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Metro train collides with bus in downtown Los Angeles, injuring more than 50

April 30, 2024, 4:59pm Nation & World

At least 55 people were hurt, two seriously, when a Metro light rail train and a University of Southern California shuttle bus collided Tuesday along a busy thoroughfare in downtown Los Angeles, officials said. Read story

Edgard Leblanc Fils speaks after the transitional council named him president of the council in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. The transitional council will act as the country&rsquo;s presidency until it can arrange presidential elections sometime before it disbands, which must be by February 2026.

Haiti’s transitional council names a new prime minister in the hopes of quelling stifling violence

Edgard Leblanc Fils speaks after the transitional council named him president of the council in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. The transitional council will act as the country&rsquo;s presidency until it can arrange presidential elections sometime before it disbands, which must be by February 2026.

April 30, 2024, 3:29pm Nation & World

Haiti’s newly installed transitional council chose a little known former sports minister as the Caribbean country’s prime minister Tuesday as part of its monumental task of trying to establish a stable new government amid stifling violence. Read story

Michigan Bishop David Bard presides at a session of the General Conference of the United Methodist Church on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Charlotte, N.C.

United Methodists begin to reverse long-standing anti-LGBTQ policies

Michigan Bishop David Bard presides at a session of the General Conference of the United Methodist Church on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Charlotte, N.C.

April 30, 2024, 3:25pm Churches & Religion

United Methodist delegates began making historic changes in their policies on sexuality on Tuesday — voting without debate to reverse a series of anti-LGBTQ policies. Read story

FEMA, state officials survey Oklahoma tornado damage in deadly storm

April 30, 2024, 2:56pm Nation & World

A Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator said Tuesday that “our heart aches for the loss of life” in tornadoes that left four dead and about 100 injured in Oklahoma. Read story

Activists protest before a trial for a mass environmental injury case outside the federal courthouse on Monday, April 29, 2024, in Honolulu. The trial is set to begin Monday more than two years after a U.S. military fuel tank facility under ground poisoned thousands of people when it leaked jet fuel into Pearl Harbor&rsquo;s drinking water.

A Hawaii military family avoids tap water at home. They’re among those suing over 2021 jet fuel leak

Activists protest before a trial for a mass environmental injury case outside the federal courthouse on Monday, April 29, 2024, in Honolulu. The trial is set to begin Monday more than two years after a U.S. military fuel tank facility under ground poisoned thousands of people when it leaked jet fuel into Pearl Harbor&rsquo;s drinking water.

April 30, 2024, 1:51pm Nation & World

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (AP) — Richelle Dietz, a mother of two and wife of a U.S. Navy chief petty officer, often thinks about water. Read story

This undated photo released early Tuesday, April 30, 2024, by the U.S. military&rsquo;s Central Command shows construction off a floating pier in the Mediterranean Sea off the Gaza Strip. A U.S. Navy ship involved in the American-led effort to bring more aid into the besieged Gaza Strip is off shore from the enclave, slowly building out a floating platform for the operation, satellite photos analyzed Monday, April 29, 2024, by The Associated Press show. (U.S.

The US is building a pier off Gaza to bring in humanitarian aid. Here’s how it would work

This undated photo released early Tuesday, April 30, 2024, by the U.S. military&rsquo;s Central Command shows construction off a floating pier in the Mediterranean Sea off the Gaza Strip. A U.S. Navy ship involved in the American-led effort to bring more aid into the besieged Gaza Strip is off shore from the enclave, slowly building out a floating platform for the operation, satellite photos analyzed Monday, April 29, 2024, by The Associated Press show. (U.S.

April 30, 2024, 12:40pm Nation & World Updated 1 day ago

The U.S. and allies are scrambling to pull together a complex system that will move tons of humanitarian aid into Gaza by sea. Nearly two months after President Joe Biden gave the order, U.S. Army and Navy troops are assembling a large floating platform several miles off the Gaza coast that will… Read story

Multiple law enforcement vehicles respond in the neighborhood where several officers on a task force trying to serve a warrant were shot in Charlotte, N.C., Monday, April 29, 2024.

4 officers killed in North Carolina were at disadvantage as shots rained from above, police say

Multiple law enforcement vehicles respond in the neighborhood where several officers on a task force trying to serve a warrant were shot in Charlotte, N.C., Monday, April 29, 2024.

April 30, 2024, 11:50am Nation & World Updated 1 day ago

A shootout that killed four law enforcement officers and wounded four others in North Carolina began as officers approached a home to serve a warrant for a felon wanted for possessing a firearm, police said. Read story

Eight U.S. newspapers sue ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement

April 30, 2024, 11:00am Business Updated 1 day ago

A group of eight U.S. newspapers is suing ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the technology companies have been “purloining millions” of copyrighted news articles without permission or payment to train their artificial intelligence chatbots. Read story

Pro-Palestinian protesters are arrested by UNM police and New Mexico State Police as demonstrators occupy the Student Union building at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, N.M., on early Tuesday morning, April 30, 2024.

Protesters take over Columbia University building in escalation of Israel-Hamas war demonstrations

Pro-Palestinian protesters are arrested by UNM police and New Mexico State Police as demonstrators occupy the Student Union building at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, N.M., on early Tuesday morning, April 30, 2024.

April 30, 2024, 10:50am Nation & World Updated 1 day ago

Dozens of protesters took over a building at Columbia University on Tuesday, barricading entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag from a window in an escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war on college campuses nationwide. The school promised they would face expulsion. Read story

Forensics officers gesture near the scene of an attack in Hainault, north east London, Tuesday April 30, 2024. A man wielding a sword attacked members of the public and police officers in a east London suburb, killing a 13-year-old boy and injuring four others, authorities said Tuesday. The man was arrested at the scene, police said. Chief Supt.

Sword-wielding man attacks passersby in London, killing a 14-year-old boy and injuring 4 others

Forensics officers gesture near the scene of an attack in Hainault, north east London, Tuesday April 30, 2024. A man wielding a sword attacked members of the public and police officers in a east London suburb, killing a 13-year-old boy and injuring four others, authorities said Tuesday. The man was arrested at the scene, police said. Chief Supt.

April 30, 2024, 10:45am Nation & World Updated 1 day ago

A man wielding a sword attacked members of the public and police officers in a northeast London suburb Tuesday, killing a 14-year-old boy and injuring four other people, British authorities said. Read story