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Broadway’s attendance up, but box office doesn’t keep pace
NEW YORK (AP) — Broadway’s attendance figures hit a record high this season, but box office revenue ticked upward only slightly. The Broadway League said Monday that box offices reported a record total gross of $1.37 billion — up 0.6 percent from the previous season. The trade association for theater owners, operators and producers said […]

Any Cabrera, veteran AP LatAm editor, reporter, dies at 60
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Any Cabrera, a veteran AP journalist who covered many of Latin America’s biggest stories during 33 years as a reporter and editor, died suddenly Monday morning at her home in Mexico City. Cabrera, 60, was the news editor of the AP’s Spanish-language news service, based in Mexico City. She worked with […]

Toyota adding 1.6 million vehicles to Takata air bag recall
DETROIT (AP) — Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling nearly 1.6 million vehicles in the U.S. to replace potentially faulty front passenger air bag inflators made by Takata Corp. of Japan. The recall includes Toyota, Scion and Lexus models from the 2006-2011 model years. The air bags can deploy with too much force and spew shrapnel […]

Bernie has pissed off Tommy Chong: Comedian not so high on getting disinvited from Sanders rally
“It was an insult,” said the actor and pot activist

Mets’ Duda out long term with stress fracture in lower back
WASHINGTON (AP) — New York Mets manager Terry Collins expects first baseman Lucas Duda to be out at least four to six weeks and maybe longer with a stress fracture in his lower back. The Mets placed Duda on the 15-day disabled list Monday with the back problem that had been bothering him for some […]

Puerto Rico unveils budget that includes $200M debt payment
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s governor has unveiled a stark budget that sets aside more than $200 million for a critical bond payment as the U.S. territory sinks into a deep economic crisis. The proposed $9.1 billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year is $700 million smaller than the current one and […]

Many Vietnam vets say they support lifting of arms embargo
CHICAGO (AP) — The way Terry Neilen sees it, lifting the ban on U.S. arms sales to Vietnam makes sense in the face of China’s growing influence in the region. Fellow Vietnam veteran Ned Foote said Americans long ago forgave Germany and Japan for World War II, so there’s no reason not to do the […]

Josh Hamilton will miss all season with another knee surgery
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Josh Hamilton will miss the entire season after more surgery on his left knee. The Rangers said Monday that Hamilton, who has been on the disabled list all season, will have surgery June 8 in Houston. The surgery will be performed by Dr. Walt Lowe, whom the slugger visited for another […]

Virgin America plane returns to Denver after bird strike
DENVER (AP) — The pilot of a Virgin America plane declared an emergency and returned to Denver’s airport after the aircraft was apparently hit by a bird shortly after takeoff. Flight 865 was headed from Denver to San Francisco when the plane was struck Monday. Airline officials say the plane continued to operate normally, and […]

‘Gigantic’ corporate tax hike likely headed to Oregon voters
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — This November, Oregon voters could decide on a $2.8 billion annual tax hike on large corporations as a way to boost funding for public services such as education and health care. The ballot proposal could give Oregon the most aggressive tax structure for big business in the nation. It comes amid […]

After migrants, German nationalist party takes aim at Islam
ERFURT, Germany (AP) — Weeks after declaring that there is no place for Islam in Germany, a surging nationalist party has sharpened its rhetoric against prominent Islamic groups and suggested limiting the religious freedom of the more than 4 million Muslims in the country. Senior members of Alternative for Germany cut short a meeting Monday […]

Peru declares emergency over mercury contamination
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s government declared an emergency across a broad jungle region Monday because of mercury contamination caused by wildcat gold mining. The 60-day decree affects 11 districts in the Madre de Dios region bordering Brazil where studies carried out by Stanford University and others have found high levels of the toxic element […]

Court reinstates lawsuits alleging rate collusion by banks
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court in New York City has reinstated lawsuits against 16 of the world’s largest banks alleging they colluded to manipulate a benchmark interest rate. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Monday restored the lawsuits, which had been dismissed by a judge. The lawsuits were […]

