Weaponizing ordinary devices violates international law, United Nations rights chief says
Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations human rights chief says weaponizing ordinary communication devices represents a new…
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California governor signs law to protect children from social media addiction
Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will make it illegal for social media platforms to knowingly provide…
Continue ReadingVote count underway in Sri Lanka’s presidential election after years of turmoil
Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Voting ended in Sri Lanka’s presidential election Saturday as the country seeks to recover from…
Continue ReadingCourt rules nearly 98,000 Arizonans whose citizenship hadn’t been confirmed can vote the full ballot
Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court unanimously ruled Friday that nearly 98,000 people whose citizenship documents hadn’t…
Continue ReadingAlec Baldwin urges judge to stand by dismissal of involuntary manslaughter case in ‘Rust’ shooting
Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Alec Baldwin has urged a New Mexico judge to stand by her decision to end his trial and dismiss an…
Continue ReadingFederal judge temporarily blocks Tennessee’s ‘abortion trafficking’ law
Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked Tennessee from enforcing a law banning adults from helping minors…
Continue Reading‘The West Wing’ cast visits the White House for a 25th anniversary party
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden invited cast members from “The West Wing” to the White House to mark the 25th…
Continue ReadingHezbollah commander killed in Israeli airstrike was top military official on US wanted list
Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Hezbollah commander killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs was one of the Lebanese…
Continue ReadingWojnarowski one of the first significant sports ‘insiders’ to step away from the spotlight
AP Sports Writer Adam Schefter was surprised the first time he heard his friend Adrian Wojnarowski was considering retiring from his job as ESPN’s…
Continue ReadingBrett Favre to appear before US House panel looking at welfare misspending
Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre is scheduled to appear before a congressional committee examining how…
Continue ReadingFootage shows NYPD officers firing at man with knife in subway shooting that wounded 4
Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Footage of two New York City police officers opening fire at a subway station as they confronted a man holding a…
Continue ReadingGuest lineups for the Sunday news shows
WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — National Security Council spokesman John Kirby; Reps. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and Jason Crow, D-Colo. ___…
Continue ReadingA lost cat’s mysterious 2-month, 900-mile journey home to California
Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A gray cat living an extraordinary life of visits to the beach and trips to the lake went on his biggest…
Continue ReadingThe head of Boeing’s defense and space business is out as company tries to fix troubled contracts
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Boeing is replacing the head of its defense and space business. That the unit that has been saddled with money-losing…
Continue ReadingHuman remains in Kentucky positively identified as the Kentucky highway shooter
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Human remains found in Kentucky have been positively identified as the man who shot 12 vehicles and wounded five people on…
Continue ReadingA strike by Boeing factory workers shows no signs of ending after its first week
AP Airlines Writer Boeing has started rolling furloughs of nonunion employees as a week-old labor strike by 33,000 union machinists shows no signs of…
Continue ReadingCourt takes ‘naked ballots’ case over Pennsylvania mail-in voting
Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest court will decide if counties have to accept provisional ballots cast on election…
Continue ReadingCalifornia fire agency employee arrested on suspicion of starting 5 blazes
Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection employee was arrested Friday on suspicion he started…
Continue ReadingJury awards $116M to the family of a passenger killed in a New York no-door helicopter crash
Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A jury has awarded $116 million to the family of one of five people killed in a no-door helicopter. The craft…
Continue ReadingEx-Memphis police supervisor says there was ‘no need’ for officers to beat Tyre Nichols
Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A former Memphis police supervisor says there was “no need” for five officers to punch, kick, and hit…
Continue ReadingA dozen Tufts lacrosse players were diagnosed with a rare muscle injury
BOSTON (AP) — A dozen Tufts University men’s lacrosse players have been diagnosed with a rare muscle injury following a…
Continue ReadingPolice arrest 15-year old for making social media threats against DC schools
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Police on Friday arrested a 15-year old boy on charges related to threats on social media that prompted an…
Continue ReadingBiden opens busy foreign policy stretch as anxious allies shift gaze to Trump, Harris
Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden is opening a busy stretch tending to international allies anxious about where U.S.…
Continue ReadingMexican cartel leader’s son convicted of violent role in drug trafficking plot
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The son of a Mexican drug cartel leader was convicted Friday of charges that he used violence, including the…
Continue ReadingAn appeals court has revived a challenge to President Biden’s Medicare drug price reduction program
Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A constitutional challenge to the Biden administration program enabling Medicare to negotiate lower prices for…
Continue ReadingAmerican Airlines negotiates a contract extension with labor unions that it sued 5 years ago
