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Today in History: April 3, Martin Luther King Jr. makes final speech 04/03/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Wednesday, April 3, the 94th day of 2024. There are 272 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 3, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what turned out to be his final speech, telling a rally of striking sanitation workers in Wisconsin governor urges state Supreme Court to revoke restrictions on absentee ballot drop boxes 04/02/2024 02:08pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers urged the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a ruling that banned absentee ballot drop boxes beyond the confines of election clerks' offices in the presidential battleground state. In a filing the day of Wisconsin's presidential primary, What is World Central Kitchen and how has it helped people in Gaza? 04/02/2024 08:58am • JERUSALEM (AP) — World Central Kitchen, the food charity founded by celebrity chef José Andrés, called a halt to its work in the Gaza Strip after an Israeli strike killed seven of its workers, mostly foreigners. The group, which said it will make decisions about longer-term plans in the region s US traffic deaths fell 3.6% in 2023, the 2nd straight yearly drop. But nearly 41,000 people died 04/01/2024 01:24pm • DETROIT (AP) — U.S. traffic deaths fell 3.6% last year, but still, almost 41,000 people were killed on the nation's roadways, according to full-year estimates by safety regulators. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it was the second year in a row that fatalities decreased. Th Today in History: April 1, first pro baseball, hockey strikes begin, 20 years apart 04/01/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Monday, April 1, the 92nd day of 2024. There are 274 days left in the year. This is April Fool’s Day. Today’s Highlights in History: On April 1, 1972, the first Major League Baseball players’ strike began; it lasted 12 days. Twenty years later, on April 1, 1992, th 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire" roars to an $80 million box office opening 03/31/2024 04:24pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Godzilla-King Kong combo stomped on expectations as “ Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire ” roared to an $80 million opening on 3,861 North American screens, according to Sunday studio estimates. The monster merger from Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures starring Rebecca IMF confirms increasing Egypt's bailout loan to $8 billion 03/30/2024 08:11am • CAIRO (AP) — The executive board of the International Monetary Fund confirmed a deal with Egypt to increase its bailout loan from $3 billion to $8 billion, in a move that is meant to shore up the Arab country’s economy which is hit by a staggering shortage of foreign currency and soaring inflati Today in History: March 30, President Ronald Reagan is shot 03/30/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Saturday, March 30, the 89th day of 2024. There are 276 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously injured outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John W. Hinckley Jr.; also wounded were White House Biden says his glitzy fundraiser with Obama and Clinton projects party unity heading into November 03/29/2024 02:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Fresh off his largest-ever fundraiser, which featured Democratic predecessors Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, President Joe Biden declared Friday that the big-dollar event shows “that we are united” in ways Republicans can't match. The Biden campaign said it took in a record $26 The EU plans to fast-track some financial aid to Egypt. The usual funding safeguards will not apply 03/29/2024 12:12pm • BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union intends to fast-track some of its aid money to Egypt using an urgent funding procedure that bypasses parliamentary oversight and other safeguards, according to the president of the bloc’s executive branch. The 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) intended for this is AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Wisconsin's presidential primaries and ballot questions 03/29/2024 07:44am • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will compete Tuesday in the Wisconsin presidential primaries, a contest that’s now less about winning delegates and more about carrying the pivotal state in November. Wisconsin voters will also decide two proposed constituti A Filipino villager is nailed to a cross for the 35th time on Good Friday to pray for world peace 03/29/2024 05:54am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea. On Friday, over a hundred people w Youngkin vetoes Virginia bills mandating minimum wage increase, establishing marijuana retail sales 03/28/2024 07:29pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed two top Democratic legislative priorities on Thursday: bills that would have allowed the recreational retail sales of marijuana to begin next year and measures mandating a minimum wage increase. The development, which drew crit Trump attends wake of slain New York officer, calls for 'law and order,' to show contrast with Biden 03/28/2024 05:10pm • MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Donald Trump attended Thursday's wake of a New York City police officer gunned down in the line of duty and called for “law and order,” as part of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's attempt to show a contrast with President Joe Biden and focus on cri West Virginia Gov. Justice vetoes bill that would have loosened school vaccine policies 03/27/2024 08:32pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Republican Gov. Jim Justice on Wednesday broke with West Virginia's GOP-majority Legislature to veto a bill that would have loosened one of the country's strictest school vaccination policies. West Virginia is only one of a handful of states in the U.S. that offers only m