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Homes are demolished in Ivory Coast's main city over alleged health concerns. Thousands are homeless 04/17/2024 02:17am • ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) ��� Dame Tour�� rushed to quickly gather what she could as bulldozers rolled into her neighborhood in Ivory Coast's fast-growing economic hub of Abidjan. Her three children joined her, stuffing plastic bags with clothes and whatever other items they could grab, before their Facing a Republican revolt, House Speaker Johnson's plan for US aid to Ukraine, allies uncertain 04/16/2024 11:56pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Defiant and determined, House Speaker Mike Johnson pushed back Tuesday against mounting Republican anger over his proposed U.S. aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other allies, and rejected a call to step aside or risk a vote to oust him from office. ���I am not resigning,��� Jo Japan records a trade deficit for the third straight fiscal year despite recovering exports 04/16/2024 11:06pm • TOKYO (AP) ��� Japan recorded a trade deficit for the third straight fiscal year as the costs of energy and other imports rose and the yen remained weak. The deficit was 5.89 trillion yen ($38 billion) for the fiscal year that ended in March, according to Finance Ministry data released Wednesday. Th Biden visits his Pennsylvania hometown to call for more taxes on the rich and cast Trump as elitist 04/16/2024 08:56pm • SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) ��� President Joe Biden made a nostalgic return to the house where he grew up in working-class Scranton on Tuesday, kicking off three days of campaigning across Pennsylvania by calling for higher taxes on the rich and casting Donald Trump as an out-of-touch elitist. When the Democ Tennessee judge set to decide whether a Nashville school shooter's journals are public records 04/16/2024 08:44pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Some of the writings of a former student who fatally shot three 9-year-old children and three adult staff members at a private Christian elementary school last year can be released to the public without compromising the investigation, a lawyer for police said in court Tuesd Citing safety, USC makes rare cancellation of speech by valedictorian who supported Palestinians 04/16/2024 08:38pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The University of Southern California canceled a commencement speech by its 2024 valedictorian who has publicly supported Palestinians, citing security concerns, a rare decision that was praised by several pro-Israel groups and lambasted by free speech advocates and the country� How to Find a Financial Advisor If You're Not Rich 04/16/2024 08:00pm • Financial advisors are evolving to work with more and more diverse clients, including clients that have high needs, but low budgets. Many people are embarrassed to seek out a professional financial advisor because they do not believe they have enough assets. Related: Sign up for stock news with ou The Latest | First 7 jurors seated at the end of the second day of Trump���s hush money trial 04/16/2024 07:54pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Following a protracted questionnaire phase and hours of questioning on Tuesday, seven jurors were seated by the time the court adjourned on the second day of Donald Trump ���s hush money trial. Jury selection will resume Thursday morning. The jurors are picked by process of elimina Editorial Roundup: United States 04/16/2024 07:08pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: April 12 The New York Times on aid to Israel The suffering of civilians in Gaza ��� tens of thousands dead, many of them children; hundreds of thousands homeless, many at risk of starvation ��� has become more than a growing number of West Virginia transgender sports ban discriminates against teen athlete, appeals court says 04/16/2024 05:53pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) ��� West Virginia's transgender sports ban violates the rights of a teen athlete under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools, an appeals court ruled Tuesday. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the law can Fire destroys Copenhagen's Old Stock Exchange dating to 1600s, collapsing its dragon-tail spire 04/16/2024 01:37pm • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� A fire raged through one of Copenhagen���s oldest buildings Tuesday, destroying about half of the 17th-century Old Stock Exchange and collapsing its iconic dragon-tail spire, as passersby rushed to help emergency services save priceless paintings and other valuables. Th The German chancellor presses China on Russia's invasion of Ukraine 04/16/2024 11:24am • BEIJING (AP) ��� German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he asked Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Tuesday to pressure Russia to end its ���insane campaign��� in Ukraine, the latest in a parade of European leaders and senior officials to make such an appeal. The Chinese side gave no sign of any change in its Australia's leader says French worker who intervened in stabbing attack can stay as long as he likes 04/16/2024 09:40am • SYDNEY (AP) ��� Australia's prime minister said Tuesday a French construction worker who confronted a man who stabbed six people to death in a Sydney shopping mall is welcome to stay in the country as long as he likes. Damien Guerot was nicknamed ���Bollard Man��� on social media after security came Tensions rise in Australia after a bishop and priest are wounded in a knife attack in a church 04/16/2024 08:06am • SYDNEY (AP) ��� A teenager has been accused of wounding a Christian bishop and a priest during a church service in the second high-profile knife attack to rock Sydney in recent days, leaving communities on edge, leaders calling for calm and a besieged church urging against retaliation. The 16-year-o The Latest | Israel says it will respond to Iran's attack as world leaders urge restraint 04/16/2024 12:05am • Israel���s military chief said Monday that the country will respond after Iran launched an attack involving hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles. World leaders are urging Israel not to retaliate. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says ���all sides must show restraint��� to avo