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — American Airlines has agreed on a contract extension for ground workers including mechanics and baggage handlers. If the…
Continue ReadingDelaware governor draws criticism from fellow Democrats for vetoing doctor-assisted suicide bill
Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — Democratic Gov. John Carney has vetoed a bill allowing doctor-assisted suicide in Delaware. Carney said in his…
Continue ReadingFlorida deputy accidentally shoots and kills his girlfriend, officials say
OCALA, Fla. (AP) — A former north Florida deputy has been fired after telling investigators he accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend.…
Continue ReadingWhat to know after Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah
Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The assassination of Hezbollah’s leader by Israel is a monumental and demoralizing blow to the Lebanese…
Continue ReadingBureau of Prisons says it’s adding staff and making fixes at jail where Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is held
Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The federal Bureau of Prisons says it has increased staffing in recent months to make up for staggering shortfalls…
Continue ReadingMississippi mayor says a Confederate monument is staying in storage during a lawsuit
Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Confederate monument that was removed from a courthouse square in Mississippi will stay in storage while a…
Continue ReadingA funeral mass is held for a teen boy killed in a Georgia high school shooting
WINDER, Ga. (AP) — A fourth and final funeral has been held more than two weeks after a shooting at a Georgia high school. The Atlanta…
Continue ReadingHigh insulin prices spur a federal lawsuit against three pharmacy benefit managers
AP Health Writer The federal government is suing some pharmacy benefit managers over a system of drug rebates that regulators say has made the price…
Continue ReadingGuinea’s most wanted fugitive extradited from Liberia
Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea’s most wanted fugitive, a former senior military officer convicted of crimes against humanity, was…
Continue ReadingJury deliberations begin in civil trial over ‘Trump Train’ encounter with Biden-Harris bus in Texas
Associated Press/Report for America AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Jury deliberations have begun in Texas in a civil trial over a so-called “Trump Train”…
Continue ReadingWhy does ‘The Babadook’ still haunt? Its director, Jennifer Kent, has some answers
AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Not many small-budget, first-feature films can be fairly said to have shifted cinema but Jennifer Kent’s…
Continue ReadingJudge asked to cancel referendum in slave descendants’ zoning battle with Georgia county
Associated Press DARIEN, Ga. (AP) — Elected commissioners of a Georgia county are asking a judge to cancel a special election that challenges…
Continue ReadingHaiti’s insecurity is worsening as gangs seize more territory, UN rights expert says
Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A U.N. human rights expert says that gang violence is spreading across Haiti as a U.N.-backed mission…
Continue ReadingWhat to know about Mark Robinson, the embattled Republican nominee for North Carolina governor
Associated Press North Carolina’s Republican candidate for governor is at the center of a national news story. That’s because of the…
Continue ReadingNorth Carolina’s governor vetoes private school vouchers and immigration enforcement orders
Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed a bill that allocates hundreds of millions of dollars to…
Continue ReadingMali officials close livestock markets over suspected links to militants
Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Following a deadly attack in Mali’s capital by al-Qaida linked militants, authorities there have…
Continue ReadingWisconsin Supreme Court agrees to decide whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stays on ballot
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court says it will decide whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name should stay on the presidential ballot.…
Continue ReadingPenn State removes its student newspaper racks over concerns about political ads
Associated Press Penn State removed nearly three dozen racks containing its independent student-produced newspaper from on-campus this week because…
Continue ReadingGucci touts ‘casual grandeur,’ Tod’s focuses on Artisanal Intelligence and Versace plays it safe
AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — The fashion palate cleanser of the season: white. Milan fashion houses, more often than not this season, are opening…
Continue ReadingFinal day drama: Things to know about testimony on the Titan sub disaster
Associated Press Last year, five people hoping to view the Titanic wreckage died when their submersible imploded deep in the Atlantic Ocean. A Coast…
Continue ReadingFederal authorities subpoena NYC mayor’s director of asylum seeker operations
Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed the director of New York City’s Office of Asylum Seeker Operations, the…
Continue ReadingSecret Service report details communication failures preceding July assassination attempt on Trump
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Communication breakdowns with local law enforcement hampered the Secret Service’s performance during a…
Continue ReadingUS stops hazardous waste shipments to Michigan from Ohio after court decision
Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The federal government has stopped sending hazardous waste to a Michigan landfill from Ohio. It’s the ripple…
Continue ReadingGeorgia State Election Board approves rule requiring hand count of ballots
Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s State Election Board on Friday voted to approve a new rule that requires poll workers to count the…
Continue ReadingNew York magazine says its star political reporter is on leave after a relationship was disclosed
AP Media Writer New York magazine says that its highly regarded Washington correspondent, Olivia Nuzzi, is on leave after disclosing that she…
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