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As hip-hop grows in China, its performers seek a voice that reflects their lived experiences 05/03/2024 12:44am • CHENGDU, China (AP) — In 2018, the censors who oversee Chinese media issued a directive to the nation's entertainment industry: Don't feature artists with tattoos and those who represent hip-hop or any other subculture. Right after that, a well-known rapper, GAI, missed a gig on a popular singing The unexpected, under-the-radar Senate race in Michigan that could determine control of the chamber 05/03/2024 12:03am • LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Elissa Slotkin had less than half an hour to reckon with a retirement announcement that would reshape Michigan’s political landscape. The state's senior senator and the third-ranking Democrat in the chamber, Debbie Stabenow, was about to reveal that she would retire in 2024 'I Saw the TV Glow' is one of 2024's buzziest films. It took Jane Schoenbrun a lifetime to make it 05/02/2024 10:48pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun is walking down a path in Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, looking for the pond they sat beside while working on the script to the film“I Saw the TV Glow.” Cemeteries aren’t often the chosen location for interviews but the place holds particular Heavy rains near Houston close schools and flood roadways as officials urge residents to evacuate 05/02/2024 10:40pm • Mandatory evacuation orders were issued near Houston on Thursday for some residents following heavy rains in Texas that stranded motorists, flooded streets and closed schools as officials warned that conditions in some hard-hit areas could worsen. "This is a life-threatening situation,” said Harr Comcast blacks out 15 regional sports networks in contract dispute with distributor 05/02/2024 09:18pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Comcast has blacked out 15 regional sports networks offered by Bally Sports, escalating a contract dispute with their distributor. The cutoff affects games played by a dozen Major League Baseball teams based in nine states. Diamond Sports Group, which distributes the networks Send us Patriots: Ukraine's battered energy plants seek air defenses against Russian attacks 05/02/2024 09:14pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — At a Ukrainian power plant repeatedly hit by Russian aerial attacks, equipment department chief Oleh has a one-word answer when asked what Ukraine’s battered energy industry needs most: “Patriot.” Ukrainian energy workers are struggling to repair the damage from intensif Global Citizen NOW urges investment in Sub-Saharan Africa and youth outreach 05/02/2024 08:10pm • NEW YORK (AP) — This week's Global Citizen NOW conference featured appeals for long-term investments in the African continent's fast-growing youth population and increased outreach to young changemakers worldwide, as the international advocacy organization seeks to drive resources toward antipover Kyiv's forces are up against a concerted Russian push in eastern Ukraine, a military official says 05/02/2024 06:55pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The situation on the front line in eastern Ukraine is worsening but local defenders are so far holding firm against a concerted push by Russia’s bigger and better-equipped forces, a senior Ukrainian military official said Thursday. Nazar Voloshyn, spokesperson for Ukrainian Judge in landmark antitrust case grills Google, Justice during closing arguments 05/02/2024 06:29pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The judge overseeing a pivotal antitrust trial focused on whether Google is stifling competition and innovation repeatedly indicated Thursday that he believes it would be difficult for a formidable rival search engine to emerge. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta went back and forth Maryland officials release timeline, cost estimate, for rebuilding bridge 05/02/2024 06:20pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland plans to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge in just over four years at an estimated cost between $1.7 billion and $1.9 billion, a state transportation official said Thursday. The state plans to build a new span by fall of 2028, said David Broughton, a spokesperson Maternal deaths have fallen to pre-pandemic levels, new US data says 05/02/2024 06:14pm • NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. deaths of moms around the time of childbirth have fallen back to pre-pandemic levels, new government data suggests. About 680 women died last year during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth, according to provisional CDC data. That’s down from 817 deaths in 2022 and 1,205 i Judge grants autopsy rules requested by widow of Mississippi man found dead after vanishing 05/02/2024 05:24pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi judge granted a request Thursday by the widow of a deceased man who vanished under mysterious circumstances to set standards for a future independent autopsy of her late husband's body. Hinds County Chancery Judge Dewayne Thomas formalized through a court order Pennsylvania nurse who gave patients lethal or possibly lethal insulin doses gets life in prison 05/02/2024 04:36pm • A Pennsylvania nurse who administered lethal or potentially lethal doses of insulin to numerous patients pleaded guilty to three counts of murder and other charges Thursday and was sentenced to life in prison. Heather Pressdee, 41, was given three consecutive life sentences and another consecutive t Kentucky Derby: How to watch, the favorites and what to expect in the 150th running of the race 05/02/2024 04:34pm • The Kentucky Derby turns 150 years old this year, extending its run as America's longest continuously held sporting event. Twenty horses stampeding 1 1/4 miles around Churchill Downs on the first Saturday in May is considered 2 of the most exciting minutes in sports. There will be some 150,000 fans Abortion is still consuming US politics and courts 2 years after a Supreme Court draft was leaked 05/02/2024 04:32pm • Two years after a leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion signaled that the nation's abortion landscape was about to shift dramatically, the issue is still consuming the nation's courts, legislatures and political campaigns — and changing the course of lives. On Wednesday, a ban on abortion a