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Former South Africa leader Zuma promises jobs and free education as he launches party manifesto 05/19/2024 03:14am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African President Jacob Zuma Saturday lamented the high levels of poverty among black South Africans and promised to create jobs and tackle crime as he launched his new political party's manifesto ahead of the country's much anticipated elections. He told thousands Ohio voters approved reproductive rights. Will the state's near-ban on abortion stand? 05/19/2024 02:05am • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A county judge could rule as early as Monday on Ohio's law banning virtually all abortions, a decision that will take into consideration the decision by voters to enshrine reproductive rights in the state constitution. The 2019 law under consideration by Hamilton County Comm Today in History: May 19, Anne Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII, beheaded 05/19/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Sunday, May 19, the 140th day of 2024. There are 226 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 19, 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England’s King Henry VIII, was beheaded after being convicted of adultery. On this date: In 1780, a mysterious Padres-Braves game postponed by rain, lighting with doubleheader scheduled for Monday 05/18/2024 09:36pm • ATLANTA (AP) — The game between the San Diego Padres and Atlanta Braves on Saturday night was postponed by rain and lightning. The teams will play a split doubleheader on Monday with a 6:20 p.m. game added to the previously scheduled 12:20 p.m. game. Officials announced about five minutes before t Schauffele and Morikawa are tied at the PGA Championship with a lot of company, except for Scheffler 05/18/2024 08:48pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The cheers were endless Saturday in the PGA Championship, and when another record day of scoring finally ended at vulnerable Valhalla, so were the possibilities. Xander Schauffele and Collin Morikawa were tied for the lead. Shane Lowry thrust his way into the mix with a 62 t Man suspected of shooting 6-month-old son in hostage standoff near Phoenix apparently killed himself 05/18/2024 08:40pm • SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — A man suspected of shooting his 6-month-old son multiple times after taking the boy and his mother hostage was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in the rubble of a suburban Phoenix home that caught fire during a SWAT standoff, police said Saturday. The b Tunisians stage anti-migrant protest as the number of stranded in transit to Europe grows 05/18/2024 06:53pm • JEBENIANA, Tunisia (AP) — Hundreds of Tunisians marched through the streets of Jebeniana on Saturday to protest the presence of sub-Saharan migrants who have found themselves stranded as the country ramps up border patrol efforts. Anti-migrant anger is mounting in impoverished towns like Jebeniana An ultimatum raises pressure on Netanyahu to make postwar plans for Gaza, even as fighting rages 05/18/2024 06:11pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under mounting pressure from his own War Cabinet and his country's closest ally over postwar plans for Gaza, even as the war with Hamas shows no sign of ending. On Saturday, Benny Gantz, a member of the War Cabinet and Netanyahu's main Soto, Judge and Stanton give Yankees first teammates trio of season with double-digit homers 05/18/2024 05:49pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Juan Soto stopped his slump with flair, joining Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge to make the New York Yankees the first team this season with a trio of double-digit home run hitters. “It tells how much damage we can do,” Soto said after his first multihomer game for New York p CNN political commentator Alice Stewart dies 05/18/2024 05:25pm • (CNN) — Alice Stewart, a veteran political adviser and CNN political commentator who worked on several GOP presidential campaigns, has died. She was 58.Law enforcement officials told CNN that Stewart’s body was found outdoors in the Bellevue neighborhood in northern Virginia early Satu Residents forced out of Canada's oil sands hub by wildfire cleared to return, officials say 05/18/2024 05:14pm • FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta (AP) — Residents who were ordered out of Canada's oil sands hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta, due to a nearby wildfire are clear to return home, authorities said Saturday. The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo lifted the evacuation order for the Abasand, Beacon Hill, Prair Militia clashes rock western Libyan town. At least 1 civilian was killed, officials say 05/18/2024 03:58pm • CAIRO (AP) — Clashes between government-allied militias rocked a coastal town in western Libya, trapping families inside their homes and forcing the closure of schools Saturday, officials said. At least one civilian was killed. The latest bout of violence in the chaos-stricken Mediterranean nation Video appears to show Sean 'Diddy' Combs beating singer Cassie in hotel hallway in 2016 05/18/2024 03:50pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Security video aired by CNN appears to show Sean “Diddy” Combs attacking singer Cassie in a Los Angeles hotel hallway in 2016, the latest in a monthslong series of public allegations and revelations of physical and sexual violence from the hip-hop mogul. The video aired Frid The German chancellor tours flooded regions in the southwest in a show of solidarity 05/18/2024 02:58pm • BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday toured flooded regions in the southwest, where rivers have swelled and caused flash floods and landslides after heavy rain and severe weather. Scholz canceled his attendance at an election campaign event in Saarland, on the border with France Scottie Scheffler, from the course to jail and back: What to know about his PGA Championship arrest 05/18/2024 12:46pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Two-time Masters champion Scottie Scheffler was arrested after police say he dragged an officer while trying to get around the scene of a fatal accident Friday ahead of the second round of the PGA Championship. The 27-year-old Scheffler, the world's No. 1-ranked golfer, was