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9 College Application Tasks for the Summer Before Senior Year 05/11/2023 08:00pm • The summer before senior year of high school is a critical time for students to make progress on the college application process.Before the busyness of the school year starts and fall and winter college application deadlines loom, students can knock out several key tasks to avoid stress down the roa Expel George Santos? GOP leaders aren't ready to take that step 05/11/2023 05:44pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Protecting a narrow, four-vote majority, Republican leaders in the House are making clear that they intend to let the legal process play out with New York Rep. George Santos before they take steps to force his resignation or expel him. The freshman congressman was accused Wednesd ASEAN leader: No progress in ending Myanmar's deadly civil strife 05/11/2023 05:10am • LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo somberly acknowledged to fellow Southeast Asian leaders Thursday that no progress has been made to end the civil strife gripping Myanmar and renewed a call for an end to the violence, including a recent airstrike a rights group called Leader of pro-independence party in Wales quits after report slams toxic culture 05/11/2023 04:56am • LONDON (AP) — The leader of Wales’ pro-independence political party has resigned after an inquiry found it was riddled with bullying and misogyny. Adam Price said he was stepping down as leader of Plaid Cymru after a meeting of the party executive late Wednesday. A report published last week con Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos withdraws from PEN America gala, citing writers strike 05/10/2023 10:37pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Citing the current Hollywood writers strike, Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos will not be attending next week's PEN America Gala in Manhattan, when he was to accept a Business Visionary Award. PEN America will not be presenting the award this year, saying the honor is premised upon the rec New Mexico constitution focus of legal fight over oil and gas drilling 05/10/2023 10:20pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico and its Democratic governor are being sued over alleged failures to meet constitutional provisions for protecting against oil and gas pollution, a challenge that comes as the nation's No. 2 oil-producing state rides a wave of record revenue from drilling in one North Carolina governor makes last-minute plea to block new abortion limits 05/10/2023 08:57pm • WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's Democratic governor rallied residents and local doctors Wednesday in Wilmington as part of a last-minute bid to persuade at least one Republican lawmaker to sustain his expected veto of a bill banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The visit ma Why DC’s Height Act may fall this time 05/10/2023 05:48am • The Cairo building is the tallest private building in D.C. at 164 feet, and it sits at the center of the city's height act. (WTOP/Luke Garrett) At 12 floors and 164 feet, The Cairo building in D.C. represented a changing world at the turn of the 20th century, when new construction techniques ASEAN leaders condemn attack on aid convoy in Myanmar 05/10/2023 03:30am • LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia (AP) — Southeast Asian leaders condemned an attack on an aid convoy that the regional group had arranged for displaced people in Myanmar, calling Wednesday for an immediate stop to violence and for the military government to comply with a peace plan. Leaders of the Associati DOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg tells Metro leaders: We’ve got your back 05/09/2023 02:14pm • U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is telling the leadership of the D.C. Metro and other transit agencies struggling financially due to a deep drop in ridership during the pandemic that the federal government is ready to help. Metro General Manager Randy Clarke recently sounded the alar Macron leads ceremony marking end of WWII in Europe 05/08/2023 10:52am • PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron led the traditional ceremony on Paris’ Champs-Elysees Monday, commemorating the day that marked the end of World War II in Europe in 1945. Flanked by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, Macron laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Ar Verstappen keeps Red Bull undefeated with win in Miami 05/07/2023 06:47pm • MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Max Verstappen used an easy Sunday drive to keep Red Bull undefeated on the season, as the reigning two-time Formula One champion drove from ninth to the victory at the Miami Grand Prix. Red Bull has won all five races so far this season, and teammate Sergio Perez's sec LeBron's Lakers rout Warriors 127-97, take 2-1 series lead 05/07/2023 12:33am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James didn't take a shot in the first quarter of Game 3 for the first time in his NBA-record 275 playoff appearances, and the Los Angeles Lakers' home crowd rumbled with mild uncertainty each time he passed the ball instead. Turns out James and his Lakers were just taking Newton Minow, ex-FCC chief who dubbed TV 'wasteland,' dies 05/06/2023 10:59pm • CHICAGO (AP) — Newton N. Minow, who as Federal Communications Commission chief in the early 1960s famously proclaimed that network television was a "vast wasteland," died Saturday. He was 97. Minow, who received a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, died Saturday at home, surrounded by loved Heat, Lakers head home, seek 2-1 leads over Knicks, Warriors 05/05/2023 06:07pm • MIAMI (AP) — Miami and New York are wondering who will be able to play. Golden State and the Los Angeles Lakers are wondering which team will land the next punch. A pair of Game 3s await as the NBA’s conference semifinals continue Saturday — the fifth-seeded Knicks visit the eighth-seeded Heat