Houston mayor seeks public help to solve slaying of boy, 11
HOUSTON (AP) — The mayor of Houston on Monday urged anyone with information about the unsolved slaying of an 11-year-old boy last week as he walked home from school to come forward. “What will help a community and the city to heal is to find the perpetrator of this particular crime,” Mayor Sylvester Turner said […]

Father, son accused in Utah kidnapping will stay behind bars
FARMINGTON, Utah (AP) — A father and son accused of tying up five members of a Utah family will remain jailed without bail as authorities investigate if they were involved with the death of a rail-line worker whose body was found along their likely escape route to Wyoming. In the first Utah court appearance for […]

Taylor Swift’s symbolic victory: Spotify still hasn’t figured out how to turn a profit
Despite holding onto the “freemium” model that Swift and other artists hate, Spotify’s still in the red

“We wanted to make a film about our nation’s failure”: New documentary profiles real-life victims of three-strikes policy
Thousands of people jailed for petty crimes were finally released when voters repealed the draconian Prop 36

Russia protests US reconnaissance flight over Sea of Japan
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Defense Ministry has protested a U.S. reconnaissance flight over the Sea of Japan near the nation’s borders, saying it jeopardized air safety in the area. The ministry said in Monday’s statement that it summoned a U.S. military attaché to indicate that the U.S. crew’s “unprofessional” action “raised the danger of collision […]

Baby girl dead after being left in car
HIALEAH, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say an infant is dead after being left inside her parents’ car. The Miami Herald (http://goo.gl/1TzCCX) reports that the 11-month-old girl was found Monday afternoon. Hialeah police say the girl was taken to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The car had been parked in a gated community. […]

Restaurateur, LGBT pioneer dead; estranged husband arrested
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The estranged husband of a well-known Salt Lake City restaurateur and LGBT pioneer who died in a house fire over the weekend has been arrested on suspicion of murder and arson, authorities said. Craig Crawford, 47, was booked after the blaze on Sunday killed 72-year-old John Williams, the owner of […]

Ride-hailing service Lyft testing reservation feature
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Ride-hailing service Lyft says it’s testing a feature that would let users schedule a trip up to 24 hours in advance. While many commercial taxi and car services let passengers reserve a ride in advance, on-demand ride companies like Lyft and Uber haven’t offered that service. They have said it’s more […]

“This system is so rigged”: Here’s why people believe the superdelegate system is “undemocratic”
The Sanders campaign has even vowed to turn pledged Clinton delegates against her

Clinton: Trump economics would ‘bankrupt America’
DETROIT (AP) — Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump’s economic policies are a “recipe” for lower wages, fewer jobs and more debt — warning union members that he could “bankrupt America like he’s bankrupted his companies.” The Democratic presidential candidate urged thousands of union workers gathered in Detroit Monday to ask: “How can anybody lose money […]

David Mamet, David Yazbek premieres set for Atlantic Co.
NEW YORK (AP) — World premiere works from David Mamet and David Yazbek as well as a musical for kids by the co-composer of “Frozen” are some of the highlights of the Atlantic Theater Company’s upcoming season. The respected off-Broadway company unveiled its slate of 2016-17 offerings Monday, including the world premiere of George Brant’s […]

Alaska inmate escapes, then comes back to try to free others
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A minimum-security prisoner who escaped from a halfway house in Alaska came back three hours later, but it wasn’t to turn himself in. State Troopers say 20-year-old Joshua Yaska returned with an SUV and tried to help other inmates flee the facility in Fairbanks. Staff members say Yaska was spotted leaving […]

Florida police say officer shot man after car chase
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a police officer in Florida has shot a man following a car chase. Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Chief Chris Butler said at a news conference on Monday that Officer T.L. Landreville fired several shots after 22-year-old Vernell Bing refused to obey commands to stay in the car. Butler says Bing […]

