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FBI data show sharp drop in violent crime but steepness is questioned 06/11/2024 02:42pm • The Biden administration is taking credit for a sharp drop in violent crime nationwide earlier this year but one expert cautions that the declines in FBI data are preliminary and likely overstated. The data show steep drops in every category of violent crime in every region in the first three months Europe���s far right won ground in the EU elections. Can they unite to wield power? 06/11/2024 02:31pm • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� The next European Parliament will have more hard-right members than ever before, occupying close to a quarter of the 720 seats. But they will have to overcome differences if they want to maximize their influence on the EU policies that roil their constituents: migration, climate ru F1 drivers worry car changes in '26 will deepen gap among teams just as competition is picking up 06/11/2024 02:31pm • McLaren driver Lando Norris believes Formula 1 is more exciting than it has been in a long time, but fears that may change with new technical regulations for the cars set to take effect in 2026. ���The last regulation change we did, the last year was kind of the most exciting year between the first Pamela Smart, serving life, accepts responsibility for her husband's 1990 killing for the first time 06/11/2024 02:22pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for plotting with her teenage student to have her husband killed in 1990, accepted full responsibility for his death for the first time in a videotaped statement released Tuesday as part of her latest sentence reduction request. Sma Real-life brothers-in-law Jake Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard are adversaries in 'Presumed Innocent' 06/11/2024 02:07pm • Occasionally, while filming an intense courtroom scene for his new series, Jake Gyllenhaal would catch his ���Presumed Innocent��� co-star Peter Sarsgaard glaring at him from across the room. ���It was just funny,��� recalled Gyllenhaal in a recent interview alongside Sarsgaard, doing a quick impre Roger Daltrey talks new tour, thoughts on Broadway���s ���Tommy��� and future of The Who 06/11/2024 02:04pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� As Roger Daltrey hits the road on a short solo tour this June, he���s unsure if fans will ever see another tour from The Who. ���I don���t see it. I don���t know whether The Who���ll ever will go out again,��� he told The Associated Press over Zoom. The 80-year-old rocker has a ��� Key new features coming to Apple's iOS 18 this fall 06/11/2024 01:46pm • Apple announced a slew of new features for iOS 18 at Monday's developers conference event, many of which are designed to enhance the Siri assistant and bring artificial intelligence tools to iPhone users. The AI-packed updates coming in the fall are meant to enable the billions of people who use the DOJ, Tennessee school reach settlement after racial harassment investigation 06/11/2024 01:26pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� A school district in eastern Tennessee has agreed to implement changes after a federal investigation found several incidents of race-based harassment, including students holding a mock ���slave auction��� to sell Black students to their white classmates. The Department of J Watchdog investigates UAW president Shawn Fain, accuses union of being uncooperative 06/11/2024 01:18pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain is under investigation by a court-appointed watchdog who has been working to stamp out corruption at the union in the wake of its stunning bribery and embezzlement scandal several years ago. The monitor, Neil Barofsky, disclosed that he was Movie Review: Andrew McCarthy hunts the 'Brat Pack' blowback in the documentary 'Brats' 06/11/2024 12:59pm • He���s 61 now, well-off and trim. He has many accomplishments as an actor but there's this one thing he finds hard to shake: Back in 1985, he got called something. During the Reagan administration, rising star Andrew McCarthy was lumped into an amorphous group of young actors who were changing Holly NYC bird group drops name of illustrator and slave owner Audubon 06/11/2024 12:57pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The conservationist group known as NYC Audubon has changed its name to NYC Bird Alliance to distance itself from the pro-slavery views of ornithologist and illustrator John James Audubon, the organization announced. The name change, which was formalized by a June 5 membership vote, Tiger Woods returns to Pinehurst after 19 years and it's not the same. Neither is he 06/11/2024 12:51pm • PINEHURST, N.C. (AP) ��� This is not the same Pinehurst No. 2 that Tiger Woods saw 19 years ago when he walked away with a runner-up finish in the U.S. Open, his last time on the property. It's not the same Tiger Woods, either. Woods has never gone this long without seeing a major championship cours NFL's dedication to expanding flag football starts at the top with Commissioner Roger Goodell 06/11/2024 12:29pm • The NFL���s dedication to expanding flag football starts at the top. Commissioner Roger Goodell has been fully invested in growing the non-contact version of the most popular sport in the United States. Flag football introduces more people, including folks around the world, to the NFL so it���s a wi For shrinking Mississippi River towns, frequent floods worsen fortunes 06/11/2024 12:24pm • WEST ALTON, Mo. (AP) ��� Devastating flooding, driven in part by climate change, is taking an especially damaging toll on communities that once thrived along the banks of America's most storied river. Flooding has pushed people out of their homes near the Mississippi River at a roughly 30% higher ra Riots erupt in drought-stricken central Algeria over months of water shortages 06/11/2024 12:06pm • TIARET, Algeria (AP) ��� Violent riots erupted in a drought-stricken Algerian desert city last weekend after months of water shortages left taps running dry and forced residents to queue to access water for their households. In Tiaret ��� a central Algerian city of less than 200,000 located 155 mile