declaring that judges should stay out of scrutinizing seat boundaries for partisan advantage. While Democrats only ne One year after Uvalde shooting, investigation of police response continues 05/24/2023 12:08am • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A criminal investigation in Texas over the hesitant police response to the Robb Elementary School shooting is still ongoing as Wednesday marks one year since a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers inside a fourth-grade classroom in Uvalde. The continuing probe underlines Bulgarian writer wins International Booker Prize for darkly comic memory novel 05/23/2023 09:50pm • LONDON (AP) — Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel won the International Booker Prize on Tuesday for “Time Shelter,” a darkly comic novel about the dangerous appeal of nostalgia. The book beat five other finalists to the prize, which recognizes fiction from around the Bill to restrict youth access to 'sexually explicit' public library books advances in Louisiana 05/23/2023 08:18pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Activists in Louisiana are voicing concerns over a bill advancing through the GOP-controlled Legislature to restrict children and teens' access to public library books deemed “sexually explicit,” saying the proposal could be used to target LGBTQ+ content. Around the cou