10 deaths caused by dangerous rip currents off Florida and Alabama beaches
By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A firefighter from Georgia and two fathers who drowned while trying to save their…
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NYC’s ex-school food chief convicted in bribery case tied to icky chicken tenders
By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man who oversaw food service for New York City schools was convicted Wednesday in a bribery…
Continue Reading Mississippi farms pay overdue wages for favoring immigrants over local Black workers, agency says
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Labor Department says 44 farms in Mississippi exploited local Black workers…
Continue Reading Thousands more prisoners across the US will get free college paid for by the government
By AARON MORRISON AP National Writer REPRESA, California (AP) — The graduates lined up, brushing off their gowns and adjusting classmates’…
Continue Reading Maryland’s highest court to hear appeals in case chronicled by ‘Serial’ podcast
By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Supreme Court of Maryland has announced it will hear an appeal from Adnan Syed, whose…
Continue Reading Hundreds in Puerto Rico protest proposed increase in electricity bills
By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hundreds of people in Puerto Rico including religious leaders, economists, teachers…
Continue Reading Madonna postpones upcoming Celebration tour due to ‘serious bacterial infection’
By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Madonna has postponed her career-spanning Celebration tour due to what her manager called a…
Continue Reading Utah woman accused of killing husband after writing book about grief is sued for over $13 million
By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press A lawsuit against a Utah woman who wrote a children’s book about grief after her husband’s death and…
Continue Reading Oak Flat: a tract in Arizona sacred to some Native Americans but proposed as a giant copper mine
By DEEPA BHARATH of The Associated Press and ALEJANDRA MOLINA of Religion News Service OAK FLAT, Ariz. (AP) — Azee Romero climbed barefoot on the…
Continue Reading Salty, gritty tap water has residents of Uruguay’s capital fuming as drought empties reservoir
By GUILLERMO GARAT Associated Press MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Residents of Uruguay’s capital are increasingly exasperated after two months of…
Continue Reading Federal judges in Kentucky and Tennessee block portions of transgender youth care bans
By BRUCE SCHREINER, DYLAN LOVAN and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Federal judges in Kentucky and Tennessee on Wednesday…
Continue Reading Nursing homes accused of mistreating residents, misusing $83 million in lawsuit from New York AG
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state Attorney General Letitia James charges in a lawsuit that the operators of four…
Continue Reading Infant dies after man who abducted her crashes car into house while fleeing police in Ohio
TIFFIN, Ohio (AP) — Authorities in Ohio say a 7-month-old girl has died after a man abducted her then crashed his car into a house while fleeing…
Continue Reading The largest US banks would survive a severe recession, the Fed’s ‘stress tests’ show
By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s 23 largest banks passed the Federal Reserve’s so-called stress tests this year, a…
Continue Reading DeSantis proposes Disney trial schedule that puts start date in 2025, after elections
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for Gov. Ron DeSantis have asked that a trial involving Disney be postponed until…
Continue Reading Pittsburgh synagogue killer has extensive history of mental illness, defense expert testifies
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A neurologist says a gunman who massacred 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue has schizophrenia and epilepsy. Dr. Siddhartha…
Continue Reading John Legend and Chrissy Teigen welcome baby No. 4, a boy, born via surrogate
By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Welcome Wren Alexander Stephens, the fourth child of John Legend and Chrissy Teigen. The baby was born…
Continue Reading Taylor Swift, Austin Butler, Keke Palmer and Ke Huy Quan invited to join Film Academy
By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Taylor Swift, best supporting actor Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan, “Elvis” star Austin Butler, “Nope’s” Keke…
Continue Reading Warming causes more extreme rain, not snow, over mountains. Scientists say that’s a problem
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A new study says climate change is turning major snowfalls into more extreme rain over mountains, somehow…
Continue Reading Former Connecticut Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., maverick senator during Watergate, dies at 92
By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Former U.S. Senator and Connecticut governor Lowell P. Weicker Jr., has died following a…
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