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Hundreds of Syrian refugees head home as anti-refugee sentiment surges in Lebanon 05/14/2024 10:44am • ARSAL, Lebanon (AP) — More than 300 Syrian refugees headed back home to Syria in a convoy on Tuesday, leaving two remote northeastern towns in crisis-stricken Lebanon where anti-refugee sentiment has been surging in recent months. Lebanese officials have long urged the international community to If your soil's no good or you don't have any, grow your garden plants in straw bales 05/14/2024 08:03am • If you’d like to install a raised bed but don’t have the resources to build one, you can achieve the same effect by growing your plants in straw bales. It’s also a great option for those with poor soil or who don’t have a patch of dirt to call their own. Typically used as Halloween decoratio Roger Corman, Hollywood mentor and 'King of the Bs,' dies at 98 05/13/2024 01:04pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Roger Corman, the “King of the Bs” who helped turn out such low-budget classics as “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Attack of the Crab Monsters” and gave many of Hollywood's most famous actors and directors early breaks, has died. He was 98. Corman died Thursday at his College football portal classes: Ole Miss all in, Ohio State shops high end. Prime restocks again 05/13/2024 11:43am • With the spring transfer portal window closed, a look at six college football teams that cleaned up in various ways. Mississippi In terms of quantity and quality, Ole Miss killed it. In a Nick Saban-less Southeastern Conference, the Rebels might be the best non-Georgia team in 2024. The Rebels had g This Week: Producer prices, inflation check, April retail sales 05/13/2024 03:10am • Inflation foresight The Labor Department releases producer price data for April on Tuesday. The producer price index measures inflation at the wholesale level, before businesses pass costs on to consumers. Wholesale inflation jumped in March, the latest sign that inflation pressures in the economy r Germany limits cash benefit payments for asylum-seekers. Critics say it's designed to curb migration 05/13/2024 02:30am • EICHSFELD, Germany (AP) — When Erdina Laca goes grocery shopping in Eichsfeld these days, she pulls out a special payment card that’s for asylum-seekers only. She no longer pays in cash for her apples, eggs and fish — like most of the Germans standing in line with her at the register. Laca, 45 Chinese journalist imprisoned for her Covid reporting due to be released after four years. But will she be free? 05/13/2024 01:37am • Hong Kong (CNN) — A Chinese citizen journalist who has been behind bars for four years over her reporting on the initial Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan is due to be released Monday after serving her sentence, according to supporters and a court verdict.Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer, was one of the What Is Luxury Senior Living? 05/12/2024 08:00pm • The world of senior living is vast. With independent living, assisted living, memory care and others, there are many options to choose from. Some communities add another qualifier: the term "luxury." If you're asking what makes a community luxury and how much it might cost, read on. What Is Luxury S The 15 Best Baseball Stadium Trips 05/12/2024 08:00pm • Baseball is a classic American pastime. There's nothing like the roar of the crowd after a crack of the bat when a player sends a ball over the outfield fence. Whether you're hoping to visit every ballpark in Major League Baseball, following your home team on the road or just looking to enjoy an aft Trump tells Jersey Shore crowd he's being forced to endure 'Biden show trial' in hush money case 05/12/2024 06:01pm • WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — Sandwiched between his appearances in court, Donald Trump headed on Saturday to the Jersey Shore, where he repeatedly blamed President Joe Biden for the criminal charges he’s facing as the presumptive nominees prepare to face off in the November election and called his New A fire burns down a shopping complex housing 1,400 outlets in Poland's capital 05/12/2024 02:56pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A major fire broke out Sunday morning in a vast shopping complex in the Polish capital that housed some 1,400 shops and service outlets and where many of the vendors were from Vietnam. Huge plumes of black smoke could be seen rising over the vast area. The fire department sai Hoist the pirate flag! St. Pauli promoted back to the Bundesliga 05/12/2024 12:17pm • HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — The pirate flag is flying in the Bundesliga again. St. Pauli returned to Germany's top division after a 13-year absence on Sunday with a 3-1 win over relegated Osnabrück in the second division. Oladapo Afolayan scored twice and set up Marcel Hartel for St. Pauli’s third Peter Chang opens NiHao in Crystal City 05/12/2024 12:15pm • Prolific Chinese chef Peter Chang’s newest restaurant is open in Crystal City. NiHao is a more casual sit-in and take-out restaurant, highlighting Szechuan dishes with small, shareable plates and dim sum, with his wife’s “bubble pancake” on the menu. NiHao (pronounced "knee-how") is Chine From the boardwalk to the altar: T-shirt, shorts, bikinis and boot sellers are now dressing brides 05/12/2024 04:00am • New York (CNN) — Wedding dress shopping may never go back to what it used to be. Instead of collecting your entire bridal entourage to spend a few hours at a boutique trying on several dresses for the perfect find at a lofty price of a $1,000 or more, some retailers are offering to make the wed Target to reduce number of stores carrying Pride-themed merchandise after last year's backlash 05/11/2024 01:19pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Target confirmed Friday that it won't carry Pride Month merchandise at all stores in June after the discount retailer experienced a backlash and lower sales over its collection honoring LGBTQ+ communities. Target, which operates roughly 2,000 stores, said decisions about where to s