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Army Corps of Engineers official on 'Herculean task' of Baltimore Key Bridge recovery, salvage efforts 04/23/2024 03:44pm • Tuesday marks four weeks since tragedy hit Baltimore, Maryland, and six lives were lost when a huge container ship slammed into the Key Bridge, causing most of the structure to collapse into the Patapsco River. Dozens of people have been working around the clock to try and get the tens of thousan Former MIT researcher who killed Yale graduate student sentenced to 35 years in prison 04/23/2024 03:29pm • NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) ��� A former researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was sentenced Tuesday to 35 years in prison for the killing of a Yale University graduate student found shot outside his car on a Connecticut street. Qinxuan Pan, 33, who pleaded guilty to murder in February, Nikola Jokic's brother reportedly involved in an altercation after the Nuggets beat the Lakers 04/23/2024 03:04pm • DENVER (AP) ��� The NBA and Denver police are looking into an incident in which a man reported to be one of the brothers of Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic was seen punching a fan after the team���s buzzer-beating 101-99 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA playoffs. In videos shared by T Spanish judge freezes a bank account of Piqu��'s company amid probe into Saudi deal to host Super Cup 04/23/2024 02:33pm • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ��� A Spanish judge has ordered a bank account of a company run by former Barcelona player Gerard Piqu�� to be frozen while she investigates suspicions of corruption in the hosting of the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia. A Spanish court confirmed local news reports saying tha Oklahoma police say 10-year-old boy awoke to find his parents and 3 brothers shot to death 04/23/2024 02:26pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ��� A 10-year-old boy awoke to find his parents and three brothers dead in their southwest Oklahoma City home, all fatally shot by his father, police said Tuesday. On Monday morning, ���(the boy) woke up and discovered what had happened,��� said Sgt. Gary Knight, describing the sc Maryland man charged in rowdy Fairfax County 'street takeover' 04/23/2024 02:12pm • A Maryland man has been charged in connection with a chaotic "street takeover" incident last month, involving a large outdoor gathering of people partying and driving recklessly, who police say eventually surrounded the car of a responding officer in Fairfax County, Virginia. Brandon Extecoc Sant Kansas has a new anti-DEI law, but the governor has vetoed bills on abortion and even police dogs 04/23/2024 02:12pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ��� Kansas' Democratic governor on Friday vetoed proposed tax breaks for anti-abortion counseling centers while allowing restrictions on college diversity initiatives approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature to become law without her signature. Gov. Laura Kelly also vetoe UK puts its defense industry on 'war footing' and gives Ukraine $620 million in new military aid 04/23/2024 01:53pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) ��� The U.K. prime minister said Tuesday the country is putting its defense industry on a ���war footing��� by increasing defense spending to 2.5% of GDP by the end of the decade, and pledged to send arms worth 500 million pounds ($620 million) to Ukraine. Prime Minister Rishi Su With graduation near, colleges seek to balance safety and students' right to protest Gaza war 04/23/2024 01:26pm • CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) ��� The University of Michigan is informing students of the rules for upcoming graduation ceremonies: Banners and flags are not allowed. Protests are OK but in designated areas away from the cap-and-gown festivities. The University of Southern California canceled a planned spee William Strickland, a longtime civil rights activist, scholar and friend of Malcolm X, has died 04/23/2024 01:08pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� William Strickland, a longtime civil rights activist and supporter of the Black Power movement who worked with Malcolm X and other prominent leaders in the 1960s, has died. He was 87. Strickland, whose death April 10 was confirmed by a relative, first became active in civil rights as Paris mayor is confident that water quality will allow Olympic swimming in the River Seine 04/23/2024 12:08pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said she was confident water quality in the River Seine will be up to Olympic standards this summer ��� and that she���ll be able to prove it by swimming there, possibly alongside President Emmanuel Macron. The Seine is the venue for marathon swimming at the A Russian strike on Kharkiv's TV tower is part of an intimidation campaign, Ukraine's Zelenskyy says 04/23/2024 11:52am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a Russian missile strike that smashed a prominent skyline television tower in Kharkiv was part of the Kremlin���s effort to intimidate Ukraine���s second-largest city, which in recent weeks has come under increasingly frequent attac Google fires more workers who protested its deal with Israel 04/23/2024 10:11am • Google fired at least 20 more workers in the aftermath of protests over technology the company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war, bringing the total number of terminated staff to more than 50, a group representing the workers said. It's the latest sign of internal turmoil at the NFL draft has been on tour for a decade and the next stop is Detroit, giving it a shot in spotlight 04/23/2024 09:32am • DETROIT (AP) ��� The NFL draft has taken the show on the road for a decade, giving cities around the country a chance to be in the spotlight. Detroit is on the clock. The Motor City, which was once one of the nation's largest and most powerful cities, has bounced back from filing for bankruptcy in 2 Pro-Palestinian protests sweep US college campuses following mass arrests at Columbia 04/23/2024 08:21am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Columbia canceled in-person classes, dozens of protesters were arrested at New York University and Yale, and the gates to Harvard Yard were closed to the public Monday as some of the most prestigious U.S. universities sought to defuse campus tensions over Israel's war with Hamas. M