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Traveling owl: Man drives hours with bird in truck's grill.

A man moving from Alabama to southwest Florida traveled hundreds of miles with an owl stuck in his truck’s grill

DATE: May 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Judges hear arguments over Census' contentious privacy tool

A panel of judges is hearing arguments over whether the U.S. Census Bureau can use a controversial statistical technique to keep people’s information private in the numbers used for drawing political districts

DATE: May 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Attention travelers! EU proposes reopening external borders

In announcement sure to be welcomed by travelers worldwide, the EU’s executive branch has proposed easing restrictions on visiting the 27-nation bloc as vaccination campaigns keep gathering speed

DATE: May 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

'Football City, USA' killings raise sport safety concerns

Any visitor to Rock Hill, South Carolina, soon learns its nickname, “Football City, USA.”

DATE: May 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Tokyo Games need 500 nurses; nurses say needs are elsewhere

Some nurses in Japan are incensed at a request from Tokyo Olympic organizers to have 500 of them dispatched to help out with the games

DATE: May 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

EU drug regulator evaluating Pfizer vaccine for youngsters

The European Union’s drug regulator says it has begun evaluating a request by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech to extend approval of their coronavirus vaccine to include children ranging in age from 12 to 15

DATE: May 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Hundreds join Daunte Wright's family on march for justice

Hundreds of people joined Daunte Wright’s family and friends on a march through the Minneapolis suburb where he was fatally shot by a police officer during a traffic stop three weeks earlier

DATE: May 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

French prosecutors request end of Rwanda genocide probe

Paris prosecutors have requested the end of a years-long investigation on accusations of involvement of France’s peacekeeping force in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda in which an estimated 800,000 people were slaughtered

DATE: May 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Restaurant survival hopes pick up as $28.6B in grants begin

Thousands of restaurants and bars decimated by COVID-19 have a better chance at survival as the government begins handing out $28.6 billion in grants _ money to help these businesses stay afloat while they wait for customers to return

DATE: May 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Internet trailblazers Yahoo, AOL sold, again, for $5 billion

AOL and Yahoo are being sold again, this time to a private equity firm

DATE: May 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

16 Niger soldiers killed in attack near the border with Mali

Niger's government says that an ambush on a military patrol near Niger’s border with Mali killed 16 Niger soldiers and left one missing

DATE: May 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

EU summons Russia envoy over blacklisting of its officials

The European Union has summoned Russia’s ambassador after Moscow blacklisted eight EU officials

DATE: May 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

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