Ferguson seeks another tax hike to make up lost revenue
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Ferguson city leaders, struggling to balance a budget decimated by fallout from unrest that followed the police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, will ask voters in August for a second tax increase. Voters in the St. Louis suburb in April approved a half-cent sales tax increase and narrowly defeated a property […]

Republicans seek to combine North Carolina LGBT lawsuits
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s Republican leaders are seeking to combine separate lawsuits over a state law limiting protections for the LGBT community. Recent filings could help steer the cases to a federal judge who twice sided with local or state officials against the federal government in recent years. Senate leader Phil Berger and […]

Bridgestone abandons crisis-wracked Venezuela after 62 years
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Tire maker Bridgestone is selling its business in Venezuela after six decades in the country, the latest blue chip company to abandon the country as a result of runaway inflation and strict currency controls. Bridgestone Americas says in a statement Monday that it is selling its Venezuela assets to Grupo Corimon, […]

Deal reached to keep Atlantic City from running out of cash
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey lawmakers have agreed on an Atlantic City rescue package to keep the struggling gambling resort from running out of money. Leaders of the state Assembly and Senate reached agreement Monday on a package of bills to help the nearly broke city, giving it five months to devise a plan […]

A new level of homophobia in Kansas: Christian high school says it reserves right to expel students with gay family members
Wichita’s Trinity Academy asserts its right to expel students who live with an LGBT family member

Austria’s Sanders beats its Trump: Green party independent defeats anti-immigrant far-right in presidential election
Some are calling Austrian President-elect Alexander Van der Bellen the world’s first Green head of state

In swing state suburbs, white women are skeptical of Trump
WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) — For Donald Trump to win the White House in November, he’ll need the votes of women like Elizabeth Andrus. Yet Andrus, a registered Republican from Delaware, Ohio, sees “buffoonery” in the presumptive Republican nominee and says “I am not on the Trump train.” With all the trouble in the world, she […]

IRS chief won’t appear at House hearing on his impeachment
WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS says the agency’s commissioner won’t appear at a House hearing on Tuesday examining whether he deserves to be impeached. A statement by the IRS on Monday says that John Koskinen (KAHS’-kihn-ihn) has not had time to prepare for the House Judiciary Committee hearing because of recent travel and because he […]

Zedd, The Chainsmokers to play Electric Daisy Carnival
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Zedd, The Chainsmokers, Tiesto, Kaskade, Paul Oakenfold and Martin Garrix will perform at the 20th annual Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas in June. The music festival released its lineup on Monday for the three-day music festival, which will be held at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway on June 17-19. More […]

“Her politics were being worn … on her bra strap”: The always-sexist Rush Limbaugh berates prosecutor in Freddie Gray trial
Limbaugh also claimed Maryland State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby “overcharged to get guilty on something”

This NSFW nude production of “The Tempest” is the most brave and beautiful thing you will see today
The show was performed in Central Park

“She’s a Jezebel!”: Conservatives flood Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin’s Facebook after she vetoes GOP bill to jail abortion providers
Oklahoma Republicans say they are considering an override of the governor’s veto

Sanders backing brings big dollars to DNC chair’s challenger
MIAMI (AP) — Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is literally getting a run for her money by her South Florida primary opponent, thanks to Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Tim Canova, a university law professor running his first political campaign, announced Monday that he raised more than $250,000 after Sanders endorsed his campaign […]

EU lifts suicide warning on Pfizer’s smoking-cessation pill
Europe’s main drug regulator has lifted a 7-year-old warning about possible suicidal risks from Chantix, Pfizer’s smoking-cessation pill. The European Medicines Agency’s ruling could boost sales of Champix, the drug’s name in Europe, by reassuring doctors and their patients trying to quit smoking that the prescription medicine doesn’t have dangerous psychiatric side effects. The EMA’s […]

Florida Planned Parenthood clinic evacuated; 6 treated
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — A Planned Parenthood clinic in Florida has been evacuated because of an unknown substance, and six people have been taken to a hospital for evaluation. Sarasota Police Department spokeswoman Genevieve Judge said in a news release that 38 people inside were evacuated at 10:45 a.m. Monday. Two hazardous materials teams responded. […]

