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By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — As North Carolina’s public university system considers a vote on changing its diversity policy, the system’s flagship university board voted Monday to cut funding for diversity programs in next year’s budget. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees approved a change that

By ISABEL DE BRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The International Monetary Fund, Argentina’s biggest creditor, has agreed to release the next tranche of loans due under a bailout program. The move is an endorsement of Argentine President Javier Milei’s severe austerity measures that even surpass the terms of the IMF’s $43 billion

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. airlines are trying to kill a new rule requiring them to disclose fees more quickly when consumers shop for flights. The airlines asked a federal appeals court to block the rule, which the Transportation Department issued last month. The rule requires better disclosure of fees on baggage and changing or canceling

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Dr. Cyril Wecht, a pathologist and attorney whose biting cynicism and controversial positions on high-profile deaths such as President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination caught the attention of prosecutors and TV viewers alike, died Monday. He was 93. Wecht’s death was announced by the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts, which did not

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press As Donald Trump’s hush money trial reaches a pivotal moment the former president’s allies are out in force and serving as his voice to criticize the process and people while Trump himself is under a gag order. Trump was accompanied to court Monday by some of his top congressional surrogates,

By The Associated Press Standing in his dress uniform in the back of his Aurus convertible, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu was driven around Red Square to review the troops during last week’s Victory Day parade. It was to be his last inspection in that role. Over the weekend, President Vladimir Putin replaced Shoigu — the

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Melinda French Gates will step down as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the nonprofit she and her ex-husband Bill Gates founded and built into one of the world’s largest philanthropic organizations over the past 20 years. “This is not a decision I came

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — George Clooney will make his Broadway acting debut next year in a familiar project for the Hollywood star: “Good Night, and Good Luck.” Clooney will play legendary TV journalist Edward R. Murrow in a stage adaptation of the 2005 movie that earned him directing and

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — Punxsutawney Phil’s offspring have names that just might help the famed weather-forecasting groundhog to predict when spring will begin. Phil’s human handlers chose Mother’s Day to announce that the two kits born this spring to Phil and his partner, Phyllis, are named Sunny and Shadow. Sunny is a female, Shadow a

By CODY JACKSON and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press JUNO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A crowd cheered and took photos as two loggerhead sea turtles slowly made their way through the sand and into the Atlantic Ocean. Monday’s turtle release marked the end of their rehabilitation at the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach, Florida. One

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Democratic state Rep. Rita Fleming says she is retiring. The lawmaker representing Indiana’s 71st district has served in the statehouse since she was first elected in 2018. According to a Monday statement, Fleming says she wants to spend more time with family and will leave office immediately.

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Childish Gambino has returned with a reimagined album and a new tour announcement. Early Monday, Donald Glover posted on X that “ATAVISTA” had hit streaming platforms. He said the record is actually “the finished version” of an album he released in 2020, “3.15.20.” The release

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — After being sentenced to eight years in prison, the award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof says he’s fled to Europe shortly ahead of the Cannes Film Festival premiere of his latest film. Last week, the 51-year-old Rasoulof’s lawyer told The Associated Press that the director had

STOCKTON, Ala. (AP) — Authorities in south Alabama are urging witnesses to come forward with videos that might show who was responsible for a shooting at an outdoor party in south Alabama that left three dead and 18 wounded over the weekend. Officials have released few details about Saturday night’s incident at a May Day

By MOUTA ALI Associated Press N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Chad’s opposition leader says he has filed an appeal with the country’s constitutional council to challenge the preliminary results of the May 6 presidential election. Succès Masra in social media posts has shared a copy of a receipt showing that documents have been filed with the

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Protests against price hikes have continued for the fourth day in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir with demonstrators clashing with the police, officials said. The violence, which gripped the region since Friday, has left at least two people dead, including a police officer, and left a hundred others injured. The prime minister in Pakistan-held

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Refugee rights activists are criticizing Poland’s pro-European Union government for plans to tighten security at the border with Belarus. They are also unhappy that it’s continuing a policy initiated by the previous populist government of pushing migrants back across the border there. The activists organized an

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about a theater production involving George Clooney because it moved ahead of an embargo lifting. AP will publish a corrected version of the story after 1 p.m. Eastern.

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer WREXHAM, Wales (AP) — Helen Ryvar took up running in 2020 just before Britain went into lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic and after being told her ex-husband had died following a mental-health battle. Four years later she is a world-record holder for consecutive half-marathons and an inspiration to many