Hundreds of protesters for Palestine storm, briefly occupy Brooklyn Museum (2024)

Rising home values have led to higher real estate taxes around the U.S. Now many states are looking to provide relief to frustrated residents. New laws enacted in Alabama, Colorado and Wyoming will limit the growth in tax-assessed values for homeowners. A Kansas special session on tax cuts is to start June 18. Nebraska also could hold a special session on property taxes. Proposals to curb property taxes also will appear on ballots this year in Colorado and Georgia. The movement comes as single-family home prices have risen more than 50% during the past five years.

Saudi Arabia and allied oil producing countries face a decision on whether to extend production cuts. And that could push oil prices higher as the summer travel season increases demand for fuel and as the U.S. presidential election contest heats up. The OPEC+ alliance, made up of members of the Vienna-based producers cartel and allied countries, including Russia, is holding an online meeting but the cuts in question are a matter for a smaller group led by Saudi Arabia. Those countries previously cut some 2.2 million barrels per day to support prices that are weaker than the Saudis and other coalition members would like.

Farmworkers face some of the most intense exposures to the bird flu virus, but advocates say many of them would lack resources to fall back on if they became ill.

LOS ANGELES -- When Los Angeles County medical examiners worked last year to determine how Matthew Perry died, they discovered something startling.

When Victoria Gray and her husband took in their grandchild in 1993, there wasn’t a catchall term to explain the difficult task ahead. They just did the work.

President Joe Biden has been courting Kahlil Greene and other young TikTok influencers since taking office, inviting them to celebrations at the White House and policy briefings on Zoom, where Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have been known to pop in.

Zelenskyy says China is pressuring other countries not to attend upcoming Ukraine peace talks.

The New York Mets lead 2-1 in a four-game series with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

The Philadelphia Phillies, on an eight-game home winning streak, host the St. Louis Cardinals.

The Cleveland Guardians, on a nine-game home winning streak, host the Washington Nationals.

The Tampa Bay Rays will attempt to stop their three-game road skid in a matchup against the Baltimore Orioles.

The San Francisco Giants look to end their three-game home skid with a victory over the New York Yankees.

Both the Miami Marlins and the Texas Rangers are looking for a series win with a victory on Sunday.

Both the Chicago Cubs and the Cincinnati Reds are looking for a series win with a victory on Sunday.

The Milwaukee Brewers host the Chicago White Sox aiming to extend a four-game home winning streak.

The Boston Red Sox lead 2-1 in a four-game series with the Detroit Tigers.

Both the Houston Astros and the Minnesota Twins are looking for a series win with a victory on Sunday.

Both the Toronto Blue Jays and the Pittsburgh Pirates are looking for a series win with a victory on Sunday.

The Kansas City Royals will try to stop their three-game skid when they take on the San Diego Padres.

The Los Angeles Angels enter the matchup with the Seattle Mariners as losers of four games in a row.

The Oakland Athletics play the Atlanta Braves after Max Schuemann had four hits against the Braves on Saturday.

Both the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Colorado Rockies are looking for a series win with a victory on Sunday.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Vance Honeycutt hit two long home runs and North Carolina advanced to the championship round of the Chapel Hill Regional, defeating LSU 6-2. After 4 1/2 scoreless innings, North Carolina broke through in the bottom of the fifth with Honeycutt’s three-run shot deep to…

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Ted Burton drove in the go-ahead run with an infield single in the top of the 11th inning and Evan Aschenbeck did not allow a hit in 4 2/3 innings of relief to lead No. 3 national seed Texas A&M to a 4-2 victory over Texas at the Bryan-College Station Region…

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Billy Amick hit a grand slam homerun, Tennessee left the ballpark four times and batted .333 as a team en route to an 12-6 win over Indiana in the Knoxville Regional of the NCAA Tournament. Even before Amick’s grand slam in the third, Dean Curley and Christian Moore e…

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Ted Burton drove in the go-ahead run with an infield single in the top of the 11th inning and Evan Aschenbeck did not allow a hit in 4 2/3 innings of relief to lead No. 3 national seed Texas A&M to a 4-2 victory over Texas at the Bryan-College Station Region…

As campaigns nationwide experimented with artificial intelligence earlier this year, the Democratic National Committee approached their committees with a request: Sign onto guidelines to use the technology in a “responsible” way. The draft agreement, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, was hardly full of revolutionary ideas. But the plan went nowhere. The proposal’s demise highlighted both internal divisions over campaign tactics and the party’s uncertainty over how to best use AI.

