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By The Associated Press As companies around the country roll out plans to honor May as Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, a new report out Wednesday suggests members of those communities are paying more attention than ever to representation. Nielsen data found that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah public schools have been rushing to prepare students and teachers as the state starts cracking down Wednesday on any school found not enforcing new bathroom restrictions for transgender people. Residents and visitors are required under state law to use bathrooms and changing rooms in

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has imposed new sanctions on hundreds of companies and people tied to Russia’s weapons development program, as well as more than a dozen Chinese entities accused of helping Moscow find workarounds to earlier penalties. And sanctions are being imposed on individuals

By ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press One child was killed and another injured when a bounce house was swept up by wind in Casa Grande, Arizona, in what local authorities called “a tragic accident.” Saturday’s fatality occurred after a strong gust sent the inflatable toy house “airborne into the neighboring lot” with several children playing

By BABA AHMED and JESSICA DONATI Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A humanitarian crisis is worsening in northeastern Mali where armed groups linked to Islamic State have besieged towns leaving residents including some 80,000 children vulnerable to disease and malnutrition. The town of Ménaka, in northeastern Mali, has been under siege for four months,

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland officials have approved more than $3 million in compensation for a man who spent more than 31 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of murder. Gov. Wes Moore apologized to Gary Washington during a Board of Public Works meeting on Wednesday where the compensation

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MOUNT HOREB, Wis. (AP) — Police shot and killed a student outside a Wisconsin middle school Wednesday after receiving a report of someone with a weapon, the state’s attorney general said in the first law enforcement briefing on gunshots that sent children fleeing and prompted an hourslong lockdown of local

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former Ohio Treasurer and three-time U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel has been threatened with jail time for violating the terms of his divorce agreement. An Ashland County Common Pleas Court magistrate found both Mandel and his ex-wife, Ilana Mandel, in contempt of court last week

By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities have expanded an investigation of clergy sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans to include senior church officials suspected of shielding predatory priests for decades and failing to report their crimes to law enforcement. Louisiana State Police carried out a sweeping search

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — After weeks of nonstop coverage of destruction and death in the Gaza Strip, media across the wider Middle East have latched onto the demonstrations roiling American university campuses over the Israel-Hamas war. For some, the protests and what they described as a heavy-handed police crackdown on them

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Millions of Americans who have used new obesity drugs like Wegovy to lose weight and improve health are wondering what happens if they stop taking them. Experts say the medications were designed and tested to be taken indefinitely to treat the disease of obesity. Some people are experimenting with

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tourists have been evacuated by air from Kenya’s Maasai Mara national reserve after more than a dozen hotels, lodges and camps were flooded as heavy rains continue to batter the country. Tourist accommodation facilities were submerged after a river within the Maasai Mara broke its banks

By FRANCIS KOKUTSE Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — The U.S. military plans to return to Chad within a month for talks about revising an agreement that allows it to keep troops based there. The commander of U.S. Africa Command made the comments to reporters in Ghana on Wednesday. The U.S. said last month it

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis’ school district is offering to pay some families to drive their kids to school as part of an effort to offset a shortage of bus drivers. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the plan was detailed in a letter sent Monday to St. Louis Public Schools parents. Under the

By STEVE LeBLANC and NICK PERRY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Boston College students held a protest rally against the Israel-Hamas war last week. Bullhorns were banned, lest the noise disturb studying for finals. Tents weren’t allowed. Students who’d been arrested at other Boston campus protests were barred. After an allotted hour, the students went

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts prosecutor won’t seek criminal charges two years after four newborns were found in a freezer in a South Boston apartment. Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden called the investigation “complex, unusual and perplexing.” DNA tests showed the two boys and two girls whose remains were frozen

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Heavy rains in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state have killed at least 10 people and left 21 missing since Monday. That’s according to the country’s civil defense. It said Wednesday an additional 11 people were injured and more than 1,400 were forced to leave their homes due to

By The Associated Press Retired U.S. women’s soccer star Carli Lloyd and her husband are expecting their first child in October. The 41-year-old Lloyd, who retired in 2021, announced her pregnancy on Instagram. She has been married to Brian Hollins for seven years. Lloyd retired in 2021 after a career that included two World Cup

By MARTÍN SILVA REY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Volunteers have searched on the fringes of Mexico City for what they thought could be a clandestine crematorium. It was the first time in recent memory that anyone claimed to have found such a body disposal site in the capital, but authorities disputed the contention

By The Associated Press Columbia University announced on Monday that it has canceled its university-wide commencement ceremony because of disruptions caused by recent pro-Palestinian protests. Students will still be able to celebrate at a series of smaller, school-based graduation ceremonies this week and next. The protest movement connected to the Israel-Hamas war began nearly three

By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have given an insight into their long-term ambitions for Welsh soccer team Wrexham. The Hollywood pair say they want to see the capacity of its Racecourse Ground stadium increase massively to potentially 55,000. The actors have already transformed the fortunes of the historic but

By PETER SMITH Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ordained or appointed as ministers. Delegates voted 692-51 at their General Conference — the first such legislative gathering in five years.

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has secured an additional $1.6 billion worth of shares in Trump Media, according to a regulatory filing this week. Based on the company’s stock hitting certain price benchmarks, Trump was awarded an additional 36 million shares in the company that owns his

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Wednesday she would call a vote next week on ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson, forcing her colleagues to choose sides in a difficult showdown after Democratic leaders announced they would provide the votes to save the Republican speaker’s

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — German tennis legend Boris Becker was discharged from bankruptcy court in London after a judge found Wednesday he had done “all that he reasonably could do” to repay creditors tens of millions of pounds. Becker fell far short of repaying his creditors nearly 50 million pounds ($62.5

BERLIN (AP) — Police say a trailer packed with people celebrating May Day has overturned in southern Germany, leaving 30 injured, 10 of them seriously. The German news agency dpa says the accident happened near the city of Freiburg. Police say rescue helicopters were deployed, including some from neighboring Switzerland, as well as a large

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Lifestyles Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Not all moms are the same. They like and do different things. Some, gasp, don’t love the idea of flowers and chocolates for Mother’s Day. There’s a lot of ways to pamper mom. Gift cards for mani-pedis, a spa day or a spa weekend may

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Iranian prosecutors have filed criminal charges against activists and journalists following a BBC report that alleged security forces “sexually assaulted and killed” a 16-year-old girl during the protests over the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022. Nika Shakarami’s death also sparked widespread outrage. In Shakarami’s case, authorities

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The last thing standing between Ashnaelle Bijoux and her college dream is the FAFSA form — a financial aid application that’s supposed to help students go to college, but is blocking her instead. She has tried to submit it over and over. Every time, it fails

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s chief rabbi says that Warsaw’s main synagogue was attacked with firebombs during the night by an unknown perpetrator, but sustained minimal damage and nobody was hurt. Poland’s political leaders strongly denounced the arson attack. Poland’s President Andrzej Duda wrote on X that he condemned “the