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Legislation to legalize, tax skill games in Virginia heads to governor 03/01/2024 05:59pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia lawmakers passed legislation Friday that would legalize skill games, the slots-like betting machines that proliferated in businesses around the state before an on-again, off-again ban took effect. If signed by GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin, the bill would tax and regulate Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, claiming betrayal of its goal to benefit humanity 03/01/2024 05:30pm • Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over what he says is a betrayal of the ChatGPT maker's founding aims of benefiting humanity rather than pursuing profits. In a lawsuit filed at San Francisco Superior Court, billionaire Musk said that when he bankrolled OpenAI's creation, he secured New Jersey businessman pleads guilty and agrees to cooperate in Sen. Bob Menendez's corruption case 03/01/2024 04:17pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A New Jersey businessman pleaded guilty Friday to trying to bribe U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, admitting that he gave the senator's wife a car to influence him and agreeing to a deal with prosecutors that calls for him to testify in the corruption case against the powerful Democrat. Jos Pentagon to lift ban on V-22 Osprey flights, 3 months after fatal crash in Japan 03/01/2024 03:45pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will lift the ban on flights by the grounded V-22 Osprey next week, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Friday, following a high-level meeting where Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin endorsed the military services' plans for a safe and measured return to operati Goalie fights, often a crowd favorite, have almost completely disappeared from the NHL 03/01/2024 03:38pm • Watching fights between Patrick Roy and Mike Vernon and Ron Hextall and Felix Potvin in the 1990s, Martin Biron recalled, he always wanted to be the goaltender who could win a bout as the spunky underdog. Then he got into one against Ray Emery and asked himself, “What were you thinking?” Two de Data Doctors: Maintenance tips for glitchy computers 03/01/2024 03:36pm • Q: I’m using Chrome, which has gotten very glitchy. What are the possible causes? A: I’ll assume that by "glitchy," you mean you’re experiencing noticeable performance issues while using the Chrome browser. The potential causes are many, so I’ll start with some of the more common reasons. Pogba has tough fight against 4-year ban judging by doping cases in soccer and for other stars 03/01/2024 01:13pm • GENEVA (AP) — The four-year ban imposed on Paul Pogba — a 2018 World Cup winner with France and once the most expensive player in soccer history — in a doping case that could end his career has shocked soccer. It was also entirely in line with bans in similar recent cases in soccer, including ODU reaches into its past, hires former Monarch Mike Jones as basketball coach 03/01/2024 12:37pm • NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Old Dominion has hired former Monarchs player and Maryland assistant coach Mike Jones as its men's basketball coach, athletic director Wood Selig announced. Jones, who played for Old Dominion from 1991-95, replaces Jeff Jones, who retired this week amid health concerns after NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 03/01/2024 10:06am • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. ___ ATF rules not updated to allow migrants to purchase firearms Assistant director says armorer handed gun to Alec Baldwin before fatal shooting of cinematographer 02/29/2024 11:27pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Courtroom testimony in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin provided new details Thursday that conflict with other, earlier accounts about a final safety check on a revolver and exactly who handed it to the actor during rehearsal for the Western movie “Ru Congress approves short-term extension to avoid shutdown, buy more time for final spending agreement 02/29/2024 09:06pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress passed another short-term spending measure Thursday that would keep one set of federal agencies operating through March 8 and another set through March 22, avoiding a shutdown for parts of the federal government that would otherwise kick in Saturday. The bill now goes to Beltway Basketball Beat: VCU-Richmond highlights weekend, while we address court storming conundrum 02/29/2024 09:00pm • Dave Preston is an AP Top 25 voter. Check out his ballots here. Happy Leap Day! The end of February means your school is trying to make "the leap," which for some means putting the finishing touches on their postseason resume. But for many in and around the Beltway, it means trying to salvage a s The Latest | Gaza death toll tops 30,000 as over 100 killed in aid convoy violence 02/29/2024 08:02pm • More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed and over 70,000 wounded in the Gaza Strip since the Israel's war on Hamas began nearly five months ago, health officials in the territory said. On Thursday, Palestinian witnesses say Israeli troops opened fire on a crowd of people scrambling for aid in How to Lose Weight by Shifting Your Mindset 02/29/2024 07:00pm • Get your mind right for weight loss.Every diet and weight loss strategy has its pros and cons, but for any to really work, you've got to get your mind right."Without the right mindset, your weight loss journey will be more difficult to start, and your goals will be more difficult to achieve," says S Indiana Legislature approves bill adding additional verification steps to voter registration 02/29/2024 05:45pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana lawmakers passed legislation Thursday that expands the power of the state to verify voters' addresses and adds an additional residency requirement for first-time voters. The bill's Republican sponsor state Sen. Mike Gaskill called it a “commonsense bill” that adds