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Most automated driving systems are lousy at making sure drivers pay attention, insurance group says 03/12/2024 06:24pm • DETROIT (AP) — Most electronic systems that take on some driving tasks for humans don't adequately make sure drivers are paying attention, and they don't issue strong enough warnings or take other actions to make drivers behave, according to an insurance industry study published Tuesday. Only one Arkansas stops offering 'X' as an alternative to male and female on driver's licenses and IDs 03/12/2024 05:51pm • LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas will no longer allow residents to use “X” instead of male or female on state-issued driver's licenses or identification cards, officials announced under new rules Tuesday that will also make it more difficult for transgender people to change the sex listed on What to know about a settlement that clarifies what's legal under Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' law 03/12/2024 03:25pm • The Florida law labeled by critics as “ Don't Say Gay ” is remaining in place under a settlement reached this week between the state and parents, students, teachers and advocacy groups who challenged it in court. But the fallout that gave it that nickname is nixed under the deal. Florida's 2022 Why texting your children at school could sabotage their learning 03/12/2024 01:15pm • Parents texting their children who are in school aren't just staying in touch — they're sabotaging their children's learning and development, according to doctors. Although most schools allow a student to carry a cellphone for an emergency, and some teachers require students to place their phon Purple Ohio? Parties in the former bellwether state take lessons from 2023 abortion, marijuana votes 03/12/2024 12:40pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — For more than half a century, Ohio was one of the most important states to watch during presidential election years, a place where both parties competed vigorously for support from voters who were often genuinely undecided. Then came Donald Trump. Beginning in 2016, Ohio beca Girls are falling in love with wrestling, the nation's fastest-growing high school sport 03/12/2024 11:59am • MECHANICSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Jody Mikhail was a sophomore at Pennsylvania's Cumberland Valley High School when a poster for a new girls’ wrestling club caught her eye. So Mikhail, a senior now, tried the sport. “I fell in love with it the first time,” she said. Unlike previous generations, she' New sportsbook cafe bets on H Street Northeast 03/12/2024 10:10am • Amid a wave of businesses closing on D.C.'s H Street Northeast corridor, one local business is (literally) betting on the neighborhood. Grand Central Sportsbook & Cafe, whose original location in Adams Morgan opened in 2021, has opened an H Street outpost at 625 H St. Northeast, in space form Climate, a major separator for Biden and Trump, is a dividing line in many other races, too 03/12/2024 09:44am • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The race for the White House isn’t the only one with big stakes for climate policy. In campaigns for Congress and for governor around the country, candidates are talking about how green the grid should be, too. Voters are increasingly feeling the impacts of climate change af Tesla Autopilot and similar automated driving systems get ‘poor’ rating from prominent safety group 03/12/2024 07:55am • (CNN) — The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, which rates cars and SUVs for safety, examined so-called advanced driver assistance systems such as Tesla Autopilot and found them wanting. These systems combine different sensors and technologies to help a driver keep their vehicle in its lan South Korea criticizes senior doctors for threatening to resign to support their juniors' walkouts 03/12/2024 05:53am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government criticized senior doctors at a major hospital Tuesday for threatening to resign in support of the weekslong walkouts by thousands of medical interns and residents that have disrupted hospital operations. About 12,000 junior doctors in South Kor Passenger describes people 'bounced off the roof' on plane that dropped during flight to New Zealand 03/12/2024 04:03am • SYDNEY (AP) — As officials investigate what caused a “strong shake” before a sudden plunge on a plane traveling between Australia and New Zealand, a passenger on Tuesday described a wild ride, with people without seatbelts thrown from their seats and some crashing into the plane's ceiling. At 50 people are injured by a 'strong movement' on a plane traveling from Australia to New Zealand 03/12/2024 01:24am • SYDNEY (AP) — At least 50 people were injured Monday by what officials described as a “strong movement” on a Chilean plane traveling from Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand. LATAM Airlines said in a statement that there was "a technical event during the flight which caused a strong movement.” Protests drove Nepal's king off the throne 16 years ago. Now, protests are trying to bring him back 03/12/2024 12:04am • KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Sixteen years ago, mass protests in Nepal forced then-King Gyanendra Shah to give up the throne and clear the way for a republic. Now, a new wave of protest is trying to bring him back. The capital of the Himalayan country is again teeming with demonstrators, this time dema Angela Chao, shipping industry exec, died on Texas ranch after her car went into a pond, report says 03/11/2024 11:43pm • JOHNSON CITY, Texas (AP) — Angela Chao, a shipping industry CEO and sister-in-law to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, died on a Texas ranch last month after her car went into a pond and became submerged in water for an extended period of time, The Wall Street Journal reported. Chao, 50, die A meeting of the UN body promoting equality for women starts with 5 male speakers 03/11/2024 09:32pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N.’s preeminent body promoting equality for women and girls opened its annual meeting Monday with five male speakers in a row – a lineup that made some of the men uneasy and was somewhat baffling to the hundreds of women in the packed General Assembly chamber. Achim