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UK has its first Black government leader as Vaughan Gething is elected first minister of Wales 03/20/2024 10:10pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Vaughan Gething was elected first minister of Wales on Wednesday, becoming the first Black leader of a government in the U.K. Gething was elected government leader by members of the Welsh parliament in Cardiff, four days after winning the contest to be leader of Wales' governing Labo A team to choose Haiti's next leader takes shape as gang violence engulfs the Caribbean nation 03/19/2024 02:15pm • GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) ��� Caribbean leaders said Tuesday that all groups and political parties except one have submitted nominees for a transitional presidential council charged with selecting an interim prime minister for Haiti, which remains engulfed in gang violence. The original nine-member co Trump says Jews who vote for Democrats 'hate Israel' and their religion 03/19/2024 03:03am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Former President Donald Trump on Monday charged that Jews who vote for Democrats ���hate Israel" and hate ���their religion,��� igniting a firestorm of criticism from the White House and Jewish leaders. Trump, in an interview, had been asked about Democrats' growing criticism of Is 'There's no agenda here': A look at the judge who is overseeing Trump's hush money trial 03/17/2024 10:21am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Judge Juan M. Merchan looked across his high-ceilinged courtroom, facing the defendant in a complicated case. Not the one everyone knows about. Yes, Merchan could become the first judge ever to oversee a former U.S. president's criminal trial: Donald Trump's hush money case. But o Wales will get its first Black leader after Vaughan Gething wins a Welsh Labour Party contest 03/16/2024 04:25pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Vaughan Gething won the Welsh Labour Party leadership contest on Saturday, and is set to become the first Black leader of Wales��� semi-autonomous government. Gething, the son of a Welsh father and a Zambian mother, will be the first Black leader of a government in the U.K. ��� and, U.Md. lifts suspension on 32 fraternities, sororities, 5 remain under investigation 03/15/2024 05:11pm • The University of Maryland has lifted the suspension of fraternity and sorority activity on campus for 32 chapters, clearing them to return to normal activities, the university announced Friday evening. "Effective immediately, we are lifting the temporary pause on new member and alcohol-related a School shooter's parents could face years in prison after groundbreaking Michigan trials 03/15/2024 03:40pm • PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) ��� Parents of the victims of a Michigan mass shooting were steadfast observers at court hearings that led to three separate convictions of an entire family. One of their goals now is to see more change rise out of the 2021 tragedy at Oxford High School. ���We can put people on Biden visits Michigan county emerging as the swing state's top bellwether 03/14/2024 08:20pm • SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) ��� Hurley Coleman Jr.'s parents were drawn to Michigan from the South by the promise of middle-class jobs in the booming automotive industry, an origin story shared by many African American families in Saginaw. Mass layoffs beginning in the late 20th century precipitated a dr Majority of U.S. adults are against college athletes joining unions, according to AP-NORC survey 03/14/2024 06:10am • As Dartmouth men's basketball players move toward forming the first labor union in college sports, a majority of Americans say they are against college athletes unionizing ��� though younger respondents are more supportive. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research Evangelical Christians are fierce Israel supporters. Now they are visiting as war-time volunteers 03/13/2024 05:47pm • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) ��� When Shawn Landis, an evangelical Christian from Pennsylvania, heard about the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel, he knew he would come to Israel to volunteer as soon as it was safe. Five months later, he was chopping vegetables in a Tel Aviv kitchen, preparing meals f Early results show lower cancer rates than expected among Air Force nuclear missile personnel 03/13/2024 05:02pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Air Force is reporting the first data on cancer diagnoses among troops who worked with nuclear missiles and, while the data is only about 25% complete, the service says the numbers are lower than what they expected. The Air Force said so far it has identified 23 cases of non Editorial Roundup: United States 03/12/2024 03:35pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: March 11 The Washington Post on Biden, taxes and the middle class Like most presidential budgets before it, President Biden���s fiscal 2025 tax and spending blueprint is more of a political statement than an actual legislative proposal The Latest | Israeli strikes kill at least 67 Palestinians in Gaza as Ramadan begins 03/11/2024 11:04pm • With no end to the war sight, Palestinians in Gaza began fasting Monday for the holy month of Ramadan as hunger worsens across the strip and pressure is raised on Israel over the growing humanitarian crisis. The United States, Qatar and Egypt had hoped to broker a cease-fire ahead of the normally jo Asked to clear up abortion bans, GOP leaders blame doctors and misinformation for the confusion 03/11/2024 11:50am • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� In Republican-led states across the U.S., conservative legislators are refusing to reevaluate abortion bans ��� even as doctors and patients insist the laws��� exceptions are dangerously unclear, resulting in denied treatment to some pregnant women in need. Instead, GOP le Biden's big speech showed his uneasy approach to abortion, an issue bound to be key in the campaign 03/10/2024 12:49pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Reproductive freedom took center stage during Biden���s State of the Union address, but abortion rights advocates had mixed reactions, raising concerns about the president trying to capitalize on what will be a central campaign issue while avoiding using the word ���abortion.���