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A recent graduate wears a garment with their graduation year on the University of Southern California campus Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Los Angeles. The University of Southern California canceled its main graduation ceremony Thursday. College officials across the U.S. are worried the ongoing Israel-Hamas war protests could disrupt plans for commencement ceremonies next month. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Class of 2024 reflects on college years marked by COVID-19, protests and life’s lost milestones

For many in the graduating class of 2024, the unrest at campuses across the country over the Israel-Hamas war has marked an emotional end to their college experiences that started amid a pandemic.

A Pro-Palestinian demonstration encampment is seen at the Columbia University, Saturday, April 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Anti-war protesters dig in as some schools close encampments after reports of antisemitic activity

Neighbors embrace Penny Thomsen outside of her home in Pleasant Hill, Iowa, on Saturday, April 27, 2024. The Des Moines suburb was one of multiple cities hit as tornados ripped across the state Friday evening. (The Des Moines Register via AP)

Residents begin going through the rubble after tornadoes hammer parts of Nebraska and Iowa

FILE - This July 25, 2014 photo shows vials of the sedative midazolam at a hospital pharmacy in Oklahoma City. An investigation led by The Associated Press published in 2024, has found the practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police spread quietly over the last 15 years, built on questionable science and backed by police-aligned experts. (AP Photo/File)

Takeaways from AP’s investigation into fatal police encounters involving injections of sedatives

In this image from Richmond Police Department body-camera video, a paramedic, left, holds a syringe as he prepares to inject Ivan Gutzalenko, 47, with the sedative midazolam in Richmond, Calif., on March 10, 2021. (Richmond Police Department via AP)

How a 911 call for trespassing escalated to an injection of a powerful sedative and one man’s death

Chants of ‘shame on you’ greet guests arriving for White House correspondents’ dinner

Pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside the site of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, accusing U.S. journalists of undercovering the war in Gaza and misrepresenting it. (AP video by Serkan Gurbuz)

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Tornado leaves widespread devastation in suburban Omaha, Nebraska

Freight train derailment, fire forces Interstate 40 closure near Arizona-New Mexico line

Abortion

FILE - A woman holds a banner reading in Spanish, "Legal, safe, and free abortion" as abortion rights protesters demonstrate in front of the National Congress on the "Day for Decriminalization of Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean," in Mexico City, Sept. 28, 2020. Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that national laws prohibiting abortions are unconstitutional and violate women’s rights. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

A woman might win the presidency of Mexico. What could that mean for abortion rights?

LGBTQ+

People in the gallery hold signs over the House chamber floor during a legislative session Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Tennessee lawmakers adjourn after finalizing $1.9B tax cut and refund for businesses

Shootings

FILE - Simon and Sally Glass comfort each other during an emotional news conference about the death of their son, Christian Glass, Sept. 13, 2022, in Denver. A former Colorado sheriff’s deputy was convicted of a misdemeanor on Friday, April 26, 2024, in the shooting death of the 22-year-old man in distress who had called 911 for help after his car got stuck in a small mountain community. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert, File)

Former sheriff’s deputy convicted of misdemeanor in shooting death of Christian Glass

Immigration

Lincoln Montero eats outside a motel designated for migrants after helping his aunt Yesenia sell home-cooked Venezuelan-style food to fellow Venezuelan migrants sheltering here in Denver, Colorado, Thursday, April 18, 2024. Montero said he traveled to Denver the week before, to unite with his aunt who has been here four months. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

Migration roils US elections. Mexico sees mass migration too, but its politicians rarely mention it

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FILE - Police tape cordons off the scene of a crime in Levittown, Pa., Saturday, March 16, 2024. Police departments reported a year-over-year increase in sworn officers in 2023 for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began and since the 2020 police killing of George Floyd spurred nationwide protests and increased scrutiny of police, according to a survey released by the Police Executive Research Forum. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Police officer hiring in US increases in 2023 after years of decline, survey shows

U.S. police departments have reported a year-over-year increase in sworn officers for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic and the police killing of George Floyd.

Ethel Humble, an elder at the Springfield United Methodist Church in Okemah, Okla., stirs a steaming tray of wild onions at the church's annual wild onion dinner, April 6, 2024. The church is on the Muscogee Nation's reservation, where the meals using wild onions picked by the community are an annual tradition. (AP Photo/Brittany Bendabout)

Wild onion dinners mark the turn of the season in Indian Country

Wild onions are among the first foods to grow at the tail end of winter in the South, and generations of Indigenous people place the alliums at the center of an annual communal event.

I Richelle Dietz holds an empty five-gallon water bottle at her home in Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Monday, April 22, 2024, in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Dietz family relies on bi-weekly water deliveries for basic needs since their water was tainted in 2021. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin)

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

Richelle Dietz is a mother of two and wife of a U.S. Navy officer living on a Hawaii military base who often thinks about water.

