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Trump's social media company approved to go public, potentially netting former president billions 03/22/2024 07:24pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Donald Trump is returning to the stock market, and the former president stands to reap a sizeable payout in the process. Shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corp., a publicly traded shell company, approved a deal to merge with the Trump���s media business in a Friday vote. Th The Latest | Blinken urges Israel not to invade Rafah. Netanyahu says he'll 'do it alone' 03/22/2024 07:07pm • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sternly rejected the visiting U.S. secretary of state's plea not to launch a ground invasion into Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah, saying Friday ���we will do it alone��� if necessary. The looming Rafah invasion has cast a shadow over ongoing efforts to fo Mexico's president says he won't fight drug cartels on US orders, calls it a 'Mexico First' policy 03/22/2024 05:14pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Mexico���s president said Friday he won���t fight Mexican drug cartels on U.S. orders, in the clearest explanation yet of his refusal to confront the gangs. Over the years, President Andr��s Manuel L��pez Obrador has laid out various justifications for his ���hugs, not bullets� DC approves financial literacy standards to help prep kids for life after high school 03/22/2024 12:20pm • D.C.'s school board this week approved financial literacy standards, paving the way for some students to learn about taxes, credit and investing to help prepare them for life after high school. The D.C. State Board of Education approved the standards unanimously. The final standards were put toge Taste-testing cherry blossom foods in the DC area 03/22/2024 11:15am • No one can deny that cherry blossom fever has arrived in the District ��� a delight not only for the eyes, but also the taste buds. As the flowers bloom, the quantity and variety of cherry blossom-inspired foods multiply in the D.C. area. Of course, the majority of these foods don't typically A firework is lit, a boy is shot. Israel���s use of deadly force against Palestinians is scrutinized 03/22/2024 06:53am • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� A 12-year-old boy in east Jerusalem lights the fuse of a long firework and hoists it in the air. Then, just before it explodes and illuminates the night sky with a burst of red, he is shot in the chest by Israeli police and falls to the ground. A clip of Rami Halhouli's final mom Controversies off the track follow Formula 1 to Australia for the season's third Grand Prix 03/22/2024 05:57am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� For the third Formula 1 Grand Prix in a row, controversies off the track are threatening to overshadow the almost predictable action on it. News this week ahead of the Australian GP that the FIA���s Ethics Committee had cleared its president, Mohammed Ben Sulayem, from Indonesia's rescue of Rohingya refugees at sea is a reminder of an ordeal that began in Myanmar 03/21/2024 09:08pm • BANGKOK (AP) ��� A dramatic story of survival and rescue off the western coast of Indonesia���s Aceh province has put the spotlight again on the plight of ethnic Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar who make extremely dangerous voyages across the Indian Ocean to seek better lives. Desperate survivo France's president pounds a punching bag on camera, and Europe notices 03/21/2024 07:16pm • LONDON (AP) ��� The teeth clench. The brow furrows. The bicep bulges. In moody black and white, photos of French President Emmanuel Macron pounding a punching bag arched eyebrows across Europe on Thursday after his official photographer posted them to social media in what was widely received as the Trump's latest 2024 campaign fundraising report shows him lagging behind Biden in cash 03/21/2024 07:10pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Former President Donald Trump's fundraising picked up last month, but his political operation is still struggling to catch up to President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party in money coming in. Trump's campaign and his Save America political action committee, two key committees in US says it has not received a formal request by Niger junta to leave military bases 03/21/2024 07:02pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A top Pentagon official told Congress on Thursday that the U.S. has not received a formal request from Niger's junta to depart the country, saying it has received mixed signals on whether the hundreds of U.S. troops there are no longer welcome. Celeste Wallander, assistant secre FAFSA delays prompt California lawmakers to extend deadline for student financial aid applications 03/21/2024 05:38pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� The California Legislature on Thursday voted to give prospective college students more time to apply for two of the state's largest financial aid programs after a glitch in the federal government's application system threatened to block up to 100,000 people from getting h Congress unveils $1.2 trillion plan to avert federal shutdown and bring budget fight to a close 03/21/2024 04:05pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Lawmakers introduced a $1.2 trillion spending package Thursday that sets the stage for avoiding a partial government shutdown for several key federal agencies this weekend and allows Congress, nearly six months into the budget year, to complete its work funding the government thr Prince Harry says tabloids intercepted phone calls of mother, the late Princess Diana, and father 03/21/2024 02:24pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Prince Harry alleged Thursday that the publisher of The Sun tabloid unlawfully intercepted phone calls of his late mother, Princess Diana, and father, now King Charles III, as he sought to expand his privacy invasion lawsuit against News Group Newspapers. The Duke of Sussex is seekin Russia must face consequences for imprisonment of Wall Street Journal reporter, lawyer says 03/21/2024 02:09pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Russia must face consequences for its detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, a lawyer for the newspaper said Thursday as the journalist approaches the one-year anniversary of his arrest. ���In a scenario like this, where a reporter is taken off the beat for j