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Florida House passes a bill to ban social media accounts for children under 16 01/24/2024 06:18pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida children under the age of 16 would be banned from popular social media platforms regardless of parent approval under a bill passed by the House on Wednesday, a measure that is the top priority for the chamber's speaker. The bill doesn't list which platforms would b Artist-dissident Ai Weiwei gets 'incorrect' during an appearance at The Town Hall in Manhattan 01/23/2024 11:01pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist and dissident who believes it his job to be “incorrect,” was hard at work Tuesday night during an appearance at The Town Hall in Manhattan. “I really like to make trouble,” Ai said during a 50-minute conversation-sparring match with author-int Backpage founder will face Arizona retrial on charges he participated in scheme to sell sex ads 01/23/2024 08:42pm • PHOENIX (AP) — Federal prosecutors in Arizona said Tuesday they will retry a co-founder of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com on dozens of prostitution facilitation and money laundering charges that alleged he participated in a scheme to sell sex ads. A jury in mid-November 2023 convicted Nikki Haley questions Trump's mental fitness after he appears to confuse her for Nancy Pelosi 01/20/2024 08:41pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley on Saturday questioned whether Donald Trump is mentally capable of serving as president again after he repeatedly seemed to confuse her with former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a campaign speech. As she campaigned in Keene, New Hampshire, Haley referenced Ousted Florida Republican chair cleared of rape allegation, but police seek video voyeurism charge 01/19/2024 06:02pm • Police cleared the ousted chair of the Florida Republican Party of rape allegations on Friday, but said they have asked prosecutors to charge him with illegally video recording the sexual encounter he had with a female acquaintance. The Sarasota Police Department said in a statement that a review o Trump's attorney renews call for mistrial in defamation case brought by writer in sex-abuse case 01/19/2024 05:53pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyer on Friday renewed a mistrial request in a New York defamation case against the former president, saying that an advice columnist who accused him of sexually abusing her in the 1990s spoiled her civil case by deleting emails from strangers who threatened her After Taiwan's election, its new envoy to the US offers assurances to Washington and Beijing 01/19/2024 12:09pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Taiwan’s top diplomat in Washington has a message for both the island's Chinese adversaries and its American friends: Don’t worry that Taiwan’s new president-elect will worsen relations with Beijing and possibly draw the U.S. into a conflict. President-elect Lai Ching-te pl NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 01/19/2024 11:50am • 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. ___ A panel of healthcare experts discussed ‘Disease X’ at Davos. Bu Police can't 'corroborate criminal activity' in Giddey investigation, still under review by NBA 01/17/2024 11:09pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City’s Josh Giddey will not face charges related to an accusation that he had an improper relationship with an underage girl, police in Newport Beach, California, said Wednesday when announcing that it had closed its probe of the Thunder guard. In a statement, the d 12 Financial New Year's Resolutions for 2024 01/17/2024 07:00pm • January's half over, but the year has still just begun. If you haven't tried to whip your finances in shape, this is a good time to start. You don't have to think of these as financial goals as resolutions, but more like a reboot to your yearly financial to-do list. If you want 2024 to be a better m Coco Gauff reiterates USTA image of US players made them look “awful” 01/14/2024 11:44pm • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Coco Gauff says a USTA social media post meant to promote American players at the Australian Open had made them look “awful.” Gauff initially responded to the post, which has since been deleted by the USTA, the ruling body for tennis in the U.S., in an Instagram sto 'Facebook doesn't care': Those who've had accounts hacked call on the social media platform to take them down 01/10/2024 09:24pm • Several months ago, Debbie Hickman of Chestertown, Maryland, began receiving messages from friends about joining a cryptocurrency training program they thought she was behind. "I've had people come to me, and call me and send me messages on if that's what I'm doing now and asking me questions. w Review: In the bonkers 'The Beekeeper,' Jason Statham has more than a bee in his bonnet 01/10/2024 06:44pm • Secret agents and murderous assassins seem to lurk in increasingly mundane places. Remember “The Accountant" with Ben Affleck? Or “The Tax Collector” with Shia LaBeouf? Or more recently, how about “The Bricklayer” with Adam Eckhardt? You probably don't — none of these films were exactly Man accused in Harvard bomb threat and extortion plot last year pleads guilty to a lesser charge 01/10/2024 04:09pm • BOSTON (AP) — A New Hampshire man who had been accused of participating in a plot in which a caller issued bomb threats last year to Harvard University and demanded a large amount of bitcoin pleaded guilty to a lesser charge Wednesday. William Giordani, 55, of Nashua, was arrested last year on cha Modi's beach visit to a remote Indian archipelago rakes up a storm in the Maldives 01/10/2024 06:34am • NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted a series of photos on social media last week showing him snorkeling, strolling on a white-sand beach and lounging in a chair next to turquoise waters in Lakshadweep, an island chain in the Indian Ocean. It was an “exhilarating experienc