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Water guns are in full blast to mark Thai New Year festivities despite worries about heat wave 04/13/2024 10:05am • It's water festival time in Thailand where many are marking the country's traditional New Year, splashing each other with colorful water guns and buckets in an often raucous celebration that draws thousands of people, even as this year the Southeast Asian nation marks record-high temperatures causin Tennessee Vols wrap up spring practice with Nico Iamaleava finally under center 04/13/2024 06:00am • The Nico Iamaleava era finally has arrived at Tennessee. Sure, the No. 2 quarterback in the 2023 recruiting class debuted in the Vols' rout of Iowa in the Citrus Bowl. Now the quarterback caps Tennessee's spring practice Saturday giving fans a glimpse of how much he's grown before the Vols' season o The Latest | Israel says it opened new aid crossing into hard-hit northern Gaza 04/13/2024 01:30am • Israel said Friday it had opened a new crossing for aid trucks into hard-hit northern Gaza as it ramps up humanitarian deliveries to the besieged enclave. However, the United Nations says the surge of aid is not being felt in Gaza because of persistent distribution difficulties inside the war-torn t LeBron James scores 37, Anthony Davis finishes with 36 as the Lakers beat Grizzlies 123-120 04/13/2024 12:28am • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — LeBron James had 37 points — including six in the final minute — and 10 rebounds, and Anthony Davis had 36 points and 14 rebounds as the Los Angeles Lakers beat the short-handed Memphis Grizzlies 123-120 on Friday night. Davis, returning from a left eye injury that kept h Heavy rain across Kauai prompts rescues from floodwater, but no immediate reports of injuries 04/12/2024 10:41pm • HONOLULU (AP) — Several people on the Hawaiian island of Kauai needed to be rescued from floodwaters during heavy rain, authorities said Friday, but there were no immediate reports of injuries. Heavy rain beginning Thursday afternoon prompted the closure of public schools Friday across Kauai and Argentina's populist president meets billionaire Elon Musk in Texas — and a bromance is born 04/12/2024 09:33pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — One is an erratic billionaire entrepreneur and self-declared free-speech absolutist, prone to profanity-laden rants against “wokeness” and obsessed with making humanity a multi-planetary species. The other is an iconoclastic Latin American leader and self-declare 1 dead after shuttle bus crashes at a Honolulu cruise ship terminal 04/12/2024 09:14pm • HONOLULU (AP) — One person died and multiple people were injured when a shuttle bus collided with pedestrians and concrete barriers at a Honolulu cruise ship terminal, authorities said Friday. The crash occurred when the shuttle bus driver mistook the gas pedal for the brake, Honolulu police said Trump gives support to embattled Speaker Mike Johnson at pivotal Mar-a-Lago meet 04/12/2024 07:48pm • PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump offered a political lifeline Friday to House Speaker Mike Johnson, saying the beleaguered GOP leader is doing a “very good job,” and tamping down the far-right forces led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene trying to oust him from office. Trump and Johnson appea Dallas doctor convicted of tampering with IV bags linked to coworker's death and other emergencies 04/12/2024 07:48pm • DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas anesthesiologist was convicted Friday for injecting a nerve-blocking agent and other drugs into bags of intravenous fluid at a surgical center where he worked, which led to the death of a coworker and caused cardiac emergencies for several patients, federal prosecutors said. Flash flooding sweeps into the Pittsburgh area and spurs numerous water rescues 04/12/2024 07:04pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — Flash flooding caused by relentless heavy rains that soaked western Pennsylvania spurred numerous rescues and evacuations in the region, but no injuries were reported. The National Weather Service said nearly 3 inches (7.6 centimeters) of rain fell in a short time late Thursday a Evacuation notice lifted in Utah town downstream from cracked dam 04/12/2024 06:26pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An evacuation notice was lifted Friday for the southern Utah town just downstream from a fissured dam after public safety officials said they were able to release enough water to prevent a total breach. Nearly 1,800 residents of Panguitch, a gateway town to the crimson-colore Russian authorities announced mass evacuation for flood-hit city near Kazakhstan border 04/12/2024 05:18pm • MOSCOW (AP) — Authorities in the Russian city of Orenburg, near the border with Kazakhstan, on Friday announced a mass evacuation from there after water levels in the Ural River rose further, threatening the area with more flooding. The Orenburg mayor, Sergei Salmin, called on the residents in a s Maryland program to help Port of Baltimore businesses retain employees begins 04/12/2024 04:50pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore announced on Friday the start of a program to help Port of Baltimore businesses retain employees in the aftermath of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. The $12.5 million program aims to prevent layoffs while recovery work continues. The program If O.J. Simpson's assets go to court, Goldman, Brown families could be first in line 04/12/2024 04:26pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — O.J. Simpson died Wednesday without having paid the lion’s share of the $33.5 million judgment a California civil jury awarded to the families of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. Acquitted at a criminal trial, Simpson was found liable by jurors in Sawfish rescued in Florida as biologists try to determine why the ancient fish are dying 04/12/2024 03:39pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A large sawfish that showed signs of distress was rescued by wildlife officials in the Florida Keys, where more than three dozen of the ancient and endangered fish have died for unexplained reasons in recent months. The 11-foot (3.3-meter) smalltooth sawfish was seen sw