Mississippi school booster club raffles guns as fundraiser
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi high school booster group has launched what a school safety group calls a “highly inappropriate”…
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Authorities: Man gets 9 years for stealing nude images
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A California man accused of breaking into thousands of Apple iCloud accounts and stealing private photos and videos of nude…
Continue Reading French senators seek action over Champions League final mess
PARIS (AP) — French senators demanded Thursday that the state recognize responsibility and identify guilty parties behind the chaos that marred the…
Continue Reading Israel praises Argentina grounding plane with Iranian crew
BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Israel is praising Argentina for holding a Venezuelan plane that included Iranian crew, saying the flight shows Tehran is…
Continue Reading UN: Haiti police need immediate help amid surge in violence
By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A U.N. special envoy is warning that Haiti’s police force needs…
Continue Reading Warm, dry, breezy weather to challenge fire crews in Arizona
By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Fire crews battling a pair of wildfires in northern Arizona were expecting some growth…
Continue Reading Ripley’s denies claim Kardashian damaged iconic Monroe dress
By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ripley’s Believe It or Not! on Thursday denied claims that Kim Kardashian’s wearing of the…
Continue Reading Storm star Sue Bird says 2022 will be her final WNBA season
By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer Always in control on the court, Sue Bird lasted about 10 minutes until the emotion of the moment and the finality of…
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Florida only state not preordering toddler COVID-19 vaccines
Florida is the only state that hasn’t preordered COVID-19 vaccines for toddlers in anticipation of their final approval by the federal…
Continue Reading Kentucky court delves into use of cell phones for tracking
By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky’s Supreme Court has issued a sharply divided ruling against the…
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AP Interview: Biden says a recession is ‘not inevitable’
By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday the American people are “really, really down” after a…
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Jan. 6 takeaways: Pence under pressure, and in danger
The House committee investigating the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, focused at a public hearing Thursday on the pressure that…
Continue Reading New Mexico reaches $32M settlement over 2015 mine spill
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico and the U.S. government have reached a $32 million settlement over a…
Continue Reading U.S. veterans missing in Ukraine formed bond over background
By JAY REEVES Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Alex Drueke and Andy Huynh are both military veterans from Alabama, so it was natural that…
Continue Reading Georgetown dad acquitted in final college bribery scam trial
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A father has been acquitted of paying off a Georgetown University tennis coach to get his…
Continue Reading Mariah Carey, Neptunes, Lennox in Songwriters Hall of Fame
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After a glittering career stuffed with No. 1 hits — not to mention a two-year pandemic…
Continue Reading Musk aims to ease concerns in address to Twitter workers
By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer In an unusual move for what’s been an unusual takeover bid for Twitter by the world’s richest man, Tesla…
Continue Reading Report: Israeli police clear officers at reporter’s funeral
By EMILY ROSE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli newspaper says that a police investigation has found that officers engaged in misconduct…
Continue Reading Judge denies extension for Louisiana redistricting deadline
By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE (AP) — A request by Louisiana legislative leaders to extend the deadline of completing a new…
Continue Reading Disney’s ‘Lightyear’ banned in Muslim world for lesbian kiss
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Authorities across much of the Muslim world have barred Disney’s latest…
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