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With strawberries and goats, a ���farmastery��� reaches out to its neighbors 06/01/2024 02:13pm • HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (RNS) ��� On a warm, sunny morning in farm country, a group of 40 preschoolers and their parents fanned out across several rows of crops to pluck strawberries from beneath crowns of green leaves. Later, the children sliced the berries they had gathered and added bananas, kale and With his transgender identity public, skier Jay Riccomini finds success on and off the slopes 06/01/2024 01:03pm • COPPER MOUNTAIN, Colo. (AP) ��� One of freestyle skier Jay Riccomini's priceless life moments came this year in Switzerland, when he was recognized on the podium for a third-place finish in a major global competition. It was a breakthrough performance ��� and the announcer used his correct pronouns Skye Blakely ���shut down��� after the 2021 Olympic trials. A mental coach helped bring her back 06/01/2024 12:16pm • FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) ��� Skye Blakely didn't want to hear it. Just like most teenagers whenever their parents offer to help. Stephanie and Steven Blakely approached their youngest daughter twice in the aftermath of the 2021 Olympic trials ��� a meet that ended with the 16-year-old's left elbow req European vote could tip the balance on Meloni's far-right agenda in Italy 06/01/2024 11:20am • MILAN (AP) ��� While Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni adopts a reassuring Western-allied foreign policy, cultural wars at home are preserving her far-right credentials heading into a European parliamentary election, where her neo-fascist-rooted Brothers of Italy party is projected to secure significan Birmingham-Southern loses D-III World Series opener 7-5 on same day the liberal arts college closes 05/31/2024 11:42pm • EASTLAKE, Ohio (AP) ��� And the baseball team played on. Birmingham-Southern rallied before losing its opening game in the Division III World Series 7-5 on Friday, the same day the private liberal art school's doors officially closed after more than 160 years. The Panthers fell behind 7-0 in the fif 15 years on, the Tamil survivors of Sri Lanka's brutal civil war live in fear �����and disempowerment 05/31/2024 11:01pm • MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka (AP) ��� At the site of a bloody battlefield that marked the end of Sri Lanka���s civil war, Singaram Soosaimuthu fishes every day with his son, casting nets and reeling them in. It is a skill he has known for much of his life ��� and one that he had to relearn after a devastat Marian Robinson, the mother of Michelle Obama who lived in the White House, dies at 86 05/31/2024 08:11pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� On election night 2008, as Barack Obama sat nervously in a Chicago hotel suite and awaited news on whether he would become the country���s first Black president, his mother-in-law was by his side. ���Are you ready for this, Grandma?��� Obama asked Marian Shields Robinson, who yea Marian Robinson, mother of Michelle Obama, dies at 86 05/31/2024 07:26pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Marian Shields Robinson, the mother of Michelle Obama who moved with the first family to the White House when son-in-law Barack Obama was elected president, has died. She was 86. Mrs. Robinson's death was announced by Michelle Obama and other family members in a statement that sa Massachusetts teacher on leave after holding mock slave auction and using racial slur, official says 05/31/2024 06:25pm • A fifth-grade teacher in Massachusetts has been placed on paid leave after a series of incidents including holding a mock slave auction, using a racial slur, and calling out the student who reported the slur, a school official said. Officials did not name the teacher at the Margaret A. Neary Element FDA warns parents to avoid infant formula distributed by Texas company due to contamination 05/31/2024 06:01pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� U.S. health officials warned parents to avoid powdered infant formula sold by a Texas dairy producer, because a dangerous bacteria was found in one of the company's products. The Food and Drug Administration issued the alert Friday on Crecelac Infant Powdered Goat Milk Infant For Stock market today: Wall Street rallies to close out a bloom-filled May 05/31/2024 05:28pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� An already verdant May for Wall Street finished with another push higher as stocks rallied Friday after a report showed inflation is at least not worsening. The S&P 500 rose 0.8% to close its sixth winning month in the last seven. The main measure of the U.S. stock market���s h Family of Utah man held in Congo coup attempt has no proof he's alive 05/31/2024 03:10pm • WEST JORDAN, Utah (AP) ��� A Utah family whose son was implicated in a thwarted coup in Congo said they���re unsure if he's alive as they struggle to get U.S. officials to make contact with him and two other Americans two weeks after their arrest. Tyler Thompson Jr., 21, flew to Africa in April with Oldest living National Spelling Bee champion reflects on his win 70 years later 05/31/2024 03:05pm • EAST GREENWICH, R.I. (AP) ��� In medical school and throughout his career as a neonatologist, William Cashore often was asked to proofread others��� work. Little did they know he was a spelling champion, with a trophy at home to prove it. ���They knew that I had a very good sense of words and that I Remains of US missionaries killed by criminal gang members in Haiti returned to family 05/31/2024 02:52pm • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� The bodies of a young U.S. missionary couple killed by gang members in Haiti���s capital were returned to their family in Missouri on Friday. The parents of Natalie Lloyd, 21, announced on Facebook the arrival of the remains of their daughter and son-in-law, 23-year-old A Ghana toddler sets a world record as the youngest male artist. His mom says he just loves colors 05/31/2024 02:34pm • ACCRA, Ghana (AP) ��� Meet Ace-Liam Ankrah, a Ghana toddler who has set the record as the world's youngest male artist. His mother, Chantelle Kukua Eghan, says it all started by accident when her son, who at the time was 6 months old, discovered her acrylic paints. Eghan, an artist and founder of A