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#SocialMedia #MentalHealth #Addiction
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Young woman says she was on social media 'all day long' as a child in landmark addiction trial
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A young woman who is battling against social media giants took the stand Thursday to testify about her experience using the platforms as she was growing up, saying she was on social media "all day long" as a child.
#Mercosur #FreeTrade #LatinAmerica
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Uruguay and Argentina become first Mercosur members to ratify the EU trade pact
BUENOS AIRES (AP) -- Uruguay and Argentina on Thursday became the first founding members of the Mercosur bloc of South American nations to ratify a long-sought free-trade agreement with the European Union to establish one of the world's largest free-trade zones.
#IRS #PrivacyProtection #ImmigrationPolicy
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The IRS broke the law by disclosing confidential information to ICE 42,695 times, judge says
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge said Thursday that the IRS broke the law by disclosing confidential taxpayer information "approximately 42,695 times" to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
#OrganDonation #Transplantation #Healthcare
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More organs are being donated after the heart stops, not brain death. Policies are changing too
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The vast majority of organ donations once came from people who were brain-dead. Now they're increasingly coming from people who died when their heart stopped beating, a major shift that can boost transplants but also raises public confusion, researchers reported Thursday.
#Education #Investigation #LosAngeles
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Los Angeles Board of Education to discuss school superintendent after FBI searched his home
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The governing board of the Los Angeles Unified School District will meet in a closed session on Thursday to discuss the superintendent, a day after the FBI served search warrants at his home and the district's headquarters.
#TravelSafety #SpringBreak2023 #MexicoTravel
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Experts urge informed planning for Mexico spring break after Jalisco violence
With spring break on the horizon, travelers may be reassessing their plans to vacation in Mexico after cartel-related violence broke out last weekend in parts of the country.
#RefugeeRights #BorderPatrol #HumanRights
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Buffalo probes death of a nearly blind Myanmar refugee dropped at a doughnut shop
A nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who disappeared after U. S. Border Patrol agents dropped him off at a Buffalo doughnut shop was found dead five days later, prompting a police investigation and complaints from city officials that he'd been abandoned without care for his safety.
#BirdConservation #ClimateChange #Biodiversity
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Shrinking North American bird population is getting worse faster. Experts blame agriculture, warming
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Billions fewer birds are flying through North American skies than decades ago and their population is shrinking ever faster, mostly due to a combination of intensive agriculture and warming temperatures, a new study found.
#Immigration #ColumbiaUniversity #DHS
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Columbia student detained by federal agents who claimed to be seeking 'missing person,' school says
NEW YORK (AP) -- Federal immigration agents detained a Columbia University student early Thursday after gaining access to a residence hall by posing as investigators searching for a "missing person," according to the school's president.
#Iran #MilitaryBuildUp #MiddleEast
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US military builds up the largest force of warships and aircraft in the Middle East in decades
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon is building up the largest force of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East in decades, including two aircraft carrier strike groups, as President Donald Trump warns of possible military action against Iran if talks over its nuclear program fall apart.
#Ukraine #Economy #Reconstruction
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Report: Attacks on Ukraine's energy system to lower economic growth this year and next
Ukraine will see less economic growth this year due to extensive destruction of Ukraine's energy infrastructure by Russia over the winter, an international development bank said Thursday, as businesses struggle to keep going into the fifth year of Russia's invasion.
#Terrorism #PoliticalAssassination #LegalSystem
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Pakistani man is on trial over Trump assassination plot with ties to Iran, US prosecutors say
NEW YORK (AP) -- The trial began this week of a Pakistani man who U. S. prosecutors say had ties to the Iranian government and traveled to New York to meet with men he thought he was recruiting to carry out political assassinations on American soil, including potentially of President Donald Trump.
#WestAfrica #Jihadism #Violence
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Islamic militants increase attacks in Benin, Niger and Nigeria borderlands, group says
From 2024 to 2025, the number of violent events involving jihadi groups in border areas of the three West African countries rose by around 80%, and deaths more than tripled to over 1,000, according to a report by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data project, or ACLED.
