Today is Thursday, May 9, the 130th day of 2024. There are 236 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 9, 1994, South Africa’s newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country’s first Black president. On this date: In 1860, writer J.M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, was born in Kirriemuir, Scotland. In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson, acting on a joint congressional resolution, signed a proclamation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day. In 1945, with World War II in Europe at an end, Soviet forces liberated Czechoslovakia from Nazi occupation....