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Boy Scouts of America changing name to more inclusive Scouting America after years of woes

By JAMIE STENGLE
May 07, 2024 4:56 pm - IRVING, Texas — The Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in its 114-year history and will become Scouting America. It's a significant shift as th...
Israeli forces seize Rafah crossing in Gaza, threatening aid and putting cease-fire talks on edge

By SAMY MAGDY, MELANIE LIDMAN and LEE KEATH
May 07, 2024 8:01 pm - CAIRO — Israeli troops seized control of Gaza’s vital Rafah border crossing on Tuesday in what the White House described as a limited operation, as fears mount of a full-...
Stormy Daniels describes meeting Trump during occasionally graphic testimony in hush money trial

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and JAKE OFFENHARTZ
May 07, 2024 7:51 pm - NEW YORK —With Donald Trump sitting just feet away, Stormy Daniels testified Tuesday at the former president's hush money trial about a sexual encounter the porn actor sa...
University of Chicago clears a pro-Palestinian demonstration as MIT confronts a new encampment

By CHARLES REX ARBOGAST and STEVE LeBLANC
May 07, 2024 4:24 pm - Police cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at the University of Chicago on Tuesday as tension ratcheted up in standoffs with demonstrators at other college campuses around the U.S. — and increasingly, in Europe.
Massive pro-Palestinian college protests bring rare surge in discipline

Laura Meckler, Hannah Natanson, The Washington Post
May 06, 2024 8:17 am - As pro-Palestinian student protests surged in the past week, universities responded with consequences not imposed en masse for decades: suspensions, expulsions and arres...
Trump fined $1,000 for gag order violation in hush money case as judge warns of possible jail time

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and JAKE OFFENHARTZ
May 06, 2024 8:57 am - NEW YORK — The judge presiding over Donald Trump's hush money trial has fined him $1,000 for violating his gag order and sternly warned the former president that addition...
Brad Parscale helped Trump win in 2016 using Facebook ads. Now he’s back, and an AI evangelist

By GARANCE BURKE and ALAN SUDERMAN
May 06, 2024 7:09 am - FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Donald Trump’s former campaign manager looked squarely into the camera and promised his viewers they were about to witness a bold new era in polit...
Nervous about falling behind the GOP, Democrats are wrestling with how to use AI

By COURTNEY SUBRAMANIAN
May 06, 2024 7:04 am - WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s campaign and Democratic candidates are in a fevered race with Republicans over who can best exploit the potential of artificial intelli...
Russia warns Britain and plans nuclear drills over the West's possible deepening role in Ukraine

By The Associated Press
May 06, 2024 10:01 am - Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tens...
Hamas accepts cease-fire proposal for Gaza after Israel orders Rafah evacuation ahead of attack

By SAM MEDNICK, JOSEF FEDERMAN and BASSEM MROUE
May 06, 2024 12:01 pm - JERUSALEM — Hamas announced Monday it has accepted an Egyptian-Qatari proposal for a cease-fire to halt the seven-month-long war with Israel in Gaza, hours after Israel o...

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