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President Biden endorses House aid package for Israel and Ukraine, urging quick passage so he can sign it 'immediately' 04/17/2024 02:27pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Biden endorses House aid package for Israel and Ukraine, urging quick passage so he can sign it 'immediately.' Italy's leader keeps the focus on migration on her fourth visit to Tunisia in a year 04/17/2024 02:17pm • TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The head of Italy's right-wing government acknowledged Wednesday that Tunisia cannot serve as a dumping ground for migrants, days after Tunisia's president reaffirmed his unwillingness to let Europe outsource migration problems by sending those not welcome there to his countr NFL draft: Top defensive players on the board 04/17/2024 02:14pm • NFL teams in need of immediate help on defense will have a tricky time finding it in the first round or two of this year's draft. As usual, edge rushers and cornerbacks will be the most highly valued defensive players. But the best of those groups don't quite stack up to their peers in recent drafts Russian missiles slam into a Ukraine city and kill 17 people as the war approaches a critical stage 04/17/2024 11:01am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Three Russian missiles slammed into a downtown area of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Wednesday, hitting an eight-floor apartment building and killing at least 17 people, authorities said. At least 61 people, including three children, were wounded in the morning a Noah Eagle picked by NBC as play-by-play voice for basketball at the Paris Olympics 04/17/2024 10:00am • Noah Eagle is broadcasting his second Olympics this summer. He's going to his first. NBC Sports announced Wednesday that Eagle will be the play-by-play voice for USA Basketball's men's games, women's games and the medal rounds at this summer's Paris Olympics. The men's roster was announced Wednesday Trump will meet with Polish President Duda as NATO leaders call for additional support for Ukraine 04/17/2024 09:14am • NEW YORK (AP) — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is scheduled to meet Wednesday in New York with Polish President Andrzej Duda, a staunch supporter of Ukraine who once proposed naming a military base in his country “Fort Trump." The planned dinner meeting, confirmed by a Today in History: April 17, US launches Bay of Pigs invasion to topple Fidel Castro in Cuba 04/17/2024 12:01am • Today is Wednesday, April 17, the 108th day of 2024. There are 258 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 17, 1961, some 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in an attempt to topple Fidel Castro, whose forces crushed the i Facing a Republican revolt, House Speaker Johnson's plan for US aid to Ukraine, allies uncertain 04/16/2024 11:56pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Defiant and determined, House Speaker Mike Johnson pushed back Tuesday against mounting Republican anger over his proposed U.S. aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other allies, and rejected a call to step aside or risk a vote to oust him from office. “I am not resigning,” Jo Michigan Democrats win special elections to regain full control of state government 04/16/2024 09:55pm • LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democrats won back a majority in the Michigan House and restored their party’s full control of state government Tuesday thanks to victories in two special elections. Mai Xiong won the special election in the 13th District, which covers Warren and part of Detroit, while Pet Fairfax Co. schools stand to lose millions in funding under Youngkin's proposed budget amendments, school system says 04/16/2024 06:05pm • Fairfax County Public Schools would lose over $6 million in funding for English language learners in each of the next two years, as a result of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s proposed changes to the state’s budget. That is one of several findings in the school district’s analysis of the pro Ohio man fatally shot Uber driver after scam phone calls targeted both of them, authorities say 04/16/2024 05:35pm • SOUTH CHARLESTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man who authorities say fatally shot an Uber driver who he thought was trying to rob him after scam phone calls deceived them both has been indicted on a murder charge. William Brock, 81, also faces counts of kidnapping and felonious assault in the indictment UnitedHealth Group, Morgan Stanley rise; PNC Financial, Live Nation fall, Tuesday, 4/16/2024 04/16/2024 04:13pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Tuesday: Intra-Cellular Therapies Inc., up $15.08 to $79.84. The biopharmaceutical company made an encouraging update on its potential treatment for a depressive disorder. UnitedHealth Group Inc., up $23.26 to $468.89. Fritz Peterson, Yankees pitcher who traded wives with teammate Mike Kekich, dies at age 81 04/16/2024 03:42pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Fritz Peterson, the New York Yankees pitcher who famously swapped wives and families with teammate Mike Kekich in 1973, has died. He was 81. Peterson died of lung cancer at his home in Winona, Minnesota, on Oct. 19, according to death records from the Winona County Vital Records De Ukraine prime minister calls for more investment in war-torn country during Chicago stop of US visit 04/16/2024 02:54pm • CHICAGO (AP) — Ukraine Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal kicked off a United States visit Tuesday with multiple stops in Chicago aimed at drumming up investment and business in the war-torn country. He spoke to Chicago-area business leaders before a joint news conference with Penny Pritzker, the U.S. The Paris Games' grandiose opening ceremony is being squeezed by security and transport issues 04/16/2024 07:50am • PARIS (AP) — The talk before the opening ceremony of the Paris Games ideally should be about its grandiose backdrop: a summer sun setting on the Seine River as athletes drift by in boats and wave to cheering crowds. But behind the romantic veneer that Paris has long curated, mounting security conc