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A metal can sits on the ground at the scene where a man lit himself on fire in a park outside Manhattan criminal court, Friday, April 19, 2024, in New York. Emergency crews rushed away a person on a stretcher after fire was extinguished outside the Manhattan courthouse where jury selection was taking place Friday in Donald Trump's hush money criminal case. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
In this photo provided by the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, a view of the damage after Russia's attack on residential building in Dnipro, Ukraine, Friday, April 19, 2024. (Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration via AP Photo)
A young Palestinian wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip is brought to the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, early Saturday, April 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ismael Abu Dayyah)
New Orleans Pelicans forward Brandon Ingram, facing, hugs guard Jose Alvarado after defeating the Sacramento Kings in an NBA basketball play-in tournament game in New Orleans, Friday, April 19, 2024. The Pelicans won 105-98. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Sacramento Kings forward Domantas Sabonis (10) goes to the basket in the second half of an NBA basketball play-in tournament game against the New Orleans Pelicans in New Orleans, Friday, April 19, 2024. The Pelicans won 105-98. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Wayne, right, and Holly Haacke, left, support their team, the Ogden Mustangs, as they play the Utah Outliers during the Mountain Division Championship game Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in West Valley City, Utah. It may look like an NHL team has just fallen into Salt Lake City's lap. But local organizers say the Arizona Coyotes' relocation to Utah is the product of a yearslong effort to beckon professional hockey and other elite sports to the capital city. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
A skier participates in a pond skimming event at Gunstock Mountain Resort, Sunday, April 7, 2024, in Gilford, N.H. The wacky spring tradition is happening this month at ski resorts across the country and is often held to celebrate the last day of the skiing season. (AP Photo/Nick Perry)
Cannabis is displayed for customers at the Marijuana Paradise on Friday, April 19, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
Michael Iffland checks out some Beatles vinyl at Tracks In Wax record shop, Thursday, April 18, 2024, in Phoenix. Special LP releases, live performances and at least one giant block party are scheduled around the U.S. Saturday as hundreds of shops celebrate Record Store Day amid a surge of interest in vinyl and the day after the release of Taylor Swift's latest album. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Columbine High School principal Frank DeAngelis reacts during a vigil remembering the 25th anniversary of the Columbine High School mass shooting, Friday, April 19, 2024, in Denver. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)
Scott Quinn and his 4-year-old son, Ethan, work on coloring books in a bed in Concord, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Ethan's parents are among those who have opted for a private daycare instead of a free “transitional kindergarten.” Quinn said he has been discouraged to see Ethan — one of the oldest kids in his daycare class — pick up the behavior of kids who are several years younger than him. “In retrospect, it would have been better to send him to school to be around kids his age and older,” he said. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
People wait for a bus near the train station, Tuesday, March 26, 2024, in Freeport, N.Y. In Long Island's Nassau County, a handful of Latino residents and a local civil rights organization allege that a redistricting map drawn by the county Legislature dilutes the voting power of Black, Latino and Asian residents. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
David Penn Jr., 47, poses on April 17, 2024, in front of a vacant storefront in Pasco, Washington, that he is converting into a cannabis retail outlet. Penn, who is Black, was recently awarded a marijuana sales license under a Washington state program designed to help those most harmed by the war on drugs profit from the legal industry. ( David Penn Jr. via AP)
A visitor walks next to the "Las Meninas a San Marco" sculptures part of the installation by the Spanish artist Manolo Valdés, at the San Marco's Square during the 60th Biennale of Arts exhibition in Venice, Italy, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. The Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition opens Saturday for its six-month run through Nov. 26. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump speaks to the media with his lawyer Todd Blanche, right, after session at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, Friday, April 19, 2024. (Sarah Yenesel/Pool Photo via AP)
Former President Donald Trump sits as final jurors are sworn in during his criminal trial on charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in Manhattan state court in New York, Friday, April 19, 2024, in this courtroom sketch. (Jane Rosenberg via AP, Pool)
UAW president Shawn Fain signs an autograph for Volkswagen automobile plant employee Rachel Gleeson after workers voted to join the union Friday, April 19, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
UAW president Shawn Fain, right, greets Volkswagen auto workers after winning their vote to join the union Friday, April 19, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
A worker walks inside a power plant that was destroyed by a Russian rocket attack on March 22, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
