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What to know about Vladimir Putin's visit to China 05/15/2024 11:20pm • Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to China starting Thursday underlines an increasingly close partnership between the two allies who oppose the U.S.-led democratic order. China, led by President Xi Jinping, has offered robust diplomatic support to Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine and has Javier Assad shuts down Braves as Cubs roll to 7-1 win in series finale 05/15/2024 11:10pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Javier Assad pitched six shutout innings and the Chicago Cubs avoided being swept for the first time this season by beating the Atlanta Braves 7-1 on Wednesday night. Assad (4-0) allowed just four hits and walked one while matching a season high with seven strikeouts. He lowered his What to know about a bus crash that killed 8 Mexican farmworkers in Florida 05/15/2024 10:28pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) ��� A bus carrying farmworkers to a watermelon field in central Florida was sideswiped by a drunk driver and overturned in a field, killing eight people and injuring dozens of others, authorities said. The man accused of causing Tuesday's crash has a lengthy driving recor Driver said he smoked pot oil, took medication before Florida crash that killed 8 Mexican workers 05/15/2024 10:27pm • OCALA, Fla. (AP) ��� A man with a long record of dangerous driving told investigators he smoked marijuana oil and took prescription drugs hours before he sideswiped a bus, killing eight Mexican farmworkers and injuring dozens more, according to an arrest report unsealed Wednesday. Bryan Maclean Howa Family of California Navy veteran who died after officer knelt on his neck settles lawsuit for $7.5M 05/15/2024 10:20pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Family members of a Navy veteran who died in 2020 after a police officer pressed a knee to his neck for nearly five minutes while he was in a mental health crisis have settled a federal lawsuit against the Northern California city of Antioch for $7.5 million, their attorneys s Barge hits bridge connecting Galveston and Pelican Island, causing partial collapse and oil spill 05/15/2024 09:24pm • GALVESTON, Texas (AP) ��� A barge slammed into a bridge pillar in Galveston, Texas, on Wednesday, spilling oil into waters near busy shipping channels and closing the only road to a small neighboring island. No injuries were reported. The impact sent pieces of the bridge, which connects Galveston to The Latest | Palestinians mark 76 years of their dispossession as more catastrophe unfolds in Gaza 05/15/2024 08:42pm • Palestinians are marking 76 years of dispossession on Wednesday, commemorating their mass expulsion from what is today Israel, as a potentially larger catastrophe unfolds in Gaza where over a quarter of the population has been displaced by fighting in the last few days alone. Israel has been pressi 3 dead after small plane crashes in Tennessee 05/15/2024 08:21pm • FRANKLIN, Tennessee (AP) ��� Three people are dead after a small plane crashed on Wednesday in Williamson County, local officials confirmed. Williamson County Chief Deputy Mark Elrod told reporters that the plane had left Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and was headed to Louisville, Kentucky, but crashed in Investigation continues into 4 electrical blackouts on ship that caused Baltimore bridge collapse 05/15/2024 07:22pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� The electrical blackouts experienced by the container ship Dali before it left Baltimore���s port were ���mechanically distinct from��� those that resulted in the deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge hours later, according to congressional testimony Wednesday. ���Two we New Kansas abortion clinic will open to help meet demand from restrictive neighboring states 05/15/2024 06:55pm • A new abortion clinic will open in southeast Kansas this fall, bolstering the state���s role as a regional hub for reproductive health services whose neighbors have severely restricted access since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains NASCAR planning in-season tournament in 2025, with opening race in Atlanta 05/15/2024 06:34pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Following the lead of the NBA, the NASCAR Cup Series is planning a five-race, bracket-style tournament in the midst of the 2025 season, beginning with a night event at Atlanta Motor Speedway. The tournament, which comes with a $1 million prize to the winner, is part of a new media r Texas man accused of killing New Mexico women and kidnapping an infant faces federal charge 05/15/2024 05:22pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ��� A Texas man accused of fatally shooting two New Mexico women and taking one of their children and seriously injuring another is now facing a federal kidnapping charge. Alek Isaiah Collins, 26, appeared Tuesday before a federal judge in Abilene, Texas. He will remain in fe Pro-Palestinian protesters place fake bloody corpses at home of University of Michigan official 05/15/2024 04:59pm • Pro-Palestinian protesters wearing masks pitched tents and placed fake bloody corpses outside the home of a University of Michigan board member Wednesday, raising tension with the school. Sarah Hubbard, chair of the university's governing board, said the 6 a.m. demonstration at her home in Okemos in Cancer claims Iditarod champion Rick Mackey. His father and brother also won famed Alaska race 05/15/2024 04:42pm • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ��� Rick Mackey, the winner of the 1983 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, has died of lung cancer, his daughter told The Associated Press Wednesday. Mackey, who died Monday, was 71. The Mackey name is closely tied to the history of the Iditarod, the grueling race that takes musher FIFA members to vote on the host of the 2027 Women's World Cup 05/15/2024 04:07pm • The FIFA Congress will pick from a winnowed field of two candidates to host the 2027 Women's World Cup at its meeting in Bangkok this week. A joint bid by the United States and Mexico was pulled late last month, and South Africa withdrew its candidacy in November. That left only two bids standing fo