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New Orleans' own PJ Morton returns home to Jazz Fest with new music 05/04/2024 12:31am • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and producer PJ Morton comes home with a new album and memoir dropping soon amid a Saturday afternoon performance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, which nears the end of an eight-day run. Morton, a preacher's kid whose pare The Kentucky Derby is turning 150 years old. It's survived world wars and controversies of all kinds 05/04/2024 12:24am • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — As a record crowd cheered, American Pharoah rallied from behind and took aim at his remaining two rivals in the stretch. The bay colt and jockey Victor Espinoza surged to the lead with a furlong to go and thundered across the finish line a length ahead in the 2015 Kentucky D A senior UN official says northern Gaza is now in 'full-blown famine' 05/03/2024 10:01pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A top U.N. official said Friday that hard-hit northern Gaza was now in “full-blown famine" after more than six months of war between Israel and Hamas and severe Israeli restrictions on food deliveries to the Palestinian territory. Cindy McCain, the American director of the U.N Deadly news helicopter crash likely caused by shaky inspections, leading to loose parts, feds say 05/03/2024 06:22pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Investigators found disconnected and missing hardware aboard a helicopter that crashed in 2022, killing the pilot and a North Carolina television station’s meteorologist, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. The NTSB's final report on the 2022 crash, whic F1 now makes 3 stops a season in the United States. Could Miami become a victim of oversaturation? 05/03/2024 05:12pm • MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Formula 1 is back in the United States for the first time in six months and the first stop is the Miami Grand Prix, the race that was supposed to be the American showpiece. But the sparkling debut of Las Vegas last November was rated as one of the best races of the 2023 The Latest | Court in Trump's hush money trial adjourns for the day following Hope Hicks' testimony 05/03/2024 04:15pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Hope Hicks took the stand Friday in Donald Trump's hush money case, recounting in her testimony how she followed Trump from the real estate world to politics and how his 2016 presidential campaign was turned upside down following a leak of a video recording in which he boasted abou 'Mayor Bowser, you're being disrespectful': Parents and child care workers rally in DC 05/03/2024 03:50pm • Parent Dorian Warren walked up to the microphone on the steps of the Wilson Building and made it clear how he felt about D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposal to cut about $70 million from the Early Educator Pay Equity fund, which subsidizes pay for day care and preschool teachers. "Mayor Bow Democratic officials criticize Meta ad policy, saying it amplifies lies about 2020 election 05/03/2024 03:29pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Several Democrats serving as their state's top election officials have sent a letter to the parent company of Facebook, asking it to stop allowing ads that claim the 2020 presidential election was stolen. In the letter addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the secretaries of state Flowers, candles, silence as Serbia marks the 1st anniversary of mass shooting at a Belgrade school 05/03/2024 02:25pm • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Hundreds of people laid flowers and lit candles on Friday to commemorate the victims of Serbia's first-ever school shooting a year ago that left nine children and a school guard dead and six people wounded. A somber, silent queue formed on a rainy day outside the Vladislav Biden administration says 100,000 new migrants are expected to enroll in 'Obamacare' next year 05/03/2024 01:43pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Roughly 100,000 immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children are expected to enroll in the Affordable Care Act's health insurance next year under a directive the Biden administration released Friday. The move took longer than promised to finalize and fell short of Democra Arizona governor's signing of abortion law repeal follows political fight by women lawmakers 05/03/2024 01:05pm • PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs' signing of the repeal of a Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions was a stirring occasion for the women working to ensure that the 19th century law remains in the past. Current and former state lawmakers, and reproductive rights advocates crowded into th Prince George's Co. school system holds first-ever LGBTQ+ summit this weekend 05/03/2024 12:59pm • When Prince George's County Public Schools superintendent Millard House visited students and schools around the county at the start of the school year, one of the complaints he heard came from students in the LGBTQ+ community, who felt they weren't being heard or that their needs were being met. Thi Lawyers for teen suing NBA star Ja Morant over a fight during a pickup game withdraw from the case 05/03/2024 12:38pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Lawyers for a teenager who is suing two-time NBA All-Star Ja Morant over a fight during an offseason pickup game can withdraw from the case after citing irreconcilable conflicts with their client, a Tennessee judge ruled Friday. Rebecca Adelman and Leslie Ballin had filed a m Self-exiled Chinese businessman's chief of staff pleads guilty weeks before trial 05/03/2024 12:37pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The chief of staff of a Chinese businessman sought by the government of China pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges on Friday, weeks before her boss goes to trial in New York in a $1 billion fraud case. Yvette Wang entered the plea in Manhattan federal court three weeks before she w TDS: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 05/03/2024 07:41am • CHICAGO (AP) — CHICAGO (AP) — Telephone & Data Systems Inc. (TDS) on Friday reported first-quarter profit of $29 million. The Chicago-based company said it had net income of 10 cents per share. The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by