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Youngkin vetoes bills on skill games, contraception and Confederate heritage tax breaks 05/17/2024 10:33pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin took action on a final batch of bills from the year's regular legislative session Friday, signing seven but vetoing 48, including closely watched measures that would have ended a tax break for a Confederate heritage organization and allowed small Conservative media personality appointed to seat on Georgia State Election Board 05/17/2024 09:52pm • ATLANTA (AP) — A media personality who co-founded a conservative political action committee has been appointed to a seat on the Georgia State Election Board, which is responsible for developing election rules, investigating allegations of fraud and making recommendations to state lawmakers. Georgi A mayoral candidate and 5 other people killed in gunfire at a campaign rally in southern Mexico 05/17/2024 09:12pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — A mayoral candidate and five other people were killed when gunmen opened fire at a campaign rally in the violence-wracked southern Mexico state of Chiapas, officials said. State prosecutors said a young girl was among the six people killed in the gunfire late Thursday, along wit Cómo escaló la ola de violencia en Chiapas, a dos semanas de las elecciones en México 05/17/2024 09:07pm • (CNN Español) -- La muerte de la candidata a alcaldesa Lucero López Maza en el municipio de La Concordia, en Chiapas, en un ataque que dejó otros cinco fallecidos, volvió a manchar de sangre la campaña electoral en el estado mexicano, donde operan grupos criminales de tráfico de drogas y de m As Japan's yakuza weakens, police focus shifts to unorganized crime hired via social media 05/17/2024 09:01pm • TOKYO (AP) — A senior member of yakuza was arrested for allegedly stealing Pokemon cards near Tokyo in April, a case seen as an example of Japanese organized crime groups struggling with declining membership. Police agents who were busy dealing with thousands of yakuza members just a few years ago Texas Gov. Greg Abbott gave few pardons before rushing to clear Army officer who killed a protester 05/17/2024 08:56pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — In issuing a full pardon to a former Army sergeant convicted of murder in the shooting death of an armed Black Lives Matter protestor, Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pushed a limited executive power to its absolute limit to get a desired outcome in a politically charged cas Un estudio demuestra que los agujeros negros tienen una "región de caída", tal como predijo Einstein 05/17/2024 08:48pm • (CNN) -- Albert Einstein tenía razón: hay un área en el borde de los agujeros negros donde la materia ya no puede permanecer en órbita y cae, como predijo su teoría de la gravedad.Utilizando telescopios capaces de detectar rayos X, un equipo de astrónomos ha observado por primera vez esta zona Ignoró las advertencias de "no acercarse" a la dama de honor y así inició una historia de amor en Kazajstán 05/17/2024 08:02pm • (CNN) -- Ariff Hassan llegó a la boda bajo estrictas instrucciones: "No te acerques a la dama de honor".Era agosto de 2018. Ariff había viajado desde su casa en Singapur a Kazajstán para asistir a la boda de un viejo amigo.Este amigo, al igual que Ariff, había crecido en Malasia. Habían estado A former OpenAI leader says safety has 'taken a backseat to shiny products' at the AI company 05/17/2024 07:53pm • A former OpenAI leader who resigned from the company earlier this week said Friday that safety has “taken a backseat to shiny products” at the influential artificial intelligence company. Jan Leike, who ran OpenAI's “Superalignment” team alongside a company co-founder who also resigned this Los hermanos venezolanos acusados de acoso y pornografía infantil en su país permanecen en prisión provisional en Madrid y a la espera de extradición 05/17/2024 07:50pm • (CNN Español) -- El juez de la Audiencia Nacional de España Ismael Moreno dictó prisión provisional para los hermanos venezolanos Rebeca y Francisco García, solicitados con alerta roja de Interpol por el Ministerio Púbico de Venezuela por la presunta comisión de los delitos de incitación al What to do when facing extended summer power outages 05/17/2024 07:48pm • Texas officials say power outages could last weeks in parts of Houston after thunderstorms with hurricane-force winds tore through the city and killed at least four people. The storm knocked out electricity to nearly 1 million homes and businesses in the region as temperatures hover around 90 degree Once-in-a-generation wind event caused deaths, extensive damage across Houston, meteorologist says 05/17/2024 07:45pm • Exceptional windstorms that could leave some Houston residents without power for weeks were a once-in-a-generation event and the damage left in their wake is comparable to that caused by a hurricane, meteorologists said Friday. “We believe this windstorm is the most significant windstorm likely fo They were treating waves of wounded in Gaza. Then an Israeli assault trapped the foreign doctors 05/17/2024 07:32pm • CAIRO (AP) — The 35 American and other international doctors came to Gaza in volunteer teams to help one of the territory’s few hospitals still functioning. They brought suitcases full of medical supplies and had trained for one of the worst war zones in the world. They knew the health care syst Getting into Valhalla during the PGA isn't easy on a good day. Then came a perfectly imperfect storm 05/17/2024 06:57pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Will Zalatoris urged his parents Richard and Catherine to stay home this weekend and not follow him around at the PGA Championship. It's not worth the trouble, Zalatoris told them. The headaches involved in getting in and around Valhalla Golf Club were simply too great. And Man who sought revenge for a stolen phone pleads guilty to fire that killed a Senegalese family of 5 05/17/2024 06:42pm • DENVER (AP) — A Colorado man pleaded guilty to murder charges on Friday for starting a 2020 house fire that killed five members of a Senegalese family out of misplaced revenge for a stolen iPhone that he mistakenly tracked to the house. Kevin Bui, now 20, was a teenager at the time of the fire but