Concern in Haiti over emerging condition linked to Zika
MIREBALAIS, Haiti (AP) — Berny Saint-Sauveur was moaning and incoherent when his family carried him into a hospital in central Haiti. He was unable to move, he later found out, because of an unusual paralysis syndrome linked to the mosquito-borne Zika virus. “I thought I was a dead man,” Saint-Sauveur recalled in an interview from […]

Sanders supporters suing California to extend voter registration
The lawsuit claims officials are not doing enough to publicize that the Democratic primary is open to independents

“Yet another reminder that Black life isn’t worth much”: Twitter reacts to cop’s acquittal in Freddie Gray case
Responses to the “not guilty” verdict for a Baltimore police officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray

Japan singer in coma after being stabbed 20 times by fan
TOKYO (AP) — A part-time Japanese pop singer is in a coma after being stabbed about 20 times by a fan near a concert site, police said Monday. They said a suspect has been arrested and admitted that he intended to kill 20-year-old Mayu Tomita. Japanese news reports said the suspect, Tomohiro Iwazaki, was angry […]

Ex-spellers remain involved with National Spelling Bee
WASHINGTON (AP) — Like an ex-jock who wants to stay involved in his sport, Jacob Williamson has taken on many roles in the two years since his memorable run to the finals at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. He’s been a coach to younger spellers, an official at local bees, a scout who identifies promising […]

Timeline of the events following the arrest of Freddie Gray
BALTIMORE (AP) — The events following the April 12, 2015, arrest of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who was injured in the custody of the Baltimore Police Department and died a week later. Six officers involved in the arrest were charged. April 12 — Freddie Gray is arrested after police make eye contact with […]

The Latest: Fund set up for slain police officer’s family
AUBURN, Mass. (AP) — The Latest on a police officer who was shot and killed in a central Massachusetts town (all times local): 12:20 p.m. A Massachusetts police department has set up a memorial fund for the wife and three children of an officer who was fatally shot during a weekend traffic stop. The Auburn […]

Author Robert Slate: Trump threatened to sue me before I even started researching his bio
The book is now sold in the Trump Tower lobby, according to BuzzFeed

Isinbayeva vows lawsuit if Russia barred from Olympic track
MOSCOW (AP) — Two-time Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva plans to file suit if Russia’s ban from global track and field competition remains in place and she is barred from competing at the games in Rio de Janeiro. “It’s a direct violation of human rights, discrimination,” Isinbayeva said. Russia’s athletics federation was suspended by […]

Some self-induced abortions result in criminal cases
Across the nation, abortion-rights activists are closely following Monday’s appeals court hearing involving an Indiana woman convicted of killing the premature infant she delivered after ingesting abortion-inducing drugs. Lawyers for 35-year-old Purvi Patel will ask the Indiana Court of Appeals court to throw out the convictions that led to her 20-year prison sentence. Patel’s case […]

French ship to join hunt for EgyptAir jet’s black boxes
CAIRO (AP) — The French navy said Monday that one of its ships has joined the search for the wreckage of EgyptAir Flight 804, focusing especially on the hunt for its flight recorders, as questions remain over what caused the Airbus 320 to crash over the Mediterranean, killing all 66 on board. Five days after […]

Trooper saves 4-month-old from fiery upside-down car
GRANVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper pulled out a 4-month-old boy who was hanging upside down in his car seat inside a vehicle that had overturned and caught fire. A dash cam video shows Trooper Sean Eitel (eye-TEL’) following a motorist driving erratically in Granville, about 30 miles northeast […]

4 police dogs killed on duty are honored with new award
NEW YORK (AP) — Four police dogs killed in the line of duty are being recognized with a new award from the American Kennel Club. The New York-based organization announced the first “AKC Paw of Courage” medal winners Monday. Ogar, a Belgian Malinois (MAL’-ihn-wah) that worked with the Smith County Constables’ office in Texas, was […]