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Group accused of making up story about homeless vets being evicted to make room for migrants 05/19/2023 07:26pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The founder of a nonprofit group has been accused of fabricating a story about homeless military veterans being evicted from a New York hotel to make room for migrants, a tale that stoked days of outrage on cable news networks. One Republican lawmaker in New York who helped spread Bob Baffert is back at the Preakness, his first Triple Crown race in 2 years 05/19/2023 06:05pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — Bob Baffert is back at the Preakness for his first Triple Crown race in two years, returning from a suspension and looking for a record-breaking win with National Treasure. The white-haired Hall of Fame trainer and one of the faces of horse racing was in a familiar spot outside th Microsoft says China approves its plan to buy video game-maker Activision Blizzard 05/19/2023 05:43pm • Microsoft said Friday that China has unconditionally approved its plan to buy video game company Activision Blizzard, even as the deal still faces antitrust opposition in the U.S. and United Kingdom. China’s approval is complicated by the fact that Activision Blizzard stopped offering many of its Bolivian Catholic priest accused of abusing seminary students 05/19/2023 05:06pm • LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A Bolivian priest has been detained on suspicion of abusing seminary students a decade ago in a case that emerged after news broke earlier this month of a pedophilia scandal involving a late Jesuit priest in the Andean country. Milton Murillo, a Catholic parish priest at the Virginia Daybook 05/19/2023 04:30pm • Associated Press Virginia Daybook for Friday, May. 19. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. To see your Daybooks and events for Virginia and other Stat Video shows driver fleeing Iowa police with officer on hood, roof of car 05/19/2023 04:02pm • CARROLL, Iowa (AP) — Harrowing video of a driver speeding from Iowa police with an officer clinging to his hood and roof emerged this month during the motorist’s sentencing. Dennis James Guider Jr., 29, of the Chicago area, was sentenced last week to up to five years in prison after plead Hawaii's governor, who is also a doctor, stops to help at site of crashed vehicle 05/19/2023 03:44pm • HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii Gov. Josh Green, who is also a physician, was one of the people who stopped to help when his security detail spotted a vehicle upside down in a lava field Thursday while he was on his way to a Big Island event. Before becoming governor, Green was an emergency room doctor in Millions ditched cars for bikes during the pandemic. These cities want the habit to stick 05/19/2023 02:18pm • MONTREAL (AP) — In the agonies of the virus that upended most of the world, millions of people from Bogota to Berlin saw what life could be like on two wheels instead of four. Even as commuting to the office and going to school plunged at the height of COVID lockdowns, outdoor recreation, and cycl Judge shows willingness to release some records in Tyre Nichols beating death 05/19/2023 02:01pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge on Friday continued to temporarily block the release of more video footage and records in the investigation into Tyre Nichols' death, but said he does want to make public information that would not interfere with the rights to a fair trial for five Memphis p San Francisco officials are investigating if Elon Musk's 'Twitter Hotel' plan broke laws 05/19/2023 01:37pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco officials are investigating Twitter after six former employees allege that owner Elon Musk's leadership team broke laws by turning the company's headquarters into a “Twitter Hotel” for workers who were pushed to stay up late to transform the social media plat COVID emergency orders are among `greatest intrusions on civil liberties,' Justice Gorsuch says 05/19/2023 01:36pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court got rid of a pandemic-related immigration case with a single sentence. Justice Neil Gorsuch had a lot more to say, leveling harsh criticism of how governments, from small towns to the nation's capital, responded to the gravest public health threat in a century. En video: enorme socavón se traga parte de una calle tras fuga de agua 05/19/2023 11:36am • SAN DIEGO, California – Una fuga de agua tras la rotura de una cañería de 20 pulgadas inundó las calles, ocasionando un enorme socavón en Scripps Ranch Blvd. el viernes por la mañana. El incidente afectó el tráfico cerca de la preparatoria Scripps Ranch, informó el Departamento de Hundreds evacuated as suspected intentional wildfire hits western Spain 05/19/2023 11:22am • MADRID (AP) — Some 700 people were evacuated from four small towns in western Spain owing to a wildfire fanned by strong winds that has razed some 8,000 hectares (20,000 acres), officials said Friday. More than 400 firefighters, including 50 agents from the army’s Military Emergency Unit, are b German surgeon fired after getting hospital cleaner to assist amputation 05/19/2023 10:53am • BERLIN (AP) — Officials at a hospital in western Germany have expressed regret after it emerged that one of their surgeons got a cleaner to assist in a toe amputation. Public broadcaster SWR reported Friday that the incident at the Mainz University Hospital, which happened in 2020, didn't result i Detroit enclave built on auto industry struggles under $20M water debt 05/19/2023 09:53am • HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) — Kevin Houston scanned the Michigan street where his fixer-upper and older homes bridge gaps between the vacant, overgrown lots and abandoned, ramshackle houses, boarded-up businesses and potholed streets of Highland Park. “It’s not a bad place to live,” Houston sa