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FCC chair asks automakers about plans to stop abusers from using car electronics to stalk partners 01/11/2024 07:17pm • DETROIT (AP) — The top U.S. telecommunications regulator is asking automakers how they plan to protect people from being stalked or harassed by partners who have access to vehicle location and other data. In a letter sent Thursday to nine large automakers, Federal Communications Commission Chairwo Murder trial begins months after young woman driven into wrong driveway shot in upstate New York 01/11/2024 07:09pm • FORT EDWARD, N.Y. (AP) — An attorney for an upstate New York man accused of fatally shooting a 20-year-old woman who was with a group of friends who mistakenly turned into his backcountry driveway called it a “terrible accident” involving a defective gun as arguments in his murder trial began What Is Rage-Applying? 01/11/2024 07:00pm • The workplace trend of "rage-applying" emerged as one of the most popular in 2023. It garnered 6 million views on TikTok just halfway through the year, according to research from Workamajig, a project management software provider. What Is Rage-Applying?The term refers to a worker who fires off tons Who was the revered rabbi whose New York synagogue was the scene of a brawl over an illegal tunnel? 01/11/2024 06:53pm • The basement synagogue that was the scene of a brawl this week between worshippers and New York City police has a long and storied connection with a Brooklyn rabbi who led a global movement and remains revered three decades since his death. The fight broke out Monday when authorities moved in to se Hunter Biden pleads not guilty to federal tax charges after an earlier deal imploded 01/11/2024 06:47pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Joe Biden's son pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal tax charges filed after the collapse of a plea deal that could have spared him the spectacle of a criminal trial during the 2024 campaign. Hunter Biden has been accused of nine felony and misdemeanor tax offenses. United Airlines plane makes an emergency landing after a warning about a possible door issue 01/11/2024 06:42pm • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A United Airlines jet cut short a flight Wednesday and landed in Tampa, Florida, after pilots were alerted about a possible issue with a door, according to an airport spokesperson. The plane took off later “after the issue was addressed,” the airline said Thursday. The plane New York City built a migrant tent camp on a remote former airfield. Then winter arrived 01/11/2024 06:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) — When New York City officials erected a sprawling tent complex on a remote former airport in Brooklyn to house asylum-seeking migrants this fall, many of the recent arrivals and their advocates questioned the wisdom of placing thousands of people in a flood zone, miles from schools Massachusetts high court rules younger adults cannot be sentenced to life without parole 01/11/2024 06:20pm • BOSTON (AP) — The highest court in Massachusetts ruled Thursday to raise from 18 to 21 the minimum age at which a person can be sentenced to mandatory life without parole — a narrow 4-3 ruling that juvenile justice advocates are hailing as progress. The decision came in the case of Sheldon Matti Violence rattles Ecuador as a nightclub arson kills 2 and a bomb scare sparks an evacuation 01/11/2024 06:11pm • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A bomb threat sent an anti-explosives unit scrambling into a bustling area of Ecuador's tense capital Thursday while authorities in an eastern city reported a nightclub arson killed two people as the South American country staggers under a spike of violence blamed on drug gan Mason Rudolph's unlikely renaissance has led the backup QB and the Steelers to Buffalo 01/11/2024 05:53pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — Confidence always came easy to Mason Rudolph. Setting records wherever he happened to throw a football — be it growing up in South Carolina or at Oklahoma State — helped. Then came 2019. And chaos. Ten wildly uneven games while filling in for the injured Ben Roethlisberger. Rookie C.J. Stroud to lead the Texans against playoff-tested Joe Flacco and the Browns 01/11/2024 05:27pm • HOUSTON (AP) — C.J. Stroud and the rest of Houston’s rookies started a group chat soon after the draft to discuss their goals. “And we were like, ‘Man, we’re going to be the foundation that changes this thing around,’ and lo and behold, that’s ... what came to be true,” Stroud said. California governor wants reserves and cuts to fix nearly $38B deficit, mostly sparing schools 01/11/2024 04:18pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's budget deficit is not as bad as previously thought, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday, but it's deep enough that it could delay a minimum wage increase for more than 400,000 health care workers and force spending cuts across various housing and climate pr Iowa man killed after using truck to ram 2 police vehicles at casino, authorities say 01/11/2024 04:09pm • SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A man whose truck rammed two police vehicles and then used a chain to swing a metal object at officers was shot to death by police outside of an Iowa casino, state authorities said. The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation identified the man killed as 55-year-old Salvado Microscopic fibers link couple to 5-year-old son's strangulation 34 years ago, sheriff says 01/11/2024 03:49pm • Investigators long thought a 5-year-old South Carolina boy found strangled in 1989 was killed by his father and stepmother. But it took 34 years of scientific advancement to link microscopic fibers found on the boy's shirt to a ligature that investigators located at the couple's home, a sheriff said Why Md. agency overseeing school safety got more reports to tip line last year 01/11/2024 03:33pm • The Maryland Center for School Safety's annual report found it got a lot more tips and reports to its anonymous tip line during the last school year than it did in the previous school year. But leaders in that small state agency said that's not necessarily indicative of growing problems and safety i