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Global plastic pollution treaty talks hit critical stage in Canada 04/23/2024 04:52pm • Thousands of negotiators and observers representing most of the world���s nations are gathering in the Canadian city of Ottawa this week to craft a treaty to stop the rapidly escalating problem of plastic pollution. Each day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the QB Bryce Young excited about 'new faces' in Carolina after team's 2-15 season in 2023 04/23/2024 04:28pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� The Carolina Panthers spent more than $150 million upgrading their offensive line and traded for wide receiver Diontae Johnson in an attempt to help quarterback Bryce Young maximize his potential. Whether or not that helps Young take a much-needed step forward after going 2- Novartis, Danaher rise; Nucor, Cadence Design Systems fall, Tuesday, 4/23/2024 04/23/2024 04:21pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Tuesday: Novartis AG, up $2.16 to $97.28. The drugmaker beat Wall Street's first-quarter earnings and revenue forecasts. Danaher Corp., up $17.03 to $253.11. The industrial and medical device maker's first-quarter finan Webb Simpson offers to resign from PGA Tour board. But only if McIlroy replaces him, AP source says 04/23/2024 03:57pm • A plan is in place for Rory McIlroy to rejoin the PGA Tour board, a move that would require the board's approval and could be viewed as a chance to help to improve stalled negotiations with the Saudi financial backers of LIV Golf. McIlroy resigned from the board in November, saying he felt he could Britain's home secretary touts UK-Rwanda migrant deportation deal during visit to Italy 04/23/2024 03:43pm • ROME (AP) ��� Britain���s home secretary on Tuesday touted Britain���s migrant deportation deal with Rwanda as a ���new and creative��� deterrent to an old and growing problem. But he said he took seriously criticism by the U.N. refugee agency that it violates international law. Home Secretary James Transgender Louisianans lost their ally in the governor's seat. Now they're girding for a fight 04/23/2024 03:30pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) ��� As transgender people in Louisiana watched surrounding states in the deeply conservative South implement a slew of laws targeting nearly every facet of their lives in recent years, they counted on their ally in the governor���s office to keep their home a relative oasis. Fo What's EMTALA, the patient protection law at the center of Supreme Court abortion arguments? 04/23/2024 03:01pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could determine whether doctors can provide abortions to pregnant women with medical emergencies in states that enact abortion bans. The Justice Department has sued Idaho over its abortion law, which allows a woman to NOAA's Hurricane Hunters want Prince George's Co. high schoolers to join their ranks 04/23/2024 02:40pm • While most people are told to keep their distance from powerful storms, Capt. Rebecca Waddington's job is to fly right into them. Like, directly through them. Waddington is part of NOAA's team dubbed the Hurricane Hunters. She's seen a lot ��� but as she stood inside the aerospace engineering cla Georgia prison officials in 'flagrant' violation of solitary confinement reforms, judge says 04/23/2024 02:19pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Georgia prison officials have flagrantly violated a court order to reform conditions for prisoners in the state's most restrictive holding facility, showing ���no desire or intention" to make the required changes to solitary confinement practices, a federal judge said. In a damning Maryland unemployment edges higher, Virginia���s jobless rate falls 04/23/2024 02:18pm • Unemployment rates in Maryland and Virginia both rose modestly in March, and when compared to states, the District had the second-highest unemployment rate last month. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports Maryland���s unemployment rate was 2.5% in March, up from 2.4% in February, and up signifi Jeep maker Stellantis to lay off an unspecified number of factory workers in the coming months 04/23/2024 01:35pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� Jeep maker Stellantis is planning to lay off an unspecified number of workers at its U.S. factories in the coming months to deal with a rapidly changing global auto market, the company said Tuesday. The statement comes as the company faces increased capital spending to make the tran Sign of the times: NCAA approves coach-to-player helmet communication for 2024 football season 04/23/2024 01:27pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� College football is ready to put the signs away. The NCAA���s playing rules oversight committee on Friday approved the use of coach-to-player helmet communications in games for the 2024 season. The move, in discussion for years, also follows a sign-stealing scandal that rocked William Strickland, a longtime civil rights activist, scholar and friend of Malcolm X, has died 04/23/2024 01:08pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� William Strickland, a longtime civil rights activist and supporter of the Black Power movement who worked with Malcolm X and other prominent leaders in the 1960s, has died. He was 87. Strickland, whose death April 10 was confirmed by a relative, first became active in civil rights as UnitedHealth says wide swath of patient files may have been taken in Change cyberattack 04/23/2024 11:55am • UnitedHealth says files with personal information that could cover a ���substantial portion of people in America��� may have been taken in the cyberattack earlier this year on its Change Healthcare business. The company said Monday after markets closed that it sees no signs that doctor charts or ful A Russian strike on Kharkiv's TV tower is part of an intimidation campaign, Ukraine's Zelenskyy says 04/23/2024 11:52am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a Russian missile strike that smashed a prominent skyline television tower in Kharkiv was part of the Kremlin���s effort to intimidate Ukraine���s second-largest city, which in recent weeks has come under increasingly frequent attac