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Hollywood's A-listers are lining up behind Joe Biden. Will their support matter in November? 06/13/2024 12:14am • WASHINGTON (AP) — When Robert De Niro showed up outside a Manhattan courthouse to decry Donald Trump as his New York hush money trial was winding down, it sparked a life-imitates-art screaming match with a nearby group of the former president's supporters. “You are gangsters!” De Niro, who sta Ex-officer in Mississippi gets 1 year in prison for forcing man to lick urine off jail floor 06/12/2024 05:57pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A former Mississippi police officer was sentenced Wednesday to a year in federal prison for forcing a man he had arrested to lick urine off the floor of a jail cell. Michael Christian Green received the maximum prison time on the misdemeanor charge of acting under the color o After years of delays, scaled-back plans underway for memorial to Florida nightclub massacre 06/12/2024 04:44pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Survivors and the families of victims of the Pulse nightclub massacre had hoped by now to have a permanent memorial in place for Wednesday's eighth anniversary of the attack by a lone gunman who killed 49 people at the gay-friendly club in Orlando, Florida. Instead, new, scale 9 killed in Russian aerial attacks on Ukraine ahead of G7 summit aimed at slowing Moscow's offensive 06/12/2024 03:19pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces launched new deadly attacks on Ukraine, killing at least nine people on Wednesday, a day before the leaders of countries that are some of Ukraine’s biggest backers were to discuss how to slow Moscow's offensive. Ukrainian authorities said that along with the n Steady decline in youth hockey participation in Canada raises concerns about the future of the sport 06/12/2024 09:13am • BRAMPTON, Ontario (AP) — All four ice rinks at Susan Fennell Sportsplex are full of action on this winter Saturday morning, the air filled with the sound of hockey skates grinding through ice and pucks clanging off the glass. The scene is as familiar as the sunrise in countless rinks across Canada Titmus sets a women’s 200-meter freestyle world record at Australia’s Olympic swimming trials 06/12/2024 07:13am • BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Ariarne Titmus set a world record in the women’s 200-meter freestyle on Wednesday at Australia’s Olympic swimming trials. Titmus finished in 1 minute, 52.23 seconds in the final, taking almost two-thirds of a second off Mollie O’Callaghan’s world mark of 1:52.85 Report by UN-backed experts cites crimes by Israeli forces, Palestinian militants starting 0ct. 7 06/12/2024 03:52am • GENEVA (AP) — U.N.-backed human rights experts say in a report issued Wednesday that Israeli forces and Palestinian militants engaged in sexual and gender-based violence during the first months of the Israel-Hamas war. The independent experts, in a detailed chronicling of events that have mostly b On Eid al-Adha, Senegal's star sheep are for luxury, not sacrifice 06/12/2024 01:03am • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — When Cheikh Moustapha Seck, a 24-year-old sheep breeder from Senegal, speaks about his animals, his face lights up. “You need love and patience to work with the sheep,” said Seck, affectionately stroking the long neck of Sonko, his champion sheep, named after the country� Aaron Rodgers and Haason Reddick are not attending Jets' mandatory minicamp 06/11/2024 07:32pm • FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers and edge rusher Haason Reddick are not participating in the team's mandatory minicamp this week, unexcused absences that subject both to fines. Coach Robert Saleh said Tuesday he has spoken to both players. Rodgers' absence is rela The Latest | Hamas responds to Gaza cease-fire plan with 'amendments,' and US is evaluating 06/11/2024 06:36pm • Hamas responded Tuesday to the U.S.-backed proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza, saying it wants some “amendments” on the deal. The militant group's reply apparently fell short of an outright acceptance that the United States has been pushing for but kept negotiations alive over an elusive halt to Steady decline in youth hockey participation in Canada raises alarm about the future of the sport 06/11/2024 06:16pm • BRAMPTON, Ontario (AP) — Hockey remains a beloved pastime, a source of pride and joy and something that has knitted Canada together for more than 150 years. Youth hockey participation, however, has decreased by nearly a quarter in Canada over the past decade and a half, a decline that began well b Idaho police force loses millions worth of gear and vehicles in fire 06/11/2024 05:11pm • COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) — Police in northern Idaho lost millions of dollars worth of law enforcement equipment and vehicles in a fire that tore through a department building over the weekend, Coeur d’Alene police said. No one was injured in the fire that broke out early Sunday, but everything AUTO RACING: NASCAR debuts Cup Series in Iowa with Larson coming off Sonoma win; F1, IndyCar idle 06/11/2024 04:29pm • All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES Iowa Corn 350 Powered by Ethanol Site: Newton, Iowa. Schedule: Friday, practice, 5:35 p.m.; Saturday, qualifying, 1:05 p.m.; Sunday, race, 7 p.m. (USA). Track: Iowa Speedway. Race distance: 350 laps, 306.25 miles. Last year: Inaugural race. Last race: Kyle Larso Sixty Vines brings its global wines on tap to Foggy Bottom 06/11/2024 10:30am • Dallas-based vineyard-focused Sixty Vines opens its first D.C. location Tuesday, on Washington Circle in Foggy Bottom, in a space formerly occupied by District Commons and Burger Tap & Shake, both of which closed during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sixty Vines opened its first D.C A growing Filipino diaspora means plenty of celebration worldwide for Philippine Independence Day 06/11/2024 02:04am • In the Philippines — where Spanish and later U.S. colonial rule persisted for nearly four centuries — June 12 is the real Independence Day. That date in 1898 was the pivotal moment when the island nation first made a bold move for autonomy. Ahead of this year's holiday in Manila, the nation’s