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Rabbi Levi Cunin, with Chabad on Campus, speaks during a pro-Israel rally at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind., Thursday, May 2, 2024. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)
Jewish students grapple with how to respond to pro-Palestinian campus protests
As pro-Palestinian student protests dominated college campuses across the country in recent weeks, Jewish students had fervent debates over how to respond. Like many Americans, Jewish students’ … more
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Officials at Pier 39 in San Francisco have counted more than 1,000 sea lions lounging on barges in Fisherman's Wharf. Biologists say a spike in anchovies has attracted the record number, as they pass through the area to refuel before heading south for mating season. (AP Video: Haven Daley)
An anchovy feast draws a crush of sea lions to one of San Francisco's piers, the most in 15 years
San Francisco’s famed Fisherman’s Wharf district is seeing a surge in sea lions. First appearing at Pier 39 after the 1989 earthquake, the sea lions have become a well known tourist attraction. … more
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Riot police use a water cannon during an opposition protest against "the Russian law" near the Parliament building in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Clashes erupted between police and opposition demonstrators protesting a new bill intended to track foreign influence that the opposition denounced as Russia-inspired. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze)
Why did bill to stem ‘foreign influence’ trigger protests in Georgia over country's media freedom?
Georgia has been engulfed by huge protests triggered by a proposed law that critics see as a threat to media freedom and the country’s aspirations to join the European Union. The bill would require … more
Police advance on pro-Palestinian demonstrators after defying orders to leave at an encampment on the UCLA campus, in Los Angeles, May 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
AP Week in Pictures: Global
April 26 - May 2, 2024 Tent encampments of protesters calling on universities to stop doing business with Israel or companies they say support the war in Gaza have spread to multiple U.S. … more
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FILE - This file photo shows a portrait of Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky, founder of the Red Army, taken on Aug. 9, 1940, shortly before he was fatally attacked, Aug. 20, 1940, at his home in Mexico City. Once seen as the most likely successor to Vladimir Lenin as the leader of the Soviet Union, Trotsky lost a power struggle with Josef Stalin and fled abroad. A Soviet agent attacked Trotsky in 1940 with an ice axe, mortally wounding him. (AP Photo/File)
For decades, Moscow has sought to silence its critics abroad
From its earliest days, the Soviet Union’s intelligence services — whether known as the Cheka or the names of any of its successor agencies like the KGB — kept the government in power by … more
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FILE – Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko, a former operative for the KGB and FSB, is seen at his home in London, on Friday, May 10, 2002. Litvinenko was viewed as a traitor by the Kremlin after fleeing to Britain in 2000. He died after drinking tea laced with radioactive polonium-210 at a hotel in London. On his deathbed, Litvinenko claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin directly ordered his assassination. A British inquiry later found that Russian agents had killed Litvinenko, probably with Putin's approval. (AP Photo/Alistair Fuller, File)
Kremlin critics say Russia is targeting its foes abroad with killings, poisonings and harassment
Since President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine, attacks and harassment of Russians abroad have been blamed on Moscow’s intelligence operatives across Europe and elsewhere. Despite … more
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President Joe Biden salutes Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Chief Johnny Jennings, as he arrives on Air Force One at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Charlotte, N.C. Biden is meeting with the families of law enforcement officers shot to death on the job. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Biden, after meeting with families of officers killed in NC, says the nation is grieving with them
President Joe Biden has met privately with the families of law enforcement officers shot to death on the job in Charlotte, North Carolina. Biden said he was praying for loved ones and others left … more
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South Carolina Sen. Richard Cash, R-Powdersville, speaks in favor of a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)
South Carolina Senate approves ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors
The South Carolina Senate has approved a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors. The 27-8 vote came Thursday. The bill bars health professionals from performing gender-transition … more
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Thirteen people have died, and 21 are missing, according to Brazil's Civil Defense, after heavy rains hit south of the country since Monday. Rio Grande do Sul state Governor Eduardo Leite said Thursday the death toll was expected to rise in the state due to the difficult access to the landslide sites.