FILE - A local woman rides a bicycle on April 18, 2024, in front of a building destroyed by a Russian airstrike in the frontline town of Orikhiv, Ukraine. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., putting his job on the line, relied on Democratic support this week to bring to the House floor a series of votes on $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies. Since President Joe Biden made the funding request in October, the Republican-controlled House has always loomed as the largest obstacle to final passage. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)
FILE - Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, April 19, 2024. Johnson, putting his job on the line, relied on Democratic support this week to bring to the House floor a series of three votes on $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies, as well as a fourth on several other foreign policy proposals. Since President Joe Biden made the funding request in October, the Republican-controlled House has always loomed as the largest obstacle to final passage. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Olga Bezborodova calms her 20-month-old son, Mykola, in her home, which has no electricity, in the village of Rubizhne, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
FILE - Iranian worshippers walk past a mural showing the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, right, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, and Basij paramilitary force, as they hold posters of Ayatollah Khomeini and Iranian and Palestinian flags in an anti-Israeli gathering after Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran, April 19, 2024. This month's unprecedented direct attacks between Iran and Israel are revealing deeper insights into both militaries. Experts say Friday's apparent precision strike by Israel deep into Iran demonstrated Israel's military dominance on almost all fronts. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
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EMERGENCY ROOMS-PREGNANCY — Complaints about pregnant women being turned away from emergency rooms spiked in the months after states began enacting strict abortion laws following the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The cases are detailed in federal documents obtained by The Associated Press and raise serious questions about the state of emergency pregnancy care in the U.S. By Amanda Seitz. SENT: 1,580 words, photos.
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ITALY-VENICE-BIENNALE — Outsider, queer and Indigenous artists are getting an overdue platform at the 60th Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition. Titled “Foreigners Everywhere,” the exhibition opening Saturday was curated for the first time by a Latin American: Brazilian Adriano Pedrosa. Pedrosa’s main show, which accompanies 88 national pavilions for the monthslong run, is strong on figurative painting. A bulk of the artists are from the Global South, long overlooked by the mainstream art world circuits. Many are dead. Frida Kahlo is making her first appearance at the Venice Biennale. By Colleen Barry. SENT: 1,080 words, photos. WITH: ITALY-VENICE-BIENNALE-VATICAN-PAVILION — Maurizio Cattelan and Zoe Saldana join iconoclastic Vatican Biennale exhibition inside women’s prison. SENT: 880 words, photos.
LEGAL-MARIJUANA-SOCIAL-EQUITY — A major argument for legalizing the adult use of cannabis after 75 years of prohibition was to stop the harm caused by disproportionate enforcement of drug laws in Black, Latino and other minority communities. But efforts to help those most affected participate in the newly legal sector have been halting. Legal adult use has spread to 24 states. Nearly all have “social equity” provisions designed to redress drug war damages. But legal challenges in some states have slowed implementation and it remains difficult for applicants to find locations and obtain bank loans. By Gene Johnson. SENT: 1,230 words, photos, video.
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MIDEAST-TENSIONS-MILITARY-MIGHT — This month’s unprecedented direct attacks between Iran and Israel are revealing deeper insights into both militaries. Experts say Friday’s apparent precision strike by Israel deep into Iran demonstrated Israel’s military dominance on almost all fronts. Israel has not taken responsibility for the airstrikes, which are believed to have hit near military and nuclear targets in central Iran. Charles Lister, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Middle East Institute, says the unprecedented rounds of strikes between Iran and Israel make clear that Israel is the Goliath in the equation, outmatching Iran. By Ellen Knickmeyer. SENT: 970 words, photos.
CONGRESS-UKRAINE — The U.S. House is preparing to vote on approval of $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies. Congressional leaders are pushing aside opposition from hard-right conservatives to near the completion of a months-long, grueling effort to renew American support for repelling Russia’s invasion into Ukraine. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, putting his job on the line, relied on Democratic support this week to bring to the House floor a series of three votes on the aid packages, as well as a fourth on several other foreign policy proposals. The Senate would still need to approve the House bill in votes expected next week. By Stephen Groves and Lisa Mascaro. SENT: 1,070 words, photos. WITH: UNITED-STATES-UKRAINE-WEAPONS-EXPLAINER — How the U.S. could rush weapons to Ukraine for its war with Russia. SENT: 950 words, photos. CONGRESS-HOUSE SPEAKER — Staring down a decision so consequential it could alter the course of history, but also end his own career, House Speaker Mike Johnson prayed for guidance. SENT: 1,050 words, photos.
