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Wisconsin teen sentenced in bonfire explosion that burned at least 17 04/12/2024 08:38am • MAPLE GROVE, Wis. (AP) ��� An 18-year-old who triggered a bonfire explosion that injured more than a dozen people at a backyard gathering in eastern Wisconsin has been sentenced to a year in jail and five years probation. Sam Armstrong appeared Thursday in Shawano County Court, WLUK-TV reported. Arm Nearly 12,000 homes are flooded in a Russian region bordering Kazakhstan as water levels keep rising 04/12/2024 08:03am • MOSCOW (AP) ��� Nearly 12,000 houses have been flooded in a Russian region bordering Kazakhstan as water levels in the Ural River keep rising and threatening more deluge, authorities said Thursday. The floods sparked evacuations of thousands in the Orenburg region, located some 1,200 kilometers (74 Sexual assaults rise in Central African Republic. Wagner, bandits and even peacekeepers are blamed 04/12/2024 05:54am • BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) ��� It was too late for the mother to shield her children when the two masked and armed Russian fighters burst into her home, held her at gunpoint and took turns raping her. Her five children were forced to watch in the dark. Seated in a restaurant in Central Af US-China competition to field military drone swarms could fuel global arms race 04/12/2024 05:44am • As their rivalry intensifies, U.S. and Chinese military planners are gearing up for a new kind of warfare in which squadrons of air and sea drones equipped with artificial intelligence work together like a swarm of bees to overwhelm an enemy. The planners envision a scenario in which hundreds, even Toyota's newest Highlander is Grand ��� terribly grand 04/12/2024 05:28am • ���How grand!��� exclaimed Liza Minnelli���s character, Lucille Austero, in season one of “Arrested Development,” after being bid on at a charity auction. ���How terribly grand!��� Those words kept echoing in my head as I cruised around in Toyota���s recent creation. It was, indeed, gran Retired chair of Chinese state-owned Everbright Group indicted on bribery charges 04/12/2024 04:04am • BEIJING (AP) ��� A former chairman of the China Everbright Group and ex-central bank executive has been indicted on suspicion of embezzlement and bribery, part of a wider wave of prosecutions of senior officials accused of financial crimes. Tang Shuangning, who also had held senior posts at the Peo Teaching refugee women to drive goes farther than their destination 04/12/2024 12:03am • STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) ��� In a large, empty parking lot outside Atlanta, one car slowly careened around parking spaces. From the passenger seat, driving instructor Nancy Gobran peered over large sunglasses at her student, a 30-year-old Syrian refugee woman who was driving for one of the first tim Italian coast guard rescues 22 shipwrecked people, recovers 9 bodies. Some 15 reported missing 04/11/2024 09:06pm • MILAN (AP) ��� The Italian coast guard rescued 22 people and recovered nine bodies after a smugglers��� boat capsized in a storm about 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of the island of Lampedusa, authorities said Thursday. Survivors indicated that the steel-bottom boat had departed from Sfax, Tunisia, DC���s plans to redesign Connecticut Avenue won���t include bike lanes 04/11/2024 08:52pm • D.C.���s Department of Transportation isn���t moving forward with a project that would have installed bike lanes along a stretch of Connecticut Avenue in Northwest. At a council hearing Thursday, DDOT acting director Sharon Kershbaum said changes to the busy road won���t include bike lanes. �� Environmentalists protest as Biden administration approves huge oil export terminal off Texas coast 04/11/2024 08:50pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� In a move that environmentalists called a betrayal, the Biden administration has approved the construction of a deepwater oil export terminal off the Texas coast that would be the largest of its kind in the United States. The Sea Port Oil Terminal being developed off Freeport, Te Severe weather takes aim at parts of the Ohio Valley after battering the South 04/11/2024 08:45pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Powerful storms rumbled over parts of the U.S. Southeast on Thursday, prompting a few tornado warnings, causing flash flooding, and delaying the start of one of the world's biggest sporting events, in Georgia. The storm system, which has already been blamed for at least one death in Uber and Lyft delay their plans to leave Minneapolis after officials push back driver pay plan 04/11/2024 07:02pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� The ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft said they will delay their planned exit from Minneapolis after city officials decided Wednesday to push back the start of a driver pay raise by two months. The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously to implement the ordinance on July AP WAS THERE: OJ Simpson���s slow-speed chase 04/11/2024 05:11pm • EDITOR���S NOTE: The first week of the O.J. Simpson case in mid-June 1994 moved quickly, with reporters racing to reach the news. The only thing that was slow was The Chase. The football great had been accused of killing his ex-wife and her friend, and there he was on live television, in the back of On eve of Japanese prime minister's visit to North Carolina, Fujifilm announces more jobs there 04/11/2024 04:28pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� Hours before the Japanese prime minister's arrival in North Carolina, a subsidiary of Japan's Fujifilm Corp. announced Thursday plans to expand further a massive biopharmaceutical manufacturing plant in the state, even as the initial phase is not yet complete, promising anothe More aid is supposed to be entering the Gaza Strip. Why isn���t it helping? 04/11/2024 03:28pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Under heavy U.S. pressure, Israel has promised to ramp up aid to Gaza dramatically, saying last week it would open another cargo crossing and surge more trucks than ever before into the besieged enclave. But days later, there are few signs of those promises materializing and inter