#Gaza #IsraelPalestineConflict #Ceasefire
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Israeli strike kills 2 Palestinians in Gaza, health officials say, the latest deaths as truce stalls
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- An Israeli strike on Thursday killed at least two Palestinians and wounded five others east of Gaza City, according to Fadel Naeem, director of Al-Ahli Hospital, where the casualties arrived.
#EpsteinInvestigation #ClintonTestimony #Accountability
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Hillary Clinton is testifying as part of the House investigation into Jeffrey Epstein
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is testifying before U. S. House lawmakers in New York on Thursday as part of a congressional investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, starting off two days of depositions that will also include former President Bill Clinton.
#WesternWall #IsraelPolitics #ReligiousFreedom
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Israel's parliament moves toward ban on mixed-gender prayer at Jerusalem's Western Wall
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's parliament has given preliminary approval to a bill that would put the country's Orthodox chief rabbinate in charge of the entire Western Wall in Jerusalem, raising fears among liberal Jews that mixed-gender prayer at the site will soon be outlawed.
#LGBTQRights #Uganda #HumanRights
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Ugandan police detain two women reported for kissing in public
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Ugandan police detained two women who were reported by their neighbors to be engaging in same-sex activities in a remote part of northwestern Uganda, a police spokesperson said on Thursday, one of the first known instances of arrests under an anti-LGBTQ law enacted in 2023.
#HumanTrafficking #Kenya #UkraineConflict
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Kenyan police arrest man accused of recruiting fighters for Russia's war in Ukraine
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Police in Kenya have arrested a man named in the alleged scheme that duped Kenyans with promises of skilled work in Russia, only for them to end up on the front lines of the fighting in Ukraine.
#GunViolence #Tragedy #FamilySafety
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Third victim dies from wounds suffered in Rhode Island ice rink attack, police say
PROVIDENCE, R. I. (AP) -- A deadly shooting during a youth hockey game in Rhode Island last week has claimed a third victim, a grandfather whose daughter and grandson were also killed in the attack, authorities said Wednesday.
#SalmonConservation #Hydropower #EnvironmentalProtection
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Judge orders changes to Columbia and Snake river dam operations to help 'disappearing' salmon
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A federal judge in Oregon late Wednesday ordered narrow changes to hydropower dam operations on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest in order to help salmon, saying that the Trump administration's plans for the massive structures would harm salmon runs that are "disappearing from the landscape.
#IranNuclearDeal #USForeignPolicy #TrumpAdministration
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Most Americans see Iran as an enemy but doubt Trump's judgment on military force, AP-NORC poll finds
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As the U. S. and Iran head into their next round of nuclear talks in Geneva, a new AP-NORC poll finds that many U.
#JesseJackson #CivilRights #Chicago
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Memorial services for Jesse Jackson begin at Chicago headquarters of his civil rights organization
CHICAGO (AP) -- Cross-country memorial services for the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. are set to begin Thursday in Chicago, the city the late civil rights leader called home.
#IranNuclearTalks #MiddleEastTensions #Diplomacy
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US and Iran to hold a third round of nuclear talks as more American forces deploy to the Mideast
GENEVA (AP) -- Iran and the United States prepared to meet Thursday in Geneva for nuclear negotiations, talks viewed as a last chance for diplomacy as America has gathered a fleet of aircraft and warships to the Middle East to pressure Tehran into a deal.
#IranNuclearTalks #MiddleEastTensions #USForeignPolicy
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The Latest: Tense US-Iran talks in Geneva as Trump deploys warships and aircraft to the Middle East
Iran and the United States are talking in Geneva for a third time on Thursday as President Donald Trump seeks to delay Tehran's nuclear program while threatening it by deploying a massive number of aircraft and warships to the Middle East.
#HumanRights #Adoption #SouthKorea
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South Korea relaunches truth commission with focus on adoption fraud
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea has relaunched a fact-finding commission into its past human rights violations, with a key focus on the extensive fraud and malfeasance that corrupted the nation's historic foreign adoption program.
#HongKong #PressFreedom #HumanRights
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A Hong Kong court quashes fraud conviction of ex-media mogul Jimmy Lai
HONG KONG (AP) -- A Hong Kong appellate court on Thursday quashed fraud convictions against onetime media magnate Jimmy Lai, a rare victory in the prominent activist's legal battles.
