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Ukraine set to boycott judo worlds after Russians allowed 04/30/2023 11:21am • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) ��� Ukraine is set to boycott the world judo championships next week after the International Judo Federation signaled it will allow Russian and Belarusian competitors to enter the event, a key Olympic qualifier. Ukraine has a policy of boycotting any international sports even What's behind shortages of Adderall, Ozempic and other meds? 04/30/2023 09:01am • Shortages of drugs like Adderall are growing in the United States, and experts see no clear path to resolving them. For patients, that can mean treatment delays, medication switches and other hassles filling a prescription. In recent months, unexpected demand spikes, manufacturing problems and tigh Chinese who reported on COVID to be released after 3 years 04/30/2023 06:18am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Chinese authorities were preparing Sunday to release a man who disappeared three years ago after publicizing videos of overcrowded hospitals and bodies during the COVID-19 outbreak, a relative and another person familiar with his case said. Fang Bin and other members of the public Telegram app back on in Brazil after judge lifts suspension 04/29/2023 06:44pm • RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) ��� Internet providers and wireless carriers in Brazil stopped blocking Telegram on Saturday after a federal judge partially revised a ruling suspending the social media app over its failure to surrender data on neo-Nazi activity. However, the judge kept in place a daily Texas border city struggles with large arrival of migrants 04/29/2023 05:07pm • BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) ��� Shelters in a Texas city struggled to find space Saturday for migrants who authorities say have abruptly begun crossing by the thousands from Mexico, testing a stretch of the U.S. border that is typically equipped to handle large groups of people fleeing poverty and viole A veto and a switch: Kansas to see no big tax cuts this year 04/29/2023 04:28am • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ��� No big tax cuts are coming for Kansas residents even though the state treasury is bulging with surplus cash and the Democratic governor and top Republican lawmakers both said over and over that families need relief from inflation. Republican leaders went into the final days of A look at who's who in the murder trial of slain kids' mom 04/28/2023 07:48pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) ��� Prosecutors say the mother charged in a triple murder case took part in a complex conspiracy that included unusual spiritual beliefs and efforts to kill those who stood in the way of her goals. Here, a look at the defendants and some of the witnesses in the trial of Lori Vallow Several Fairfax Co. school safety projects ahead of schedule, superintendent says 04/28/2023 04:37pm • Several Fairfax County, Virginia, public school projects aimed at improving school safety are projected to be finished ahead of schedule, Superintendent Michelle Reid told the school board Thursday night. For one, more than 3,000 classroom door locks have been replaced, which is an ongoing initia Russian missile and drone attack in Ukraine kills 23 people 04/28/2023 11:38am • UMAN, Ukraine (AP) ��� Russia fired more than 20 cruise missiles and two drones at Ukraine early Friday, killing at least 23 people, almost all of them when two missiles slammed into an apartment building in a terrifying nighttime attack, officials said. Three children were among the dead. The missi Guardsman in leak case wanted to kill a 'ton of people': US 04/28/2023 07:05am • WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) ��� The Massachusetts Air National guardsman accused of leaking highly classified military documents kept an arsenal of guns and said on social media that he would like to kill a ���ton of people,��� prosecutors said in arguing Thursday that 21-year-old Jack Teixeira should rem 'Our leaders have failed us': Climate activists plan blockade at White House Correspondents' Dinner 04/28/2023 04:41am • Activists with Climate Defiance shut down an event hosting John Podesta, senior adviser to President Joe Biden, in Washington, D.C. on April 25, 2023. (Courtesy Andrew Derek) A newly formed group of climate activists plans to disrupt a high-profile D.C. tradition this weekend: The White House Co Hong Kong's economy is recovering, but its freedoms are not 04/28/2023 04:24am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Like most people in Hong Kong, taxi driver Leung Tat-chong says it feels like the city is recovering after years of protests, crackdowns and pandemic restrictions, while it also has changed forever. He���s earning almost as much as he did before the pandemic. But, Leung said, the West Virginia Gov. Justice running for Manchin���s Senate seat 04/27/2023 08:42pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) ��� West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice announced Thursday that he is running for Democrat Joe Manchin���s U.S. Senate seat in 2024, setting up what could be a hard-fought campaign between two of the state���s most prominent politicians. Justice, an ultrawealthy busin The Pink Tax Costs Women Thousands of Dollars Over Their Lifetimes 04/27/2023 08:00pm • The "pink tax" refers to gender-based price discrimination. Originally used to describe the sales taxes women pay for feminine hygiene products, the term has expanded. Now it refers to the practice of charging women more than men for consumer items and services that are essentially the same -- altho Trump lawyer questions E. Jean Carroll at rape lawsuit trial 04/27/2023 07:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Donald Trump's lawyer sought Thursday to pick apart a decades-old rape claim against the former president, questioning why accuser E. Jean Carroll did not scream or seek help when Trump allegedly attacked her in a department store. But Carroll, a writer and former advice columnist,