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Biden's upcoming graduation speech roils Morehouse College, a center of Black politics and culture 05/16/2024 06:19pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� When he gives the commencement address at Morehouse College, President Joe Biden will have his most direct engagement with college students since the start of the Israel-Hamas war at a center of Black politics and culture. Morehouse is located in Atlanta, the largest city in the Atlanta officer charged with killing his Lyft driver 05/16/2024 05:31pm • UNION CITY, Ga. (AP) ��� An Atlanta police officer who shot and killed a Lyft driver who was driving him home was arrested and charged with murder, authorities said. Koby Minor, 34, was being held without bond after his arrest early Wednesday in Union City, an Atlanta suburb, according to Fulton Co Theft of more than 400 vehicles in Michigan leads to the arrest of 6 men 05/16/2024 05:25pm • LANSING, Mich. (AP) ��� Six men working as part of a criminal organization in Michigan have been arrested in connection with the theft of more than 400 vehicles worth about $8 million, authorities said Thursday. The men, between the ages of 18 and 25, were arrested Wednesday by a police task force Peruvian lawmakers begin yet another effort to remove President Dina Boluarte from office 05/16/2024 04:57pm • LIMA, Peru (AP) ��� Peruvian lawmakers on Thursday began yet another effort to remove President Dina Boluarte from office as authorities continue various investigations against her and her inner circle. The small legislative opposition cited ���moral incapacity��� as the reason for the removal reque Iowa center called police nearly 1,000 times in 3 years before teen killed staffer, records show 05/16/2024 04:15pm • Officers responded nearly 1,000 times in the past three years to an Iowa juvenile treatment center where a staff member was killed by a 15-year-old resident, according to police records. Kathleen Galloway-Menke was assaulted May 8 at the center, Ellipsis Iowa. Her family���s attorney, Trever Hook, s Driver killed in incident at Arizona facility that is being built by a Taiwanese semiconductor giant 05/16/2024 03:23pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� A truck driver has been killed after a tank holding waste material depressurized at a construction site in Phoenix, where workers are building an advanced semiconductor manufacturing plant that could supply tens of millions of chips for powering smartphones, vehicles and data center Man convicted of murder in Detroit teen's death despite body still missing in landfill 05/16/2024 03:17pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� A Detroit man who dropped a teenager���s body into a dumpster after dark but insisted he wasn���t responsible for her death was convicted of second-degree murder Thursday, a case that gripped the region in 2022 when police spent months combing a vast landfill for her remains. Zion F Nearly 1,000 times in 3 years police went to an Iowa juvenile center where a staff was member was killed, records show 05/16/2024 02:21pm • JOHNSON, Iowa (AP) ��� Nearly 1,000 times in 3 years police went to an Iowa juvenile center where a staff was member was killed, records show. A cricket World Cup is coming to NYC���s suburbs, where the sport thrives among immigrant communities 05/16/2024 02:18pm • EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (AP) ��� A towering stadium boasting 34,000 seats and a precisely trimmed field of soft Kentucky bluegrass is rising in a suburban New York park that will host one of the world's top cricket tournaments next month. But on a recent Saturday morning, on the other side of Long Island� Disability rights advocate says state senator with violent history shoved him at New York Capitol 05/16/2024 02:17pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ��� A disability rights advocate made a complaint to New York State Police saying he was shoved twice in the state capitol building by state Sen. Kevin Parker, a Brooklyn Democrat with a history of violent behavior. Michael Carey said his confrontation with Parker took place Wednes Slovak authorities charge 'lone wolf' with assassination attempt on the prime minister 05/16/2024 02:03pm • BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia (AP) ��� Slovak authorities charged a man Thursday with attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Robert Fico, saying he acted alone in a politically motivated attack that left the longtime leader in serious but stable condition. Fico���s pro-Russia views have contributed to Turkey sentences pro-Kurdish politicians to lengthy prison terms over deadly 2014 riots 05/16/2024 01:57pm • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ��� A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced several pro-Kurdish politicians to between nine and 42 years in prison over deadly riots in 2014 by Kurds angered by what they perceived to be government inaction against Islamic State group militants who had besieged the Syrian border to Chiefs kicker Butker congratulates women graduates and says most are more excited about motherhood 05/16/2024 01:51pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� The commencement speaker at Kansas' Benedictine College, a private Catholic liberal arts school, congratulated the women receiving degrees ��� and said most of them were probably more excited about getting married and having children. Harrison Butker, the kicker for the Sup Woman crossing road in Prince George's Co. fatally struck in hit-and-run 05/16/2024 01:07pm • Maryland police are looking for the driver who struck and killed an unidentified woman in the Landover area Tuesday night. The collision happened around 10:30 p.m. near the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Highway and Bell Haven Drive, according to a news release from the Prince George's Co Shaken by the Fico assassination attempt, the EU wonders if June elections can be free of violence 05/16/2024 12:56pm • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� In an increasingly vitriolic political climate, the last thing needed in the runup to the June European Union elections was an assassination attempt on one of the bloc���s most controversial figures. As Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico lay recovering from Wednesday���s attack, the