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Shaken by the Fico assassination attempt, the EU wonders if June elections can be free of violence 05/16/2024 12:56pm • BRUSSELS (AP) — In an increasingly vitriolic political climate, the last thing needed in the runup to the June European Union elections was an assassination attempt on one of the bloc’s most controversial figures. As Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico lay recovering from Wednesday’s attack, the A Palestinian converted to Judaism. An Israeli soldier saw him as a threat and opened fire 05/16/2024 12:50pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — At first, it seemed like the kind of shooting that has become all too common in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. A Palestinian aroused suspicions and an Israeli soldier killed him. But then the deceased was identified as David Ben-Avraham, a Palestinian who had made the almost unhe Rock band Cage the Elephant emerge from loss and hospitalization with new album 'Neon Pill' 05/16/2024 09:28am • NEW YORK (AP) — To say Cage the Elephant's latest album had a turbulent birth would be an understatement. The band dealt with the deaths of loved ones, the pandemic and their lead singer's arrest and hospitalization. “It’s no secret that I had a medical crisis,” Matt Shultz tells The Associa France imposes emergency in Pacific territory of New Caledonia as violent unrest turns deadly 05/16/2024 08:50am • PARIS (AP) — France imposed an emergency Wednesday in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia for at least 12 days, boosting security forces’ powers to quell deadly unrest in the archipelago where indigenous people have long sought independence. Armed clashes and other violence that erupte Congress aims to exert control over DC crime with new bill 05/16/2024 08:15am • A year after Congress blocked D.C.'s revised criminal code, complaining it was soft on crime, the House has gone a step further by passing its own D.C. crime bill. The House passed the D.C. CRIMES Act on Wednesday with 225 votes, garnering support from Republicans as well as 18 Democrats. Propone South Korean court rejects effort to block plan that would boost medical school admissions 05/16/2024 08:08am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court ruled in favor of the government’s contentious push to drastically boost medical school admissions on Thursday, posing a setback to concerted efforts by incumbent doctors to spike the plan. A standoff between the government and doctors opposed to th 'Stepchild' of the Triple Crown? Debate lingers over restoring the prestige of the Preakness 05/16/2024 06:00am • BALTIMORE (AP) — D. Wayne Lukas sat in his corner of the stakes barn at Pimlico Race Course earlier this week and pointed several stalls down. “Thank God the Derby horse came,” Lukas said, referring to Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan running in the Preakness. “It isn’t always a cinch.” What to know about Vladimir Putin's visit to China 05/15/2024 11:20pm • Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to China starting Thursday underlines an increasingly close partnership between the two allies who oppose the U.S.-led democratic order. China, led by President Xi Jinping, has offered robust diplomatic support to Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine and has As Zambia schools take on climate change, one teen is spreading the word in sign language 05/15/2024 10:08pm • KASAMA, Zambia (AP) — Every morning, Bridget Chanda places her prosthetic legs beside her bed, pulls on her stockings and pushes the remains of her limbs into the prosthetics as best she can. After six years they no longer fit, and it's painful to stand or walk for too long, but it doesn't faze he A second scourge is battering Brazil's flooded south: Disinformation 05/15/2024 09:14pm • SAO PAULO (AP) — While flooding that has devastated Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state has yet to subside, another scourge has spread across the region: disinformation on social media that has hampered desperate efforts to get aid to hundreds of thousands in need. Among fake postings that have sti Indonesia seeds clouds to block rainfall after floods killed at least 67 people while 20 are missing 05/15/2024 08:46pm • TANAH DATAR, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities seeded clouds on Wednesday, trying to prevent further rain and flash floods after deluges that hit Sumatra Island over the weekend left at least 67 people dead and another 20 missing. Monsoon rains triggered a landslide of mud and cold lava from The Latest | Palestinians mark 76 years of their dispossession as more catastrophe unfolds in Gaza 05/15/2024 08:42pm • Palestinians are marking 76 years of dispossession on Wednesday, commemorating their mass expulsion from what is today Israel, as a potentially larger catastrophe unfolds in Gaza where over a quarter of the population has been displaced by fighting in the last few days alone. Israel has been pressi 3 dead after small plane crashes in Tennessee 05/15/2024 08:21pm • FRANKLIN, Tennessee (AP) — Three people are dead after a small plane crashed on Wednesday in Williamson County, local officials confirmed. Williamson County Chief Deputy Mark Elrod told reporters that the plane had left Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and was headed to Louisville, Kentucky, but crashed in North Carolina lawmakers push bill to ban most public mask wearing, citing crime 05/15/2024 08:00pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are pushing forward with their plan to repeal a pandemic-era law that allowed the wearing of masks in public for health reasons, a move spurred in part by demonstrations against the war in Gaza that have included masked protesters camped Connor Ingram wins the Masterton Trophy for perseverance and dedication to hockey 05/15/2024 08:00pm • Connor Ingram, the goaltender who shared his battle with an undiagnosed obsessive-compulsive disorder that led him to drink to cope with anxiety and has blossomed into a full-time NHL player, has won the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy for perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey. Ingram