Kim's sister denies North Korea has supplied weapons to Russia (apnews.com)
Hunter Biden indicted on nine tax charges, adding to gun charges in special counsel probe (apnews.com)
Teachers and students grapple with fears and confusion about new laws restricting pronoun use (apnews.com)
Indiana is among at least 10 states that have enacted laws prohibiting or restricting students from using pronouns or names that don’t match their sex assigned at birth, a restriction that opponents say further marginalizes transgender and nonbinary students. Most of the laws were enacted this year and are part of a historic...
US renews warning it will defend Philippines after incidents with Chinese vessels in South China Sea (apnews.com)
The United States renewed a warning Monday that it would defend the Philippines in case of an armed attack under a 1951 treaty, after Chinese ships blocked and collided with two Filipino vessels off a contested shoal in the South China Sea....
Connecticut enacts its most sweeping gun control law since the Sandy Hook shooting (apnews.com)
Connecticut’s most wide-ranging gun control measure since the 2013 law enacted after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting takes effect Sunday, with proponents vowing to pursue more gun legislation despite legal challenges happening across the country....
Earth is outside its 'safe operating space for humanity' on most key measurements, study says (apnews.com)
Asked about bear carcass prank, RFK Jr. says he once had a freezer full of roadkill meat (apnews.com)
It wasn’t just the dead bear....
US defense secretary says war with China neither imminent nor unavoidable, stressing need for talks (apnews.com)
Oklahoma man arrested after authorities say he threw a pipe bomb at Satanic Temple in Massachusetts (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.one/post/13374455...
Microsoft says it hasn't been able to shake Russian state hackers (apnews.com)
Gaza Health Ministry says over 29,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel-Hamas war (apnews.com)
What happened at the nation's first nitrogen gas execution: An AP eyewitness account (apnews.com)
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — As witnesses including five news reporters watched through a window, Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted and sentenced to die in the 1988 murder-for hire slaying of Elizabeth Sennett, convulsed on a gurney as Alabama carried out the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas.
Kim Jong Un calls for North Korean women to have more children (apnews.com)
8 officers involved in Jayland Walker's shooting death are back on active duty, officials say (apnews.com)
The eight Ohio police officers who fired scores of shots that killed Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, after a car and foot chase last year are back on active duty, officials said....
Fan ejected from US Open match after German player said the man used language from Hitler's regime (apnews.com)
A fan was ejected from a U.S. Open tennis match early Tuesday morning after German player Alexander Zverev complained the man used language from Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime....
Supreme Court halts enforcement of the EPA's plan to limit downwind pollution from power plants (apnews.com)
Here's how 2 sentences in the Constitution rose from obscurity to ensnare Donald Trump (apnews.com)
It took months before the first mention of Section 3 in a public document. Free Speech For People, a Massachusetts-based liberal nonprofit, sent letters to top election officials in all 50 states in June 2021, warning them not to place Trump on the ballot should he run again in 2024 because he had violated the provision....
Biden says US 'shall respond' after drone strike by Iran-backed group kills 3 US troops in Jordan (apnews.com)
In his closing pitch to Iowa Republicans, Trump says their votes can help him punish his enemies (apnews.com)
The former president has set sky-high expectations for his own performance in the first contest of the race for the Republican presidential nomination. He spent the day before the caucuses trying to ensure he meets them. His main GOP rivals all spent Sunday in Iowa as well, making last-minute appeals to Iowans open to hearing...
Kim's sister rejects US offer of dialogue with North Korea and vows more satellite launches (apnews.com)
Fake babies, real horror: Deepfakes from the Gaza war increase fears about AI's power to mislead (apnews.com)
Fake babies, real horror: Deepfakes from the Gaza war increase fears about AI’s power to mislead::Among images of the bombed out homes and ravaged streets of Gaza, some stood out for the utter horror: Bloodied, abandoned infants.
In death, one cancer patient helps to erase millions in medical debt (apnews.com)
RIP, goodhearted woman....
California governor rejects bill to give unemployment checks to striking workers (apnews.com)
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs law to raise minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour (apnews.com)
Germany bans far-right group that tried to indoctrinate children with Nazi ideology (apnews.com)
