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Rallies and debates used to define campaigns. Now they're about juries and trials 05/29/2024 12:07am • NEW YORK (AP) — Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has been sitting for hours a day in a Manhattan courtroom, where his hush-money trial is nearing its end. On Monday, a trial is set to begin in Wilmington, Delaware, for President Joe Biden's son Hunter, who is accused of lying on a feder Two ex-FBI officials who traded anti-Trump texts close to settlement over alleged privacy violations 05/28/2024 11:24pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former FBI officials have reached a tentative settlement with the Justice Department to resolve claims that their privacy was violated when the department leaked to the news media text messages that they had sent one another that disparaged former President Donald Trump. The Storms leave widespread outages across Texas, cleanup continues after deadly weekend across US 05/28/2024 10:09pm • HOUSTON (AP) — Strong storms with damaging winds and baseball-sized hail pummeled Texas on Tuesday, leaving one person dead and about 1 million businesses and homes without power as much of the U.S. recovered from severe weather, including tornadoes, that killed at least 24 people during the Memor The toll of Beijing's security law on Hong Kong's activists 05/28/2024 10:04pm • HONG KONG (AP) — Activist Chan Po-ying is permitted only 15-minute daily visits to see her husband, Leung Kwok-hung, separated by a plexiglass barrier in a highly guarded Hong Kong jail. Leung, 68, is one of 47 activists who were prosecuted in the largest national security law case to date in the Transitional council in Haiti selects new prime minister for a country under siege by gangs 05/28/2024 09:52pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.N. development specialist Garry Conille was named Haiti’s new prime minister Tuesday evening, nearly a month after a coalition within a fractured transitional council sought to choose someone else for the position. The long-awaited move comes as gangs continue to t Rams QB Stetson Bennett says he stepped away from football last year to address mental health 05/28/2024 09:39pm • THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles Rams quarterback Stetson Bennett says he stepped away from football last year to address his mental health. Bennett said Tuesday that he feels recharged and ready to play again. The two-time national champion at the University of Georgia is participating in Executions worldwide jumped last year to the highest number since 2015, Amnesty report says 05/28/2024 09:18pm • LONDON (AP) — The number of executions recorded worldwide last year jumped to the highest level since 2015, with a sharp rise in Iran and across the Middle East, Amnesty International said in a report released Wednesday. The human rights group said it recorded a total of 1,153 executions in 2023, Proposed gender identity measure fails to qualify for California ballot 05/28/2024 09:06pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Californians won't be voting this November on a policy that would have required schools to notify parents if their child asks to change their gender identification. Proponents of a ballot measure to create such a statewide policy announced Tuesday they failed to collect Melinda French Gates to donate $1 billion over next 2 years in support of women's rights 05/28/2024 08:49pm • Melinda French Gates says she will be donating $1 billion over the next two years to individuals and organizations working on behalf of women and families globally, including on reproductive rights in the United States. It's the second billion-dollar commitment French Gates has personally made in t The Latest | Fighting escalates in Rafah as Israel pushes ahead with its offensive 05/28/2024 08:35pm • Palestinian residents of the southern Gaza city of Rafah have reported an escalation of fighting Tuesday as Israeli forces pressed their assault on the border town once seen as the territory's last refuge. Israel says it is carrying out limited operations in eastern Rafah along the Gaza-Egypt border Michigan State Police trooper charged with second-degree murder in death of Kentwood man 05/28/2024 08:32pm • LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan State Police trooper who drove his unmarked SUV into a 25-year-old Kentwood man that was fleeing from police has been charged with second-degree murder. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced the charges against Detective Sergeant Brian Keely on Tuesday af No charges for officer in death of Michigan teen struck by police car during chase 05/28/2024 08:31pm • A prosecutor declined to file charges Tuesday against a police officer who struck and killed a western Michigan teenager while the boy was running from a stolen vehicle. Kent County prosecutor Chris Becker played a video for reporters and said he found no evidence of intentional deadly force. He ins Kennedy condemns the removal of Confederate monuments 05/28/2024 08:11pm • PHOENIX (AP) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has condemned the removal of Confederate statues, saying he had a “visceral reaction against" the destruction of monuments honoring southern leaders from the Civil War. Robert E. Lee, the top Confederate general, had “extr Four Money Questions to Ask on the First Date 05/28/2024 08:00pm • When you're ready to settle down, identifying a compatible person will be important. Money, from how it affects you emotionally to what your salary aspirations are, is often a primary factor in how well you will get along. If you're not on the same page as the other person financially, it may cause 6 Scams That Target Your Bank Account 05/28/2024 08:00pm • Scamming is rampant. More than 67,000 people filed scam reports with the Better Business Bureau in 2023, and the median reported dollar loss was $100, according to the BBB Scam Tracker Risk Report. A lot of those scams are targeting your bank accounts. And though federal law limits liability for cre