USDA updates rules for school meals that limit added sugars for the first time (apnews.com)
Argentina asks to join NATO as President Milei seeks a more prominent role for his nation (apnews.com)
Argentina formally requested on Thursday to join NATO as a global partner, a status that would clear the way for greater political and security cooperation at a time when the right-wing government of President Javier Milei aims to boost ties with Western powers and attract investment....
Trump's invite to major donors prioritizes the committee paying his legal bills over the RNC (apnews.com)
Donald Trump’s new joint fundraising agreement with the Republican National Committee directs donations to his campaign and a political action committee that pays the former president’s legal bills before the RNC gets a cut, according to a fundraising invitation obtained by The Associated Press....
Americans reporting nationwide cellular outages from AT&T, Cricket Wireless and other providers (apnews.com)
Israeli strikes hit Rafah after Biden warns Netanyahu to have 'credible' plan to protect civilians (apnews.com)
Chicago becomes latest US city to call for cease-fire in Israel-Hamas war (apnews.com)
Chicago is latest U.S. city to approve such a non-binding resolution, following Atlanta, Detroit and San Francisco in recent months.
Days of Darkness: How one woman escaped the conspiracy theory trap that has ensnared millions (apnews.com)
Angst over LGBTQ+ stories led to another canceled show. But in a Wyoming town, a play was salvaged (apnews.com)
Oliver Baez spent two months rehearsing a scene for a school play in which his character confronts another student about bullying a gay student who takes his own life....
Wind chills in parts of North Dakota reached minus 70 degrees (minus 56 degrees Celsius), while the heat index in Miami was more than 160 degrees warmer at 92 (33 degrees Celsius). (apnews.com)
The US failed to track more than $1 billion in military gear given Ukraine, Pentagon watchdog says (apnews.com)
A Mississippi House candidate is charged after a Satanic Temple display is destroyed at Iowa Capitol (apnews.com)
A Satanic Temple display inside the Iowa Capitol in Des Moines was destroyed, and a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot who was recently defeated in a statehouse election in Mississippi is accused of causing the damage....
Police say there has been a shooting with multiple victims at a New Hampshire psychiatric hospital (apnews.com)
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Kansas police chief who led raid on small weekly newspaper has resigned, official says (apnews.com)
The police chief who led an August raid on a small weekly newspaper in central Kansas resigned Monday, just days after he was suspended from his post and following the release of body camera video of the raid showing an officer searching the desk of a reporter investigating the chief’s past....
Utility company's proposal to rat out hidden marijuana operations to police raises privacy concerns (apnews.com)
Operators of illegal marijuana grow enterprises hidden inside rural homes in Maine don’t have to worry much about prying neighbors. But their staggering electric bills may give rise to a new snitch....
Wisconsin attorney general files felony charges against attorneys, aide who worked for Trump in 2020 (apnews.com)
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed felony forgery charges Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide who helped submit paperwork falsely saying that former President Donald Trump had won the battleground state in 2020....
The Washington Post said it had the Alito flag story 3 years ago and chose not to publish (apnews.com)
Nine days after The New York Times reported about the political symbolism of an upside-down American flag that flew at U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s home, the Washington Post acknowledged it had the same story more than three years ago and decided not to publish it....
NAIA all but bans transgender athletes from women's sports. NCAA vows to ensure 'fair competition' (apnews.com)
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics announced a policy Monday that all but bans transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports at its 241 mostly small colleges across the country....
In a global first, Gambia could reverse its ban on female genital cutting (apnews.com)
Finnish carrier Finnair is asking passengers to voluntarily weigh themselves before boarding flights (apnews.com)
Almost everything that gets onto a commercial plane — fuel, checked-in baggage, cargo and meals — is weighed. For passengers and their cabin bags, most airlines use average data....
Black man choked and shocked by police died because of drugs, officers' lawyers argue at trial (apnews.com)
Lawyers for three Washington state police officers charged in the 2020 death of a Black man told the jury Tuesday that his death was the result of drug use, not excessive force that included officers choking, shocking and holding him facedown....
A gigantic new ICBM will take US nuclear missiles out of the Cold War-era but add 21st-century risks (apnews.com)
A gigantic new ICBM will take US nuclear missiles out of the Cold War-era but add 21st-century risks::A new nuclear missile is coming, a gigantic ICBM called the Sentinel. It marks the largest cultural shift in 60 years in the land leg of the Air Force’s nuclear missile mission.
US allows Israeli citizens to travel to US visa-free as Israel joins a select group of countries (apnews.com)
A court in China sentences a famed Uyghur scholar to life in prison, foundation says (apnews.com)
California lawmakers vote to fast-track low-income housing on churches’ lands (apnews.com)
Religious institutions and nonprofit colleges in California could soon turn their parking lots and other properties into low-income housing to help combat the ongoing homeless crisis, lawmakers voted on Thursday....