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Israelis block roads in protest against Netanyahu legal plan 05/04/2023 07:39am • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israelis blocked roads and demonstrated on Thursday against a contentious government plan to overhaul the judiciary, hoping to ramp up pressure on lawmakers after parliament reconvened this week following a month-long recess. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paused the ove YouTube prankster testifies about video that got him shot at Dulles Town Center 05/04/2023 07:15am • LEESBURG, Va., (AP) — Tanner Cook's prank videos were known to security guards at Dulles Town Center, a mall in northern Virginia where Cook sometimes found his unsuspecting targets. And the content creator was known to law enforcement. The sheriff's deputy who found Cook shot and bleeding outs Clash of styles as Allardyce's Leeds plays Guardiola's City 05/04/2023 06:31am • Sam Allardyce has swept back into English soccer with a big smile and some even bigger assertions. Now it’s time for “Big Sam” — as he is widely known — to back up the talk and save Leeds from relegation in the Premier League. The four-game mission in his ninth top-flight job starts with p Bryant, Blackmon homer as Rockies beat Brewers 7-1 05/04/2023 12:56am • DENVER (AP) — Kyle Freeland pitched five scoreless innings, Kris Bryant and Charlie Blackmon homered and the Colorado Rockies beat the Milwaukee Brewers 7-1 on Wednesday night for their season-best third straight win. Alan Trejo hit a three-run double and Elías Díaz had an RBI single for Colorad US sprinter, Olympic medalist Tori Bowie dies at 32 05/03/2023 10:58pm • Tori Bowie, the sprinter who won three Olympic medals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, has died. She was 32. Bowie's death was announced Wednesday by her management company and USA Track and Field. No cause of death was given. “USATF is deeply saddened by the passing of Tori Bowie, a three-time Scherzer hit hard, chased early in return from suspension 05/03/2023 10:35pm • DETROIT (AP) — New York Mets ace Max Scherzer struggled in his return from a suspension Wednesday night, allowing six runs on eight hits in 3 1/3 innings against the Detroit Tigers during the second game of a doubleheader. “I was spraying the ball, especially out of the stretch, and that’s wha Montana politician's girlfriend thwarts 'swatting' attempt at Maryland home 05/03/2023 09:49pm • Police in Maryland got a heads up from a person who said that her Montgomery County address would soon be familiar to them. Somebody just attempted to SWAT me for my reporting on transgender legislation and events. Thankfully, I've worked closely with the police in my community anticipating this Prosecutor: Suspected Texas gunman tried to escape to Mexico 05/03/2023 09:28pm • CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — A man suspected of killing five of his neighbors in Texas after they asked him to stop shooting his gun near their house hid out just miles away from the slayings while he and his domestic partner plotted his escape to Mexico, authorities said Wednesday. Francisco Oropeza Critics say huge coronation security operation goes too far 05/03/2023 08:43pm • LONDON (AP) — The coronation of King Charles III involves one of the most important and complex security operations in U.K. history, Britain’s security minister said Wednesday, as rights groups accused the authorities of stifling civil liberties in their attempt to ensure events run smoothly. Se Elon Musk threatens to reassign NPR's Twitter account 05/03/2023 08:03pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk threatened to reassign NPR’s Twitter account to “another company,” according to the non-profit news organization, in an ongoing spat between Musk and media groups since his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter last year. “So is NPR going to start posting on Twi All-Inclusive Resorts in Hawaii: 7 Hotels With Awesome Amenities 05/03/2023 08:00pm • All-inclusive resorts can be a great thing, since you don't have to hand over your credit card every time you sit down for a meal or want to do an activity. If you've got your sights set on Hawaii for your next vacation, you'll need to look beyond traditional all-inclusive resorts and consider prope Man executed in Florida for woman’s 1986 stabbing death 05/03/2023 06:45pm • STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man was executed Wednesday for breaking into a woman's home and stabbing her to death in 1986, a crime committed months after he was released from prison for a rape. Darryl B. Barwick, 56, was pronounced dead at 6:14 p.m. Wednesday following a lethal injection at Flo Washington governor rolls back limitations on police chases 05/03/2023 06:43pm • SEATTLE (AP) — With the stroke of a pen Wednesday, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee rolled back some requirements for police to chase people in vehicles, a partial reversal of a controversial pursuit policy first enacted in the state at the height of racial injustice protests following George Floyd’s Frankfurt beats Stuttgart 3-2 to reach German Cup final 05/03/2023 05:14pm • STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — Randal Kolo Muani fired Eintracht Frankfurt into the German Cup final with a 3-2 win at Stuttgart in their semifinal on Wednesday. Kolo Muani sealed the result with a penalty after setting up Frankfurt’s equalizer to book a showdown with Leipzig on June 3 in Berlin’s California companies pay higher taxes for unemployment debt 05/03/2023 04:59pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — One potential consequence of California's ballooning budget deficit: Higher taxes for businesses, with increases possible every year for the next decade. Business owners pay a tax on each of their workers. The money goes into a fund that states use to pay unemployment ben