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Woman pleads guilty, sentenced to 52 years for Texas boy���s death 05/17/2023 02:58pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� A woman on Wednesday agreed to a 52-year prison sentence after pleading guilty in the 2021 death of her boyfriend���s 5-year-old Houston son, whose body she had kept hidden in a storage unit before it was discovered in an East Texas hotel, according to prosecutors. During a court h Grand jury indicts man in 4 University of Idaho stabbing deaths, eliminating need for hearing 05/17/2023 02:35pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) ��� A grand jury has indicted a man who was already charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students, allowing prosecutors to skip a planned week-long preliminary hearing that was set for late June. Bryan Kohberger was arrested late last year and charged with bur Tiny Amerindian village in Guyana fights gold mine in key court battle over indigenous land rights 05/17/2023 01:57pm • CHINESE LANDING, Guyana (AP) ��� One of Guyana���s smallest Amerindian villages is waging a monumental battle that could decide the amount of control that thousands of indigenous people have over their land in remote parts of this South American country. The village of 225 residents is fighting in c Review: 'The Big Door Prize' on Apple TV+ is existential dramedy about life's potential 05/17/2023 01:40pm • What would you do if a magical machine revealed your true life potential? Would you suddenly change your career to pursue your supposed destiny? Or would you be content with the life you have already built by chance? That's the high-concept premise of the new 10-episode streaming series "The To play his father in a movie, comedian Sebastian Maniscalco enlisted Robert De Niro 05/17/2023 11:50am • Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco wanted to make a movie for and about his father. Salvo Maniscalco had immigrated from Sicily to America in 1960 when he was 15. At 18, he became a hairdresser and raised and supported a family in Chicago. As a man from a different generation and culture, he could be agg 'Mississippi miracle': Kids' reading scores have soared in Deep South states 05/17/2023 11:41am • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� It���s a clich�� that Kymyona Burk heard a little too often: ���Thank God for Mississippi.��� As the state���s literacy director, she knew politicians in other states would say it when their reading test scores were down ��� because at least they weren���t ranked as low as Missi Movie Review: Smelling dirt with Joel Edgerton in Paul Schrader���s murky 'Master Gardener' 05/17/2023 10:35am • Paul Schrader plants the seeds of an intriguing melodrama in his latest creation ��� Master Gardener.��� Sigourney Weaver is a wealthy dowager with a stately name (Norma Haverhill), a large house and a dog she���s named porch dog. She also has a horticulturist (Joel Edgerton) in her employ who she Automaker warns over UK operations and calls for Brexit trade deal renegotiation 05/17/2023 09:20am • LONDON (AP) ��� The world's fourth-biggest carmaker by sales has warned of a potential existential threat to large parts of the British car industry unless the government moves to alter the terms of its post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union. In a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into t TJX: Fiscal Q1 Earnings Snapshot 05/17/2023 07:46am • FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) ��� FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) ��� The TJX Cos. (TJX) on Wednesday reported fiscal first-quarter profit of $891 million. The Framingham, Massachusetts-based company said it had profit of 76 cents per share. The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of nin Racist email sent to Fairfax Co. cheer coach prompts investigation 05/17/2023 07:04am • Fairfax County Public Schools says it plans to launch a third-party investigation after a high school cheerleading coach received an anonymous email with racist and hate-filled language in March. The email, obtained by WTOP, was sent to Oakton High School cheerleading coach Jillian Domenech at th East German workers strike, claiming they are paid less than counterparts in the west 05/17/2023 05:15am • BERLIN (AP) ��� Employees at a beverage company in eastern Germany that produces the country's popular Vita Cola among other drinks, went on strike because more than 30 years after the country's reunification their salaries are still significantly lower than that of employees working for their paren Star-studded crowd watches Victor Wembanyama turn it on late, hours before NBA draft lottery 05/17/2023 03:28am • PARIS (AP) ��� Hours before finding out his likely destination in the NBA, Victor Wembanyama drew a star-studded crowd in his last regular-season game in France and delivered another game-winning performance in the fourth quarter. Soccer star Kylian Mbapp�� and popular French actor Omar Sy were bot Who is Victor Wembanyama? The NBA is about to get the answer to that question 05/16/2023 08:38pm • The Victor Wembanyama sweepstakes has a winner. It's the San Antonio Spurs. The NBA draft lottery was Tuesday night in Chicago and 14 teams had hope that the ping-pong balls will bounce their way, giving them the No. 1 pick this year and the chance to draft Wembanyama. The Detroit Pistons, Houston R Rain-swollen rivers flood some towns in north Italy; Venice prepares to raise mobile dike in lagoon 05/16/2023 08:23pm • ROME (AP) ��� Rivers swollen by days of downpours flooded some towns in northern Italy on Tuesday, forcing some residents to rooftops, while in Venice, authorities prepared to activate a mobile barrier in the lagoon in hopes of sparing the city from a rare May high-tide flooding. After the Savio Riv 15 Most Expensive Private Medical Schools 05/16/2023 08:00pm • Attending higher education can be costly, especially at the graduate level. Although medical degrees in particular often lead to lucrative salaries, potential medical students must decide if the cost of attendance is worth the investment. According to the most recent U.S. News data on tuition and fe