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Mali's junta bans the media from reporting on political activities in a deepening crackdown 04/11/2024 10:42pm • BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — In a deepening crackdown, Mali’s ruling junta on Thursday banned the media from reporting on activities of political parties and associations, a day after suspending all political activities in the country until further notice. The order, issued by Mali's high authority for Houston police reviewing if DNA tests could have helped in thousands of dropped cases 04/11/2024 09:44pm • HOUSTON (AP) — Houston police said Thursday that they are still reviewing if DNA testing in connection with thousands of sexual assault and sex crime cases that were dropped due to staffing issues could have led officers to potential suspects and possible arrests. The more than 4,000 sexual assaul 10 years after Chibok, Nigerian families cope with the trauma of more school kidnappings 04/11/2024 09:08pm • KADUNA, Nigeria (AP) — His weak body stood in the doorway, exhausted and covered in dirt. For two years, the boy had been among Nigeria’s ghosts, one of at least 1,500 schoolchildren and others seized by armed groups and held for ransom. But paying a ransom didn't work for 12-year-old Treasure, Severe weather takes aim at parts of the Ohio Valley after battering the South 04/11/2024 08:45pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Powerful storms rumbled over parts of the U.S. Southeast on Thursday, prompting a few tornado warnings, causing flash flooding, and delaying the start of one of the world's biggest sporting events, in Georgia. The storm system, which has already been blamed for at least one death in Does Medicare Pay for Hearing Aids? 04/11/2024 08:00pm • Hearing loss is a common condition in the U.S. and becomes increasingly more prevalent as we get older. In fact, more than 37.5 million American adults experience hearing loss, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Untreated hearing loss doesn't just caus How to Improve Your Credit After Financial Trauma 04/11/2024 08:00pm • There are many ways that cause people to fall into financial hardship, such as an unexpected medical bill, a sudden job loss or a case of fraud. However, money problems can be caused by something more complex, such as financial trauma. Different from everyday short-term financial stressors, financia JP Sears wins the day, Athletics win the series with 1-0 victory over World Series champion Rangers 04/11/2024 07:01pm • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — JP Sears navigated through trouble and carried a no-hit bid into the seventh inning Thursday in the Oakland Athletics' game against the World Series champion Texas Rangers. Sears faced nine batters with runners on base after issuing leadoff walks in the first, second and fi The OJ Simpson saga was a unique American moment. 3 decades on, we're still wondering what it means 04/11/2024 06:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A dog’s plaintive wail. A courtroom couplet-turned-cultural catchphrase about gloves. A judge and attorneys who became media darlings and villains. A slightly bewildered houseguest elevated, briefly, into a slightly bewildered celebrity. Troubling questions about race that echo s Kansas has some of the nation's lowest benefits for injured workers. They'll increase in July 04/11/2024 06:38pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will increase what have been among the lowest benefits in the U.S. for workers who are injured or killed on the job under bipartisan legislation that Gov. Laura Kelly signed into law Thursday. The new law is set to take effect in July and includes the first increases in Man arrested for allegedly taking a decommissioned NYC fireboat for an overnight cruise 04/11/2024 06:38pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A man was arrested Thursday for allegedly taking a decommissioned New York City fireboat for an overnight cruise on the Hudson River, before becoming stuck, jumping ship and stealing another vessel, police said. He was charged with two counts of grand larceny, officials said. He ha Starting over: Women emerging from prison face formidable challenges to resuming their lives 04/11/2024 05:59pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — On a cold and dreary October day, Heather C. Jarvis packed everything she had into a pink duffle and a plastic trash bag and waited for the rest of her life to begin. Sitting in the lobby of the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville, Ohio, she smiled anxiously as her long Movie Review: ‘Food, Inc. 2’ revisits food system, sees reason for frustration and (a little) hope 04/11/2024 04:20pm • The makers of the influential 2008 documentary “Food, Inc.” never planned to make a sequel. They figured they’d said it all in their harrowing look at a broken, unsustainable food system — a system led, they argued, by a few multinational corporations whose monopoly squeezes out local farmer Police say fentanyl killed 8-year-old Kentucky boy, not an allergic reaction to strawberries 04/11/2024 02:46pm • MADISONVILLE, Ky. (AP) — An 8-year-old Kentucky boy died of a fentanyl overdose last month, not from eating a batch of strawberries, authorities said this week. The family had told police they believed the boy had an allergic reaction and took him to a hospital with a rash. Police in the city of M Scott Drew staying as Baylor's coach after being mentioned as John Calipari's successor at Kentucky 04/11/2024 02:27pm • WACO, Texas (AP) — Scott Drew will remain as Baylor's men's basketball coach, stating his desire to "bring more championships" to the program on social media after being linked to the Kentucky coaching vacancy following John Calipari's departure to Arkansas. Drew mentioned his Christian faith in a A congressman wanted to understand AI. So he went back to a college classroom to learn 04/11/2024 01:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Don Beyer's car dealerships were among the first in the U.S. to set up a website. As a representative, the Virginia Democrat leads a bipartisan group focused on promoting fusion energy. He reads books about geometry for fun. So when questions about regulating artificial intellige