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Brazil's Cavalhadas festival celebrates victory of Iberian Christian knights over the Moors 05/19/2024 05:01pm • PIRENOPOLIS, Brazil (AP) ��� People in the heartland Brazilian city of Pirenopolis took to the streets on Sunday in a procession of the traditional Cavalhadas festival. The tradition began in the 1800s with a Portuguese priest who wanted to celebrate the Holy Spirit ��� one of the entities of the R US troops, equipment will depart from Niger by mid-September, the Pentagon says 05/19/2024 04:33pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� U.S. troops ordered out of Niger by the West African country's ruling junta will complete their withdrawal by the middle of September, the Pentagon and Nigerien defense officials said Sunday. The timeline was the product of four days of talks between the countries' defense offici Maryland officials prepare for beginning of Bay Bridge summer traffic 05/19/2024 03:49pm • Memorial Day is one of the busiest traffic days of the year, especially on the way to Maryland's Eastern Shore. In preparation for the increase in traffic, Maryland Transportation Authority police officers conducted "high visibility traffic enforcement" along US-50 near the Bay Bridge on Friday. Preakness winner Seize the Grey is likely running in the 1st Belmont at Saratoga 05/19/2024 03:36pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� Even without a Triple Crown on the line, the upcoming Belmont Stakes is one of the most anticipated horse races in the sport's history. That's because it's being run at Saratoga Race Course for the first time, part of a two-year hiatus in upstate New York while the Belmont's lo Arsenal gets late winner against Everton but has to settle for second place in Premier League 05/19/2024 03:21pm • LONDON (AP) ��� For a brief moment, the Emirates Stadium crowd thought there was a chance. Arsenal had just equalized in its season-ending game against Everton and some 200 miles to the north, West Ham had pulled a goal back against Manchester City to raise hopes of an unlikely miracle. One more g 2 dead and 5 missing after a boat collision on the Danube River in Hungary 05/19/2024 02:18pm • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) ��� Police say two people have died and five are missing following a boat collision on the Danube River in Hungary. Hungarian police received a report late Saturday night that a man had been found with a head injury on the shore of the Danube near the town of Veroce, around 30 Arizona man sentenced to natural life in prison for the 2017 death of his wife, who was buried alive 05/19/2024 01:36pm • PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) ��� An Arizona man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2017 death of his wife, who was buried alive in a hand-dug grave near their home, authorities said. Seven years after the murder, David Pagniano decided to plead guilty before his t Pogacar leads Giro by nearly 7 minutes after stunning win in Queen stage 05/19/2024 01:23pm • LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) ��� What Tadej Pogacar wants, he normally gets. The Slovenian star said he wanted to win the Queen stage of the Giro d���Italia and he did just that on Sunday ��� destroying his rivals on the toughest leg of this year���s race to add three minutes to his already considerable adva French security forces work to regain control of airport highway in violence-scorched New Caledonia 05/19/2024 12:56pm • Using armored vehicles and backhoes to shove aside charred barricades, French security forces worked Sunday to retake control of the highway to the international airport in violence-scorched New Caledonia, shuttered because of deadly unrest wracking the French Pacific archipelago where indigenous pe Slovak prime minister's condition remains serious but prognosis positive after assassination bid 05/19/2024 12:45pm • BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia (AP) ��� Slovakia���s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, remained in serious condition on Sunday but has been given a positive prognosis four days after he was shot multiple times in an assassination attempt that has sent shockwaves across the deeply polarized European U Congolese army says it has foiled a coup attempt. Self-exiled opposition figure threatens president 05/19/2024 12:29pm • KINSHASA, Congo (AP) ��� Congo's army said it foiled a coup attempt early Sunday and arrested the perpetrators, including several foreigners, following attacks on the presidential palace and the residence of a close ally of Congo's president that left three people dead in the capital, Kinshasa. At f Today in Sports - Vegas becomes first NHL expansion team to make Stanley Cup Final in first season 05/19/2024 10:00am • May 20 1897 ��� British Open Men���s Golf, Royal Liverpool GC: English amateur Harold Hilton wins 2nd Open title by 1 stroke from Scot James Braid. 1900 ��� The second modern Olympic games open in Paris. 1919 ��� Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox wins a game on the mound and at the plate as he hits hi Botanists are scouring the US-Mexico border to document a forgotten ecosystem split by a giant wall 05/19/2024 01:43am • JACUM��, M��xico (AP) ��� Near the towering border wall flanked by a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle, botanist Sula Vanderplank heard a quail in the scrub yelp ���chi-ca-go,��� a sound the birds use to signal they are separated from a mate or group. Then silence. A quail on the Mexican side called back, Sentencing trial set to begin for Florida man who executed 5 women at a bank in 2019 05/19/2024 01:30am • Zephen Xaver walked into a central Florida bank in 2019, fatally shot five women and then called police to tell them what he did. Now 12 jurors will decide whether the 27-year-old former prison guard trainee is sentenced to death or life without parole. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday i Gorman homers and Cardinals ride 8th-inning surge to 7-2 win over Red Sox 05/18/2024 11:51pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) ��� Nolan Gorman homered early and added an RBI single during a five-run eighth inning that propelled the St. Louis Cardinals to a 7-2 victory against the Boston Red Sox on Saturday night. Nolan Arenado, Alec Burleson, Iv��n Herrera and Gorman hit consecutive singles to start the eigh