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Workers' paychecks grew faster in the first quarter, a possible concern for the Fed 04/30/2024 12:38pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Pay and benefits for America’s workers grew more quickly in the first three months of this year, a trend that could contribute to higher inflation and raise concerns about the future path of price increases at the Federal Reserve. Compensation as measured by the government’s Former Spain coach Del Bosque to head the commission overseeing beleaguered soccer federation 04/30/2024 12:27pm • MADRID (AP) — Former Spain coach Vicente del Bosque will lead the Spanish government’s commission overseeing the country's soccer federation after a corruption probe targeted the current and former federation presidents. Spain’s Higher Sports Council created the commission last week in an extr Scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year, an FBI report says 04/30/2024 11:47am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year, according to an FBI report released Tuesday that shows a rise in losses through increasingly sophisticated criminal tactics to trick the vulnerable into giving up their life savings. Losses from scams reported Former Italian foreign minister convicted for role in sale of Monte Carlo apartment 04/30/2024 11:24am • MILAN (AP) — A former Italian foreign minister has been convicted and sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for his role in the sale of an apartment in Monte Carlo inherited by his right-wing party. Gianfranco Fini is a former leader of the far-right Italian Social Movement, which he m Meta under fire from European Union for not doing enough about election disinformation 04/30/2024 11:15am • LONDON (AP) — The European Union said Tuesday that it's investigating Facebook and Instagram for suspected violations of the bloc's digital rulebook, including not doing enough to protect users from foreign disinformation ahead of EU-wide elections. The European Commission, the EU's executive arm Jaguars cut WR Zay Jones, clearing a path to potentially sign five-time Pro Bowler Jarvis Landry 04/30/2024 11:11am • JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jacksonville Jaguars released veteran receiver Zay Jones on Tuesday, dumping him five days after drafting LSU's Brian Thomas Jr. with the 23rd overall pick and a day after agreeing to bring five-time Pro Bowler Jarvis Landry in for rookie minicamp. Jones was scheduled Trainer and Brehm can find a few perks amid New Orleans disappointment 04/30/2024 11:07am • The disappointment on Martin Trainer’s face was obvious when he pushed a 6-foot par putt that would extended the playoff in the Zurich Classic. Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy wound up winning over Trainer and Chad Ramey. But it wasn’t the worst consolation prize for Trainer. His portion of the run Dua Lipa is all about 'Radical Optimism,' in her music and other pursuits 04/30/2024 10:52am • NEW YORK (AP) — Dua Lipa is floating in the ocean, the sun just beginning to set behind her. She looks strong, serene — save for the looming threat of a massive shark, fin just breaching the surface a few feet away. The image is the cover of her third album, “Radical Optimism,” out Friday. I GW University enters sixth day of Israel-Hamas war protests 04/30/2024 10:35am • As final exams near and the war in Gaza rages on, Pro-Palestinian protesters at George Washington University in D.C. continued demonstrating for a sixth day on Tuesday. The protests on the D.C. campus come as universities in Virginia and nationwide contend with encampments of pro-Palestinian prot Editorial Roundup: United States 04/30/2024 10:27am • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: April 26 The Wall Street Journal on a potential Trump-Biden debate Is President Biden going to debate Donald Trump as the November election nears? “I am. Somewhere. I don’t know when,” Mr. Biden said Friday in an interview with H In unusual push, funders band together to get out grants around election work 'early' 04/30/2024 09:49am • A small portion of the billions spent around the November election will go to nonprofits working to boost voter participation and access to voting around the country. And usually, those funds flood into counties and cities right before Election Day. This year, a coalition of funders tried to change PGA Tour goes to Dallas for same course and new title. LIV Golf plays in Singapore 04/30/2024 09:45am • PGA TOUR THE CJ CUP BYRON NELSON Site: McKinney, Texas. Course: TPC Craig Ranch. Yardage: 7,414. Par: 71. Prize money: $9.5 million. Winner's share: $1,710,000. Television: Thursday-Friday, 4-7 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 1-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. (CBS). Defending champion: Jason D South African boxer Dingaan Thobela, 'The Rose of Soweto,' dies aged 57 04/30/2024 09:04am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African boxer Dingaan Thobela, a two-weight world champion known as “The Rose of Soweto,” has died, the ministry of sports said on Tuesday. He was 57. Thobela won the WBO lightweight title in 1990 and the WBA lightweight title in 1993, when he beat American Tony Lopez Iranian-French artist Marjane Satrapi wins Spanish Asturias award for communication 04/30/2024 08:56am • MADRID (AP) — Marjane Satrapi, the acclaimed Iranian-French filmmaker and cartoonist, has won the 2024 Princess of Asturias Foundation award for communication and humanities, the Spanish organization announced Tuesday. The foundation said Satrapi was “an essential voice in the defense of human r At plastics treaty talks in Canada, sharp disagreements on whether to limit plastic production 04/30/2024 07:52am • OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Nations made progress on a treaty to end plastic pollution, finishing the latest round of negotiations in Canada early Tuesday amid sharp disagreements about whether to put global limits on plastic production. For the first time in the process, negotiators discussed the tex