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Port of Baltimore bills moving through Md. legislature as session clock winds down 03/29/2024 05:55pm • House and Senate leaders Friday introduced bills that authorize the governor to ease the financial impact to workers at the Port of Baltimore and related businesses following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. House Bill 1526 and the companion SB 1188 authorize Gov. Wes Moore (D) to us Could tugboats have helped avert the bridge collapse tragedy in Baltimore? 03/29/2024 05:39pm • With the 95,000-ton cargo ship Dali powerless and hurtling helplessly toward the Francis Scott Key Bridge, the harbor pilot commanding the vessel had just minutes to make his last, desperate attempts to avoid disaster. He declared distress, dropped anchor and, notably, called for help from nearby tu Texas woman sues prosecutors who charged her with murder after she self-managed an abortion 03/29/2024 04:28pm • McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A Texas woman who was charged with murder over self-managing an abortion and spent two nights in jail has sued prosecutors along the U.S.-Mexico border who put the criminal case in motion before it was later dropped. The lawsuit filed by Lizelle Gonzalez in federal court Thu Music Review: Beyoncé's epic 'Act ll: Cowboy Carter' defies categorization, redefines American style 03/29/2024 03:59pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Nothin’ really ends / For things to stay the same they have to change again,” Beyoncé sings on “Act ll: Cowboy Carter,” the opening lines of the opening track, “Ameriican Requiem.” “Them big ideas, yeah, are buried here / Amen.” In some ways, it is a mission Ducks' Ryan Strome fined $5,000 for cross-checking Kraken's Tye Kartye 03/29/2024 01:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Anaheim Ducks forward Ryan Strome has been fined $5,000 for cross-checking Seattle Kraken forward Tye Kartye on Thursday. The league’s department of player safety announced the fine Friday. The money goes to the NHL players' emergency assistance fund. The cross-checking occurred 'Oppenheimer' finally premieres in Japan to mixed reactions and high emotions 03/29/2024 12:49pm • TOKYO (AP) — “Oppenheimer” finally premiered Friday in the nation where two cities were obliterated 79 years ago by the nuclear weapons invented by the American scientist who was the subject of the Oscar-winning film. Japanese filmgoers' reactions understandably were mixed and highly emotional For years she thought her son had died of an overdose. The police video changed all that 03/29/2024 12:39pm • BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.m., the moment that a doctor had pronounced him dead. As Goodwin swept and dusted the room, she’d often Russia launches barrage of 99 drones and missiles on Ukraine’s energy system, officials say 03/29/2024 10:38am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Moscow launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure Friday, with a mass barrage of 99 drones and missiles hitting regions across the country, Ukraine’s armed forces said. Air raid warnings rang out across the nation, with 10 Ukrainian regions coming und Magnitude 2.8 earthquake shakes southern Illinois; no damage or injuries reported 03/29/2024 08:12am • GERMANTOWN, Ill. (AP) — An earthquake of magnitude 2.8 has been reported in southern Illinois, near the Missouri state line, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The earthquake was detected about 6:55 p.m. Thursday north of Germantown, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) east of St. Louis, at a depth o Thai court acquits dozens of protesters who shut down Bangkok's airports in 2008 03/29/2024 07:26am • BANGKOK (AP) — A Thai court on Friday acquitted nearly 70 people of all charges related to mass protests that shut down Bangkok’s two airports in 2008 for about 10 days. The ruling by the Bangkok Criminal Court was the second this year finding that the protesters, who opposed a government headed Former South Africa leader Jacob Zuma is barred from running in elections, election authority says 03/29/2024 07:22am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African President Jacob Zuma is not eligible to run in upcoming elections, the Independent Electoral Commission has ruled. The commission said at a media briefing on Thursday that it had upheld an objection against Zuma's candidacy in the May 29 elections. In July He didn’t trust police but sought their help anyway. Two days later, he was dead 03/29/2024 06:10am • PATERSON, N.J. (AP) — Jameek Lowery entered the dimly lit lobby of the city’s police headquarters in a panic. He was having a mental breakdown — and needed help. Barefoot and wearing only pajama pants and a sweatshirt in the pre-dawn hours of Jan. 5, 2019, Lowery pulled out his cellphone and b French soccer federation limits support for players' Ramadan observance. Critics see discrimination 03/29/2024 05:10am • For Muslim soccer players in deeply secular France, observing Ramadan is a tall order, and this is not about to change. Wielding the principle of religious neutrality enshrined in the French constitution, the country’s soccer federation does not make things easy for international players who want The irony of Steve Martin's life isn't lost on him 03/29/2024 01:14am • NEW YORK (AP) — Steve Martin has long marveled at the many phases of his life. There’s his youth as a Disneyland performer, surrounded by vaudeville performers and magicians. A decade as a stand-up before the sudden onset of stadium-sized popularity. An abrupt shift to movies. Later, a new chapt Migrant workers who helped build modern China have scant or no pensions, and can't retire 03/29/2024 01:07am • BEIJING (AP) — At 53, Guan Junling is too old to get hired at factories anymore. But for migrant workers like her, not working is not an option. For decades, they have come from farming villages to find work in the cities. Toiling in sweatshops and building apartment complexes they could never aff