CONGRESS-FBI-SURVEILLANCE — The U.S. Senate has voted to reauthorize a key U.S. surveillance law after divisions over whether the FBI should be restricted from using the program to search for Americans’ data nearly forced the statute to lapse. The legislation approved 60-34 with bipartisan support shortly after midnight Saturday would extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act for two years. It now goes to President Joe Biden’s desk to become law. U.S. officials have said the surveillance tool first authorized in 2008 is crucial in disrupting terror attacks, cyber intrusions and foreign espionage. But concerns over Americans’ civil liberties almost blocked its reauthorization. By Farnoush Amiri and Mary Clare Jalonick. SENT: 880 words, photos.
UAW-VOLKSWAGEN — Employees at a Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted overwhelmingly in favor of joining the United Auto Workers union, boosting the UAW’s nationwide effort to organize nonunion factories. The union wound up getting 73% of the ballots cast in an election run by the National Labor Relations Board that ended Friday. Twice in recent years, workers at the Chattanooga plant have rejected union membership. But this time, they voted convincingly for the UAW, which is operating under new leadership directly elected by members for the first time. By Kristin M. Hall and Tom Krisher. SENT: 840 words, photos.
TRUMP-HUSH-MONEY-COCOON — Over the past week, Donald Trump has been forced to sit inside a frigid New York courtroom and listen to a parade of potential jurors in his criminal hush money trial share their unvarnished assessments of him. It’s been a dramatic departure for the former president and presumptive GOP nominee turned criminal defendant. He’s accustomed to spending his days in a cocoon of cheering crowds and constant adulation. Trump will instead spend the next several weeks subjected to strict rules that strip him of control over everything from what he is permitted to say to the temperature of the room. By Jill Colvin. SENT: 1,340 words, photos. WITH: TRUMP-HUSH-MONEY-SECURITY — A man who doused himself in an accelerant and set himself on fire outside the courthouse where former President Donald Trump is on trial has died, police said early Saturday. SENT: 250 words, video, audio.
RUSSIA-UKRAINE-WAR-KHARKIV ATTACKS — Russia is exploiting air defense shortages in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region by targeting civilian infrastructure and communities to drive away residents. Some believe Moscow is preparing for a summer offensive in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. Officials say nearly 200,000 residents have no power, while 50% of the region’s population suffers from outages. Officials are scrambling to fix the grid before winter starts in six months and trying to fortify the city against a possible offensive. As Western allies drag their feet in delivering promised aid, Moscow is patiently escalating until, it hopes, Ukrainian resistance snaps. By Samya Kullab. SENT: 1,070, photos, video.
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ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS — Gaza hospital officials say an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the territory’s southernmost city of Rafah late Friday killed at least nine people, six of them children. The strike came as Israel pursues its nearly seven-month offensive against the Hamas militant group in Gaza. Rafah currently hosts more than half of Gaza’s total population of about 2.3 million people, most displaced by fighting elsewhere. The Israeli government says it intends to push a ground offensive into the city, where it says Hamas is currently holed up. SENT: 850 words, photos.
MIDEAST-TENSIONS — Israel and Iran are both playing down an apparent Israeli airstrike near a major air base and nuclear site in central Iran. The muted public responses signal the two bitter enemies are ready to prevent their latest eruption of violence from escalating into a full-blown regionwide war. But the indecisive outcome of weeks of tensions has done little to resolve the deeper grievances between the foes and left the door open to further fighting. SENT: 1,090 words, photo, video, audio. WITH: MIDEAST-TENSIONS-THE-LATEST.
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RUSSIA-UKRAINE-WAR — Ukraine launched a barrage of drones across Russia overnight in attacks that appeared to target the country’s energy infrastructure. Russian officials say 50 drones were shot down by air defences over eight Russian regions, including 26 over the country’s western Belgorod region close to the Ukrainian border. Two people were killed. The drone strikes appeared to be directed toward Russia’s energy infrastructure. SENT: 460 words, photo.
RUSSIA-UKRAINE-WAR-NATO — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is pressing the allies to give more Patriot missile batteries and other equipment to Ukraine. Speaking after an online meeting of defense ministers on Friday, he said some member countries have air defense systems that could be made available. SENT: 400 words, photos.
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THAILAND-MYANMAR — About 1,300 people fled from eastern Myanmar into Thailand as fresh fighting erupted at a border town that has recently been captured by ethnic guerillas, officials in Thailand said Saturday. SENT: 410 words, photos.
