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The Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that voting is not a fundamental right. What's next for voters? 06/04/2024 11:56am • A split Kansas Supreme Court ruling last week issued in a lawsuit over a 2021 election law found that voting is not a fundamental right listed in the state Constitution's Bill of Rights. The finding drew sharp criticism from three dissenting justices on the high court. The Associated Press looks at The UN says global public debt hit a record $97 trillion in 2023. Developing countries are hard hit 06/04/2024 11:47am • GENEVA (AP) ��� Global public debt rose to a record $97 trillion last year, the United Nations reported Tuesday, with developing countries owing roughly one-third of that ��� crimping their ability to pay for basic government services like health care, education and climate action. U.N. Trade and De Romania's culture minister asks Louis Vuitton to acknowledge a traditional blouse inspired items 06/04/2024 11:47am • BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) ��� Romania���s minister of culture says she will ask French luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton to acknowledge that a traditional Romanian blouse directly inspired items in one of its 2024 collections. ���We will request that Louis Vuitton recognize the heritage and cultural North Korea's trash balloons deepen tensions with the South. Here's what's happening between rivals 06/04/2024 11:37am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� Animosities between North and South Korea are rising sharply again over an unusual cause: The North's rubbish-carrying balloons. In the past week, North Korea floated hundreds of huge balloons dumping manure, cigarette butts, scraps of cloth, waste batteries and even repo South Korea suspends a military deal with North Korea after tensions over trash balloons 06/04/2024 11:27am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� South Korea said Tuesday it fully suspended a contentious military agreement with North Korea in order to resume front-line military activities, as tensions between the rivals are rising over the North���s recent launch of trash-carrying balloons. North Korea didn���t imm Technical issues briefly halt trading for some NYSE stocks in the latest glitch to hit Wall Street 06/04/2024 11:07am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A technical issue caused the temporary halt in trading for dozens of stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange Monday, including at least one whose price briefly fell nearly 100%. Berkshire Hathaway, the company run by famed investor Warren Buffett, saw its A-class shares plunge Youngkin calls for repeal of new limits on Va. college tuition program for military families 06/04/2024 10:46am • After attempting to rein in the skyrocketing costs of a state program that covers college expenses for some military families, Virginia leaders are discussing whether the move is proving so politically unpopular that they should return to Richmond to undo it. Advocates for military families have Yes, you can have a tidy native-plant garden. Here are some tips 06/04/2024 08:38am • For decades, native plants were relegated to the ���weed��� section of many American gardeners' minds. Most nurseries didn���t stock them. But that���s slowly changing. Native plants provide food and shelter for bees, butterflies, birds and other beneficial critters. They effortlessly grow healthier Marcell Jacobs succeeded Usain Bolt as Olympic 100-meter champion. He still flies 'under the radar' 06/04/2024 06:33am • ROME (AP) ��� Hardly anyone outside of Italy had heard of Marcell Jacobs before he succeeded Usain Bolt as the Olympic 100 meter champion in Tokyo. Three injury-filled years have passed, and the Texas-born Italian is almost as big of a mystery now as he was then. American sprinter Noah Lyles is dese Tractors rumble in streets again ahead of EU polls. Farming is a big issue and the far right pounces 06/04/2024 05:24am • BEERSEL, Belgium (AP) ��� The far-right Flemish Interest party had set up the demonstration in the picture-pretty rolling fields south of Brussels, ahead of the four-day European Union election starting Thursday. The goal was clear: Decrying how farmers would lose fertile land to what they see as ov Australia's military will recruit some noncitzens in a bid to boost troop numbers 06/04/2024 04:40am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� The Australian military will begin recruiting some noncitizens in a bid to boost troop numbers, the government said Tuesday. Only people from other members of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing partnership who hold Australian permanent residency will be eligible. The mo Stock market today: Asian shares decline after report shows US manufacturing contracted in May 06/03/2024 11:24pm • Asian shares retreated on Tuesday after a report showed that U.S. manufacturing contracted in May, in the latest sign the economy is slowing. Oil prices fell and U.S. futures edged higher. Japan's Nikkei 225 index lost 0.5% to 38,749.25 and the Kospi in Seoul was down 0.4% at 2,672.43. Hong Kong's Hoskins homers in return to Philly, but Dahl goes deep in Phillies debut to key 3-1 win over Brewers 06/03/2024 11:06pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� Rhys Hoskins homered for the Milwaukee Brewers in his return to Citizens Bank Park, but David Dahl went deep in his Philadelphia debut to back Zack Wheeler and the Phillies in a 3-1 victory Monday night. In the opener of a three-game series between National League division lead The Latest | Four more Israeli hostages declared dead, and Palestinians seek to join genocide case 06/03/2024 09:40pm • Israel's military confirmed the deaths of four more hostages held by Hamas ��� including three men in their 80s who were seen in a Hamas video begging for their release. Around 80 hostages captured on Oct. 7 are believed to still be alive in Gaza, alongside the remains of 43 others. Monday's announc Hawaii's Kilauea erupts again in a remote area. It's one of the most active volcanoes in the world 06/03/2024 09:38pm • HONOLULU (AP) ��� Kilauea, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, began erupting early Monday in a remote area and then paused about 12 hours later, the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said. The eruption was about 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) south of the Kilauea caldera, i