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3, 2, 1: DC-area students prepare to compete in nation's largest model rocketry competition 05/19/2023 06:54am • For some people, getting an egg home from the grocery store without breaking it is a huge accomplishment, but some D.C.-area high schoolers have a much tougher mission this weekend: Send an egg into the sky aboard a rocket and bring it back down without scrambling it. On Saturday in The Plains, V After convention chaos, Minnesota DFL committee gives initial nod to ban those engaged in violence 05/18/2023 11:53pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The executive committee of Minnesota’s Democratic Farmer Labor Party gave initial approval on Thursday to bylaws that would permanently ban anyone who engages in or incites acts of violence from participating in party activities, after a weekend endorsing convention for a Minn Kyle Larson and Hendrick crew arrive for Indianapolis 500 immersion 05/18/2023 04:59pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Jeff Gordon remembers standing along the fence of pit lane at Indianapolis Motor Speedway as a child, hoping that his hero Rick Mears would walk past and give the aspiring young driver an autograph. As he grew older, Gordon dreamed of following in Mears' footsteps and driving Trans girl is told not to wear dress to Mississippi graduation, lawsuit says 05/18/2023 03:51pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi school district is refusing to let a transgender girl wear a dress and heeled shoes with her graduation cap and gown for high school graduation this weekend, her family says in a federal lawsuit against the district. The lawsuit filed Thursday demands that the H Israeli crowds chant racist slogans, taunt Palestinians during Jerusalem march 05/18/2023 01:24pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of Jewish nationalists, some of them chanting “Death to Arabs” and other racist slogans, paraded on Thursday through the main Palestinian thoroughfare of Jerusalem’s Old City, in an annual display that caused new friction between Jews and Palestinians in the tense Missouri teacher who used racial slur resigns; student who taped him suspended 05/18/2023 11:47am • A Missouri high school teacher who was videotaped repeatedly using a racial slur in class has resigned from the district, while the student who took the video finishes serving a school suspension. Mary Walton, a 15-year-old sophomore at Glendale High School in Springfield, will be allowed to return Biden declares 'America will not default,' says he's confident of budget deal with GOP lawmakers 05/17/2023 07:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — An optimistic President Joe Biden declared Wednesday he is confident the U.S. will avoid an unprecedented and potentially catastrophic debt default, saying talks with congressional Republicans have been productive. He left for a G-7 summit in Japan but planned to return by the we A new Day: Australian Jason Day enters PGA Championship on upswing after Byron Nelson victory 05/17/2023 03:58pm • PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Coming off his first victory in five years, a win Jason Day thought might never come, the 35-year-old Australian is doing his best to keep expectations in check entering the PGA Championship. Then again, once fearing his career might be over, the former No. 1 player in the w Paris Olympics vows to carry the torch for LGBTQ rights after watershed of Tokyo 05/17/2023 11:58am • PARIS (AP) — Organizers of the Paris Olympics, who gave rainbow colors to their logo Wednesday to mark the international day against homophobia, transphobia and biphobia, aren't limiting themselves to promises of inclusive Games next year. They say they also intend to seize on the Olympic spotligh Australia rules out Quad summit going ahead in Sydney without Biden, but Modi still plans visit 05/17/2023 06:05am • CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has ruled out a Quad summit taking place in Sydney without President Joe Biden, saying the four leaders will talk at the Group of Seven meeting this weekend in Japan. Albanese said Wednesday he understands why Biden pulled out ESPN announces 'Pat McAfee Show' will join afternoon lineup 05/17/2023 01:25am • Pat McAfee's show is moving to ESPN as part of a new multiyear deal announced Tuesday. McAfee first joined ESPN as a college football analyst for its Thursday night games in 2019. He returned to the network last year and became part of the “College GameDay” crew as well as hosting some alternate Four years after a car accident nearly ended his career, Braden Shattuck reaches the PGA 05/16/2023 04:31pm • PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Braden Shattuck can't quite explain why he was so intent on spending a not-insignificant portion of his childhood hitting 30-yard pitch shots from one side of his family's backyard in the Philadelphia suburbs to the other. Where some might see monotony, Shattuck saw opportun NASCAR 75: Greatest drivers convene, reminisce at Darlington 05/16/2023 01:55pm • Darlington Raceway president Kerry Tharp could barely contain himself as he thought about the group of greats he was about to host. “You're looking an iconic list of who's who in motorsports,” he said. “And I don't think that's ever going to happen again, not in my lifetime.” The last 25 o Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 05/16/2023 01:52pm • Here’s a look at how AP’s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov Early warning, preparedness likely saved thousands of lives during Cyclone Mocha 05/16/2023 08:45am • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Early warnings from weather agencies and better preparedness by local governments and aid agencies likely saved thousands of lives during a powerful cyclone that slammed into Bangladesh and Myanmar over the weekend. But there are concerns about a large number of people sti