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Uncovering history: Montgomery Co. students help preserve site of Black cemetery 05/17/2024 03:45pm • A teacher's curiosity about the lives of formerly enslaved people in Montgomery County, Maryland, took her on a journey that would land her — and dozens of Wheaton High School students — in a heavily wooded area, searching for a historic burial ground. The site is listed in official records a Suspenden temporalmente procesos de juicio político en contra de la fiscal general de Ecuador debido a su embarazo de riesgo 05/17/2024 03:39pm • (CNN Español) -- La fiscal general de Ecuador, Diana Salazar, no tendrá que acudir temporalmente a la Asamblea Nacional para responder a los dos procesos de juicio político propuestos en su contra debido a su situación de vulnerabilidad por su embarazo considerado como de “alto riesgo”.Tal c Protests against powerful group persist in Syria's last major rebel stronghold 05/17/2024 02:40pm • IDLIB, Syria (AP) — Members of a powerful insurgent group in Syria 's rebel-held northwest fired into the air and beat protesters with clubs Friday, injuring some of them as protests intensified to demand the release of detainees and an end to the group's rule. Protests took place Friday in severa Mexican and Guatemalan presidents meet at border to discuss migration, security and development 05/17/2024 02:40pm • TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo were meeting Friday in this Mexican border city to tackle issues of shared interest, foremost among them immigration. Arévalo, who took office earlier this year, noted that they were Buffalo Bills promote Matt Bazirgan to director of college scouting in series of scouting moves 05/17/2024 02:28pm • ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills promoted Matt Bazirgan to the role of director of college scouting in a series of scouting department moves announced Friday under general manager Brandon Beane. Bazirgan completed his second season with the team in which he previously held the title of Former top Baltimore prosecutor applies for presidential pardon 05/17/2024 01:34pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s former top prosecutor Marilyn Mosby has applied for a presidential pardon ahead of sentencing on her recent perjury and mortgage fraud convictions, according to The Baltimore Sun. In a letter to President Joe Biden on Thursday, the Congressional Black Caucus expre Voto presencial de los mexicanos en el exterior: lo que debes saber  05/17/2024 01:28pm • NUEVA YORK – A cinco días de celebrarse las elecciones más grandes en la historia moderna de México, el Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) reincorporó a la lista nominal las solicitudes de 36,355 mexicanos en el extranjero, quienes ahora podrán emitir su voto.  De esa cifra, 3,369 sol Eddie Gossage, the longtime head of Texas Motor Speedway, dies at 65 05/17/2024 12:03pm • CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Eddie Gossage, the longtime head of Texas Motor Speedway and an old-school promoter mentored by stock car racing's pioneers, has died, Speedway Motorsports announced Thursday night. He was 65. Gossage stepped down three years ago after 25 years as president of the track in For Haiti is seeking a new prime minister. Dozens of candidates jostle for the key job 05/17/2024 11:41am • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A weeklong search for a new prime minister of Haiti has flooded the inboxes of a transitional presidential council with dozens of candidates jostling to become the country's next leader. Political parties, business leaders, the diaspora and even religious institutions Judge says South Carolina can enforce 6-week abortion ban amid dispute over when a heartbeat begins 05/17/2024 11:31am • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A state judge has ruled that South Carolina can continue to enforce a ban on nearly all abortions around six weeks after conception as an appeal continues on what exactly defines a heartbeat under the law. Planned Parenthood had asked the law be set aside as courts parse thro Mexico's cartel violence haunts civilians as the June 2 election approaches 05/17/2024 11:28am • HUITZILAC, Mexico (AP) — Tailed by trucks of heavily armed soldiers, four caskets floated on a sea of hundreds of mourners. Neighbors peered nervously from their homes as the crowd pushed past shuttered businesses, empty streets and political campaign posters plastering the small Mexican town of H After blaming his 2020 loss on mail balloting, Trump tries to make GOP voters believe it’s OK now 05/17/2024 11:08am • Marta Moehring voted the way she prefers in Nebraska's Republican primary Tuesday — in person, at her west Omaha polling place. She didn’t even consider taking advantage of the state’s no-excuse mail-in ballot process. In fact, she would prefer to do away with mail-in voting altogether. She’ Gunman's family told deputy before Maine's deadliest shooting that they hadn't removed his weapons 05/17/2024 11:00am • AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Police have said repeatedly in the aftermath of Maine’s deadliest shooting that officers thought the gunman's family had been taking his weapons away. Testifying before an investigative committee on Thursday, the gunman’s sister-in-law suggested that law enforcement offic ‘The Blue Angels,’ filmed for IMAX, puts viewers in the ‘box’ with the elite flying squad 05/17/2024 10:58am • If you’re looking for a little bit of that “ Top Gun: Maverick ” spectacle and thrill at the movie theater this summer, you’re in luck. A groundbreaking new documentary, “ The Blue Angels,” is flying onto IMAX screens for one week, through May 22. Using IMAX-certified cameras mounted on Music Review: Billie Eilish's 'Hit Me Hard and Soft' is zealous outsider pop in a league of her own 05/17/2024 10:56am • “Am I acting my age now?” Billie Eilish, 22, wonders aloud on the opening track to her ambitious third album, “Hit Me Hard and Soft.” "Am I already on the way out?” The 10-track release sees a once-in-a-generation pop performer once again rewriting the rules: If Eilish’s first record in