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Rory McIlroy dealing with another distraction on eve of PGA Championship 05/15/2024 08:26pm • Rory McIlroy has all the momentum he could want heading into the PGA Championship as he tries to end a drought in the majors that has lasted a decade. He also has a major distraction. McIlroy is coming off two straight victories, one of them with Irish pal Shane Lowry in New Orleans, the other an ex After slow start to IndyCar season, Arrow McLaren tries to get back on track at Indianapolis 500 05/15/2024 01:33pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Pato O���Ward picked up his first trophy in nearly two years when he arrived at Arrow McLaren's team lounge in Indianapolis Motor Speedway last weekend. No, it wasn���t the victory celebration O���Ward had planned for his first IndyCar win since July 2022, but it was unusual: H If you���ve tried meditating but can���t sit still, here���s how ��� and why ��� to try again 05/15/2024 10:13am • The first time Marcelle Hutchins sat down to meditate, she put on a guided session, relaxed her shoulders and tried to close her eyes. She lasted two minutes. ���I had a deadline, and I thought, ���I don���t know if I can sit still this long,'��� said Hutchins, who was working as a radio journalist. FIFA meets with women's soccer decisions, anti-racism pledge and retreat from key reforms on agenda 05/14/2024 07:38pm • FIFA���s gravest crisis erupted with police raids at its annual meeting in 2015 and nine years later international soccer���s 211 member federations gather this week in Thailand with some of the resulting anti-corruption reforms now in retreat. During three days of meetings starting Wednesday in Ban Biden hikes tariffs on Chinese EVs, solar cells, steel, aluminum ��� and snipes at Trump 05/14/2024 05:45pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden slapped major new tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, advanced batteries, solar cells, steel, aluminum and medical equipment on Tuesday, taking potshots at Donald Trump along the way as he embraced a strategy that's increasing friction between the world's tw Russian assault opens new front, diverting Ukraine forces as Western aid trickles in 05/13/2024 05:48pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Russian troops were locked in intense battles with Ukrainian soldiers around the embattled town of Vovchansk in northeast Ukraine on Monday, pushing ahead with a ground offensive that opened a new front and put more pressure on overstretched Ukrainian forces. Moscow's renewed Truck driver accused of intentionally killing Utah officer had been holding a woman against her will 05/13/2024 03:55pm • A truck driver accused of intentionally killing a police officer during a traffic stop on a Utah highway had been holding a woman against her will inside the cab of his truck, new court documents reveal. Michael Aaron Jayne, 42, is accused of driving his rig into Santaquin Police Sgt. Bill Hooser, w India's mammoth election is more than halfway done as millions begin voting in fourth round 05/13/2024 05:26am • SAMASTIPUR, India (AP) ��� Millions of Indians across 96 constituencies began casting their ballots on Monday as the country's gigantic, six-week-long election edges past its halfway mark. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking a third straight term with an eye on winning a supermajority in Parliam Violence is traumatizing Haitian kids. Now the country's breaking a taboo on mental health services 05/13/2024 12:15am • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� Students often throw up or wet themselves when gunfire erupts outside their school in northern Port-au-Prince. When they do, school director Roseline Ceragui Louis finds there's only one way to try to calm the children and keep them safe: getting them to lie on the cla 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