Disneyland Resort Cast Members, Courtney Griffith, left, hugs Angela Nichols after a news conference in Anaheim, Calif., Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Workers who help bring Disneyland's beloved characters to life said Wednesday they collected enough signatures to support their push for a union. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

California Disney characters are unionizing decades after Florida peers. Hollywood plays a role

The character performers at Disneyland in California have said they filed a petition for union recognition.

Georgia State Patrol officers detain a demonstrator on the campus of Emory University during a pro-Palestinian demonstration, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

College protesters seek amnesty to keep arrests and suspensions from trailing them

Hundreds of students around the country are being arrested, suspended, put on probation and, in rare cases, expelled from their colleges for participating in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

This frame grab taken from video provided by Bryan Wilson, shows a freight train carrying fuel that derailed and caught fire, Friday, April 26, 2024, near the New Mexico-Arizona state line, east of Lupton, Ariz. Authorities closed Interstate 40 in both directions in the area, directing trucks and motorists to alternate routes. (Bryan Wilson via AP)

Crews plan to extinguish fire Saturday night from train derailment near Arizona-New Mexico line

Crews plan to extinguish a fire on Saturday night from a freight train derailment near the Arizona-New Mexico state line that forced the closure of a stretch of Interstate 40.

Body of climber recovered after 1,000-foot fatal fall on Alaska peak

Authorities say a helicopter crew has recovered the body of a climber who died after falling about 1,000 feet while on a steep, technical route in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve.

Barbara Pryor, the widow of former Arkansas governor and U.S. Sen. David Pryor, stands before Pryor's casket with their great-grandson Raven at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Arkansas on Friday, April 26, 2024. David Pryor died in Little Rock on April 20, 2024. Pryor, a Democrat, remained active in public service long after he left public office. (AP Photo/Andrew DeMillo)

David Pryor, former governor and senator of Arkansas, is remembered

Former Arkansas Gov. and U.S. Sen. David Pryor is being remembered. Funeral services were held Saturday for family, friends and colleagues, including former Arkansas governor and President Bill Clinton.

Massachusetts police bust burglary ring that stole $4 million in jewels over six years

The Massachusetts State Police announced they had busted a burglary ring that stole around $4 million in jewels mostly from the homes of South Asian lived in more than two dozen communities over the past six years.

Ayla Punzalan, 17, of Unalaska competed in the Wrist Carry on the first day of the Native Youth Olympics Senior Games at the Alaska Airlines Center, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Anchorage, Alaska. (Bill Roth/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

Alaska’s Indigenous teens emulate ancestors’ Arctic survival skills at the Native Youth Olympics

The Native Youth Olympics in Anchorage, Alaska, is a three-day celebration of Indigenous culture in the form of games that mimic hunting and survival techniques that Alaska Natives in the Arctic region have relied on for thousands of years.

3 children in minivan hurt when it rolled down hill, into baseball dugout wall in Illinois

Three children were hurt when the minivan they were in rolled down a hill into a concrete baseball dugout in northern Illinois’ Woodstock.

Graduating seniors take photos around the Tommy Trojan statue on the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles, Thursday, April 25, 2024. The university canceled its main graduation ceremony Thursday and dozens more college students were arrested at other campuses nationwide as protests against the Israel-Hamas war continued to spread. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

USC president makes her first remarks over recent campus controversies on Israel-Hamas war

The University of Southern California’s president has called recent controversies roiling the campus over the Israel-Hamas war “incredibly difficult for all of us.”

Police in Tennessee fatally shot man after he shot a woman in the face. She is expected to survive

Police in Tennessee say officers who responded to a domestic situation have fatally shot a man after he shot a woman in the face. The woman is expected to survive.

Mississippi State Senate Education Committee Chairman Sen. Dennis DeBar, R-Leakesville, presents a bill before legislators on the floor of the Senate chamber, Wednesday, April 3, 2024, at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi Senate agrees to a new school funding formula, sending plan to the governor

Mississippi would change the formula for funding public schools, under a bill that is headed to Republican Gov. Tate Reeves.

FILE - Harvey Weinstein arrives at a Manhattan courthouse as jury deliberations continue in his rape trial in New York, on Feb. 24, 2020. Weinstein will appear in a New York City court on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, according to the Manhattan district attorney’s office. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Harvey Weinstein hospitalized after his return to New York from upstate prison

Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer says the onetime movie mogul has been hospitalized for a battery of tests after his return to New York City following an appeals court ruling nullifying his 2020 rape conviction.

Jury finds Wisconsin man guilty in killing, sexual assault of 20-month-old girl

A Wisconsin man has been convicted in the sexual assault and killing of a 20-month-old girl and abusing the child’s mother who then was his girlfriend.