#AIMusic #MusicIndustry #Copyright
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AI song generator startups Suno and Udio angered the music industry. Now they're hoping to join it
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- Suno CEO Mikey Shulman pulls up a chair to the recording studio desk where a research scientist at his artificial intelligence company is creating a new song.
#MurderInvestigation #D4vd #HollywoodHills
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Singer D4vd is 'target' in investigation of killing of girl whose body was found in car in Hollywood
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Singer D4vd is the target of a Los Angeles County grand jury investigation of the killing of a 14-year-old girl whose decomposed body was found last year in a Tesla that was towed from the Hollywood Hills, court documents showed.
#AvianFlu #MarineMammals #WildlifeHealth
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Bird flu outbreak in California elephant seals prompts officials to cancel popular tours
Researchers say seven seal pups have tested positive for an avian flu virus at California's A帽o Nuevo State Park and several more are showing signs of the illness.
#Misinformation #OrganizedCrime #Mexico
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Online disinformation fueled panic after the killing of Mexico's most powerful drug lord
GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) -- When roadblocks, explosions and gunshots broke out after the killing of Mexico's most powerful drug lord, people who rushed to their cellphones for information found social media posts depicting a country in chaos.
#LootBoxes #Gambling #VideoGames
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New York sues Counter-Strike game developer saying 'loot boxes' promote gambling
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York's attorney general has sued video game developer Valve, claiming the "loot boxes" found in Counter-Strike and other popular video game franchises illegally promote gambling.
#JusticeDepartment #EpsteinCase #TrumpAccusations
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Justice Department says it's reviewing whether any Epstein-related records were mistakenly withheld
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department said Wednesday that it was looking into whether it improperly withheld documents from the Jeffrey Epstein files after several news organizations reported that some records involving uncorroborated accusations made by a woman against President Donald Trump were not among those released to the public.
#ChildAbuse #LawEnforcement #PublicSafety
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A former Pennsylvania officer accused of child rape fatally shot in a gunfire exchange with police
A former Pennsylvania police officer charged with sexually assaulting two young girls more than two decades ago was killed early Wednesday during a gunfire exchange with police who recognized his vehicle and confronted him, according to Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele.
#StateOfTheUnion #Trump #PoliticalTheater
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To sit or stand: Trump's challenge to Democrats a key moment in State of the Union address
About halfway through his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump sprung the moment on Democrats like a trap: Stand up if they believed that protecting Americans, not "illegal aliens," was the government's first duty.
#Sudan #HumanRights #UNSanctions
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UN sanctions 4 commanders in Sudan's paramilitary force accused of atrocities in Darfur
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U. N. Security Council imposed sanctions on four commanders of Sudan's warring paramilitary force suspected of atrocities against civilians that U.
#Racism #ChampionsLeague #Football
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Vin铆cius J煤nior jeered by Benfica fans. Madrid supporters show anti-racism banner
MADRID (AP) -- Benfica fans loudly booed Real Madrid forward Vin铆cius J煤nior at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in the second leg of the Champions League playoffs on Wednesday, after the Brazilian accused an opponent of racially abusing him in the first game.
#Greenpeace #DakotaAccessPipeline #EnvironmentalJustice
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Judge says he will order Greenpeace to pay an expected $345 million in oil pipeline protest case
BISMARCK, N. D. (AP) -- A North Dakota judge has said he will order Greenpeace to pay damages expected to total $345 million in connection with protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline from nearly a decade ago, a figure the environmental group contends it cannot pay.
#WorldTradeCenter #NewYork #AmericanExpress
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World Trade Center's last office tower soon will get built and house American Express
NEW YORK (AP) -- The World Trade Center's final office tower will start construction as soon as this spring and become American Express ' new headquarters, Gov.
#Immigration #LegalChallenge #DueProcess
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Trump administration's 'third country' deportation policy is unlawful, judge rules
The Trump administration's latest policy of deporting immigrants to "third countries" to which they have no ties is unlawful and must be set aside, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in a case that already reached the nation's highest court.
#IranEconomy #CostOfLiving #Sanctions
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Soaring cost of food and other staples squeezes Iranians as threat of US attack looms
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Every day, Iranians go to stores and find prices rising. Some post photos on social media of the shrinking contents of their shopping carts as they struggle to buy enough basic staples for their families.
