By BEN FINLEY and BILL CORMIER Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A 4.1-magnitude earthquake in Tennessee woke up families and rattled homes as far away as Atlanta as it spread tremors across portions of the southern U.S. on Saturday morning. No injuries or major damage were immediately reported. The website for USGS said the earthquake
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By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — More than 100 people have been taken into custody by federal immigration officials in a joint operation with the Tennessee Highway Patrol, leaving many in Nashville’s immigrant community uncertain and worried. “None of us have ever seen anything like this,” Lisa Sherman Luna, executive director of
Continue ReadingBy DYEPKAZAH SHIBAYAN Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 30 people have been killed after gunmen attacked travelers on a major highway in the southeastern part of Nigeria, rights group Amnesty International said. The rights group said Friday that more than 20 vehicles and trucks were set ablaze during the Thursday attack along
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By GEOFF MULVIHILL and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — About half of U.S. adults approve of how President Donald Trump is handling transgender issues, according to a new poll — a relative high point for a president who has the approval overall of about 4 in 10 Americans. But support for his individual
Continue Reading By GEOFF MULVIHILL and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — About half of U.S. adults approve of how President Donald Trump is handling transgender issues, according to a new poll — a relative high point for a president who has the approval overall of about 4 in 10 Americans. But support for his individual
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A suspected drone strike launched by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces hit a prison in the southern region of Kordofan on Saturday and killed at least 20 inmates, authorities said. Fifty other detainees were wounded in the attack on the main prison in Obeid, the capital city
Continue ReadingBy SAMYA KULLAB and JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed restarting direct talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on May 15, “without preconditions,” an offer that came in response to Ukraine and its allies urging Moscow to commit to an unconditional 30-day ceasefire or face additional sanctions. Putin referenced the unsuccessful 2022 peace
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Nebraska Daybook for Saturday, May. 10. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Omaha bureau is reachable at 402-391-0031. Send daybook items to Nebraska@applanner.com. To see
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Continue ReadingTODAY’S SPORTS SCHEDULE ___ INTERLEAGUE Final Tampa Bay 3 Milwaukee 2 Final Philadelphia 7 Cleveland 1 Final Minnesota 2 San Francisco 1 Final Miami 3 Chicago White Sox 1 Final Cincinnati 13 Houston 9 ___ AMERICAN LEAGUE Final Athletics 11 N.Y. Yankees 7 Final Texas 10 Detroit 3 Final Boston 10 Kansas City 1 Final
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By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Two months ago, following high-level talks between Ukrainian and American delegations in the Saudi city of Jeddah, the United States proposed an unconditional 30-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly announced on that same day that Ukraine was ready to accept the
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By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — India’s missile and bomb strikes on targets in Pakistan and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir have spiked tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors, with Pakistan’s leader calling the attacks an act of war. Claims about the initial attack and the aftermath have differed widely, with neither India nor Pakistan releasing
Continue ReadingNATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING_Donovan, St. Louis, .327; Alonso, New York, .324; Machado, San Diego, .319; T.Turner, Philadelphia, .318; Tatis, San Diego, .317; T.Hernández, Los Angeles, .315; W.Smith, Los Angeles, .310; Ohtani, Los Angeles, .304; Turang, Milwaukee, .302; Perdomo, Arizona, .299. RUNS_Ohtani, Los Angeles, 43; Tucker, Chicago, 31; Carroll, Arizona, 30; Soto, New York, 30; Turang, Milwaukee,
Continue ReadingNATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING_Donovan, St. Louis, .327; Alonso, New York, .324; Machado, San Diego, .319; T.Turner, Philadelphia, .318; Tatis, San Diego, .317; T.Hernández, Los Angeles, .315; W.Smith, Los Angeles, .310; Ohtani, Los Angeles, .304; Turang, Milwaukee, .302; Perdomo, Arizona, .299. RUNS_Ohtani, Los Angeles, 43; Tucker, Chicago, 31; Carroll, Arizona, 30; Soto, New York, 30; Turang, Milwaukee,
Continue ReadingAMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING_Judge, New York, .396; Ja.Wilson, Athletics, .358; Goldschmidt, New York, .340; Aranda, Tampa Bay, .327; Kwan, Cleveland, .327; Witt, Kansas City, .318; Bregman, Boston, .316; M.Garcia, Kansas City, .316; J.Smith, Texas, .315; Meyers, Houston, .298. RUNS_Judge, New York, 37; Buxton, Minnesota, 30; Bregman, Boston, 28; Torkelson, Detroit, 28; Rooker, Athletics, 27; Ju.Rodríguez, Seattle,
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By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Trump administration must halt much of its dramatic downsizing of the federal workforce, a California judge ordered Friday. Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco issued the emergency order in a lawsuit filed last week by labor unions and cities, one of multiple legal challenges to
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ, CLAUDIA LAUER and BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press Newark Mayor Ras Baraka on Saturday denied trespassing at a new federal immigration detention center during a confrontation that led to his arrest while the Democrat was at the facility with three members of Congress. Baraka, who has been protesting the center’s opening this week,
Continue ReadingBy SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Talks planned this weekend between U.S. and Chinese officials in Switzerland are a culmination of more than three months of dizzying rounds of retaliatory tariffs between the two countries that have crippled each other’s exporters and dragged on their economies. Washington and Beijing are entering talks
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN, DIDI TANG and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.S. treasury secretary and America’s top trade negotiator will meet with high-ranking Chinese officials in Switzerland this weekend to de-escalate a dispute that threatens to cut off trade between the world’s two biggest economies and to damage global commerce. Treasury Secretary
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN, DIDI TANG and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — President Donald Trump said “great progress” was being made in ongoing U.S.-China talks over tariffs menacing the global economy, and even suggested a “total reset” was on the table as tariff negotiations are set to continue Sunday in Switzerland. No major breakthrough
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Growing up in Atlanta in the 1940s and 1950s, Susan Levine’s visits to New York City relatives included being the star of an impromptu novelty show: Her cousin invited over friends and charged 25 cents a pop for them to listen to Levine’s Southern accent. Even though they too grew
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By JACK BROOK and DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press/Report for America NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the archives and discovered the pope had deep roots in the Big Easy. All four of Pope Leo XIV’s maternal great-grandparents were “free
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The winning numbers in Friday evening’s drawing of the “Iowa Pick 3 Evening” game were: 4, 8, 9 (four, eight, nine) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
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Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s embattled conservative party canceled then reinstated the presidential candidacy of Kim Moon Soo within hours as internal turmoil escalated ahead of the June 3 election. Saturday’s chaotic U-turn, after a failed attempt to replace Kim with former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, underscored the
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The winning numbers in Friday’s drawing of the “Nebraska Pick 5” game were: 11, 16, 23, 26, 40 (eleven, sixteen, twenty-three, twenty-six, forty) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The winning numbers in Friday’s drawing of the “Missouri Show Me Ca$h” game were: 12, 13, 20, 27, 39 (twelve, thirteen, twenty, twenty-seven, thirty-nine) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
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