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Paul Skenes is ready to deliver on the hype as prized Pirates rookie prepares for major league debut 05/10/2024 06:24pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — Paul Skenes thought he was ready for the majors months ago. Turns out, life doesn't work like that. Or at least the Pittsburgh Pirates didn't want it to work like that for perhaps the best pitching prospect in a generation. “You can’t just show up in spring training and throw It's not a matter of if a hurricane will hit Florida, but when, forecasters say 05/10/2024 06:02pm • SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — With the start of hurricane season less than a month away, U.S. officials who predict, prepare for and respond to natural disasters had a message for Floridians on Friday: It’s not a matter of if a hurricane will hit, but when. The 2024 hurricane season is expected to be bus US announces a new $400 million package of weapons for Ukraine to try to hold off Russian advances 05/10/2024 05:16pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. announced a new $400 million package of military aid for Ukraine on Friday, as Kyiv struggles to hold off advances by Russian troops in the northeast Kharkiv region. This is the third tranche of aid for Ukraine since Congress passed supplemental funding in late April aft The Latest | UN General Assembly votes to give Palestine more rights by a wide margin 05/10/2024 04:22pm • The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution Friday to give Palestine more “rights and privileges” and called on the Security Council to favorably reconsider Palestine's request to become the 194th U.N. member. In Gaza, heavy fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian milita South Africa again requests emergency measures from world court to restrain Israel's actions in Gaza 05/10/2024 04:17pm • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — South Africa urged the United Nations’ top court Friday to issue more emergency measures to restrain Israel, saying its military incursion in Rafah threatens the “very survival of Palestinians in Gaza.” The request marks the fourth for additional measures by So Commanders' Daniels and Giants' Nabers call off their $10K bet between ex-LSU teammates 05/10/2024 04:13pm • ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Jayden Daniels feels his biggest challenge after being drafted second by the Washington Commanders to become their franchise quarterback is learning how to be a pro. He learned an important lesson before throwing his first NFL pass. Daniels, the 2023 Heisman Trophy winner How some colleges have de-escalated campus protests and negotiated with students 05/10/2024 03:58pm • Getty Images - STOCK(NEW YORK) -- As anger over Israel's military operations in Gaza mounted, students from Columbia University's Apartheid Divest coalition assembled on the university's South Lawn on April 17, demanding that school officials disclose its financial investments.A day later, at least A bus plunges off a bridge in the Russian city of St. Petersburg, killing 7 people 05/10/2024 02:34pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — A bus veered off a bridge and plunged into a river on Friday in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, killing seven people, officials said. The Investigative Committee, Russia’s top criminal investigations body, reported the death toll. It did not state ho Ukraine says Russia is trying to break through its defenses in the northeastern Kharkiv region 05/10/2024 02:18pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine rushed reinforcements to its northeastern Kharkiv region on Friday to hold off a Russian attempt to breach local defenses, authorities said, signaling a tactical switch in the war by Moscow that Ukrainian officials had been expecting for weeks. Kharkiv's regional gover Eight families whose dogs drowned in pet care facility sue District Dogs, claim negligence 05/10/2024 02:02pm • Eight families whose dogs drowned at the District Dogs pet day care and boarding facility in D.C. last August have filed a negligence suit against the company and its founder and chief executive officer. According to the suit, filed Thursday in D.C. Superior Court against the company and CEO Airman shot by deputy doted on little sister and aimed to buy mom a house, family says 05/10/2024 12:59pm • FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Just two days before a sheriff's deputy in Florida shot him dead, U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Roger Fortson called home to find out what his 10-year-old sister wanted for her birthday. It was a typical gesture for the 23-year-old from Atlanta, who doted on the girl Why Montgomery County is tailor-made for life sciences industry 05/10/2024 12:41pm • This content is sponsored by the Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation. With more than 300 life sciences companies providing jobs to 26,000 employees, Montgomery County, Maryland, anchors the third largest biopharmaceuticals cluster in the country and is a Mid-Atlantic hotspot fo Malta’s deputy prime minister resigns, ends EU Commission bid, as he faces charges in hospital deal 05/10/2024 12:32pm • VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Malta’s deputy prime minister resigned Friday, and ended his European Commission bid, after he was charged with fraud in a hospital scandal roiling the Mediterranean island nation. In his resignation letter, Chris Fearne denied wrongdoing but said he must put Malta before Top Indian opposition leader released on bail by court enabling him to campaign in elections 05/10/2024 11:50am • NEW DELHI (AP) — A top Indian opposition leader was freed from jail on interim bail by the Supreme Court on Friday nearly seven weeks after his arrest in a bribery case that opposition parties called a political move by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government against one of his rivals during a n 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