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On Juneteenth, a journalist honors ancestor at ceremony for Black soldiers who served in Civil War 06/19/2024 12:32pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — It was the middle of the night in the summer of 2021 when I finally found the missing piece of my family history. My great-great-great-great grandfather Hewlett Sands, born into slavery in Oyster Bay, New York in 1820, was one of the more than 200,000 names listed on the African Supporters of Myanmar's jailed leader Suu Kyi mark her 79th birthday with a flower-themed protest 06/19/2024 11:24am • BANGKOK (AP) — Supporters of Myanmar’s imprisoned ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi carried out peaceful flower-themed protests marking her 79th birthday on Wednesday, some taking to the streets in defiance of the military government’s repression. Suu Kyi, a Nobel peace prize winner who led a dec Virginia Senate returns to Richmond but fails to pass any bills 06/19/2024 11:03am • Democratic leaders in the Virginia Senate thought they could go their own way on the scheduling and policy agenda for a rare June special session. But things didn’t go according to plan Tuesday as the Senate spent a whole day in Richmond without taking up a single bill. Supporters of bills to l EE.UU. expresa preocupación ante nuevas detenciones de activistas opositores en Venezuela y pide que la campaña se desarrolle sin intimidaciones 06/19/2024 10:58am • (CNN Español) -- Estados Unidos dijo estar preocupado por la detención de cinco activistas opositores en Venezuela en las últimas 72 horas, una denuncia formulada por el candidato de la Plataforma Unitaria Democrática Edmundo González Urrutia, de acuerdo con una publicación en X de Brian Nicho Willie Mays Appreciation: The 'Say Hey Kid' inspired generations with talent and exuberance 06/19/2024 10:13am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Long after “The Catch” and his 660 home runs, and the daring sprints around the bases with his hat falling off, Willie Mays could still command a room like no other. Mays was a frequent visitor to the downtown ballpark in San Francisco at 24 Willie Mays Plaza with his stat Immigrant families rejoice over Biden's expansive move toward citizenship, while some are left out 06/19/2024 10:11am • HOUSTON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of immigrants had reason to rejoice when President Joe Biden unveiled a highly expansive plan to extend legal status to spouses of U.S. citizens but, inevitably, some were left out. Claudia Zúniga, 35, married in 2017, or 10 years after her husband came to the Mediterranean diet or not, eating seasonally can be good for you 06/19/2024 09:59am • As peak summer approaches in Sicily, Anna Fiannaca prefers the peppers, eggplants and zucchini her brothers grow over the packaged food in the supermarket. The 89-year-old cooks everything from scratch and eats mostly vegetarian. But she attributes much of her continued good health to adjusting her In 'Janet Planet,' playwright Annie Baker explores a new dramatic world 06/19/2024 09:56am • NEW YORK (AP) — The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker has been hailed as one of the preeminent voices of her generation, but the movies have long lingered in her mind and in her work. In her play, “The Flick,” a trio of workers clean up between showings at a smalltown arthouse thea Ukraine launches a national sexual assault registry for victims of Russian forces 06/19/2024 09:52am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities in Ukraine have created a national registry to document cases of sexual violence allegedly committed by Russian forces, a senior prosecutor told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Viktoriia Litvinova, the country’s deputy prosecutor general, said that the registr Willie Mays, the Giants’ electrifying ‘Say Hey Kid,’ dies at 93 06/19/2024 09:31am • Willie Mays, the electrifying “Say Hey Kid” whose singular combination of talent, drive and exuberance made him one of baseball’s greatest and most beloved players, has died. He was 93. Mays' family and the San Francisco Giants jointly announced Tuesday night he had died earlier in the afterno Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Scientists track a bug-controlling super-sized fungus 06/19/2024 09:30am • LISLE, Illinois (AP) — With their bulging red eyes and their alien-like mating sound, periodical cicadas can seem scary and weird enough. But some of them really are sex-crazed zombies on speed, hijacked by a super-sized fungus. West Virginia University mycology professor Matt Kasson, his 9-year-o Norway tightens controls over adoptions from abroad but won't ban practice as investigation unfolds 06/19/2024 08:23am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway has tightened controls over adoptions from abroad but will allow them to continue as it conducts an investigation into the legality and ethics of past adoptions, the government said Wednesday. The move to keep allowing international adoptions for now contradicted With election looming, UK's governing Conservatives seize on inflation fall to 2% target 06/19/2024 07:53am • LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the U.K. returned to the Bank of England's target rate of 2% for the first time in nearly three years, official figures showed Wednesday, a development that was seized on by the governing Conservative Party as evidence that its economic plan is “working” ahead of the ¿Cuál es la selección favorita para ganar la Copa América? 06/19/2024 06:59am • (CNN Español) -- Elegir un equipo entre 16 para ganar una competencia como la Copa América no es tarea fácil. Surgen preguntas sin respuestas o preguntas que solo generan más interrogantes. ¿Podrá Brasil volver a ser el gigante del continente? Eso nos abre otra duda: ¿cuenta con material para A US aircraft carrier and its crew have fought Houthi attacks for months. How long can it last? 06/19/2024 06:58am • ABOARD THE USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER IN THE RED SEA (AP) — The combat markings emblazoned on the F/A-18 fighter jet tell the story: 15 missiles and six drones, painted in black just below the cockpit windshield. As the jet sits on the deck of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier in the Red