Ukraine claims its sea drones sank a Russian warship. Moscow says Patriot missiles downed its plane (apnews.com)
US government rejects complaint that woman was improperly denied an emergency abortion in Oklahoma (apnews.com)
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says an Oklahoma hospital did not violate federal law when doctors told a woman with a nonviable pregnancy to wait in the parking lot until her condition worsened enough to qualify for an abortion under the state’s strict ban....
Millions of Americans face below-zero temperatures as storms bring blast of Arctic air, snow and ice (apnews.com)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Subfreezing temperatures across much of the U.S. left millions of Americans facing dangerous cold as Arctic storms left four dead and knocked out electricity to tens of thousands in the Northwest, brought snow to the South, and walloped the Northeast with blizzard conditions that forced the postponement...
Russian court fines Google for failing to store personal data on its users (apnews.com)
A Moscow court on Tuesday fined Google for failing to store personal data on its Russian users, the latest in a series of fines on the U.S. tech giant amid tensions between the Kremlin and the West over the fighting in Ukraine....
Vatican says it's permissible for transgender Catholics to be baptized (apnews.com)
Strikes against automakers spread to 38 locations in 20 states, Stellantis and GM are targeted (apnews.com)
The United Auto Workers expanded its strike against major automakers Friday, walking out of 38 General Motors and Stellantis parts distribution centers in 20 states....
New US sanctions target workarounds that let Russia get Western tech for war (apnews.com)
Press release from the State Department home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1731...
Jury convicts white Florida woman in fatal shooting of her Black neighbor during ongoing dispute (apnews.com)
Olympic swimmers speak out about Chinese doping; and Britain's Adam Peaty says they should be out (apnews.com)
Chinese doping scandal that has hung over these Paris Olympics as the events finished Sunday night....
Trump again tears into Georgia's Republican governor on the same day he campaigns in the state (apnews.com)
Donald Trump picked a new fight Saturday with Georgia’s Republican governor as he campaigned in the key swing state where he’s looking to avenge his narrow 2020 loss — a defeat he continues to blame on GOP officials for not giving into his false theories of election fraud....
UAW endorses Harris, giving her blue-collar firepower in industrial states (apnews.com)
On NYC beaches, angry birds fight drones patrolling for sharks and struggling swimmers (apnews.com)
A fleet of drones patrolling New York City’s beaches for signs of sharks and struggling swimmers is drawing backlash from an aggressive group of seaside residents: local shorebirds....
President Joe Biden ‘appalled’ by violence during pro-Palestinian protest at Los Angeles synagogue (apnews.com)
The head of the FAA says his agency was too hands-off in its oversight of Boeing (apnews.com)
The top U.S. aviation regulator said Thursday that the Federal Aviation Administration should have been more aware of manufacturing problems inside Boeing before a panel blew off a 737 Max during an Alaska Airlines flight in January....
Southern Baptists expel Virginia church for believing women can serve as pastors (apnews.com)
Even as they prepare to vote on a formal ban on churches with women pastors, delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to boot one such church from its ranks....
A hail stone the size of a pineapple was found in Texas. It likely sets a state record (apnews.com)
Storm trackers in the Texas Panhandle recovered a massive hail stone that researchers say is likely to be a new state record....
Prosecutor asks Texas court to reverse governor's pardon of man who fatally shot demonstrator (apnews.com)
The Texas governor’s pardon of a former Army sergeant who fatally shot a Black Lives Matter demonstrator undermines the state’s legal system and constitution and should be reversed, a prosecutor said Tuesday....
Borrowers, especially the young, struggle with credit card debt in potentially bad sign for economy (apnews.com)
Strong solar storm could disrupt communications and produce northern lights in US (apnews.com)
An unusually strong solar storm headed toward Earth could produce northern lights in the U.S. and potentially disrupt communications this weekend....
After Alabama pioneers nitrogen gas execution, Ohio may be poised to follow (apnews.com)
Ohio politicians may be poised to consider whether the state might break its unofficial moratorium on the death penalty by following Alabama in using nitrogen gas to execute inmates....
Ohio bans gender-affirming care and restricts transgender athletes despite GOP governor's veto (apnews.com)
Ohio has banned gender-affirming care for minors and restricted transgender women’s and girls’ participation on sports teams, a move that has families of transgender children scrambling over how best to care for them....
France fines Amazon $35 million for 'excessively intrusive' monitoring of warehouse staff (apnews.com)
Fox News stops running MyPillow commercials in a payment dispute with election denier Mike Lindell (apnews.com)
Lindell went public by tweeting that that Fox, which had been one of MyPillow’s biggest advertising outlets, had canceled him. He said in his tweet that he didn’t know why but that he suspected that the network was trying to silence him. Fox denied that....
Thousands of tons of dead sardines wash ashore in northern Japan (apnews.com)
Deaths from tainted cantaloupe increase to 3 in U.S. and 5 in Canada (apnews.com)
A salmonella outbreak tied to tainted cantaloupe has now killed eight people — three in the U.S. and five in Canada, health officials reported Thursday....