Teen accidentally kills his younger brother with a gun found in an alley

Authorities say a 14-year-old Florida boy told police that he accidentally shot and killed his 11-year-old brother after finding a gun in an alley near their home. St.

Arrest warrant issued for man in fatal shooting of off-duty Chicago police officer

An arrest warrant has been issued for a 22-year-old man in the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer who was heading home from work.

FILE - Journalist Poppy Harlow poses for photographers as she arrives at the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in Washington, Saturday, April 29, 2023. CNN says on Friday, April 26, 2024, that Harlow announced her parting from the cable news giant in an email to colleagues.(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

News anchor Poppy Harlow is leaving CNN after more than 15 years

Anchor Poppy Harlow is leaving CNN. The network said Friday that Harlow announced her parting from the cable news giant in an email to colleagues.

Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court before his trial in New York, Friday, April 26, 2024. (Curtis Means/Pool Photo via AP)

Inside the head-spinning week of Donald Trump’s legal drama

Donald Trump’s criminal trial began in earnest with opening statements and testimony. But the unprecedented moment of a former president standing trial unfolded this past week amid a crescendo of developments in other legal cases.

FILE - A TikTok sign is displayed on their building in Culver City, Calif., March 11, 2024. If it feels like TikTok has been around forever, that's probably because it has, at least if you're measuring via internet time. What's now in question is whether it will be around much longer — and if so, in what form. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

How TikTok grew from a fun app for teens into a potential national security threat

If it feels like TikTok has been around forever, that’s probably because it has, at least if you’re measuring via internet time.

A suspect is in custody after 6 people were shot outside a club in the nation’s capital, police say

Police say six people were shot outside a nightclub in the nation’s capital. The shootings happened at about 11:30 p.m. on Friday in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington.

FILE - Music mogul and entrepreneur Sean "Diddy" Combs arrives at the Billboard Music Awards, May 15, 2022, in Las Vegas. Combs pushed back against a woman’s lawsuit that accused him of sexual assault. Combs’ lawyers filed a motion Friday, April 26, 2024, to dismiss some claims that were not under law when the alleged incident occurred. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs files motion to dismiss some claims in a sexual assault lawsuit

Sean “Diddy” Combs has pushed back against a woman’s lawsuit that accused him of sexual assault. Combs’ lawyers filed a motion Friday to dismiss some claims that were not under law when the alleged incident occurred.

An image depicting tennis legend Billie Jean King is displayed at The Sports Bra sports bar on Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Oregon’s Sports Bra, a pub for women’s sports fans, plans national expansion as interest booms

An Oregon sports bar focusing on and showing only women’s athletics has plans to expand across the country through a franchise model.

FILE - Harvey Weinstein arrives at a Manhattan courthouse as jury deliberations continue in his rape trial in New York, on Feb. 24, 2020. Weinstein will appear in a New York City court on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, according to the Manhattan district attorney’s office. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Retrial of Harvey Weinstein unlikely to occur soon, if ever, experts say

Legal experts say a retrial in New York of Harvey Weinstein won’t be coming to a courtroom anytime soon, if ever.

FILE - Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., speaks during a Republican Indiana gubernatorial candidate forum in Carmel, Ind., Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, file)

Indiana voters to pick party candidates in competitive, multimillion dollar primaries

The results of some primary elections in Indiana could determine the outcome of the general election in a deep red state where Republicans hold a supermajority in both chambers of the state legislature and GOP politicians lead many top offices.

Riverton, Utah, Mayor Trent Staggs, a U.S. Senate candidate endorsed by former President Donald Trump, addresses delegates at the Utah Republican Party Convention, Saturday, April 27, 2024, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum)

Utah GOP convention picks Trump-backed mayor Trent Staggs as nominee to replace Sen. Mitt Romney

Mayor Trent Staggs of Riverton, Utah, has been selected as the state Republican Party’s nominee to replace Mitt Romney in the U.S.

Oregon university pauses gifts and grants from Boeing in response to student and faculty demands

An Oregon university says it is pausing seeking or accepting further gifts or grants from Boeing. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports Portland State University acted after students and faculty demanded that the school sever ties with the company because of its weapons manufacturing divisions and its

Workers remove wreckage of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Loved ones await recovery of 2 bodies from Baltimore bridge wreckage a month after the collapse

Members of Baltimore County’s close-knit Latino community have constructed an elaborate memorial for the six members of a roadwork crew killed in the Francis Scott Key bridge collapse.

1 climber dead, another seriously hurt after 1,000-foot fall on Alaska peak

Authorities say a climber is dead and another seriously injured after falling about 1,000 feet while on a steep, technical route on Mount Johnson in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve.