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By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed a bill that would allow parents to block their children from getting social media posts suggested by a platform’s algorithm, a move to limit feeds critics argue are addictive. Under the legislation, feeds on apps like TikTok and Instagram would be limited
Continue ReadingBy WILL GRAVES AP National Writer A new professional women’s gymnastics league is hoping to give athletes a chance to walk away from the sport on their terms. The Global Impact Gymnastics Alliance plans to begin holding competitions in 2025. Organizers believe interest in women’s sports and gymnastics in particular has reached a point where
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Mechanics at the Canadian airline WestJet say they are dropping plans to begin a strike now that the airline has agreed to resume negotiations on a new collective-bargaining agreement. Members of the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association had been preparing to walk off the job on Thursday night. The union’s president says the union
Continue ReadingMILAN (AP) — The Italian coast guard has recovered 12 more bodies from a weekend shipwreck in the Ionian Sea off the southern Italian coastline. This brings to 20 the number of known victims from the sinking. Dozens more are missing and presumed dead. The bodies — including women and children — were being transferred
Continue ReadingMIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Rapper Travis Scott was arrested in Miami Beach early Thursday on misdemeanor charges of trespassing and public intoxication after officers say they found him at the city’s marina shouting obscenities at people on a yacht and disobeyed their order to leave. Officers went to the marina shortly before 1 a.m.
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press SQUAM LAKE, N.H. (AP) — A heat wave from the Midwest to New England moved closer to a breaking point Thursday as millions of people sweated out another day. The National Weather Service predicted it would peak in the eastern Great Lakes and New England Thursday and
Continue ReadingBy AMY TAXIN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — There is sufficient evidence for a Southern California judge to stand trial on a murder charge in the shooting death of his wife, a judge ruled Thursday. The decision came after a preliminary hearing for Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson, who was arrested in
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A bill signed into law this week makes Louisiana the only state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every classroom in public schools and colleges — and stirs the long-running debate over the role of religion in government institutions. Under the new law,
Continue ReadingBy MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two years have passed since a leader of one of Mexico’s organized crime gangs stormed into a Catholic church in the remote Tarahumara mountains and fatally shot two Jesuit priests. Among many faith leaders nationwide, the pain unleashed on June 20, 2022 — when the
Continue ReadingBy WILL GRAVES AP National Writer A new professional women’s gymnastics league is hoping to give athletes a chance to walk away from the sport on their terms. The Global Impact Gymnastics Alliance plans to begin holding competitions in 2025. Organizers believe interest in women’s sports and gymnastics in particular has reached a point where
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S., Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has announced new sanctions against members of La Nueva Familia Michoacana drug cartel, a notoriously violent group that wars for territorial control with a slate of other Mexican cartels. Announced Thursday in Atlanta to promote the Biden administration’s efforts
Continue ReadingWOODSTOCK, Conn. (AP) — A minivan carrying 14 puppies hit a utility pole and rolled over in Connecticut. The crash in Woodstock happened at about 6 a.m. Thursday on a rural road. The driver was not seriously hurt, but several dogs were brought to a veterinarian center in nearby Massachusetts to be examined. Fire officials
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Fire crews are bracing for flooding, lightning and cooling weather as they battle a pair of growing fires that have killed at least two people while tearing through an evacuated mountain village in southern New Mexico. The National Weather Service reported overcast skies with temperatures
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House announced Thursday that it will rush delivery of air defense interceptor missiles to Ukraine by redirecting planned shipments to other allied nations, as Washington scrambles to counter increased Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. National security spokesman John Kirby said the U.S. had taken
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Supreme Court on Thursday took the rare step of removing a measure from the November ballot that would have made it harder to raise taxes, siding with Gov. Gavin Newsom by ruling the change would have upended the way government works. More than 1
Continue ReadingBy EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — There is one more item to scratch off the list before everyone from Sha’Carri Richardson to Noah Lyles to Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone embark on their trips to Paris for the Olympics. They have to make the team. No athlete, no matter how well-known or successful in
Continue ReadingBy GONZALO SOLANO TURUCU, Ecuador (AP) — In the Indigenous community of Turucu, near the active Cotacachi volcano in northern Ecuador, soccer had always been a man’s thing. The only gleaming green field belongs to them, especially on weekends. But things changed a year ago when a group of women decided to create a new
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — For the second time this month, a police dog has been killed while trying to help arrest a suspect in South Carolina. Authorities say a Richland County Sheriff’s Department dog named Wick was struck and killed by a car on Interstate 77 Thursday when his leash
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer The NCAA has presented a plan to Division I conference commissioners that would expand the lucrative men’s and women’s basketball tournaments by four or eight teams alongside an option to leave each field at 68 teams. If approved, the NCAA would keep its 64-team bracket but would add play-in
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks slipped away from recent records on Wall Street Thursday following a mixed set of reports on the economy. The S&P 500 was 0.3% lower in afternoon trading after setting an all-time high for the 31st time this year before Wednesday’s holiday. There were slightly
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