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New federal rule would bar 'noncompete' agreements for most employees 04/24/2024 04:37pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. companies would no longer be able to bar employees from taking jobs with competitors under a rule approved by a federal agency Tuesday, though the rule is sure to be challenged in court. The Federal Trade Commission voted Tuesday 3-2 to ban measures known as noncompete agre Southwest Airlines flight attendants ratify a contract that will raise pay about 33% over 4 years 04/24/2024 04:32pm • DALLAS (AP) — Flight attendants at Southwest Airlines have ratified a contract that includes pay raises totaling more than 33% over four years, as airline workers continue to benefit from the industry's recovery since the pandemic. The Transport Workers Union said Wednesday that members of Local 5 How major US stock indexes fared Wednesday, 4/24/2024 04/24/2024 04:21pm • U.S. stocks drifted to a mixed finish. The S&P 500 closed little changed Wednesday after a two-day winning streak erased nearly two-thirds of last week’s steep loss. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite edged up 0.1%. Tesla jumped after saying the night before Pennsylvania redesigned its mail-in ballot envelopes amid litigation. Some voters still tripped up 04/24/2024 04:21pm • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A form Pennsylvania voters must complete on the outside of mail-in ballot return envelopes has been redesigned, but that did not prevent some voters from failing to complete it accurately for this week's primary, and some votes will not count as a result, election officials U.Md. program uses AI to teach you how to play the violin 04/24/2024 04:20pm • On the ground floor of one of the new computer buildings at the University of Maryland, Anna Kelleher played her centuries-old violin while a program running on a laptop in front of her told her to do things such as raise her chin or widen her stance. These were common mistakes that Kelleher Texas Instruments, Mattel rise; General Dynamics, Teledyne fall, Wednesday, 4/24/2024 04/24/2024 04:18pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Wednesday: Tesla Inc., up $17.45 to $162.13. The electric vehicle maker plans to accelerate production of new, more affordable vehicles. Visa Inc., up 91 cents to $275.02. The global payment processor's fiscal second-qu Tennessee would criminalize helping minors get abortions under bill heading to governor 04/24/2024 03:55pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee is poised to become the second state in the nation to make it illegal for adults to help minors get an abortion without parental consent, a proposal that is likely to face immediate legal challenges should Gov. Bill Lee sign it into law. Tennessee's GOP-dominant Ukraine uses long-range missiles secretly provided by US to hit Russian-held areas, officials say 04/24/2024 03:49pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine for the first time has begun using long-range ballistic missiles provided secretly by the United States, bombing a Russian military airfield in Crimea last week and Russian forces in another occupied area overnight, American officials said Wednesday. Long sought by Ukrain Arkansas panel bans electronic signatures on voter registration forms 04/24/2024 03:35pm • LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas panel has prohibited election officials from accepting voter registration forms signed with an electronic signature, a move that critics say amounts to voter suppression. The State Board of Election Commissions on Tuesday unanimously approved the emergency rule US Rep. Donald Payne Jr., a Democrat from New Jersey, has died at 65 after a heart attack 04/24/2024 03:22pm • TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Donald Payne Jr., a New Jersey Democrat and a member of the Congressional Black Caucus who replaced his father in the seat, died Wednesday after a heart attack this month that left him hospitalized, officials said. He was 65. Gov. Phil Murphy called his fellow Dem West Virginia says it will appeal ruling that allowed transgender teen athlete to compete 04/24/2024 03:20pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on an appeals court ruling that allowed a transgender athlete to compete on her middle school teams, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said Wednesday. “We’re not going to allow the elites in the swamp to impose Norfolk Southern's earnings offer railroad chance to defend its strategy ahead of control vote 04/24/2024 03:19pm • Norfolk Southern’s first-quarter earnings report Wednesday gave the railroad the opportunity to publicly defend CEO Alan Shaw’s strategy again before investors decide on May 9 whether to back him. Since the railroad already preannounced its disappointing results earlier this month when it disclo Jury sides with school system in suit accusing it of ignoring middle-schooler's sex assault claims 04/24/2024 03:10pm • ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A jury on Wednesday rejected a woman's lawsuit seeking tens of millions of dollars from Virginia's largest school system over allegations that she was raped multiple times as a middle schooler. The woman, who was identified in court papers only by her initials, sued Fairfax Poland's prosecutor general says previous government used spyware against hundreds of people 04/24/2024 03:09pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's prosecutor general told the parliament on Wednesday that powerful Pegasus spyware was used against hundreds of people during the former government in Poland, among them elected officials. Adam Bodnar told lawmakers that he found the scale of the surveillance “shock To pass Ukraine aid, 'Reagan Republican' leaders in Congress navigated a party transformed by Trump 04/24/2024 02:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — For Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Mike Johnson, the necessity of providing Ukraine with weapons and other aid as it fends off Russia's invasion is rooted in their earliest and most formative political memories. McConnell, 82, tells the story of his fa