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St. John's Chris Ledlum and Jordan Dingle suing NCAA for denying them 2024-25 eligibility 04/30/2024 05:49pm • NEW YORK (AP) — St. John's basketball players Chris Ledlum and Jordan Dingle have filed a lawsuit against the NCAA for denying their request for an eligibility waiver that would give them one more season of competition with the Red Storm or another team. The lawsuit, filed last Friday in Queens (N House Republicans launch investigation into federal funding for universities amid campus protests 04/30/2024 05:28pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Tuesday announced an investigation into the federal funding for universities where students have protested the Israel-Hamas war, broadening a campaign that has placed heavy scrutiny on how presidents at the nation's most prestigious colleges have dealt with r Videos of Georgia pitcher before and during his dominant outing leads A&M coach to suspect cheating 04/30/2024 04:38pm • Social media videos of Georgia's Christian Mracna's activity in the bullpen and during a dominant performance on the mound in a weekend game at top-ranked Texas A&M has led Aggies coach Jim Schlossnagle to suspect the pitcher was putting a foreign substance on the ball in violation of the rules. Mammograms should start at 40 to address rising breast cancer rates at younger ages, panel says 04/30/2024 04:33pm • Regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer should start younger, at age 40, according to an influential U.S. task force. Women ages 40 to 74 should get screened every other year, the group said. Previously, the task force had said women could choose to start breast cancer screening as young as 4 Fugitive task forces face dangerous scenarios every day. Here's what to know about how they operate. 04/30/2024 04:27pm • WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — A fugitive task force attempting to serve a warrant Monday in Charlotte, North Carolina, ended in the deadliest day for U.S. law enforcement in a single incident since 2016. Four officers were killed and four more were wounded after the suspect began firing from an upstairs Summer Movies: 5 breakout stars to watch in 'Sing Sing,' 'Quiet Place, 'Horizon' and more 04/30/2024 04:14pm • A breakout moment in Hollywood can happen at any age and stage. This summer at the movies, there are plenty of talents to discover, from the formerly incarcerated man whose story inspired the film he stars in to the “It” bully whose childhood dream of playing an ape in a movie came true. Here ar Sports on TV for Wednesday, May 1 04/30/2024 03:50pm • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Wednesday, May 1 AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN’S) 5:30 a.m. (Thursday) FS2 — AFL: Port Adelaide at Adelaide COLLEGE BASEBALL 7:30 p.m. ESPN2 — Mississippi St. at Mississippi COLLEGE LACROSSE (WOMEN’S) 7:30 p.m. PAC-12N — Pac- 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 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 Editorial Roundup: United States 04/30/2024 10:27am • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: April 26 The Wall Street Journal on a potential Trump-Biden debate Is President Biden going to debate Donald Trump as the November election nears? “I am. Somewhere. I don’t know when,” Mr. Biden said Friday in an interview with H 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 Pac-12 posts an impressive haul in the NFL draft before the conference breaks up 04/30/2024 06:10am • The final season of the Pac-12 turned out to be as big a hit in the NFL draft as it was on the field. The conference that is breaking up with 10 schools joining new leagues next season produced a record haul over the draft weekend led by No. 1 overall pick Caleb Williams of Southern California. The Lewis Black comes home to DC's Kennedy Center for 'Goodbye Yeller Brick Road, The Final Tour' 04/30/2024 05:39am • He grew up in the D.C. area before finding fame on "The Daily Show" and Pixar's "Inside Out." This Friday, Lewis Black comes home to the Kennedy Center for his "Goodbye Yeller Brick Road, The Final Tour," which he insists isn't his retirement but rather his last national tour. "I'm not 're 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 Ahead of visit to Israel, US's Blinken presses Hamas to accept new proposal for Gaza cease-fire 04/30/2024 12:56am • CAIRO (AP) — The United States stepped up pressure Monday for a cease-fire deal in Gaza as the secretary of state said a new proposal had been put to Hamas, whose officials were in Cairo talking to Egyptian mediators. Israeli airstrikes killed 26 people in Gaza’s southernmost town of Rafah, acco