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1 dead, 1 wounded in shooting at Wise High School after vigil for former Prince George's Co. students killed in car crash 07/13/2024 02:45pm • A man has died and a woman was injured in a shooting Friday night after a vigil for three former students from an Upper Marlboro, Maryland, high school who died in a car crash last week. The man and woman were shot outside Wise High School around 10 p.m., Prince George's County police confirmed w The collapse of a school in northern Nigeria leaves 22 students dead, officials say 07/13/2024 02:26pm • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A two-story school collapsed during morning classes Friday in north-central Nigeria, killing 22 students and sending rescuers on a frantic search for more than 100 people trapped in the rubble, authorities said. The Saints Academy college in Plateau state’s Busa Buji commun Pastors see a wariness among Black men to talk abortion politics as Biden works to shore up base 07/13/2024 01:04pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Phoenix pastor the Rev. Warren H. Stewart Sr. has had countless discussions this election season with fellow Black men on the economy, criminal justice, immigration and other issues dominating the political landscape in their battleground state of Arizona. But never abortion. “ Dr. Ruth Westheimer, America’s diminutive and pioneering sex therapist, dies at 96 07/13/2024 12:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the diminutive sex therapist who became a pop icon, media star and best-selling author through her frank talk about once-taboo bedroom topics, has died. She was 96. Westheimer died on Friday at her home in New York City, surrounded by her family, according to p Man accused of holding girlfriend captive in Minnesota college dorm room reaches plea deal 07/13/2024 12:24pm • ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A man who was accused of holding his girlfriend captive in her dorm room at a Minnesota college for three days while raping, beating and waterboarding her has reached a plea deal that calls for a sentence of up to 7 1/2 years. Keanu Avery Labatte, 20, of Granite Falls, plead Morehouse College president says he will retire next June 07/13/2024 12:04pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Morehouse College President David Thomas announced that he will retire next year, saying it is time for new leadership at the prominent all-male, historically Black school he has led since 2018. Thomas, 67, said in a statement Friday that he will retire June 30, 2025, noting that â The Texas Rangers grew up as a franchise when they hosted the All-Star Game 29 years ago 07/13/2024 11:33am • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Former Rangers president Tom Schieffer saw the 1995 All-Star Game at their new ballpark as being like a graduation ceremony for the franchise that already had been in Texas for more than two decades. All of the pomp and circumstance was at The Ballpark in Arlington that had Copa America final adds to long list of major events at Dolphins' Hard Rock Stadium 07/13/2024 10:39am • This weekend, Lionel Messi will play before a sellout crowd at Hard Rock Stadium. A few months ago, Max Verstappen, Coco Gauff and Carlos Alcaraz competed there. In a few months, Taylor Swift arrives for a series of shows. Say this for the home of the Miami Dolphins: There's a lot more than football Who is the Buddhist nun who built a global charity from a tiny apartment in rural Taiwan? 07/13/2024 12:24am • HUALIEN, Taiwan (AP) — The Buddhist teacher who founded what is now a global charity and religion with a $283 million operating budget grew up at a time when women could not be ordained as Buddhist nuns. What Cheng Yen, now 87, started in 1966 in Taiwan's countryside as a grassroots effort among h Fever beat Mercury 95-86, Clark gets fifth straight double-double 07/13/2024 12:11am • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Kelsey Mitchell scored 28 points, Caitlin Clark had 20 points and 13 assists for her fifth straight double-double and the Indiana Fever beat the short-handed Phoenix Mercury 95-86 on Friday night. Kahleah Copper scored 20 of her 36 points in the fourth quarter as the Mercury tr A’ja Wilson notches 7th 30-point game of the season to lead the Aces past the Dream 84-70 07/12/2024 10:26pm • COLLEGE PARK, Ga. (AP) — A’ja Wilson scored 33 points and grabbed 18 rebounds, Jackie Young added 19 points and six assists, and the Las Vegas Aces won for the ninth time in 10 games, beating the Atlanta Dream 84-70 on Friday night. Wilson has scored 30-plus points seven times this season, a car Un grupo de científicos presenta un prototipo de traje espacial que recicla la orina como agua potable 07/12/2024 07:35pm • (CNN) -- Una de las maravillas de la saga de películas de ciencia ficción "Dune" es el traje de supervivencia que llevan los Fremen, habitantes del desierto, unos "destiltrajes" que reciclan todos los fluidos corporales para convertirlos en agua potable. Los científicos han presentado un prototip Cleveland has top MLB draft pick, with Georgia's Condon and Oregon State's Bazzana top prospects 07/12/2024 04:07pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Charlie Condon, a walk-on at Georgia who became national player of the year, and Travis Bazzana, a former cricket player who left Australia for Oregon State, could be the top two picks in baseball’s amateur draft on Sunday night. Cleveland has the top choice for the first time af Ludvig Aberg with another 64 leads Scottish Open 07/12/2024 03:36pm • NORTH BERWICK, Scotland (AP) — Ludvig Aberg has won on the European tour and PGA Tour in the year since leaving college, and another 6-under 64 in the Scottish Open on Friday put him in a position to win a tournament sanctioned by both tours. Aberg kept a clean card on a stunning day of sunshine a NCAA women's selection committee to reveal full seeding of tournament teams next season 07/12/2024 03:00pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The NCAA women's selection committee will release the seeding for the entire tournament field for the first time next season. The NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee announced the change on Friday after its summer meetings, meaning the full seed list for all 68 team