Television images show emergency workers trying to rescue people trapped under a collapsed apartment building in Istanbul. Firefighters shifted rubble by hand from the flattened three-story building in Kucukcekmece on the city’s European side on Sunday. Two injured people were pulled from the debris, broadcaster CNN Turk reported. The Istanbul governor’s office said the structure collapsed at 8:40 a.m. local time. The cause was not immediately clear. More than 59,000 people were killed last year when a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck parts of southern Turkey and neighboring Syria. The disaster highlighted the poor enforcement of building regulations in Turkey.

Islam Makhachev defended his lightweight title and extended his winning streak to 14 fights, third-longest in UFC history, by getting a submission over Dustin Poirier in the fifth round at UFC 302. Overcoming one of the sport’s accomplished veterans and a crowd that was against him from the start, Makhachev ran his record to 26-1 and said afterward he may move up in weight for another challenge. There’s certainly not much left for him at 155 pounds, where he defended his title for the third time and showed why he is ranked as the pound-for-pound best in UFC. Poirier fell short in his third attempt for the undisputed title.

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Voters in Serbia are casting ballots in a rerun election in the capital, Belgrade, and in dozens of other cities and towns, with ruling right-wing populists seeking to cement their already vast hold on power. The vote in Belgrade on Sunday is being held again after reports of widespread irregularities last December triggered political tensions and accusations that President Aleksandar Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party rigged the vote. Also up for grabs are more than 80 municipal councils and city halls in two other key cities. If the opposition manages to wrestle away at least some of the local councils, not to mention in big cities, it would be a significant shift.

Iran's hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registers as a presidential candidate for the June 28 election.

Iran’s hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has registered as a possible candidate for the June 28 presidential election, seeking to regain the country’s top political position after a helicopter crash killed the nation’s president and seven others. The populist former leader’s registration puts pressure on Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In office, Ahmadinejad openly challenged the 85-year-old cleric, and his attempt to run in 2021 was barred by authorities. The firebrand, Holocaust-questioning politician return also comes during a time of heightened tensions between Iran and the West over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, its arming of Russia in its war on Ukraine and its wide-reaching crackdowns on dissent.

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Voters in at least three South Dakota counties will decide whether ballots in future elections will be counted by hand. It's a rare step even as others in the U.S. have considered a move to counting by hand in the wake of former President Donald Trump's false claims of fraud in 2020. Only a few counties have seriously considered the switch, but most have ditched the idea as too costly. Experts say it's also much slower and less accurate that using machine tabulators. In South Dakota's June 4 primary, voters in Gregory, Haakon and Tripp counties will decide whether to prohibit tabulating machines and require hand counting.

Throughout the seven-month Israel-Hamas war, Israel has been heavily criticized for alleged wrongdoing by its forces. Israel says it can investigate itself and has launched many probes into the conduct of its soldiers. But in the wake of a deadly strike on a tent camp in Rafah, there's mounting international skepticism that Israel can fairly and diligently pursue those investigations.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto allowed one run over six solid innings, and Jason Heyward and Will Smith had RBI doubles in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 4-1 victory over the Colorado Rockies. Kiké Hernández also drove in a run for the Dodgers, who have won four of five after dropping Friday’s series opener in Colorado’s first win at Dodger Stadium since 2022. Shohei Ohtani stole the 100th base of his major league career, becoming the fourth Japanese-born player to reach 100 steals in the majors. Ezequiel Tovar had three hits for the second straight night for the Rockies, who lost for only the second time in six games.

Ted Burton drove in the go-ahead run with an infield single in the top of the 11th inning and Evan Aschenbeck did not allow a hit in 4 2/3 innings of relief to lead No. 3 national seed Texas A&M to a 4-2 victory over Texas at the Bryan-College Station Regional. Texas (36-23) will play Louisiana (41-19) in an elimination game on Sunday. The winner will play Texas A&M (46-13). If the Aggies lose, the regional championship will be decided in a rematch on Monday with a berth in the super regionals on the line.

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