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Apartment building partially collapses in a Russian border city after shelling. At least 13 killed 05/12/2024 06:05pm • An apartment building partially collapsed in the Russian border city of Belgorod on Sunday, causing at least 13 deaths and injuring 20 other people, officials said. They blamed Ukrainian shelling for the building's destruction. Online footage showed rescuers searching for survivors among the remnant Trump tells Jersey Shore crowd he's being forced to endure 'Biden show trial' in hush money case 05/12/2024 06:01pm • WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — Sandwiched between his appearances in court, Donald Trump headed on Saturday to the Jersey Shore, where he repeatedly blamed President Joe Biden for the criminal charges he’s facing as the presumptive nominees prepare to face off in the November election and called his New Schools turn to artificial intelligence to spot guns as companies press lawmakers for state funds 05/12/2024 05:37pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas could soon offer up to $5 million in grants for schools to outfit surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence systems that can spot people carrying guns. But the governor needs to approve the expenditures and the schools must meet some very specific criteria. The Federal agency says a second, if weaker, solar storm surge is likely Sunday 05/12/2024 03:26pm • A U.S. government agency said a weaker repeat of Saturday’s powerful solar storm was likely on Sunday. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that “coronal mass ejections” — clouds of ejected solar plasma that can cause power grid irregularities and issues with high Rescuers free 2 horses stuck in the mud in Connecticut 05/12/2024 03:07pm • LEBANON, Conn. (AP) — Two horses stuck deep in mud for hours in Connecticut were pulled out by more than a dozen rescuers Saturday, emerging messy and tired, but safe. A trio of horses were walking from a pasture to a barn though swampy woods in Lebanon, Connecticut, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) Hoist the pirate flag! St. Pauli promoted back to the Bundesliga 05/12/2024 12:17pm • HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — The pirate flag is flying in the Bundesliga again. St. Pauli returned to Germany's top division after a 13-year absence on Sunday with a 3-1 win over relegated Osnabrück in the second division. Oladapo Afolayan scored twice and set up Marcel Hartel for St. Pauli’s third Wildfire in Canada's British Columbia forces thousands to evacuate. Winds push smoke into Alberta 05/12/2024 06:44am • VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Canadian authorities are urging all remaining residents in a town in British Columbia to leave immediately, despite improving weather conditions, after many were already evacuated due to a fast-growing wildfire. The blaze, which started Friday, almost doubled in From the boardwalk to the altar: T-shirt, shorts, bikinis and boot sellers are now dressing brides 05/12/2024 04:00am • New York (CNN) — Wedding dress shopping may never go back to what it used to be. Instead of collecting your entire bridal entourage to spend a few hours at a boutique trying on several dresses for the perfect find at a lofty price of a $1,000 or more, some retailers are offering to make the wed Switzerland’s Nemo wins 68th Eurovision Song Contest after event roiled by protests over war in Gaza 05/12/2024 03:44am • MALMO, Sweden (AP) — Swiss singer Nemo won the 68th Eurovision Song Contest early Sunday with “The Code,” an operatic pop-rap ode to the singer’s journey toward embracing a nongender identity. Switzerland's contestant beat Croatian rocker Baby Lasagna to the title by winning the most points A rural Ugandan community is a hot spot for sickle cell disease. But one patient gives hope 05/12/2024 02:04am • MBALE, Uganda (AP) — Barbara Nabulo was one of three girls in her family. But when a sister died, her mother wailed at the funeral that she was left with just one and a half daughters. The half was the ailing Nabulo, who at age 12 grasped her mother’s meaning. "I hated myself so much,” Nabulo Today in History: May 12, more than 87,000 dead or missing in China earthquake 05/12/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Sunday, May 12, the 133rd day of 2024. There are 233 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 12, 2008, a devastating 7.9 magnitude earthquake in China’s Sichuan province left more than 87,000 people dead or missing. On this date: In 1780, during Flooding forecast to worsen in Brazil's south, where many who remain are poor 05/11/2024 07:05pm • ELDORADO DO SUL, Brazil (AP) — More rain started coming down on Saturday in Brazil’s already flooded Rio Grande do Sul state, where many of those remaining are poor people with limited ability to move to less dangerous areas. More than 15 centimeters (nearly six inches) of rain could fall over t Man killed after car crashes into tree in Howard Co. 05/11/2024 06:13pm • A man is dead after striking a tree with his car in Howard County, Maryland, on Friday evening. Howard County police responded to reports of a car that struck a tree in the 7100 block of Dorsey Run Road in Elkridge around 6:45 p.m. on Friday. Icaro Freire-Pina, 42, of Laurel, was transported t They made one-of-a-kind quilts that captured the public's imagination. Then Target came along 05/11/2024 04:49pm • Over the past two decades, Gee’s Bend quilts have captured the public’s imagination with their kaleidoscopic colors and their daring geometric patterns. The groundbreaking art practice was cultivated by direct descendants of slaves in rural Alabama who have faced oppression, geographic isolation Brighton dents Newcastle's European hopes by securing EPL draw 05/11/2024 12:45pm • NEWCASTLE, England (AP) — Sean Longstaff’s eighth goal of the season ensured Newcastle’s home campaign in the English Premier League did not end with a defeat as Brighton emerged from the long trip north with a point from a 1-1 draw on Saturday. Longstaff canceled out Joel Veltman’s opener w