Ransomware criminals are dumping kids’ private files online after school hacks (apnews.com)
Police: 16 dead, including 3 children, in toxic gas leak in South Africa (apnews.com)
Attorney who challenged Trump’s 2020 loss gives up law license as states weigh disciplining him (apnews.com)
Is it real or made by AI? Europe wants a label for that as it fights disinformation (apnews.com)
LONDON (AP) — The European Union is pushing online platforms like Google and Meta to step up the fight against false information by adding labels to text, photos and other content generated by artificial intelligence, a top official said Monday.
After the fall of Roe, emboldened religious conservatives lobby to restrict abortion in Africa (apnews.com)
Activists spurred by affirmative action ruling challenge legacy admissions at Harvard (apnews.com)
Records expunged for St. Louis couple who waved guns at protesters. They want their guns back (apnews.com)
A judge has expunged the misdemeanor convictions of a St. Louis couple who waved guns at racial injustice protesters outside their mansion in 2020. Now they want their guns back....
Texas governor pardons ex-Army sergeant convicted of killing Black Lives Matter protester (apnews.com)
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a full pardon Thursday for a former U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed demonstrator in 2020 during nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice....
Iran fires at suspected Israeli attack drones near Isfahan air base and nuclear site (apnews.com)
Iran fired air defenses at a major air base and a nuclear site early Friday morning near the central city of Isfahan after spotting drones, which were suspected to be part of an Israeli attack in retaliation for Tehran’s unprecedented drone-and-missile assault on the country....
Looking at a solar eclipse can be dangerous without eclipse glasses. Here’s what to know (apnews.com)
Millions of people along a narrow band in North America will look up when the sky darkens during a total solar eclipseon April 8. When they do, safety is key....
Secret history: Even before the revolution, America was a nation of conspiracy theorists (apnews.com)
It was 1800, and conspiracy theories were flourishing across America. Partisan newspapers spread tales of European elites seeking to seize control of the young democracy. Preachers in New England warned of plots to abolish Christianity in favor of godlessness and depravity....
European Union calls for an investigation into the massacre of nearly 100 civilians in Burkina Faso (apnews.com)
In very rare move, Pope dismisses conservative US bishop Strickland (apnews.com)
Media watchdog says it was just 'raising questions' with insinuations about photographers and Hamas (apnews.com)
The head of an Israeli media watchdog, HonestReporting, says it was simply ‘raising questions’ by wondering whether Palestinian photojournalists who documented the Oct. 7 attack on Israel had been tipped off in advance that it had happened.
Biden administration takes on JetBlue as its fight against industry consolidation goes to court (apnews.com)
The Biden administration’s fight against consolidation in the airline industry is being tested Tuesday as lawyers for JetBlue Airways and the Justice Department squared off in court....
Amid massive search for mass killing suspect, Maine residents remain behind locked doors (apnews.com)
Shocked and fearful Maine residents kept to their homes for a second night as hundreds of heavily armed police and FBI agents searched intensely for Robert Card, an Army reservist authorities say fatally shot 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in the worst mass killing in state history....
Police dog's attack on Black trucker in Ohio echoes history (apnews.com)
A K-9 police dog's attack on a Black motorist in Ohio is resurrecting questions about race relations and law enforcement tactics.
Australia decides against canceling Chinese company's lease of strategically important port (apnews.com)
Scholz says that Germany needs to expand deportations of rejected asylum-seekers (apnews.com)
A company cancels its plans to recover more Titanic artifacts. Its renowned expert died on the Titan (apnews.com)
The company that owns the salvage rights to the Titanic shipwreck has cancelled plans to retrieve more artifacts from the site because the leader of the upcoming expedition died in the Titan submersible implosion, according to documents filed in a U.S. District Court on Wednesday....
An Oklahoma man used pandemic relief funds to have his name cleared of murder (apnews.com)
Ricky Dority spends most of his days playing with his grandchildren, feeding chickens and working in the yard where he lives with his son’s family....
Rep. Matt Gaetz files resolution to oust Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House (apnews.com)
Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, an advocate for liberal priorities, dies at age 90 (apnews.com)
Oil prices have risen. That's making gas more expensive for US drivers and helping Russia's war (apnews.com)
Oregon launches legal psilocybin access amid high demand and hopes for improved mental health care (apnews.com)
