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Q&A: What's Happening With College Alumni Engagement 05/19/2024 08:00pm • How college graduates engage -- or don't engage -- with their alma mater can be a sign of a school's health and value, observers say. Alumni engagement takes various forms and benefits institutions and current students in many ways, from informal mentoring to multimillion-dollar donations. The Counc MLB is expected to investigate David Fletcher for gambling on sports, AP source says 05/19/2024 02:30am • Major League Baseball is expected to investigate former Angels player David Fletcher for gambling on sports with a bookmaker who also took bets from Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymit Ukraine's divisive mobilization law comes into force as a new Russian push strains front-line troops 05/18/2024 06:26pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� A divisive mobilization law in Ukraine came into force on Saturday, as Kyiv struggles to boost troop numbers after Russia launched a new offensive that some fear could close in on Ukraine���s second-largest city. The legislation, which was watered down from its original draft, Even with school choice, some Black families find options lacking decades after Brown v. Board 05/18/2024 03:21pm • Since first grade, Julian Morris, 16, has changed schools six times, swinging between predominantly white and predominantly Black classrooms. None has met all his needs, his mother said. At predominantly white schools, he was challenged academically but felt less included. At predominately Black sc For decades, states have taken foster children's federal benefits. That's starting to change 05/18/2024 12:16am • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� By the time Jesse Fernandez turned 18, the federal government had paid out thousands of dollars in Social Security survivor's benefits because of the death of his mother. But Jesse's bank account was empty. The money had all been used by Missouri's foster care system or After decisive loss at Alabama Mercedes plants, powerful auto union vows to return and win 05/17/2024 11:21pm • TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) ��� A decisive vote against the United Auto Workers union at two Mercedes factories in Alabama on Friday sidetracked the UAW's grand plan to sign up workers at nonunion plants mainly in the South. But newly elected President Shawn Fain said the union will return to Mercedes and Youngkin vetoes bills on skill games, contraception and Confederate heritage tax breaks 05/17/2024 10:33pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin took action on a final batch of bills from the year's regular legislative session Friday, signing seven but vetoing 48, including closely watched measures that would have ended a tax break for a Confederate heritage organization and allowed small Teachers criticize Newsom's budget proposal, say it would 'wreak havoc on funding for our schools' 05/17/2024 06:19pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� California's largest teachers union on Friday turned up the pressure on Gov. Gavin Newsom, announcing a public campaign aimed at blocking part of his plan to balance the budget because they say it ���would wreak havoc on funding for our schools.��� Newsom says his plan �� New endangered listing for rare lizard could slow oil and gas drilling in New Mexico and West Texas 05/17/2024 05:50pm • Federal wildlife officials declared a rare lizard in southeastern New Mexico and West Texas an endangered species Friday, citing future energy development, sand mining and climate change as the biggest threats to its survival in one of the world���s most lucrative oil and natural gas basins. ���We h Shohei Ohtani Day to be annual event in Los Angeles for duration of his Dodgers career 05/17/2024 04:10pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� It's Shohei Ohtani Day in Los Angeles. The Japanese two-way superstar was honored at Los Angeles City Hall on Friday and presented with a city council resolution that declared May 17 as Shohei Ohtani Day for the duration of his Dodgers career. Ohtani signed a record $700 million Porto fined $1.6M by UEFA and threatened with one-season European ban over unpaid debts 05/17/2024 01:05pm • GENEVA (AP) ��� Two-time European champion Porto was fined 1.5 million euros ($1.6 million) by UEFA on Friday and threatened with a one-year ban from European competitions because of unpaid debts this season. UEFA said its club finance monitoring panel put Porto on probation for two years and the ba NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 05/17/2024 10:30am • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. ___ Replacement of Milwaukee election official unrelated to 2020 electio Michael Cohen pressed on his crimes and lies as defense attacks key Trump hush money trial witness 05/17/2024 04:07am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Donald Trump's lawyers accused the star prosecution witness in his hush money trial of lying to jurors, portraying Trump fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen on Thursday as a serial fabulist who is bent on seeing the presumptive Republican presidential nominee behind bars. As Trump looke NRA kicks off annual meeting as board considers successor to longtime leader Wayne LaPierre 05/17/2024 01:15am • DALLAS (AP) ��� The National Rifle Association is kicking off its annual meeting Friday in downtown Dallas, gathering for the first time in decades without Wayne LaPierre at the helm as board members prepare to elect his replacement. Though beset by financial troubles and following a trial in which Taiwan is selling more to the US than China in major shift away from Beijing 05/17/2024 12:02am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Whether it's tapioca balls or computer chips, Taiwan is stretching toward the United States and away from China ��� the world's No. 2 economy that threatens to take the democratically ruled island by force if necessary. That has translated to the world���s biggest maker of comput