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From the boardwalk to the altar: T-shirt, shorts, bikinis and boot sellers are now dressing brides 05/12/2024 04:00am • New York (CNN) ��� Wedding dress shopping may never go back to what it used to be. Instead of collecting your entire bridal entourage to spend a few hours at a boutique trying on several dresses for the perfect find at a lofty price of a $1,000 or more, some retailers are offering to make the wed Fairfax Co. superintendent to create pilot program for storing cellphones during school day 05/10/2024 04:09pm • Fairfax County Superintendent Michelle Reid is creating a pilot program for storing cellphones in classrooms or lockers during the school day. The school board voted Thursday night to require Reid to develop the program. In Virginia's largest school district, middle schools have an "away for t Marcus Armstrong pays tribute to cancer patients with special paint job for Indy Grand Prix 05/10/2024 02:50pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Marcus Armstong's No. 11 Honda-powered car will come with all the usual trimmings for this weekend's Indianapolis Grand Prix ��� speed, sponsors and a shiny new paint job. The second-year driver also will be carrying a message of hope. Chip Ganassi Racing announced Thursday th Bob Ross' legacy lives on in new 'The Joy of Painting' series 05/10/2024 12:24pm • A new generation can learn how to paint happy trees and to make happy accidents with a TV series teaching the Bob Ross -method of painting using some of the prolific artist's work that have never been seen before. Before Ross died in 1995 from cancer, he had completed seven paintings to use in seaso Zurich presents counterrevolutionary staging of Wagner's Ring Cycle under Noseda and Homoki 05/10/2024 11:38am • ZURICH (AP) ��� In an age of radical reinterpretations, conductor Gianandrea Noseda and director Andreas Homoki created a counterrevolutionary version of Wagner���s four-night, 15-hour Ring Cycle that sparked 13 minutes of applause at the Zurich Opera House. Noseda, conducting Wagner���s epic for th Pennsylvania to ban cell phone use while driving and require police to collect traffic stop data 05/09/2024 08:12pm • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ��� Pennsylvania will join the majority of states that ban motorists from handling a cell phone for almost any purpose while driving, as backers of the legislation hope to reduce distracted driving accidents and deaths after nearly two decades of pressing the measure. Gov. Josh Racial bias did not shape Mississippi's water funding decisions for capital city, EPA says 05/09/2024 04:41pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it found ���insufficient evidence��� that racial discrimination shaped decisions made by two Mississippi agencies about water system funding for the state's majority-Black capital city of Jackson. The EPA's Office of External Civi Houston mayor says police chief is out amid probe into thousands of dropped cases 05/08/2024 08:00pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� Houston���s mayor has replaced the city���s police chief, saying Wednesday it was the best thing for a law enforcement agency that���s still under intense scrutiny over why hundreds of thousands of cases were never investigated, including more than 4,000 sexual assault allegations. Grit, humor, grief and gloom mix as Ukrainians face a dangerous new phase in the war 05/08/2024 12:20am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Paintbrush in hand, Anastasiya Sereda is working on a painting of a chubby-faced panda in the uniform of a Ukrainian soldier. Propped on her easel is the reason why ��� a photo of her boyfriend Bohdan, a burly serviceman with a gentle smile. ���He looks like a panda,��� Sereda Transgender activists flood Utah tip line with hoax reports to block bathroom law enforcement 05/07/2024 11:26pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ��� Transgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new bathroom law with thousands of hoax reports in an effort to shield trans residents and their allies from any legitimate complaints that could lead to an investi Here is what Stormy Daniels testified happened between her and Donald Trump 05/07/2024 07:59pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Porn actor Stormy Daniels took the witness stand Tuesday in the hush money case against Donald Trump, who looked on as she detailed their alleged sexual encounter and the payment she got to keep it quiet. Prosecutors allege Trump paid Daniels to keep quiet about the claims as he r Money isn't enough to smooth the path for Republican candidates hoping to retake the Senate 05/07/2024 11:01am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Frustrated by the seemingly endless cash flowing to Democrats, Republicans aiming to retake the Senate have rallied around candidates with plenty of their own money. The goal is to neutralize Democrats' roughly 2-to-1 financial advantage, among the few bright spots for a party de India votes in third phase of national elections as Modi escalates his rhetoric against Muslims 05/07/2024 10:57am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� Millions of Indian voters across 93 constituencies were casting ballots on Tuesday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi mounted an increasingly shrill election campaign, ramping up polarizing rhetoric in incendiary speeches that have targeted the Muslim minority. In recent campaign ral Russia defends veto of UN resolution to prohibit nukes in outer space, urges vote to ban all weapons 05/06/2024 08:40pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� Russia on Monday defended its veto of a U.N. resolution urging all nations to prevent a nuclear arms race in outer space, challenging the U.S., Japan and their Western allies to support Moscow���s rival resolution calling for a ban on all weapons in space ���for all time.��� Donald Trump calls Joe Biden weak on antisemitism, ignoring his own rhetoric 05/06/2024 07:25pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Donald Trump is accusing Joe Biden of offering a weak response to antisemitism, wielding the clashes on colleges campuses over the war in Gaza as a campaign issue. But Trump's attacks ignore his own long history of rhetoric that invokes the language of Nazi Germany and plays on ste