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India votes in third phase of national elections as Modi escalates his rhetoric against Muslims 05/07/2024 10:57am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� Millions of Indian voters across 93 constituencies were casting ballots on Tuesday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi mounted an increasingly shrill election campaign, ramping up polarizing rhetoric in incendiary speeches that have targeted the Muslim minority. In recent campaign ral Why voters in southern India are more resistant to Modi's Hindu-centric politics 05/07/2024 12:05am • CHENNAI, India (AP) ��� Prime Minister Narendra Modi has wielded near-total control over Indian politics since coming to power 10 years ago, with one exception: He has failed to win over the country���s wealthier southern region. Five states across southern India account for roughly 20% of the count Biden warns Netanyahu against major Rafah offensive as divide between the 2 leaders grows 05/06/2024 10:50pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden on Monday urgently warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against launching an offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah as the divide between the two leaders continues to grow along with the mounting Palestinian death toll. The call between Biden Congressman partly backtracks his praise of a campus conflict that included racist gestures 05/06/2024 10:21pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� A Republican congressman on Monday backtracked on some of his praise for a campus conflict that included a man who made monkey noises and gestures at a Black student who was protesting the Israel-Hamas war. Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia said he understands and respects feedbac The Latest | Israel launches strikes in Rafah, hours after Hamas agrees to a Gaza cease-fire 05/06/2024 09:15pm • Israel's military says it is launching ���targeted strikes��� against Hamas in the southern Gaza city of Rafah after the country's War Cabinet approved a military operation there, officials said late Monday. Hours earlier, the Hamas militant group announced it had accepted a cease-fire proposal brou The Celtics and Cavaliers last met in playoffs in 2018. This time Boston is the team to beat 05/06/2024 07:21pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� One of the things Celtics forward Jaylen Brown remembers about his time inside the NBA���s Florida bubble in 2020 during the pandemic was his random sightings of Donovan Mitchell. Mitchell, then with the Utah Jazz, seemed to pop up in the common spaces of the bubble at the same time Medicare and Social Security go-broke dates are pushed back in a 'measure of good news' 05/06/2024 05:31pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security have been pushed back as an improving economy has contributed to changed projected depletion dates, according to the annual Social Security and Medicare trustees report Monday. Still, officials warn that policy changes are neede After AP investigation, family of missing students enrolls in school 05/06/2024 04:25pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Four months after The Associated Press wrote about an Atlanta family struggling to enroll in school, all of the children ��� in a complete turnaround ��� returned to class last month. The project on Monday was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist. The youngest child, an energetic 8-year- 'Virginia is not New York': Attorney general says arrests at U.Va. necessary, as protesters express outrage 05/06/2024 03:34pm • The state's attorney general said the move to arrest and remove pro-Palestininian protesters from the University of Virginia campus was necessary after weeks of lawless acts that some students dispute. Twenty-five people were arrested Saturday at the Charlottesville campus after police clashed wi Polish prosecutors open investigation into judge who fled to autocratic Belarus 05/06/2024 03:31pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) ��� Polish prosecutors opened an investigation Monday after a Polish judge fled to the autocratic state of Belarus and asked for protection there. The National Prosecutor���s Office said it is looking into suspicions the judge had acted on behalf of a foreign intelligence service As China and Iran hunt for dissidents in the US, the FBI is racing to counter the threat 05/06/2024 12:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� After a student leader of the historic Tiananmen Square protests entered a 2022 congressional race in New York, a Chinese intelligence operative wasted little time enlisting a private investigator to hunt for any mistresses or tax problems that could upend the candidate's bid, pr Trump Media fires auditing firm that US regulators have charged with 'massive fraud' 05/06/2024 12:38pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Trump Media and Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, has fired an auditor that federal regulators recently charged with ���massive fraud.��� The former president's media company dismissed BF Borgers as its independent public accounting firm on Friday, Panama's new president-elect, Jos�� Ra��l Mulino, was a late entry in the race 05/06/2024 11:39am • PANAMA CITY (AP) ��� Jos�� Ra��l Mulino said he was practically retired from politics just over six months ago. Now, he���ll be Panama���s president for the next five years. Standing before a pack of supporters Sunday night, Mulino said: ���I never imagined this.��� In a historic and tumultuous elec Boy shot dead after Perth stabbing was in deradicalization program, but no ties seen to Sydney teens 05/06/2024 01:37am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� A 16-year-old boy who was shot dead by police after stabbing a man in the Australian west coast city of Perth had been in a deradicalization program but had no links to an alleged network of teen extremists in the east coast city of Sydney, authorities said. The boy had As China and Iran hunt for dissidents in the US, the FBI is racing to counter the threat 05/06/2024 12:17am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� After a participant in the historic Tiananmen Square protests entered a 2022 congressional race in New York City, a Chinese intelligence operative wasted little time enlisting a private investigator to hunt for any mistresses or tax problems that could upend the candidate's bid,