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Muskets like those from 1776 are mostly exempt from today���s gun laws 05/14/2026 01:18pm • HALIFAX, N.C. (AP) ��� With 165 grains of black powder in the barrel, a .75-caliber Brown Bess flintlock musket like the ones the redcoats carried in 1776 can hurl a lead ball at a velocity of around 1,000 feet (305 meters) per second. Imagine what that can do to a human body. Now, imagine that it�� Judge blocks Trump administration���s demand for Rhode Island hospital's records of transgender kids 05/14/2026 01:17pm • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) ��� A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's sweeping demands for confidential transgender patient information from Rhode Island's largest hospital that provides gender-affirming care to minors. U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy's Wednesday ruling is the latest set A $620 property tax debt cost him his house. Ohio���s Supreme Court will decide if the county owes him 05/14/2026 01:17pm • After Angelo Craig failed to pay his $620 property tax bill, Cuyahoga County officials began the legal process of seizing his house. The same was true when Angela Taylor owed $4,655 against her house in Shaker Heights, and Abraham David���s $3,384 debt in Cleveland, court records show. The county US-Best-Sellers-Books-PW 05/14/2026 01:15pm • HARDCOVER FICTION 1. ���Fury Bound" by Sable Sorensen (Requited) 2. ���26 Beauties" by James Patterson (Little, Brown) 3. ���Yesteryear��� by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf) 4. ���The Calamity Club" by Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau) 5. ���Platform Decay" by Martha Wells (Tor) 6. ���The Things We N What to know about contenders who could replace Keir Starmer as Britain's Labour leader 05/14/2026 01:07pm • LONDON (AP) ��� British Prime Minister Keir Starmer���s leadership is on the rocks after his Labour Party suffered heavy defeats in local elections last week. Health Secretary Wes Streeting on Thursday became the first Cabinet member to resign though he didn't immediately launch his widely expected China's Xi warns Trump that differences over Taiwan could lead to conflict 05/14/2026 01:06pm • BEIJING (AP) ��� China���s Xi Jinping warned President Donald Trump on Thursday that their two countries could clash over Taiwan if the issue is not handled properly, an unusually harsh admonition that stood in contrast to the American leader���s praise for his counterpart. The exchange at a highly Greece rejects reports of an exemption from biometric checks for British summer travelers 05/14/2026 12:59pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� Greece says a new biometric screening system at airports for non-European Union citizens is fully operational, rejecting reports of a formal summer exemption for British travelers. But busy airports will be allowed to shut off scanners when needed this summer, officials say. Cuba���s power grid collapses and plunges eastern provinces into a major blackout 05/14/2026 12:57pm • HAVANA (AP) ��� Cuba���s national energy grid suffered a major failure early Thursday that severed power to the island���s eastern provinces, authorities said, as residents in the capital Havana faced ongoing blackouts. Cuba's aging power grid has eroded in recent years as it faces a prolonged econ DC Water CEO called to testify on Capitol Hill in investigation of Potomac Interceptor sewage spill 05/14/2026 12:56pm • The head of D.C. Water will testify next week on Capitol Hill about the Potomac Interceptor sewage spill, WTOP has learned. In February, the House Energy and Commerce Committee launched an investigation into the spill, which sent more than 240 million gallons of wastewater into the Potomac River Oklahoma executes a man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her 7-month-old daughter 05/14/2026 12:44pm • McALESTER, Okla. (AP) ��� Oklahoma has executed a man who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her 7-month-old daughter nearly 20 years ago. Raymond Johnson, 52, was pronounced dead at 10:12 a.m. Thursday following a three-drug injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, pri NASA's Psyche spacecraft buzzing Mars on its way to a rare metal asteroid 05/14/2026 12:37pm • CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ��� A NASA spacecraft chasing a rare metal asteroid swings past Mars this week for a gravity boost, snapping thousands of pictures as practice for the main encounter in 2029. Named Psyche like the asteroid it���s after, the robotic explorer will slingshot past the red plane Corey Seager stuck in 0-for-27 slump as the World Series MVP goes 7 games without a hit for Rangers 05/14/2026 12:37pm • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ��� Corey Seager is going through a slump like none he has ever had to endure in the big leagues. The two-time World Series MVP shortstop is hitless in his last seven games for the Texas Rangers. That is part of a longer 0-for-27 span, also a career long, that includes 11 strik Ballerini dodges a late crash to seize a breakthrough Giro stage win in Naples 05/14/2026 12:37pm • NAPLES, Italy (AP) ��� Italian rider Davide Ballerini avoided a crash in the final 300 meters of Thursday's sixth stage of the Giro d���Italia to claim his first victory in a Grand Tour, while Afonso Eul��lio remained in the overall lead. Ballerini edged out Jasper Stuyven in a bunch sprint on cobbl After the Kendrick Lamar beef, can Drake come back with 'Iceman'? 05/14/2026 12:33pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Drake has returned as the ���Iceman.��� And the stakes couldn't be higher. His ninth studio album ��� and his first since his extravagant loss in a very public feud with Kendrick Lamar ��� arrives Friday. The beef between two of hip-hop���s biggest stars erupted in the spring of 20 Oklahoma's Richard Glossip, who was nearly executed 3 times, granted bond while awaiting retrial 05/14/2026 12:28pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ��� Oklahoma's Richard Glossip, who was nearly executed 3 times, granted bond while awaiting retrial.