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Universities take steps to prevent pro-Palestinian protest disruptions of graduation ceremonies 05/03/2024 11:47am • ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) ��� With student protests over the Israel-Hamas war disrupting campuses nationwide, several major universities are intent on ensuring that commencement ceremonies ��� joyous milestones for graduates, their families and friends ��� go off without a hitch this weekend. It won't b Russian trainers move to a Niger airbase where some US troops remain 05/03/2024 11:19am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Russia has moved some troops onto an airbase in Niger where a small number of U.S. forces remain, but Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said he doesn't see it as a significant issue. Most American troops left that base in the nation's capital, Niamey, a U.S. official said. The arriv 2024 Kentucky Derby Odds 05/03/2024 11:12am • Field for Saturday's 150th Kentucky Derby, with post position, horse's name, jockey's name and current odds: PP HorseJockeyOdds1. DornochLuisSaez17/12. Sierra LeoneTylerGaffalione5/13. Mystik DanBrianHernandezJr.20/14. Catching FreedomFlavienPrat8/15. CatalyticJoseOrtiz37/16. Just SteelKeithAsmusse Berlin���s government offers to give away villa once owned by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels 05/03/2024 10:28am • BERLIN (AP) ��� Berlin���s government is offering to give away a villa once owned by Adolf Hitler���s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, hoping to end a decades-long debate on whether to repurpose or bulldoze a sprawling disused site in the countryside north of the German capital. ���I offer to a China publicizes for the first time what it claims is a 2016 agreement with Philippines 05/03/2024 09:45am • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) ��� For the first time, China has publicized what it claims is an unwritten 2016 agreement with the Philippines over access to South China Sea islands. The move threatens to further raise tensions in the disputed waterway, through which much of the world's trade passes and which The Kremlin brands comments on Ukraine by France's Macron and Britain's Cameron as 'dangerous' 05/03/2024 08:13am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Recent statements by France���s president and Britain���s foreign secretary about the war in Ukraine are ���dangerous��� and will deepen international tension around the conflict, the Kremlin���s spokesman said Friday. French President Emmanuel Macron, in an interview publishe 2 horses fall and unseat their jockeys in 2nd race at Churchill Downs 05/03/2024 06:30am • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� Two horses fell and unseated their riders in the second race at Churchill Downs on Thursday, two days before the historic track hosts the 150th Kentucky Derby. Ridden by Irving Moncada, Territoriality clipped an outside horse's hind heels and fell leaving the five-eighths Heavy rains near Houston close schools and flood roadways as officials urge residents to evacuate 05/02/2024 10:40pm • Mandatory evacuation orders were issued near Houston on Thursday for some residents following heavy rains in Texas that stranded motorists, flooded streets and closed schools as officials warned that conditions in some hard-hit areas could worsen. "This is a life-threatening situation,��� said Harr E-waste is overflowing landfills. At one sprawling Vietnam market, workers recycle some of it 05/02/2024 10:09pm • HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) ��� Dam Chan Nguyen saves dead and dying computers. When he first started working two decades ago in Nhat Tao market, Ho Chi Minh City���s biggest informal recycling market, he usually salvaged computers with bulky monitors and heavy processors. Now he works mostly wit Organizers of Eurovision Song Contest ready to remove Palestinian flags or symbols 05/02/2024 08:29pm • GENEVA (AP) ��� Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest said Thursday they reserve the right to remove any Palestinian flags and pro-Palestinian symbols at the show next week in Sweden. The announcement came amid heightened tensions surrounding Israel���s participation in the annual music competit Francisco Lindor shakes off illness, comes off bench to rally Mets past Cubs 7-6 in 11 innings 05/02/2024 08:18pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Francisco Lindor delivered a pair of two-run doubles off the bench, rallying the New York Mets past the Chicago Cubs 7-6 in 11 innings Thursday for a split of their four-game series. Right fielder Starling Marte made two rocket throws in extra innings, cutting down Cubs runners at Captain sentenced to 4 years for criminal negligence in fiery deaths of 34 aboard scuba boat 05/02/2024 08:06pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� A federal judge in Los Angeles on Thursday sentenced a scuba dive boat captain to four years in prison and three years supervised release for criminal negligence after 34 people died in a fire aboard the vessel. The Sept. 2, 2019, blaze was the deadliest maritime disaster in rec 2024's 10 Best-Performing Stocks 05/02/2024 08:00pm • The S&P 500's 2024 rally paused in April as discouraging economic data and fears over potential stagflation weighed on investor sentiment. After a strong 2023 performance, the S&P 500 is still up more than 7% this year, and investors are hoping the inflation outlook will improve in coming mo The Latest | Arrests top 2,000 as protests against Israel-Hamas war roil college campuses 05/02/2024 07:58pm • The number of people arrested in connection with protests on college campuses against the Israel-Hamas war has now topped 2,000. The Associated Press has tallied arrests at 35 schools since a tent encampment began at Columbia University on April 17. Student protests have popped up at many college an I-95 in Connecticut will close for days after fiery crash damages bridge, governor says 05/02/2024 07:06pm • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) ��� The major traffic artery linking New England with New York will be closed in Connecticut for days after a tanker fire damaged a bridge over Interstate 95, Gov. Ned Lamont said Thursday. The tanker truck filled with gasoline burst into flames in a three-vehicle crash Thursday