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Penix wowed Falcons' Morris, Fontenot with sound of his passes in pre-NFL draft workout 04/27/2024 06:52pm • FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) ��� There's a reason Atlanta Falcons coach Raheem Morris and general manager Terry Fontenot made a cross-county flight for a personal workout with Washington quarterback Michael Penix, Jr. before the NFL draft. They wanted to be able to hear Penix's passes. Morris, who lined Hamas is reviewing an Israeli proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza, as a planned Rafah offensive looms 04/27/2024 05:07pm • CAIRO (AP) ��� Hamas said Saturday it was reviewing a new Israeli proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza, as Egypt intensified efforts to broker a deal to end the months-long war and stave off a planned Israeli ground offensive into the southern city of Rafah. Senior Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya gave n As border debate shifts right, Sen. Alex Padilla emerges as persistent counterforce for immigrants 04/27/2024 03:18pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden had a question. ���Is it true?��� Biden asked Sen. Alex Padilla, referencing the roughly 25% of U.S. students in kindergarten through high school who are Latino. Padilla said the question came as he was waiting with the president in a back room at a library in As border debate shifts right, Sen. Alex Padilla emerges as persistent counterforce for immigrants 04/27/2024 03:16pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden had a question. ���Is it true?��� Biden asked Sen. Alex Padilla, referencing the roughly 25% of U.S. students in kindergarten through high school who are Latino. Padilla said the question came as he was waiting with the president in a back room at a library in How TikTok grew from a fun app for teens into a potential national security threat 04/27/2024 01:18pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� If it feels like TikTok has been around forever, that's probably because it has, at least if you're measuring via internet time. What's now in question is whether it will be around much longer and, if so, in what form? Starting in 2017, when the Chinese social video app merged Trump promised big plans to flip Black and Latino voters. Many Republicans are waiting to see them 04/27/2024 11:35am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Donald Trump says he wants to hold a major campaign event at New York's Madison Square Garden featuring Black hip-hop artists and athletes. Aides speak of Trump making appearances in Chicago, Detroit and Atlanta with leaders of color and realigning American politics by flipping Dem Migration roils US elections. Mexico sees mass migration too, but its politicians rarely mention it 04/27/2024 09:03am • BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) ��� Republican activists gathered in a school lunchroom last month to hear political pitches from candidates and agreed on the top issue in the Denver suburbs these days: immigration. The area has been disrupted by the arrival of largely Venezuelan migrants coming north through A woman might win the presidency of Mexico. What could that mean for abortion rights? 04/27/2024 08:45am • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� If a woman wins Mexico���s presidency on June 2, would she rule with gender in mind? The question has been raised by academics, humans rights organizations and activists ahead of the voting that will likely elect Mexico���s first female president for the term 2024-2030. Out of t Fairfax Co. high schoolers compete for $20K in international math competition 04/27/2024 05:36am • A team of high school students from Fairfax County, Virginia, will soon be heading to New York City with the hopes of winning $20,000 for their work in an international math competition. The students from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology are among six teams that made it to The US and China talk past each other on most issues, but at least they���re still talking 04/27/2024 03:09am • BEIJING (AP) ��� U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up his just-concluded latest visit to China with a stop at a Beijing record store where he bought albums by Taylor Swift and Chinese rocker Dou Wei in a symbolic nod to cross-cultural exchanges and understanding he had been promoting fo Indiana voters to pick party candidates in competitive, multimillion dollar primaries 04/27/2024 12:06am • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� In deep red Indiana, where Republicans hold a supermajority in both chambers of the state legislature and most top offices are held by GOP politicians, the May 7 primary will determine the outcome of the general election in many races. The most-watched is the GOP race for gover Student protesters camp out on GWU's campus as Israel-Hamas war protests continue nationwide 04/26/2024 11:45pm • Student protesters camped out on George Washington University���s campus Friday as demonstrations over the Israel-Hamas war continued for a second day after both Georgetown University and GWU saw hundreds rally on their campuses. Shortly before 4 p.m. Friday, The Hatchet, the GW student newsp Canadian province will make changes to try to stop drug use in public places, premier says 04/26/2024 09:03pm • VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) ��� The government of the Canadian province of British Columbia is making changes to its drug decriminalization policy to stop drug use in public places. Premier David Eby told a news conference Friday the province is asking the federal government to make illicit dru Maine governor signs off on new gun laws, mental health supports in wake of Lewiston shootings 04/26/2024 08:09pm • AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) ��� Democratic Gov. Janet Mills on Friday signed into law a suite of gun safety legislation approved by lawmakers after the deadliest mass shooting in state history, expanding background checks for private sales of weapons, bolstering the state's ���yellow flag��� law, criminaliz Takeaways from AP's investigation into fatal police encounters involving injections of sedatives 04/26/2024 07:55pm • The practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police spread quietly across the nation over the last 15 years, built on questionable science and backed by police-aligned experts, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found. At least 94 people died after they were given sedatives a