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Attackers wound 5 Pakistani policemen guarding polio workers 01/05/2023 08:14pm • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) ��� Attackers armed with guns and hand grenades ambushed a police van assigned to guard polio workers in northwestern Pakistan, wounding five policemen, authorities said. Police returned fire after coming under attack near a bridge in Dera Ismail Khan, a district in Khyber P Abortion rights bill fast-tracked in Minnesota to become law 01/05/2023 05:46pm • ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) ��� A bill to strengthen abortion rights in Minnesota is on the fast track to becoming law as it passed its first test Thursday. A House health panel approved the legislation, which codifies protections into state statutes, 11-8 on just the third day of the 2023 session and sent Cuban migrants arrive in Florida to uncertain future 01/05/2023 05:43pm • KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) ��� Yoandri S��nchez S��nchez arrived in the Florida Keys just before sunrise Thursday with 22 other Cubans on a makeshift, motorized raft they built themselves. Their 100-mile (160-kilometer) journey from the communist island across the dangerous Florida Straits began on New Ye Transfer Alissa Pili leading way as No. 8 Utah starts 14-0 01/05/2023 04:33pm • Utah���s Alissa Pili may be an undersized post player at 6-foot-2. Just don���t tell her that. The scouting report on Pili: A physical presence down low (she attributes that to being an offensive/defensive lineman in football). Difficult to box out (a quality from her wrestling days). Quick reflexes Football fans grapple with violent side of a beloved sport 01/05/2023 03:58pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The harrowing scenes of Damar Hamlin's on-field collapse after suffering cardiac arrest have forced some fans to confront yet again a truth they���ve always known but hated to think about: Football, a game with violence in its DNA, can go from exciting and joyous to dark and tragic EXPLAINER: What is the metaverse and how will it work? 01/05/2023 03:12pm • The term ���metaverse��� is the latest buzzword to capture the tech industry���s imagination ��� and while Facebook parent Meta is the best-known entrant into this futuristic virtual concept, it's certainly not the only one. Mark Zuckerberg���s all-in embrace ��� including renaming his company and Report: Lawsuit settled in Maryland newsroom shooting 01/05/2023 10:37am • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ��� The families of victims in the Capital Gazette shooting and some newspaper employees who survived the deadly 2018 attack dismissed civil charges against The Baltimore Sun and Tribune Publishing this week after settling the case, the newspaper said. Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaase US jobless claim applications fall to lowest in 14 weeks 01/05/2023 09:04am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits fell to the lowest level in more than three months last week, reflecting a still-robust job market despite the Federal Reserve's efforts to cool the economy and bring down decades-high inflation. Applications for unemployment Justice Jackson working on a memoir, titled 'Lovely One' 01/05/2023 08:03am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is working on a memoir. Jackson, the first Black woman appointed to the court, is calling the book ���Lovely One." ���Mine has been an unlikely journey,��� Jackson said in a statement released Thursday by Random House. ���But the path was 8 found fatally shot in Utah home, including 5 children 01/05/2023 01:35am • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ��� Eight family members, five of them children, were found dead from gunshot wounds in a southern Utah home Wednesday, according to authorities who did not provide more details or a potential motive for the killings. The victims were found when police did a welfare check at t EXPLAINER: Next steps and new details in Idaho killings 01/04/2023 11:44pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) ��� It���s been weeks since four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in their beds, and now some of the mystery surrounding the case may soon fall away. Bryan Kohberger, who was attending a nearby university around the time of the killings, was returned to Idaho on Man charged in university student killings arrives in Idaho 01/04/2023 09:52pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) ��� The suspect in the November slayings of four University of Idaho students has arrived in Idaho, where he is charged with four counts of first-degree murder and felony burglary. Bryan Kohberger, a 28-year-old doctoral student at Washington State University, was flown by Pennsylv 'A lot of emotions' in Bobby Wagner's return to Seattle 01/04/2023 09:24pm • THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) ��� Bobby Wagner spoke passionately Wednesday about the importance of mental health in the NFL, encouraging his fellow players to deal openly and honestly with their feelings following Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin's collapse on the field. When Wagner eventually addressed th College scam mastermind Rick Singer gets 3.5 years in prison 01/04/2023 07:41pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� The mastermind of the nationwide college admissions bribery scheme that ensnared celebrities, prominent businesspeople and other parents who used their wealth and privilege to buy their kids��� way into top-tier schools was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison Wednesday. The punishment How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change 01/04/2023 07:00pm • With the effects of climate change increasingly apparent -- from melting glaciers and record heat waves to floods and wildfires -- many young people today are concerned about climate change. A 2021 survey of 10,000 young people ages 16-25 in 10 countries found that 84% were at least moderately worri