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The Latest | Blinken says Israel will open a major aid crossing into hard-hit northern Gaza 04/30/2024 08:49pm • Israel plans on opening a major humanitarian aid crossing into hard-hit northern Gaza, said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday. Israel's war against Hamas has flattened huge swaths of Gaza's north, and famine is imminent for the hundreds of thousands of civilians who remain. Blinken From the classroom to the car lot: Montgomery Co. students sell the cars they've refurbished 04/30/2024 07:06pm • On Saturday, a group of Montgomery County, Maryland, high school students will be at their school, but they won't be learning, they'll be selling cars. The annual refurbished car sale is part of the Montgomery County Students Automotive Trades Foundation's program. The foundation is a nonprofit o 2024 Kentucky Derby Odds 04/30/2024 07:02pm • Field for Saturday's 150th Kentucky Derby, with post position, horse's name, jockey's name and current odds: PP HorseJockeyOdds1. DornochLuisSaez21/12. Sierra LeoneTylerGaffalione7/23. Mystik DanBrianHernandezJr.31/14. Catchring FreedomFlavienPrat9/15. CatalyticJoseOrtiz31/16. Just SteelKeithAsmuss The US is building a pier off Gaza to bring in humanitarian aid. Here's how it would work 04/30/2024 06:25pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The U.S. and allies are scrambling to pull together a complex system that will move tons of humanitarian aid into Gaza by sea. Nearly two months after President Joe Biden gave the order, U.S. Army and Navy troops are assembling a large floating platform several miles off the Gaza The body of a Mississippi man will remain in state hands as police investigate his death, judge says 04/30/2024 06:03pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� The body of a Mississippi man who was found dead after vanishing under mysterious circumstances will not be released to family members until law enforcement agencies finish investigating the case, a state judge said Tuesday. At a hearing in Jackson, Mississippi, Hinds County Kansas has new abortion laws while Louisiana may block exceptions to its ban 04/30/2024 05:59pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ��� Kansas is requiring abortion providers to share new patient information with the state and increasing funds to anti-abortion centers, while in Louisiana bills to loosen its restrictive ban face an uphill battle, thanks to Republican supermajorities in both Legislatures. Democra Iditarod says new burled arch will be in place for '25 race after current finish line arch collapses 04/30/2024 05:14pm • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ��� There will be a new burled arch over the finish line to welcome mushers in next year���s Iditarod, a race official said days after the current arch crumbled into a wood pile. That arch, which has been used since the 2000 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, collapsed in Nome on S Climate change could virtually disappear in Florida ��� at least according to state law 04/30/2024 05:02pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� Florida, perhaps the most vulnerable state to sea-level rise and extreme weather, is on the verge of repealing what's left of a 16-year-old law that lists climate change as a priority when making energy policy decisions. Instead, the state would make energy affordability a Georgia governor signs bill into law restricting land sales to some Chinese citizens 04/30/2024 04:36pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Tuesday signed a bill into law limiting the ability of some Chinese citizens to buy land in the state. The bill, SB420, echoes measures already signed into law in numerous other states. It bans any ���agent��� of China from buying farmland in Georgia or an Trainer Chad Brown seeks first Kentucky Derby victory after coming close. Having 2 entrants helps 04/30/2024 04:11pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� There was a brief moment three weeks ago when trainer Chad Brown���s Kentucky Derby outlook was jolted as one of his hopefuls resisted multiple attempts to enter the gate in a major qualifying race and then started slowly. Things turned out way better than Brown could have g Encino out of the 150th Kentucky Derby with leg issue. Epic Ride joins the 20-horse field 04/30/2024 03:37pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� Encino won���t run in the Kentucky Derby this weekend, trainer Brad Cox said Tuesday. The colt didn't look right after morning training and was vanned to an equine hospital in Lexington. X-rays were negative but a soft tissue strain in his right front leg was diagnosed, Cox Migration agency chief warns that even more Syrians will leave Lebanon as donors cut back on aid 04/30/2024 03:00pm • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� The number of Syrian refugees leaving Lebanon is likely to keep rising as donors cut back on aid, the head of the U.N.'s migration agency warned Tuesday, as pressure builds over their arrival on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Amy Pope, director general of the International Org The Georgia Supreme Court has thrown out an indictment charging an ex-police chief with misconduct 04/30/2024 02:12pm • SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) ��� Georgia's highest court on Tuesday threw out an indictment that charged a former police chief and a top aide with felonies for failing to investigate allegations of misconduct within their department. The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that the 2021 indictment against former Glyn FEMA administrator surveys Oklahoma tornado damage with the state's governor and US senator. 04/30/2024 01:42pm • A Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator said Tuesday that ���our heart aches for the loss of life��� in tornadoes that left four dead and about 100 injured in Oklahoma. FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell joined Gov. Kevin Stitt and Sen. James Lankford in surveying the damage in Marietta New Jersey seeks fourth round of offshore wind farm proposals as foes push back 04/30/2024 12:54pm • LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) ��� New Jersey is seeking a new round of proposals to build wind energy farms off its coastline, forging ahead with its clean energy goals even as local opposition and challenging economics create blowback to the effort. The state Board of Public Utilities on Tuesday o