VOTING RIGHTS-NEW YORK — A new voting rights law in New York is already having a dramatic effect, with lawsuits in several local communities seeking to reverse decades of minority voter disenfranchisement. SENT: 1,130 words, photos.
EDUCATION-UNIVERSAL-PRESCHOOL — No state has a more ambitious plan for universal preschool than California, which plans to extend eligibility for “transitional kindergarten” to all 4-year-olds by fall 2025. But not all schools hosting transitional kindergarten offer child care before or after instruction. SENT: 1,090 words, photos.
MISSISSIPPI-MISSING-MAN — Dau Mabil escaped war-torn Sudan as a child and built a new life in Mississippi. Fishermen found the body of the 33-year-old Mabil floating in a river earlier this month. The case has prompted calls for a federal investigation after an initial autopsy did not reveal signs of foul play. SENT: 800 words, photos.
POND-SKIMMING — The wacky spring tradition of pond skimming is happening this month at ski resorts across the country. People ski in pajamas, dressed as movie characters, holding fishing rods or shirtless, hoping to gain enough downhill momentum to skim clear across the water. SENT: 420 words, photos.
NIGERIA-CHESS-CHAMPION — A Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate played chess nonstop for 60 hours. Tunde Onakoya was attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon. Onakoya started the attempt Wednesday in New York City’s Times Square and aims to use it to raise $1 million to fund education for vulnerable children across Africa. SENT: 470 words, photos, video.
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ELECTION 2024-TRUMP — On a weekend reprieve from the courtroom, Donald Trump will campaign in North Carolina as he juggles legal troubles and his rematch against President Joe Biden. SENT: 720 words, photos. UPCOMING: 990 words after 7 p.m. rally. WITH: ELECTION 2024-MELANIA TRUMP — Former first lady Melania Trump is making a political comeback, appearing at the Log Cabin Republicans event in Mar-a-Lago. SENT: 560 words, photos.
ELECTION 2024-REPUBLICANS-WYOMING — Republicans in Wyoming decide which presidential candidate will get their state’s votes at the GOP national convention, but there’s only one choice. SENT: 210 words, photo. UPCOMING: 500 words after poll, expected before 6 p.m.
TRUMP-HUSH MONEY — A full jury of 12 people and six alternates was seated Friday in Donald Trump’s hush money case, setting the stage for opening statements next week in the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president. Hours later, an appeals court judge rejected a last-minute bid by the Republican to halt the trial over his claims that jury selection was unfairly rushed. SENT: 900 words, photos, video, audio. WITH: TRUMP-HUSH-MONEY-THE-LATEST.
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COLUMBINE-SCHOOL-SHOOTING — The 12 students and one teacher killed in the Columbine High School shooting were remembered in a vigil on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the tragedy. Friday’s gathering was the main public event marking the anniversary. SENT: 610 words, photos. WITH: COLUMBINE-25-YEARS-LATER-AP WAS THERE — On April 20, 1999, two teenage boys dressed in black trench coats went on a killing rampage at Columbine High School in suburban Denver. SENT: 1,650 words, photos.
RECORD-STORE-DAY-EXPLAINER — Record Store Day celebrates independent retail music sellers who have endured long after megastores like Tower Records closed. The holiday invented at a gathering of independent record store owners and employees in 2007 will be observed Saturday. SENT: 1,000 words, photos, video.
AP-EXPLAINS-HISTORY-OF-420 — Marijuana advocates are gearing up for April 20. Known as 4/20, marijuana’s high holiday on Saturday is often marked by large crowds gathering in parks, at festivals and on college campuses to smoke together. SENT: 1,120 words, photos.
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INDONESIA-MILITANTS-ARRESTS — Indonesian police arrest 8 suspected militants, part of a banned extremist group with al-Qaida links. SENT: 280 words.
BRITAIN-ANTISEMITISM — London’s police force has been forced to issue two apologies after officers threatened to arrest an “openly Jewish” man if he refused to leave the area around a pro-Palestinian march on April 13 because his presence risked provoking demonstrators. SENT: 490 words.
VENEZUELA-ELECTION-OPPOSITION — Venezuela’s main opposition coalition on Friday agreed to unite behind former diplomat Edmundo González as its challenger to President Nicolás Maduro in this July 28 election. SENT: 290 words, photo.
