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In South Africa, a community struggling for clean water reflects wider discontent ahead of election 05/23/2024 02:58pm • HAMMANSKRAAL, South Africa (AP) ��� On days when a municipal truck comes to Hammanskraal to deliver drinking water, a queue of South Africans starts forming early in the morning to fill their buckets. This is not a distant, rural community, but a township on the edge of the administrative capital ci Seven-time F1 champion Hamilton faces a tall order to get on the podium at Monaco GP 05/23/2024 02:17pm • MONACO (AP) ��� Lewis Hamilton was faced with a tricky question at the Monaco Grand Prix on Thursday: will it be easier getting a podium this season or learning Italian ahead of next year? The Mercedes driver laughed, but he was clearly in two minds about it. ���I think learning Italian's going to b Dangerous brew: Ocean heat and La Nina combo likely mean more Atlantic hurricanes this summer 05/23/2024 12:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Get ready for what nearly all the experts think will be one of the busiest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record, thanks to unprecedented ocean heat and a brewing La Nina. There's an 85% chance that the Atlantic hurricane season that starts in June will be above average in storm a French President Macron says he won't rush through voting reforms that triggered New Caledonia riots 05/23/2024 12:32pm • French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday on a visit to riot-hit New Caledonia that he won���t force through the contested voting reform that sparked the French Pacific territory's deadly unrest, saying he wants local leaders to come up with an alternate agreement for the archipelago���s future Merlier sprints to second victory on stage 18 of Giro, Pogacar maintains considerable lead 05/23/2024 12:02pm • PADUA, Italy (AP) ��� Belgian rider Tim Merlier won a chaotic bunch sprint for his second victory at this year���s Giro d���Italia as Tadej Pogacar maintained his considerable lead with three days remaining. Merlier timed his last effort precisely to beat Jonathan Milan by less than half a wheel at Man is found fit to go on trial in attacks that killed 4 in Rockford, Illinois 05/23/2024 11:59am • ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) ��� A man was found fit Thursday to stand trial on charges of killing four people and injuring seven others during a series of frenzied attacks in a neighborhood in Rockford, Illinois. The judge had ordered a psychiatric evaluation in April for Christian Soto, 22, who is accused Verstappen welcomes a Monaco challenge from Norris and resurgent McLaren 05/23/2024 11:10am • MONACO (AP) ��� Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen welcomes McLaren's surge in form ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix this weekend. He only just held off Lando Norris last Sunday to win the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, beating the McLaren driver by .725 seconds. It was far removed from the crushing winnin Russian missiles kill 7 in Ukraine's second-largest city as Moscow's troops press offensive 05/23/2024 11:02am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Russian missiles slammed into Ukraine���s second-largest city in the country's northeast and killed at least seven civilians early Thursday, officials said, as Kyiv���s army labored to hold off an intense cross-border offensive by the Kremlin���s larger and better-equipped for Today in Sports - Week Ahead, May 24 - May 30 05/23/2024 10:05am • May 24 1905 ��� Harry Payne Whitney���s Tanya becomes the second filly to win the Belmont Stakes. Ruthless was the first filly to win the Belmont, in 1867. Whitney would also win the Kentucky Derby with a filly, Regret, in 1915. 1926 ��� Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi sets world 3000m record (8:25.4) in Rolling Stones to swing through new Thunder Ridge Nature Arena in the Ozarks 05/23/2024 10:02am • The Rolling Stones and the Ozarks don't seem like the most natural pairing. But nature itself, and of all things fishing, have brought them together. The Stones announced Thursday that they will end their summer Hackney Diamonds Tour on July 21 at Thunder Ridge Nature Arena, a brand new monument to Today in Sports - Week Ahead, May 24 - May 30 05/23/2024 10:00am • May 28 1901 ��� Parader, ridden by Fred Landry, overcomes a bad start to win the Preakness Stakes by two lengths over Sadie S. 1904 ��� Bryn Mawr, ridden by Eugene Hildebrand, wins the Preakness Stakes by one length over Wotan. 1946 ��� The Washington Senators beat New York 2-1 in the first night ga With a sequel in the works, 'Red, White & Royal Blue' stars reflect on its success ��� and R rating 05/23/2024 09:18am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� When ���Red, White & Royal Blue��� debuted last summer, it did so without fanfare or spectacle, landing squarely amid historic Hollywood strikes that precluded its stars from lending their press-friendly faces to promote the movie. But the lack of publicity surrounding the A Black Americans are underrepresented in residential care communities, AP/CNHI News analysis finds 05/23/2024 08:42am • Norma Upshaw was living alone south of Nashville when her doctor said she needed to start in-home dialysis. Her closest family lived 40 miles away, and they���d already scrambled once when the independent senior living facility the 82-year-old had called home ��� a community of largely Black reside Black Americans are underrepresented in residential care communities, AP/CNHI News analysis finds 05/23/2024 08:39am • Norma Upshaw, 82, was living alone south of Nashville, when her doctor said she needed to start in-home dialysis. Her closest family lived 40 miles away, and they���d already scrambled once when the independent senior living facility she had called home ��� a community of largely Black residents �� The Mayor of Falls Church is a first-generation immigrant. Here's why she loves 'the little city' 05/23/2024 08:24am • The mayor of Falls Church, Virginia, is serving her third term on the city's council. But she wasn't always used to quaint life in a small city and she's proud of where she comes from. Letty Hardi, 44, is a first-generation immigrant who was born in Hong Kong before moving to San Francisco when s