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Nearly 140 migrants reach Greece after dangerous sea voyages. One man drowned 05/24/2024 02:30pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Nearly 140 migrants have reached Greek shores over the past 24 hours, making the dangerous sea voyage across the Mediterranean Sea, authorities said Friday. One man, who had set off from North Africa, drowned off the southern island of Crete. Greece, along with Spain and Ital Prosecutor tells jury that self-exiled wealthy Chinese businessman cheated thousands of $1 billion 05/24/2024 02:26pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A self-exiled wealthy Chinese businessman became an internet sensation and conned thousands of people worldwide into sending him $1 billion, enabling him to spend lavishly on a mansion, two yachts and even a $35,000 mattress, a prosecutor told a New York jury Friday at the start of On a visit to his Belarusian ally, Putin questions Zelenskyy's legitimacy as Ukraine's leader 05/24/2024 12:37pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin visited his Belarusian counterpart and close ally for talks Friday in Minsk, after which he questioned whether Volodymyr Zelenskyy has the legitimacy to negotiate on Ukraine's behalf. Russia is willing to hold talks about the war in Ukraine Vendrame wins Giro stage with a downhill attack and Pogacar leads with one big stage left 05/24/2024 11:53am • SAPPADA, Italy (AP) — Andrea Vendrame's solo downhill attack won him the 19th stage of the Giro d’Italia while overall leader Tadej Pogacar avoided any risks on the rain-slicked roads on Friday. The second win of Vendrame’s career at the Giro followed a stage victory in 2021 for the Italian ri F1 urged to improve overtaking chances at Monaco GP 05/24/2024 11:46am • MONACO (AP) — Red Bull boss Christian Horner added his voice to those calling for ways to improve overtaking at the Monaco Grand Prix. Formula 1's wide and heavy cars have almost nowhere to pass, and often follow each other around the tight and sinewy 3.3-kilometer (two-mile) street circuit. “Th Over 100 feared dead in landslide in remote part of Papua New Guinea, with rescue efforts underway 05/24/2024 10:52am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 people are believed to have been killed in a landslide Friday that buried a village in a remote, mountainous part of Papua New Guinea, and an emergency response is underway, officials in the South Pacific island nation said. The landslide struck Enga provi Thai town maddened by marauding monkeys launches plan to lock them up and send them away 05/24/2024 07:06am • LOPBURI, Thailand (AP) — A Thai town, run ragged by its ever-growing population of marauding wild monkeys, launched an offensive against the simian raiders on Friday, using trickery and ripe tropical fruit. Several high-profile cases of monkey-human conflict recently convinced authorities in Lopbu Gary Sinise joins WTOP ahead of National Memorial Day Concert on 30th anniversary of 'Forrest Gump' 05/24/2024 04:28am • The National Memorial Day Concert returns to the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol on Sunday. Actor Gary Sinise will once again co-host with Joe Mantegna as the telecast airs live on PBS. "I started in 2005," Sinise told WTOP. "Joe started in 2002 and called to ask if I would be interested in Cardinals begin 3-game series against the Cubs 05/24/2024 04:02am • Chicago Cubs (27-24, second in the NL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (23-26, third in the NL Central) St. Louis; Friday, 8:15 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Cubs: Shota Imanaga (5-0, 0.84 ERA, 0.91 WHIP, 58 strikeouts); Cardinals: Miles Mikolas (3-5, 5.77 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 39 strikeouts) BETMGM SPORTS Extreme weather. A lack of lifesaving vaccines. Africa's cholera crisis is worse than ever 05/24/2024 01:22am • LILANDA, Zambia (AP) — Extreme weather events have hit parts of Africa relentlessly in the last three years, with tropical storms, floods and drought causing crises of hunger and displacement. They leave another deadly threat behind them: some of the continent's worst outbreaks of cholera. In sout Rapper Sean Kingston arrested in California after SWAT raids his Florida home; charged with fraud 05/24/2024 12:30am • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Rapper Sean Kingston was arrested in California on fraud charges Thursday, several hours after a SWAT team raided his rented South Florida mansion and carted away a van load of items. The Broward County Sheriff's Office said Kingston was arrested without incident on Native American tribes give unanimous approval to proposal securing Colorado River water 05/23/2024 11:30pm • The Navajo Nation Council has signed off on a proposed settlement that would ensure water rights for its tribe and two others in the drought-stricken Southwest — a deal that could become the most expensive enacted by Congress. The Navajo Nation has one of the largest single outstanding claims in t More bad weather could hit Iowa, where 3 powerful tornadoes caused millions in damage 05/23/2024 11:22pm • GREENFIELD, Iowa (AP) — For block after block through the small city of Greenfield, Iowa, the destructive power of a tornado that ripped apart more than 100 homes in just one minute is evident in the muddy, shattered mess left behind. All along the mile-long swath Thursday was the deafening clamo Massive wind farm proposal in Washington state gets new life from Gov. Jay Inslee 05/23/2024 08:06pm • OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday rejected a recommendation to cut a proposal for what would be the state's largest wind farm in half, giving new life to the $1.7 billion project. Plans for the Horse Heaven wind farm originally included up to 222 wind turbines across 24 Avianca Airlines Launches U.S. American Express Credit Cards 05/23/2024 08:00pm • Avianca, South America's second-largest airline, has partnered with fintech company Cardless to introduce two new credit cards to the U.S. market: the Avianca LifeMiles American Express® Card and the Avianca LifeMiles American Express® Elite Card. Each card offers a wide range of benefits, includi