HAITI-CAPITAL-REVIVAL — Haiti’s former capital seeks to revive its hey-day as gang violence consumes Port-au-Prince. SENT: 880 words, photos.
US-IRAN-SANCTIONS — A Bangkok-based plastics firm has agreed to pay $20 million to settle with the U.S. over 467 violations of Iran sanctions. SENT: 320 words, photo.
MEXICO-RUSHED-PRESIDENT — Mexico’s president is in a rush to finish the big projects he promised before his term ends in September, and experts say officials are getting a bit sloppy amid all the haste. SENT: 1,070 words, photos.
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EPA-FOREVER-CHEMICALS — The Environmental Protection Agency has designated two forever chemicals used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances. The action is intended to ensure quicker cleanup of the toxic compounds and require those responsible for contamination to pay for its removal. SENT: 820 words, photos.
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TESLA-RECALL — Tesla is recalling nearly 4,000 of its 2024 Cybertrucks after it discovered that the accelerator pedal can become stuck, potentially causing the vehicle to accelerate unintentionally and increase the risk of a crash. SENT: 220 words, photo, audio.
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ENT-DAYTIME-EMMYS-DICK-VAN-DYKE — Dick Van Dyke earned a historic Daytime Emmy nomination at age 98. SENT: 300 words, photo.
MUSIC-TAYLOR SWIFT-FEATURE — “The Tortured Poets Department” is here. So what do professors in the poetry department, whether tortured or not, think of Taylor Swift’s lyrics? By Music Writer Maria Sherman. SENT: 990 words, photos. WITH: MUSIC-TAYLOR SWIFT-NEW SONGS—Taylor Swift released 15 additional songs after midnight. SENT: 220 words, photo; MUSIC-REVIEW-TAYLOR SWIFT (sent).
ENT-BLUEY-AND-ADULTS — Viewers don’t have to be young or a parent to appreciate the Australian kids’ television program “Bluey,” as this week’s release of a special episode proved. SENT: 990 words, photos.
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UNITED-FLIGHT-ROCKIES-COACH — Federal officials are investigating an unauthorized inflight cockpit visit by Colorado Rockies hitting coach Hensley Meulens during a United Airlines charter flight. Video surfaced that appears to show him in a pilot’s seat during the April 10 flight. SENT: 450 words, photo.
NHL-COMES-TO-UTAH — New NHL team marks coming-of-age moment for Salt Lake City as a pro sports hub. SENT: 880 words, photos.
BKN-NBA-PLAYOFF-PREVIEW — The NBA playoffs start on Saturday. The first-round matchups in the Eastern Conference have Boston against Miami, New York against Philadelphia, Milwaukee against Indiana and Cleveland against Orlando. In the Western Conference, the matchups are Oklahoma City against New Orleans, Denver against the Los Angeles Lakers, Minnesota against Phoenix and the Los Angeles Clippers against Dallas. SENT: 1,490 words, photos.
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People cross the Moei river as they flee Myawaddy township in Myanmar to Thailand's Mae Sot town in Thailand's Tak province, Saturday, April 20, 2024. More than a thousand people have fled from eastern Myanmar into Thailand on Saturday as fresh fighting erupted near the border of the town that has recently been captured by guerillas from the Karen ethnic minority, officials said.(AP Photo/Warangkana Wanichachewa)
A metal can sits on the ground at the scene where a man lit himself on fire in a park outside Manhattan criminal court, Friday, April 19, 2024, in New York. Emergency crews rushed away a person on a stretcher after fire was extinguished outside the Manhattan courthouse where jury selection was taking place Friday in Donald Trump's hush money criminal case. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
In this photo provided by the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, a view of the damage after Russia's attack on residential building in Dnipro, Ukraine, Friday, April 19, 2024. (Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration via AP Photo)
A young Palestinian wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip is brought to the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, early Saturday, April 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ismael Abu Dayyah)
New Orleans Pelicans forward Brandon Ingram, facing, hugs guard Jose Alvarado after defeating the Sacramento Kings in an NBA basketball play-in tournament game in New Orleans, Friday, April 19, 2024. The Pelicans won 105-98. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Sacramento Kings forward Domantas Sabonis (10) goes to the basket in the second half of an NBA basketball play-in tournament game against the New Orleans Pelicans in New Orleans, Friday, April 19, 2024. The Pelicans won 105-98. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Wayne, right, and Holly Haacke, left, support their team, the Ogden Mustangs, as they play the Utah Outliers during the Mountain Division Championship game Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in West Valley City, Utah. It may look like an NHL team has just fallen into Salt Lake City's lap. But local organizers say the Arizona Coyotes' relocation to Utah is the product of a yearslong effort to beckon professional hockey and other elite sports to the capital city. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
A skier participates in a pond skimming event at Gunstock Mountain Resort, Sunday, April 7, 2024, in Gilford, N.H. The wacky spring tradition is happening this month at ski resorts across the country and is often held to celebrate the last day of the skiing season. (AP Photo/Nick Perry)