Death toll from heavy rains in southern Brazil jumps to 29, with 60 more still mising
The death toll from heavy rains in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state has jumped to 29, with another 60 people missing, according to the state’s civil defense agency. Brazil’s President … more
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Karissa Bowley, widow of Dau Mabil, a 33-year-old Jackson, Miss., resident who went missing on March 25 and whose body was found in April floating in the Pearl River in Lawrence County, is hugged by her father James E. Bowley, following a hearing on whether a judge should dissolve or modify his injunction preventing the release of Mabil's remains until an independent autopsy could be conducted, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Judge grants autopsy rules requested by widow of Mississippi man found dead after vanishing
A Mississippi judge granted a request Thursday by the widow of a deceased man who vanished under mysterious circumstances to set standards for a future independent autopsy of her late husband’s … more
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A student encampment is shown at Middlebury College as they protest the Israel-Hamas war in Middlebury, Vt., on Thursday, May 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)
Answering readers' questions about the protest movement on US college campuses
A wave of student protests has spread across U.S. campuses over the last two weeks, led by students who have pitched tents or occupied buildings in protest of the Israel-Hamas war. It started April … more
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This photo provided by the Texas Department of Transportation shows a truck parked as floodwaters rise over a bridge in Grapeland, Texas on Thursday, May 2, 2024. Heavy rains have caused flooding in southeastern Texas and officials in one county asked residents to leave. (Texas Department of Transportation via AP)
Some Houston-area residents are told to evacuate as waters rise from heavy rains
Torrential rain is causing flooding in the Houston area. Officials on Thursday ordered some residents along a river to leave and are telling others they may wind up stranded. Of particular concern is … more
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FILE - A detainee in an outdoor solitary confinement cell talks with a military police officer at the Abu Ghraib Prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, June 22, 2004. A judge declared a mistrial Thursday, May 2, 2024, after a jury said it was deadlocked and could not reach a verdict in the trial of a military contractor accused of contributing to the abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq two decades ago. (AP Photo/John Moore, File)
Judge declares mistrial after jury deadlocks in lawsuit filed by former Abu Ghraib prisoners
A judge declared a mistrial after a jury said it was deadlocked and couldn't reach a verdict in the trial of a military contractor accused of contributing to the abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib … more
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A convention goer wears a button supporting LGBTQ clergy at the United Methodist Church General Conference Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in Charlotte, N.C. 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. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
United Methodists remove anti-gay language from their official teachings on societal issues
For the past 52 years, the United Methodist Church had officially declared “the practice of homosexuality ... incompatible with Christian teaching.” But that has ended now that church delegates … more
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Dana Pope, with her husband John by her side, holds a photo of her son, Ethan, as she speaks at a news conference at the Georgia Capitol on May 2, 2024, after Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill to regulate kratom. Extracted from the leaves of a tropical tree native to Southeast Asia, kratom is used to make capsules, powders and liquids. It's often sold in gas stations or smoke shops, marketed as an aid for pain, anxiety and drug dependence.The Popes say their son died after using kratom and that they hope the newly signed legislation will prevent other families from having to go through what they did. (AP Photo/Kate Brumback)
Georgia governor signs law adding regulations for production and sale of herbal supplement kratom
Georgia’s governor has signed a bill putting new regulations on the production and sale of products containing kratom, a plant-based supplement. The law was signed Thursday. It takes effect Jan. 1 … more
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FILE - A pedestrian crosses a street in a shopping district Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023, in Kansas City, Mo. Pedestrians who are not white ended up in the emergency room for traffic-related injuries at higher proportions than white people, according to a new federal report published Thursday, May 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
Non-white pedestrians more often end up in the ER for vehicle-related injuries, report shows
Pedestrians who are not white ended up in the emergency room for traffic-related injuries at higher rates than white people. That's according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and … more
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This image provided by the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office shows Heather Pressdee. The Pennsylvania nurse who administered lethal or potentially lethal doses of insulin to numerous patients pleaded guilty to three counts of murder and other charges Thursday, May 2, 2024 and sentenced to life in prison. (Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office via AP)
Pennsylvania nurse who gave patients lethal or possibly lethal insulin doses gets life in prison
A Pennsylvania nurse who administered lethal or potentially lethal doses of insulin to numerous patients has pleaded guilty to three counts of murder and other charges and been sentenced to life in … more
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A fiery crash involving tanker carrying gas closes I-95 in Connecticut in both directions
Both sides of I-95, the East Coast’s main north-south highway, have been shut down in southwestern Connecticut. It follows an early morning crash Thursday involving a passenger car, tractor trailer … more
Workers remove wreckage of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Body of 5th missing worker found more than a month after Baltimore bridge collapse, officials say
Authorities say they've recovered the body of a fifth person who was missing after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge more than a month ago. The Key Bridge Response Unified Command … more
Demonstrators wave a Georgian national flag standing in front of police block during an opposition protest against a bill near the Parliament building in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Thursday, May 2, 2024. Protesters denounce the bill as "the Russian law" because Moscow uses similar legislation to stigmatize independent news media and organizations critical of the Kremlin. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze)
Georgia parliament cancels session after building damaged during huge protests
The parliament of Georgia has cancelled its plenary session following massive protests against a proposed law that critics fear will stifle media freedom and endanger the country’s bid for … more
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