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US and Mexico will boost deportation flights and enforcement to crack down on illegal migration 04/30/2024 02:13pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador are moving swiftly on new steps to crack down on illegal migration that include tougher enforcement on railways, on buses and in airports as well as increased repatriation flights for migrants from both the U FEMA administrator surveys Oklahoma tornado damage with the state's governor and US senator. 04/30/2024 01:42pm • A Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator said Tuesday that “our heart aches for the loss of life” in tornadoes that left four dead and about 100 injured in Oklahoma. FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell joined Gov. Kevin Stitt and Sen. James Lankford in surveying the damage in Marietta Sword-wielding man attacks passersby in London, killing a 14-year-old boy and injuring 4 others 04/30/2024 01:38pm • LONDON (AP) — A man wielding a sword attacked members of the public and police officers in a northeast London suburb Tuesday, killing a 14-year-old boy and injuring four other people, British authorities said. A 36-year-old man was subdued with a stun gun and arrested on suspicion of murder in a r Tysons-based Intelsat to be acquired for $3.1 billion 04/30/2024 01:30pm • Tysons, Virginia-based satellite operator Intelsat has agreed to be acquired by Luxembourg-based satellite company SES SA for $3.1 billon. Boards of both companies have approved the merger. It is expected to get all required regulatory approvals by the second half of 2025. The merged company will Florida Democrats hope abortion and marijuana questions draw young voters despite low enthusiasm 04/30/2024 12:42pm • WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Jordan Vassallo is lukewarm about casting her first presidential ballot for President Joe Biden in November. But when the 18-year-old senior at Jupiter High School in Florida thinks about the things she cares about, she says her vote for the Democratic incumbent is an Supreme Court leaves in place a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify users' ages 04/30/2024 12:16pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify the age of their users. The justices rejected an emergency appeal filed by the Free Speech Coalition, a trade association for the adult entertainment industry. The provision of Hou Instagram, YouTube the biggest likely winners of TikTok ban but smaller rivals could rise too 04/30/2024 11:48am • Adult U.S. TikTok users spend an average of 54 minutes on the app on any given day, more than Instagram, Snapchat or YouTube, according to research firm eMarketer. If TikTok were to disappear, those platforms — along with younger, smaller emerging rivals — would be scrambling for those valuable FCC fines wireless carriers for sharing user locations without consent 04/30/2024 10:35am • The Federal Communications Commission has leveraged nearly $200 million in fines against wireless carriers AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon for illegally sharing customers' location data without their consent. "These carriers failed to protect the information entrusted to them. Here, we are ta South African boxer Dingaan Thobela, 'The Rose of Soweto,' dies aged 57 04/30/2024 09:04am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African boxer Dingaan Thobela, a two-weight world champion known as “The Rose of Soweto,” has died, the ministry of sports said on Tuesday. He was 57. Thobela won the WBO lightweight title in 1990 and the WBA lightweight title in 1993, when he beat American Tony Lopez At plastics treaty talks in Canada, sharp disagreements on whether to limit plastic production 04/30/2024 07:52am • OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Nations made progress on a treaty to end plastic pollution, finishing the latest round of negotiations in Canada early Tuesday amid sharp disagreements about whether to put global limits on plastic production. For the first time in the process, negotiators discussed the tex Mississippi lawmakers expected to vote on Medicaid expansion plan with work requirement 04/29/2024 11:14pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers are expected to vote this week on a proposal that would expand Medicaid coverage to tens of thousands more people, but it includes a work requirement that might not win federal approval. The state House and Senate passed separate expansion plans earlier Saline vs. Silicone Breast Implants 04/29/2024 08:00pm • In 2022, the Food and Drug Administration -- the government agency that, among other responsibilities, oversees which medicines and medical devices are available in the United States -- issued a safety communication about a known connection between breast implants and certain types of cancer. While 5 Reasons to Eat More Mushrooms 04/29/2024 08:00pm • Mushrooms are continuing their reign as a top food choice because they're highly nutritious, versatile, tasty and sustainable. Chefs are adding more mushrooms to menus, especially portobello, maitake, king oyster and lion's mane. You'll find mushrooms stuffed as an appetizer, sauteed in salads and p What Can You Do With a Medical Degree? 04/29/2024 08:00pm • After graduating with a medical degree, most doctors complete a full three-year residency training program. While it's possible for medical school graduates to earn a general medical license after completing a single postgraduate year and passing all three steps of the United States Medical Licensin US urges countries supplying weapons to Sudan's warring parties to stop, warning of a new genocide 04/29/2024 07:22pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States on Monday implored all countries supplying weapons to Sudan’s warring parties to halt arms sales, warning that history in the vast western Darfur region where there was a genocide 20 years ago “is repeating itself.” U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfi