By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Friday denied a request by a Texas college student group to host a drag show on campus, siding with the school’s decision to prohibit the performance. Spectrum WT and two student leaders of the LGBTQ group filed an emergency petition with the high court
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California regulators this week proposed delaying new rules aimed at reducing how much water people use on their lawns, drawing praise from agencies that said they needed more time to comply but criticism from environmentalists who warn that the delay would damage the state’s already scarce
Continue ReadingBy RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer The nine Bowl Subdivision conferences and Notre Dame have reached an agreement on a six-year deal to continue the College Football Playoff through the 2031 season. The move establishes a revenue-sharing plan and allows the CFP to finalize a new media rights agreement. Executive Director Bill Hancock
Continue ReadingBy JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A cable car recently dedicated to the late Tony Bennett rolls past the landmark Fairmont hotel where the singer in 1961 first performed the song that would forever tie him to San Francisco. San Francisco officials on Valentine’s Day dedicated one of the city’s iconic cable
Continue ReadingBy JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A cable car recently dedicated to the late Tony Bennett rolls past the landmark Fairmont hotel where the singer in 1961 first performed the song that would forever tie him to San Francisco. San Francisco officials on Valentine’s Day dedicated one of the city’s iconic cable
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm has proposed weakening even more climate and environmental measures in the bloc’s latest set of concessions to farmers apparently bent on continuing disruptive tractor protests until the June EU elections. The move Friday has angered environmentalists across the 27 nations. The Commission
Continue ReadingBy WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Eclipse-themed beer. Jewelry and ornaments. And doughnuts that capture the sun’s disappearing act with the help of buttercream frosting. With April 8’s total solar eclipse right around the corner, businesses are ready for the celestial event that will dim skies along a generous path across
Continue ReadingASHLAND, Ky. (AP) — Seven inmates at an eastern Kentucky prison have filed a federal lawsuit saying they were forced to either drink their own urine or be tased after failing a drug test. WDRB-TV reports the lawsuit filed Tuesday says four officers at Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex told the inmates who failed drug tests
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Erik Romney is a local thespian who has started his own business. “Sometimes work is slim to none, and a lot of my creative juices are flowing,” said Romney. “I just need an outlet, and I just thought, well, why not create a business and make a singing telegram business out of it?” He’s reviving
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards, Katharina Krebs, Anna Chernova and Darya Tarasova, CNN (CNN) — Russia has filed at least 15 criminal cases after people poured dye in ballot boxes, started fires or lobbed Molotov cocktails as small acts of civil disobedience marred the presidential vote. Dissent has effectively been outlawed in Russia since it launched its
Continue ReadingCroatia’s president has set the date of the next parliamentary election as April 17. President Zoran Milanovic scheduled the vote after Croatia’s parliament dissolved on Thursday. The ballot will pit the ruling conservative Croatian Democratic Union against a group of centrist and left-leaning parties who have announced they will run as an alliance. Just hours
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Aaron Donald announces his retirement after a standout career with the Los Angeles Rams.
Continue ReadingBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer A powerful real estate trade association has agreed to pay $418 million and change its rules to settle lawsuits claiming homeowners have been unfairly forced to pay artificially inflated agent commissions when they sold their home. The National Association of Realtors said Friday that its agents who list a
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Soaring winter temperatures. Unusually warm oceans. Heavy rainfall drenching and displacing communities. Low snow cover in North America and record low levels of Antarctic sea ice. If last month being the planet’s hottest February — the ninth month in a row that a monthly record tumbled — failed to resonate, a new
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is expressing support for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer after the senator called for new elections in Israel. It’s the latest sign that the U.S. relationship with its closest Middle East ally is careening toward fracture over the war in Gaza. Schumer said earlier
Continue ReadingBy MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. marriages have rebounded to pre-pandemic levels with nearly 2.1 million in 2022. That’s a 4% increase from the year before. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released new data. The COVID-19 pandemic threw many people’s wedding plans into disarray. In 2020, there
Continue ReadingBy Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — The G7 issued a strong joint statement warning that the international community’s response will include “new and significant measures against Iran” if the country moves ahead with sending ballistic missiles to Russia to use in its war effort against Ukraine. “We are extremely concerned about reports that Iran is considering transferring ballistic missiles
Continue ReadingINDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — A swarm of bees forced a nearly two-hour disruption to the quarterfinal match between Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev at the BNP Paribas Open. The match was suspended 19 minutes in with Alcaraz serving tied at 1-1. Alcaraz eventually won 6-3, 6-1. Dozens of bees attached themselves to the overhead
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, Holmes Lybrand and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Judge Scott McAfee is allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue on the election subversion case against Donald Trump – but she was forced to lose special prosecutor Nathan Wade after an embarrassing two months that put Willis and Wade on trial themselves over their romantic relationship.
Continue ReadingCNN By Jeremy Herb, Holmes Lybrand and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Judge Scott McAfee is allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue on the election subversion case against Donald Trump – but she was forced to lose special prosecutor Nathan Wade after an embarrassing two months that put Willis and Wade on trial themselves over their romantic
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