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Senators urge $32 billion in emergency spending on AI after finishing yearlong review 05/15/2024 05:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A bipartisan group of four senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is recommending that Congress spend at least $32 billion over the next three years to develop artificial intelligence and place safeguards around it, writing in a report released Wednesday that the U.S. need Angie Harmon is suing Instacart and a former shopper who shot and killed her dog, Oliver 05/15/2024 05:23pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� Actor Angie Harmon has filed a lawsuit against Instacart and one of its former shoppers who fatally shot her dog in March while delivering groceries at her North Carolina home. The lawsuit filed late last week in Mecklenburg County seeks to hold the shopper and Instacart lia Texas man accused of killing New Mexico women and kidnapping an infant faces federal charge 05/15/2024 05:22pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ��� A Texas man accused of fatally shooting two New Mexico women and taking one of their children and seriously injuring another is now facing a federal kidnapping charge. Alek Isaiah Collins, 26, appeared Tuesday before a federal judge in Abilene, Texas. He will remain in fe Pro-Palestinian protesters place fake bloody corpses at home of University of Michigan official 05/15/2024 04:59pm • Pro-Palestinian protesters wearing masks pitched tents and placed fake bloody corpses outside the home of a University of Michigan board member Wednesday, raising tension with the school. Sarah Hubbard, chair of the university's governing board, said the 6 a.m. demonstration at her home in Okemos in Prince George's Co. officer facing domestic violence charges freed from jail 05/15/2024 04:35pm • A Prince George's County police corporal charged with domestic violence against his wife was ordered to private home detention after making his first appearance in court Wednesday. For now, the charges against 28-year-old Robert Harvin are two misdemeanors, but prosecutors hinted there's evidence Judge quickly denies request to discard $38 million verdict in New Hampshire youth center abuse case 05/15/2024 04:15pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� The judge who oversaw a landmark trial about New Hampshire���s youth detention center has refused to discard the $38 million verdict, saying the facility���s leadership ���either knew and didn���t care or didn���t care to learn the truth��� about endemic physical and sexual ab Another politically progressive prosecutor in the San Francisco Bay Area faces recall election 05/15/2024 03:58pm • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ��� San Francisco Bay Area voters will weigh in on the recall of another progressive district attorney who ran on a platform of offender rehabilitation and police accountability, and whose critics say is undermining public safety. Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price fa This, too, could pass: Christian group's rule keeping beaches closed on Sunday mornings may end 05/15/2024 03:24pm • OCEAN GROVE, N.J. (AP) ��� In this seaside community that calls itself ���God's Square Mile at the Jersey Shore,��� all the land is owned by a religious group that has for generations enforced an 11th Commandment: Thou shalt stay off the beach on Sunday morning. But there are signs that decades-old Senate primaries set up a marquee race in Maryland and a likely Republican flip in West Virginia 05/15/2024 03:00pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ��� Republican voters advanced strong Senate contenders in Maryland and West Virginia on Tuesday, giving the GOP a big boost in its push to claim control of Congress' upper chamber. Former Gov. Larry Hogan claimed the Republican nomination in what will be a marquee race in Maryl A Swiss court sentences a former Gambian interior minister to 20 years for crimes against humanity 05/15/2024 02:52pm • GENEVA (AP) ��� Switzerland���s top criminal court on Wednesday convicted a former interior minister of Gambia for crimes against humanity and sentenced him to 20 years over his role in murder, torture and other repression committed by the West African country���s security forces under its longtime Defendants unmasked in court face cost of damage for allegedly felling famous 150-year-old tree 05/15/2024 02:24pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Two men accused of cutting down the majestic Sycamore Gap tree concealed their faces from cameras as they arrived at court Wednesday but inside the courtroom they couldn't hide from the cost of the damage they allegedly caused. A prosecutor said the value of the roughly 150-year-old Ukrainian troops pull out of some areas and Zelenskyy postpones foreign trips amid Russian offensive 05/15/2024 02:00pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Ukrainian forces withdrew from some parts of the country's northeast and battled Russian troops in other areas Wednesday, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's decision to postpone all his upcoming foreign trips underscored the seriousness of the threat his soldiers face. Against Who gets to claim self-defense in shootings? Airman���s death sparks debate over race and gun rights 05/15/2024 01:43pm • For the past decade, ���Stand Your Ground��� laws have been invoked time and time again by gun owners who claim self-defense after carrying out shootings. Critics have denounced them as ���shoot first��� laws that have created a climate of vigilantism in which gun owners operate with impunity in kil Italian anti-fascist activist jailed in Hungary to be moved to house arrest in Budapest 05/15/2024 01:03pm • ROME (AP) ��� A Hungarian court of appeal on Wednesday upheld a request from an Italian anti-fascist activist to be moved from jail to house arrest in Budapest as she awaits trial, authorities said. The court approved Ilaria Salis��� request upon payment of a bail of about 40,000 euros ($43,000), ac Fewer US overdose deaths were reported last year, but experts are still cautious 05/15/2024 12:58pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The number of U.S. fatal overdoses fell last year, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data posted Wednesday. Agency officials noted the data is provisional and could change after more analysis, but that they still expect a drop when the final counts are in. It