As opioids devastate tribes in Washington state, tribal leaders push for added funding (apnews.com)
Massachusetts high court rules younger adults cannot be sentenced to life without parole (apnews.com)
The highest court in Massachusetts ruled Thursday to raise from 18 to 21 the minimum age at which a person can be sentenced to mandatory life without parole — a narrow 4-3 ruling that juvenile justice advocates are hailing as progress....
Democrats' education funding report says Pennsylvania owes $5B more to school districts (apnews.com)
A commission reviewing how Pennsylvania distributes money to public schools narrowly approved a report Thursday that suggests the state is underfunding districts by more than $5 billion and should begin immediately to close that gap....
Biden awards $623M to states, local governments and tribes to build EV charging network (apnews.com)
The Biden administration is awarding $623 million in grants to help build an electric vehicle charging network across the nation....
Congo's constitutional court upholds election results, declares President Tshisekedi the winner (apnews.com)
Gaza cease-fire protests in New York block bridges, and over are 300 arrested (apnews.com)
Hundreds of protesters calling for an immediate cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war blocked traffic in New York City at crucial bridges and a tunnel, disrupting the Monday morning commute and leading to more than 300 arrests....
At Florida's only public HBCU, students are wary of political influence on race education (apnews.com)
A core mission of Florida A&M University from its founding over a century ago has been to educate African Americans. It was written into the law that established the school along with another college, in Gainesville, reserved for white students....
Prominent Black church in New York sued for gender bias by woman who sought to be its senior pastor (apnews.com)
Lead-tainted applesauce pouches also contained another possible toxic substance, FDA says (apnews.com)
Recalled cinnamon applesauce pouches that were tied to lead poisoning in hundreds of U.S. children contained an additional contaminant, federal health officials said Friday....
Defense Secretary Austin has been hospitalized since Jan. 1, but the Pentagon kept the news quiet (apnews.com)
Death toll reaches 100 as survivors are found in homes smashed by western Japan earthquakes (apnews.com)
The death toll from a major earthquake in western Japan reached 100 Saturday, as rescue workers fought aftershocks to carefully pull people from the rubble....
Los Angeles County has thousands of ‘unclaimed dead.’ These investigators retrace their lives (apnews.com)
Martirosyan acts as a living representative of those Los Angeles County calls “the unclaimed dead.” She is one of more than a dozen investigators who work for the Public Administrator, an understaffed and little-known branch of the county’s Department of the Treasurer and Tax Collector....
B-1 bomber crashes at South Dakota Air Force base, crew ejects safely (apnews.com)
A B-1 Lancer bomber from Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota crashed Thursday, with all four of its crew members ejecting, the Air Force said....
Two companies will attempt the first US moon landings since the Apollo missions a half-century ago (apnews.com)
China and India scored moon landings, while Russia, Japan and Israel ended up in the lunar trash heap....
New York City subway train derails in collision with another train, injuring more than 20 people (apnews.com)
A New York City subway train derailed Thursday after colliding with another train at low speed, leaving more than 20 people with minor injuries and causing major service disruptions across Manhattan during the afternoon rush hour, authorities said....
Russia and Ukraine exchange hundreds of prisoners of war in biggest release so far (apnews.com)
Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war in the biggest single release of captives since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022....
Argentine court suspends labor changes in a blow to President Milei's economic plan (apnews.com)
Israeli strikes on Gaza kill at least 13 civilians, including baby (apnews.com)
Israeli strikes on Gaza kill at least 13 civilians, including baby (apnews.com)
Two large offshore wind sites are sending power to the US grid for the first time (apnews.com)
For the first time in the United States, turbines are sending electricity to the grid from the sites of two large offshore wind farms....
Souvenir sellers have flooded the Brooklyn Bridge. Now the city is banning them (apnews.com)
Visitors to New York City hoping to take home a souvenir from the Brooklyn Bridge will now have to settle for a photograph, as vendors are about to be banned from the iconic span....
US women are stocking up on abortion pills, especially when there is news about restrictions (apnews.com)
Medication abortion accounts for more than half of all abortions in the U.S., and typically involves two drugs: mifepristone and misoprostol. A research letter published Tuesday in JAMA Internal Medicine looked at requests for these pills from people who weren’t pregnant and sought them through Aid Access, a European online...
Top Hamas official Saleh Arouri, who headed West Bank operations, killed in Beirut blast (apnews.com)
An explosion in Beirut on Tuesday killed Saleh Arouri, a top official with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and three others, officials with Hamas and the Lebanese group Hezbollah said....
More Americans think foreign policy should be a top US priority for 2024, an AP-NORC poll finds (apnews.com)
In this time of war overseas, more Americans think foreign policy should be a top focus for the U.S. government in 2024, with a new poll showing international concerns and immigration rising in importance with the public....
Muhammad Yunus: Nobel Peace Prize winner sentenced to 6 months in jail (apnews.com)
