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Senators call for Supreme Court to follow ethics code like other branches of government 07/12/2023 08:14am • The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, responding to Associated Press investigative stories on the Supreme Court, said Tuesday it was time for the justices to bring their conduct in line with the ethical standards of other branches of government. ���If they just establish the basic standard Ticketmaster halts Taylor Swift ticket sales in France in another headache for fans 07/12/2023 04:43am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The trouble between Ticketmaster and Taylor Swift's���Eras��� tour isn't over ��� with the latest snafu affecting fans hoping to score tickets in France. On Tuesday, after some fans reported issues with accessing Ticketmaster's site, sales for six of Swift's upcoming shows in Pa Budget troubles won't change California Gov. Gavin Newsom's goals for 2nd term, he tells AP 07/12/2023 12:08am • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� Throughout the various crises in California Gov. Gavin Newsom's first term ��� devastating wildfires, the bankruptcy of the nation's largest utility, the deadly COVID-19 pandemic ��� the state's record-smashing budget surpluses were always there to smooth things over. Now Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor's staff prodded colleges and libraries to buy her books 07/11/2023 08:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� For colleges and libraries seeking a boldfaced name for a guest lecturer, few come bigger than Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court justice who rose from poverty in the Bronx to the nation���s highest court. She has benefited, too ��� from schools��� purchases of hundreds, sometime Farmers pulls out of Florida property insurance despite efforts to stabilize the market 07/11/2023 06:37pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� Farmers Insurance became the latest property insurance company to pull out of Florida on Tuesday despite repeated efforts by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Legislature have made to try to calm the volatile market that is making homeownership less affordable. Farmers Book sales, a lure for money and more takeaways from the AP investigation into Supreme Court ethics 07/11/2023 06:13pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� In a monthslong inquiry, which included reviewing tens of thousands of pages of documents from more than 100 public records requests, The Associated Press has examined what happens behind the scenes when Supreme Court justices travel to colleges and universities for lectures and White House lays out effort against animal sedative xylazine but doesn't call for new restrictions 07/11/2023 06:12am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Federal officials on Tuesday called for more testing and research on xylazine, the powerful animal sedative that���s spreading through the nation���s illicit drug supply, but they stopped short of recommending new restrictions on the veterinary medication. A six-point plan fro Review: 'Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS' gives singular access to the world���s biggest band 07/10/2023 08:49pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� ���Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS��� by Myeongseok Kang and BTS (Flatiron Books) Like most releases from the world���s biggest band, the debut memoir from the seven-member K-pop group BTS, ���Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS���, was a smashing success from moment Getting enough exercise could reduce your risk of dying from some illnesses 07/10/2023 05:13pm • Forty minutes of exercise four times a week could unlock a whole new lifetime of health benefits. A new study done in part by doctors at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which was just recently published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, shows that a combination of aerobic Publishers Weekly Best-Selling Books 07/10/2023 03:11pm • HARDCOVER FICTION 1. ���The Five-Star Weekend��� by Elin Hilderbrand (Little, Brown) 2. ���Fourth Wing��� by Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) 3. ���Happy Place��� by Emily Henry (Berkley) 4. ���Palazzo��� by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) 5. ���The Covenant of Water��� by Abraham Verghese (Grove) 6. ���Demo Book Review: A fast-paced, tension-laden plot at heart of Reed Farrel Coleman's 'Sleepless City' 07/10/2023 11:48am • ���Sleepless City,��� by Reed Farrel Coleman (Blackstone) Nick Ryan, the protagonist in a new series by veteran crime novelist Reed Farrel Coleman, begins his fictional life with a lot of baggage. Nick���s fellow New York City cops don���t trust him because his father once testified against a cabal Iran sentences rapper to more than 6 years in prison over protests, supporters say 07/10/2023 05:07am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� Iran has sentenced a popular rapper to six years and three months in prison over his participation in protests that rocked the country last year, his supporters said Monday. A social media account run by supporters of Toomaj Salehi announced the sentence, as did Mexican military to take over airports as president takes aim at corruption, mismanagement 07/09/2023 11:41am • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Mexico's armed forces are taking control of the capital's main airport, and the government plans to give the military control of nearly a dozen more across the country as the president takes aim at corruption and mismanagement. President Andr��s Manuel L��pez Obrador has been se 'Clone' or competitor? Users and lawyers compare Twitter and Threads 07/07/2023 05:57pm • Just how similar is Instagram's chatty new app, Threads, to Twitter? In a cease-and-desist letter earlier this week, Twitter threatened legal action against Instagram parent company Meta over the new text-based app Threads, which it called a ���copycat.��� Threads has drawn tens of millions of user Afros, twists and plaits: Trinidad on a quest for more diverse hairstyles at schools after outcry 07/07/2023 03:43pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� Government officials are pushing to relax hair codes at schools in Trinidad and Tobago following a recent public outcry over nearly two dozen students who didn't receive their high school diploma because they wore Afros, cornrows and other hairstyles at graduation. Edu