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Movie Review: This is her, now, in space: J.Lo heads to a new galaxy for AI love story in 'Atlas' 05/24/2024 10:05am • Let’s all be clear, if we weren’t already, that when it comes to Jennifer Lopez, it's about the love story. Always the love story. J.Lo the pop star, singing about rekindled love on her latest album, “This is Me … Now.” J.Lo the rom-com regular, making movies about seeking love (including Extreme weather. A lack of lifesaving vaccines. Africa's cholera crisis is worse than ever 05/24/2024 01:22am • LILANDA, Zambia (AP) — Extreme weather events have hit parts of Africa relentlessly in the last three years, with tropical storms, floods and drought causing crises of hunger and displacement. They leave another deadly threat behind them: some of the continent's worst outbreaks of cholera. In sout More bad weather could hit Iowa, where 3 powerful tornadoes caused millions in damage 05/23/2024 11:22pm • GREENFIELD, Iowa (AP) — For block after block through the small city of Greenfield, Iowa, the destructive power of a tornado that ripped apart more than 100 homes in just one minute is evident in the muddy, shattered mess left behind. All along the mile-long swath Thursday was the deafening clamo Family of American caught up in Congo failed coup says their son went to Africa on vacation 05/23/2024 11:20pm • SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) — The family of an American caught up in a failed coup attempt in Congo said their son was in Africa on vacation with family friends and had not previously engaged in political activism, according to a statement provided to The Associated Press. Tyler Thompson, 21, was o NCAA, leagues back $2.8 billion settlement, setting stage for current, former athletes to be paid 05/23/2024 11:04pm • The NCAA and the nation's five biggest conferences announced Thursday night that they have agreed to pay nearly $2.8 billion to settle a host of antitrust claims, a monumental decision that sets the stage for a groundbreaking revenue-sharing model that could start steering millions of dollars direct General Sherman passes health check but world's largest trees face growing climate threats 05/23/2024 11:03pm • SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, California (AP) — High in the evergreen canopy of General Sherman, the world’s largest tree, researchers searched for evidence of an emerging threat to giant sequoias: bark beetles. The climbers descended the towering 2,200-year-old tree with good news on Tuesday. “The Hundreds of people suffer heatstroke in Pakistan, and dangerous heat is forecast to stay a while 05/23/2024 08:55pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) — Doctors treated hundreds of victims of heatstroke at hospitals across Pakistan on Thursday after an intense heat wave sent temperatures above normal levels due to climate change, officials said. Temperatures soared as high as 49 degrees Celsius (120 degrees Fahrenheit) the previou More aid getting from US pier to people in Gaza, officials say, after troubled launch 05/23/2024 07:26pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A six-day-old U.S. pier project in Gaza is starting to get more aid to Palestinians in need but conditions are challenging, U.S. officials said Thursday. That reflects the larger problems bringing food and other supplies to starving people in the besieged territory. The floating Families of Marines killed in 2022 Osprey crash sue aircraft manufacturers Boeing, Bell, Rolls Royce 05/23/2024 07:18pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Families of four of the five Marines killed when their Osprey crashed in California in June of 2022 filed a federal lawsuit Thursday alleging that the aircraft's manufacturers failed to address known mechanical failures that led to the deaths. The Marines were killed when their In message to Russia, Chilean lawmakers meet in Antarctica to underline territorial claims 05/23/2024 07:04pm • SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Defense officials from Chile convened a meeting at the bottom of the planet on Thursday in a bid to bolster their territorial claims in Antarctica as tensions escalate over Russia's maneuvers in the polar region. Lawmakers from Chile's parliamentary defense committee flew to Lawsuit seeks to block Washington parental rights law that critics call a 'forced outing' measure 05/23/2024 06:49pm • SEATTLE (AP) — A school district, a nurse, and civil rights and youth services organizations sued Thursday to block a new Washington state parental rights law that critics describe as a “forced outing” measure. A conservative megadonor backed the law, which is set to take effect in June. The D The collapse of a building on Spain’s Mallorca island leaves 4 people dead, officials say 05/23/2024 06:05pm • MADRID (AP) — Four people died and several more were seriously injured Thursday when a building collapsed on the island of Mallorca, Spanish emergency authorities said. Emergency services said that seven more people had been very seriously injured while another nine were seriously injured. They we Black Lives Matter activist loses lawsuit against Los Angeles police over ‘swatting’ hoax response 05/23/2024 05:19pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A leading Black Lives Matter activist in Los Angeles on Thursday lost her lawsuit against the city's police department over its handling of hoax phone calls that brought a large law enforcement response to her home. Police have said three teens driven by racial hatred were behi Spanish emergency services say 4 people have died after a building collapsed on the island of Mallorca 05/23/2024 05:12pm • MADRID (AP) — Spanish emergency services say 4 people have died after a building collapsed on the island of Mallorca. The Latest | Largest hospital in central Gaza faces imminent shutdown due to lack of fuel 05/23/2024 05:11pm • The largest hospital serving central Gaza faces imminent shutdown because it is running out of power after Israel’s military assault in Rafah severely limited entry of fuel for generators, the Health Ministry in Gaza said Thursday. Losing Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital would leave only two hospitals op