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The Latest | Israeli strikes in Rafah kill at least 5 as ship comes under attack in the Gulf of Aden 04/25/2024 11:47am • Palestinian hospital officials said Israeli airstrikes on the southern city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip killed at least five people. More than half of the territory’s population of 2.3 million have sought refuge in Rafah, where Israel has conducted near-daily raids as it prepares for an offensive i Ferrying voting machines to mountains and tropical areas in Indian elections is a Herculean task 04/25/2024 11:45am • NEW DELHI (AP) — From the Himalayan mountains to the tropical Andaman Islands, Indian officials are using helicopters, buses, trucks, boats, donkeys, and mules to carry electronic voting machines for India’s gigantic national elections. Election officials are traveling through jungles and snow- Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established 04/25/2024 11:44am • ISTANBUL (AP) — A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pr New deep-water channel allows first ship to pass Key bridge wreckage in Baltimore 04/25/2024 11:42am • BALTIMORE (AP) — The first cargo ship passed through a newly opened deep-water channel in Baltimore on Thursday after being stuck in the harbor since the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed four weeks ago, halting most maritime traffic through the city’s port. The Balsa 94, a bulk carrier sailin The summer after Barbenheimer and the strikes, Hollywood charts a new course 04/25/2024 11:40am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — “ Barbenheimer ” is a hard act to follow. The summer of 2023 brought a new enthusiasm for moviegoing, with the fortuitous counterprogramming of “Barbie” and “ Oppenheimer,” and surprise hits like “ Sound of Freedom,” helping the season’s box office crack $4 bi The summer after Barbenheimer and the strikes, Hollywood charts a new course 04/25/2024 11:37am • “ Barbenheimer ” is a hard act to follow. But as Hollywood enters another summer movie season, armed with fewer superheroes and a landscape vastly altered by the strikes, it’s worth remembering the classic William Goldman quote about what works: “Nobody knows anything.” Four decades later, Ukraine is putting pressure on fighting-age men outside the country as it tries to replenish forces 04/25/2024 11:35am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Even as it works to get much-needed new supplies of weapons and ammunition from a huge U.S. aid package to the front line, Ukraine is seeking to reverse the drain of potential soldiers from the country, announcing that men of conscription age will no longer be able to renew th Summer Movie Guide: Virtually all the movies coming to theaters and streaming from May to Labor Day 04/25/2024 11:34am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Are you ready for some movies this summer? There's action-adventure, romance, horror, franchises and anniversary re-releases of some of your favorites populating theaters and streaming services from May through Labor Day. You just have to know where to look. Things kick off in Stock market today: Wall Street tumbles after dispiriting data on the economy, as Meta sinks 04/25/2024 11:33am • NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are tumbling Thursday after a dispiriting cocktail of data suggested both that the economy’s growth is flagging and that inflation remains stubbornly high. A sharp drop for Meta Platforms, one of Wall Street’s most influential stocks, also dragged the market lower. Michigan's QB battle among many in Big Ten that started in spring and will ramp up again in the fall 04/25/2024 11:30am • Quarterback discussions always dominate spring football, never more than this year in the Big Ten with transfers coming and going and only a handful of starters returning. Just four of the 14 teams — and two of the four from the Pac-12 that join the conference in August — appear set at the posit Seattle Kraken move games to over-the-air broadcaster with streaming on Amazon's Prime Video 04/25/2024 11:28am • SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Kraken will move their games to an over-the-air broadcaster and have a streaming partnership with Amazon’s Prime Video beginning with the 2024-25 season, the team announced Thursday. The Kraken will be the first NHL team to have a streaming deal with Prime Video for al The Latest: Special counsel's team is up before the Supreme Court in Trump case 04/25/2024 11:27am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday took up Donald Trump's bid to avoid prosecution over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. Trump’s lawyers argue that former presidents are entitled to absolute immunity for their official acts. Otherwise, they Some campuses call in police to break up pro-Palestinian demonstrations, while others wait it out 04/25/2024 11:27am • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Some U.S. universities called in police to break up demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war, resulting in ugly scuffles and dozens of arrests, while others appeared content to wait out student protests Thursday, as the final days of the semester ticked down and graduation 8 years after the National Enquirer's deal with Donald Trump, the iconic tabloid is limping badly 04/25/2024 11:23am • NEW YORK (AP) — Catch and kill. Checkbook journalism. Secret deals. Friends helping friends. Even by National Enquirer standards, testimony by its former publisher David Pecker at Donald Trump's hush money trial this week has revealed an astonishing level of corruption at America's best-known tabl Satellite photos show new port construction in Gaza Strip for US-led aid operation 04/25/2024 11:19am • JERUSALEM (AP) — The building of a new port in the Gaza Strip ahead of a U.S. military-led operation to bring more desperately needed food and other aid into the besieged enclave as Israel's war on Hamas grinds on is well underway, according to satellite images analyzed Thursday by The Associated