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As Finns choose a new president, one thing is certain: A hard line on Russia will continue 02/09/2024 02:02am • HELSINKI (AP) — Finns on Sunday will choose either of two experienced politicians to be their next head of state, whose main task will be to steer the Nordic country’s foreign and security policy now that it is a member of NATO, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ex-Prime Minister Alexan Jon Stewart changed late-night comedy once. Can he have a second act in different times? 02/09/2024 12:01am • NEW YORK (AP) — As host of “The Daily Show” from 1999 to 2015, Jon Stewart changed comedy — and arguably journalism, too — with sharp, satirical takes on politics and current events. He became an essential part of the nation's conversation. Now let's see if he can turn back time. Stewart, New York woman sentenced to probation and fines in COVID aid fraud schemes 02/08/2024 10:09pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A Brooklyn woman who pleaded guilty to fraud in connection with various pandemic-era relief schemes was sentenced Thursday to three years of probation and $650,000 in penalties. Prosecutors said Chanette Lewis, 32, carried out some of the schemes by leveraging her job at a call cen 'Whistling sound' heard on previous Boeing Max 9 flight before door plug blowout, lawsuit alleges 02/08/2024 07:48pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A “whistling sound” was heard on a previous flight of the Boeing 737 Max 9 whose door plug blew out during an Alaska Airlines flight last month, an attorney representing passengers in a lawsuit said in new court documents. Mark Lindquist is representing 22 passengers of A 6 of the Best AI ETFs to Buy Now 02/08/2024 07:00pm • Meta Platforms Inc. (ticker: META), once known as Facebook, has emerged as one of Wall Street's most remarkable comeback stories in recent years. Following a challenging pivot to the metaverse and a bearish market throughout 2022, Meta experienced a dramatic revival. On Feb. 1, the company unveiled PHOTO GALLERY: A look at Lahaina in the six months since a wildfire destroyed the Maui town 02/08/2024 06:55pm • LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — It has been six months since a wildfire leveled most of Lahaina, a centuries-old town on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Authorities say 100 people were killed and three are still missing from the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. Nearly 5,000 residents who lost Higher-dose naloxone spray didn't save more lives, researchers find 02/08/2024 05:59pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A new, higher-dose nasal spray for reversing opioid overdoses did not save more lives than the previous standard dose, but it did cause more vomiting and other side effects, researchers wrote in a study published Thursday. The 8-milligram naloxone spray — twice as potent as the h Woman with brain bleed mistakenly arrested by state trooper for drunken driving, lawsuit says 02/08/2024 05:57pm • TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A Washington State Patrol trooper arrested a woman on suspicion of drunken driving when she was actually experiencing a life-threatening brain bleed and booked her into jail where officials mocked her instead of getting her medical attention, according to a civil rights lawsui Police who responded to Maine mass shooting describe potential missed opportunities to end manhunt 02/08/2024 05:09pm • AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Police who testified before an independent commission investigating the response to a mass shooting in Maine acknowledged potential missed opportunities to end a manhunt for the shooter that locked down the community and terrified residents. Maine Gov. Janet Mills and state A The Supreme Court seems poised to reject efforts to kick Trump off the ballot over the Capitol riot 02/08/2024 04:47pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seems poised to reject attempts to kick former President Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot, with conservative and liberal justices in apparent agreement in a case that puts them at the heart of a presidential election. A definitive ruling for Trump, the leading R Haiti's prime minister calls for calm as violent protests seek his ouster 02/08/2024 04:36pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry urged calm in a public address early Thursday following three days of violent protests that have paralyzed the country as thousands of protesters demand his resignation. The brief speech in the pre-dawn hours did little to appease peo Audit of $19,000 lectern purchase for Arkansas governor almost done 02/08/2024 03:47pm • LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas auditors are nearly done looking into the purchase of a $19,000 lectern for Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and expect to issue a report on it by the end of March, a state official told lawmakers on Thursday. Legislative Auditor Roger Norman told a panel that his offi Republican effort to restore abortion rights in Missouri folds 02/08/2024 03:38pm • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Republican-led campaign to restore abortion rights in Missouri ended Thursday, clearing the path for a competing, more sweeping constitutional amendment to get on the state's November ballot. “Having two initiatives on the ballot would create confusion and potential Biden determined to use stunning Trump-backed collapse of border deal as a weapon in 2024 campaign 02/08/2024 09:42am • WASHINGTON (AP) — How it began: President Joe Biden was urgently seeking more money from Congress to aid Ukraine and Israel. He took a gamble by seizing on GOP demands to simultaneously address one of his biggest political liabilities — illegal migration at the U.S.-Mexico border. How it ended: Anthony Fauci will reflect on his long government career in 'On Call,' to be published in June 02/08/2024 05:45am • NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci has a memoir coming out in June, a look back at his long career as an infectious disease expert and the many outbreaks he contended with, from HIV/AIDS to the COVID-19 pandemic that made him famous. Viking announced Thursday that Fauci's “On Call: A Doctor’s J