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Australia: Truck driver charged after 7 children seriously injured in collision with school bus 05/17/2023 05:45am • CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A truck driver was charged Wednesday after seven children were hospitalized with serious injuries when he rear-ended a school bus on the outskirts of Melbourne in southeastern Australia, officials said. The dump truck that Jamie Gleeson was driving hit the back of a scho Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, receives Ms. Foundation's Woman of Vision Award 05/17/2023 12:53am • NEW YORK (AP) — Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, encouraged women to find inspiration to fight for equity as she accepted the Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Award Tuesday night, with Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown. “It’s never too late to start,” Meghan said at the Ziegfeld Ballr Nebraska Legislature votes to fold abortion ban into bill banning trans health care for minors 05/16/2023 10:35pm • LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Conservatives in the Nebraska Legislature got just enough votes Tuesday to fold a proposed 12-week abortion ban into a bill that would ban gender-affirming health for minors. As expected, the debate over the plan was raucous, with lawmakers opposed to the plan sparring angril Florida contrata a tres empresas privadas para ejecutar el programa de DeSantis que busca reubicar migrantes 05/16/2023 10:22pm • (CNN) — La administración del gobernador de Florida, Ron DeSantis, eligió a tres empresas para ejecutar la siguiente fase de su programa de reubicación de migrantes, según documentos que obtuvo CNN.Primero en CNN: DeSantis toma nuevas medidas para volver a enviar inmigrantes a ciudades demóc 7 children battling serious injuries after truck crashes into school bus in Australia 05/16/2023 09:25pm • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Seven children remain hospitalized with serious injuries after a truck struck a school bus carrying as many as 45 students on the outskirts of Melbourne in southeastern Australia, authorities said Wednesday. The truck hit the rear of the school bus and caused it to ove Missouri terminates emergency rule to limit trans care for minors, some adults 05/16/2023 09:22pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri officials on Tuesday abruptly terminated an unusual emergency rule proposed by the Republican attorney general that would have placed limits on transgender care for minors and some adults. The move was announced without explanation on the Missouri Secretary of S 'Evil is not going to win,' survivor of Texas mall shooting says 05/16/2023 09:00pm • McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — Irvin Walker was looking for a parking place after dropping his girlfriend off at a Dallas-area mall just over a week ago when he felt the gunfire. The 46-year-old from Lafayette, Louisiana, who was hit with bullet fragments in his head, chest, neck and arm, spoke Tuesday at Myanmar and Bangladesh begin cleaning up, counting casualties after devastating Cyclone Mocha 05/16/2023 08:40pm • BANGKOK (AP) — Recovery efforts were underway Tuesday in Myanmar and Bangladesh after a powerful cyclone smashed into their coastlines, causing widespread destruction and at least 21 deaths, with hundreds of others believed missing. Myanmar took the brunt of Cyclone Mocha on Sunday, while Banglade Surging Alaska rivers leave behind huge chunks of ice, damaged homes 05/16/2023 08:07pm • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Ice jams that blocked two Alaska rivers broke loose over the weekend, unleashing a surge of ice and water that caused major floods, damaged homes and left behind huge chunks of ice as tall as 12 feet (3.7 meters). Floodwaters on the Yukon River peaked at or near record lev Billionaire Ray Dalio's 9 Top Stock and ETF Picks 05/16/2023 08:00pm • Ray Dalio's Bridgewater Associates is the world's largest hedge fund with $196.8 billion in assets. Dalio himself has a net worth of roughly $19 billion, according to Forbes. Bridgewater's popular Pure Alpha II fund struggled during the wild market swings in 2020, generating a 12.6% loss for the yea How to Automate Your Savings -- And Why It's a Good Idea 05/16/2023 08:00pm • Are you struggling to prioritize saving? Having trouble building your emergency fund? If so, you aren't alone. Despite experts recommending you save up to 20% of your income each month, most Americans have a median savings of only $3,240 to $6,400, depending on age. Automation can help: By setting a How to Make Your Yard a Pet-Friendly Oasis 05/16/2023 08:00pm • Owning real estate means getting the opportunity to really make a home out of your house -- for everyone who lives there. If you have pets, they don't need to be left out, you can make your yard their favorite playground. You wouldn't be alone in doing so. According to recent Zillow research, 60% of Vaccine authorized for emergency use in California condors amid bird flu outbreak 05/16/2023 07:56pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — California condors will receive a vaccine for a deadly strain of avian influenza that threatens to wipe out the already critically endangered vulture species, federal officials said Tuesday. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service grant New York City turns to school gyms to house new migrants, prompting uproar 05/16/2023 05:22pm • New York (AP) — New York City has begun to convert public school gymnasiums into housing for international migrants, its latest effort to accommodate a growing population of asylum-seekers who have overwhelmed the city's homeless shelter system. The move to use the gyms as shelters with six weeks US Senate votes to repeal DC police reform bill 05/16/2023 05:07pm • The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to repeal a D.C. police reform bill, shortly after a House hearing during which Republicans pressed Mayor Muriel Bowser about the District's rising crime problem. The legislative action reflects continuing scrutiny of D.C. and GOP congressional concerns that the Dist