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Quality early education can be expensive or hard to find. Home visits bring it to more families 05/29/2024 03:00am • PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) ��� Standing in her living room, Isabel Valencia sets up her makeshift tennis serve with the materials on hand: a green balloon for a ball and a ruler affixed to a paper plate for a racket. She bats the balloon to her home visitor, Mayra Ocampo, and they pass it back and forth, c US Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas fights off challenge from gun-rights activist in GOP runoff 05/29/2024 01:33am • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas narrowly won his primary Tuesday against a gun-rights activist who pushed the border congressman into a bruising runoff that threatened to unseat a U.S. House incumbent. Another prominent Texas Republican, state House Speaker Dade Phelan Jurors could soon decide the fate of Idaho man charged in triple-murder case 05/29/2024 01:08am • BOISE, Idaho (AP) ��� Prosecutors will make their final arguments to jurors on Wednesday in the case of an Idaho man accused of killing his wife and his new girlfriend���s two youngest children. The trial of Chad Daybell has already lasted roughly two months, featuring testimony from dozens of witne Rallies and debates used to define campaigns. Now they're about juries and trials 05/29/2024 12:07am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has been sitting for hours a day in a Manhattan courtroom, where his hush-money trial is nearing its end. On Monday, a trial is set to begin in Wilmington, Delaware, for President Joe Biden's son Hunter, who is accused of lying on a feder Jury in Trump's hush money case to begin deliberations after hearing instructions from judge 05/29/2024 12:03am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Jurors in Donald Trump's hush money trial are expected to begin deliberations Wednesday after receiving instructions from the judge on the law and the factors they may consider as they strive to reach a verdict in the first criminal case against a former American president. The del Mexico's next president is likely a woman. But in some Indigenous villages, men have all the power 05/29/2024 12:03am • PLAN DE AYALA, Mexico (AP) ��� At 4:30 a.m., the girls and women begin to appear in the dark streets of this rural village of Tojolabal people in southern Mexico. They walk in silence. Some are headed to grind corn to make their family���s tortillas. Others fetch firewood to carry home, on their bac Prosecutor says Trump tried 'to hoodwink voters' while defense attacks key witness in last arguments 05/28/2024 10:28pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Donald Trump engaged in a conspiracy ���to hoodwink voters��� in 2016, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday during closing arguments in the former president���s hush money trial, while a defense lawyer branded the star witness as the ���greatest liar of all time��� and pressed the pane Cohen's credibility, campaigning at court and other takeaways from Trump trial's closing arguments 05/28/2024 09:18pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Donald Trump���s lawyers and Manhattan prosecutors made their final pitches Tuesday to jurors who will decide whether the Republican will be the first former U.S. president convicted of a crime, squaring off over the strength of the evidence and credibility of the prosecution���s s Melinda French Gates to donate $1 billion over next 2 years in support of women's rights 05/28/2024 08:49pm • Melinda French Gates says she will be donating $1 billion over the next two years to individuals and organizations working on behalf of women and families globally, including on reproductive rights in the United States. It's the second billion-dollar commitment French Gates has personally made in t The Latest | Closing arguments in Trump's hush money trial have concluded 05/28/2024 08:10pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Closing arguments in Donald Trump 's historic hush money trial concluded Tuesday evening in a Manhattan courtroom. It was the final opportunity for prosecutors and defense attorneys to convince the jury of their respective cases before deliberations begin. Defense lawyer Todd Blanc Closing arguments conclude in Trump hush money trial, judge to deliver jury instructions Wednesday 05/28/2024 07:59pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Closing arguments conclude in Trump hush money trial, judge to deliver jury instructions Wednesday. Rapper Sean Kingston agrees to return to Florida, where he and mother are charged with $1M in fraud 05/28/2024 07:46pm • SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) ��� Rapper and singer Sean Kingston on Tuesday waived his right to fight extradition in a California court and agreed to be turned over to authorities in Florida, where he and his mother are charged with committing more than a million dollars worth of fraud. Kingston, 34 UK Labour leader Keir Starmer woos undecided voters with a vow to safeguard national security 05/28/2024 07:38pm • LONDON (AP) ��� British opposition leader Keir Starmer made his first major speech of the U.K. election campaign Monday, telling undecided voters that they can trust his Labour Party to safeguard the country���s economy, borders and security. Starmer is the favorite to win the July 4 election, with US opens up banking to private Cuban businesses as it aims to boost private sector 05/28/2024 07:03pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The U.S. lifted some financial restrictions against Cuba on Tuesday, in a move designed to boost private businesses on the island. The measures will allow independent entrepreneurs to open and access U.S. bank accounts online to support their businesses. They also include steps t Kentucky families struggling after being hit for a second time by a tornado in the same locations 05/28/2024 06:24pm • BARNSLEY, Ky. (AP) ��� Devin Johnson���s life was uprooted for a second time when a tornado flattened his home over the Memorial Day weekend ��� on the same lot in Kentucky where another storm left him homeless in 2021. Johnson, 21, watched Tuesday as workers used chain saws to cut into the wreckage