Cannabis is displayed for customers at the Marijuana Paradise on Friday, April 19, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
Michael Iffland checks out some Beatles vinyl at Tracks In Wax record shop, Thursday, April 18, 2024, in Phoenix. Special LP releases, live performances and at least one giant block party are scheduled around the U.S. Saturday as hundreds of shops celebrate Record Store Day amid a surge of interest in vinyl and the day after the release of Taylor Swift's latest album. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Columbine High School principal Frank DeAngelis reacts during a vigil remembering the 25th anniversary of the Columbine High School mass shooting, Friday, April 19, 2024, in Denver. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)
Scott Quinn and his 4-year-old son, Ethan, work on coloring books in a bed in Concord, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Ethan's parents are among those who have opted for a private daycare instead of a free “transitional kindergarten.” Quinn said he has been discouraged to see Ethan — one of the oldest kids in his daycare class — pick up the behavior of kids who are several years younger than him. “In retrospect, it would have been better to send him to school to be around kids his age and older,” he said. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
People wait for a bus near the train station, Tuesday, March 26, 2024, in Freeport, N.Y. In Long Island's Nassau County, a handful of Latino residents and a local civil rights organization allege that a redistricting map drawn by the county Legislature dilutes the voting power of Black, Latino and Asian residents. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
David Penn Jr., 47, poses on April 17, 2024, in front of a vacant storefront in Pasco, Washington, that he is converting into a cannabis retail outlet. Penn, who is Black, was recently awarded a marijuana sales license under a Washington state program designed to help those most harmed by the war on drugs profit from the legal industry. ( David Penn Jr. via AP)
A visitor walks next to the "Las Meninas a San Marco" sculptures part of the installation by the Spanish artist Manolo Valdés, at the San Marco's Square during the 60th Biennale of Arts exhibition in Venice, Italy, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. The Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition opens Saturday for its six-month run through Nov. 26. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump speaks to the media with his lawyer Todd Blanche, right, after session at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, Friday, April 19, 2024. (Sarah Yenesel/Pool Photo via AP)
Former President Donald Trump sits as final jurors are sworn in during his criminal trial on charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in Manhattan state court in New York, Friday, April 19, 2024, in this courtroom sketch. (Jane Rosenberg via AP, Pool)
UAW president Shawn Fain signs an autograph for Volkswagen automobile plant employee Rachel Gleeson after workers voted to join the union Friday, April 19, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
UAW president Shawn Fain, right, greets Volkswagen auto workers after winning their vote to join the union Friday, April 19, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
A worker walks inside a power plant that was destroyed by a Russian rocket attack on March 22, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
FILE - A local woman rides a bicycle on April 18, 2024, in front of a building destroyed by a Russian airstrike in the frontline town of Orikhiv, Ukraine. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., putting his job on the line, relied on Democratic support this week to bring to the House floor a series of votes on $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies. Since President Joe Biden made the funding request in October, the Republican-controlled House has always loomed as the largest obstacle to final passage. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)
FILE - Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, April 19, 2024. Johnson, putting his job on the line, relied on Democratic support this week to bring to the House floor a series of three votes on $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies, as well as a fourth on several other foreign policy proposals. Since President Joe Biden made the funding request in October, the Republican-controlled House has always loomed as the largest obstacle to final passage. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Olga Bezborodova calms her 20-month-old son, Mykola, in her home, which has no electricity, in the village of Rubizhne, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
FILE - Iranian worshippers walk past a mural showing the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, right, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, and Basij paramilitary force, as they hold posters of Ayatollah Khomeini and Iranian and Palestinian flags in an anti-Israeli gathering after Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran, April 19, 2024. This month's unprecedented direct attacks between Iran and Israel are revealing deeper insights into both militaries. Experts say Friday's apparent precision strike by Israel deep into Iran demonstrated Israel's military dominance on almost all fronts. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
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