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Analysis: Korda is head and shoulders over her peers. She hopes winning is enough to help golf grow 05/28/2024 04:05pm • LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Nelly Korda has won six of her last seven tournaments. She tied a record held by two LPGA greats, Nancy Lopez and Annika Sorenstam, by winning five tournaments in a row. So it's safe to say she is head and shoulders over everyone else. She felt that way outside the ropes, too Melinda French Gates to donate $1 billion over next 2 years in support of women's rights 05/28/2024 04:02pm • 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 'We have nothing.' As Israel attacks Rafah, Palestinians are living in tents and searching for food 05/28/2024 03:28pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The tent camps stretch more than 16 kilometers (10 miles) along Gaza’s coast, filling the beach and spilling into empty lots, fields and streets. Families dig trenches to use as toilets. Fathers search for food and water. Children dig through garbage and wrecked Ryan Salame, part of the 'inner circle' at collapsed crypto exchange FTX, sentenced to prison 05/28/2024 02:17pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced former FTX executive Ryan Salame to more than seven years in prison, the first of the lieutenants of failed cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried to receive jail time for their roles in the 2022 collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange. Salame, Judge denies request to restrict Trump statements about law enforcement in classified records case 05/28/2024 01:42pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The judge overseeing Donald Trump's classified documents case in Florida on Tuesday denied prosecutors' request to bar the former president from making public statements that could endanger law enforcement agents participating in the prosecution. Prosecutors had told U.S. Distric Malta's ex-leader and others plead not guilty in a hospital fraud scandal that is roiling politics 05/28/2024 01:22pm • VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Malta’s former prime minister, Joseph Muscat, and other former top officials pleaded not guilty in court Tuesday to charges in a hospital corruption scandal that is roiling the Mediterranean island nation as it prepares for European Parliament elections. The case involves WNBA teams start Commissioner's Cup play this week with new in-season tourney format 05/28/2024 01:08pm • The WNBA annual Commissioner's Cup gets underway this week using a new format for the in-season tournament. The league tweaked the format this year and teams now will play five games against conference opponents over a two-week period. In the past, teams would play a home and home set against each t Biden campaign deploys allies De Niro and Jan. 6 responders to Trump's hush money trial in renewed focus on insurrection (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert misspelled the actor's name DeNiro.) 05/28/2024 10:37am • NEW YORK (AP) — Biden campaign deploys allies De Niro and Jan. 6 responders to Trump's hush money trial in renewed focus on insurrection (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert misspelled the actor's name DeNiro.). Fairfax Co. School Board approves pay hike for public school employees 05/28/2024 10:13am • Fairfax County Public Schools employees will get a 4% pay raise — not the 6% initially proposed by the school system superintendent. This means a teacher’s beginning salary goes from $61,612 to $64,076 in Fairfax County, Virginia. Thursday night, the school board voted to approve the budget f Supreme Court leaves in place Avenatti conviction for plotting to extort up to $25M from Nike 05/28/2024 10:02am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday left in place lawyer Michael Avenatti’s conviction for plotting to extort up to $25 million from Nike. The justices did not comment in rejecting an appeal from Avenatti, who rose to fame representing porn actor Stormy Daniels in litigation against f Korda leads the field for the US Women's Open as the PGA Tour heads north to Canada 05/28/2024 09:40am • UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION U.S. WOMEN'S OPEN Site: Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Course: Lancaster CC. Yardage: 7,084. Par: 70. Prize money: $12 million. Winner's share: TBA. Television: Thursday-Friday, noon to 2 p.m. (Peacock), 2-8 p.m. (USA Network); Saturday, 1-3 p.m. (Peacock), 3-6 p.m. (NBC); S Tempted to try a no-buy year? Here are tips from people doing it 05/28/2024 07:38am • NEW YORK (AP) — The rules of a no-buy challenge are self-imposed and simple: Make a list of the non-essential items you won't spend money on for a set period of time and stick to it. Easier said than done. Many people start such challenges at the beginning of the year and commit to keep going unt Last year's deadly heat wave in metro Phoenix didn't discriminate 05/28/2024 12:05am • PHOENIX (AP) — Priscilla Orr, 75, was living in her old white Kia in a supermarket parking lot last summer after telling her family she lost her money and home to a romance scam. But the car broke down, and the air conditioner stopped working, leaving her vulnerable to the dangerous desert heat. O Today in History: May 28, Dionne quintuplets are born in Canada 05/28/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Tuesday, May 28, the 149th day of 2024. There are 217 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 28, 1934, the Dionne quintuplets — Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne — were born to Elzire Dionne at the family farm in Ontario, Canada. On th 7 Top-Rated ETFs to Buy Now 05/27/2024 08:00pm • You don't have to spend hours analyzing specific stocks in an attempt to outperform professional fund managers. Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, can offer investors exposure to a basket of stocks offered by some of the top investment firms in the business. You can find ETFs for various portfolio stra