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Marine fatally shot at Camp Lejeune was 19 and from North Carolina, the base says 10/20/2023 05:28pm • CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — A Marine killed in a shooting at Camp Lejeune was identified by officials Friday a 19-year-old lance corporal from North Carolina. Austin B. Schwenk, of Onslow County, North Carolina, died Wednesday in an incident in a barracks room on the base, the base said in a stateme Florida lawmakers to return to Capitol to impose new sanctions on Iran 10/20/2023 05:18pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida lawmakers will return for a special session to impose additional sanctions against Iran, express support for Israel and provide additional security to protect Jewish institutions in Florida, House and Senate leaders announced Friday. The session will also take up i Former Florida lawmaker who sponsored 'Don't Say Gay' sentenced to prison for COVID-19 relief fraud 10/20/2023 04:50pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The former Florida lawmaker who sponsored the controversial law critics call “Don’t Say Gay” was sentenced to six months in federal prison Thursday for defrauding a federal coronavirus relief loan program for small businesses. Former state Rep. Joe Harding, a 36-year The Supreme Court allows the White House to continue work to combat controversial social media posts 10/20/2023 04:46pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday said it would indefinitely block a lower court order curbing Biden administration efforts to combat controversial social media posts on topics including COVID-19 and election security. The justices said they would hear arguments in a lawsuit filed by L The Supreme Court keeps a Missouri law on hold that bars police from enforcing federal gun laws 10/20/2023 04:01pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday kept a Missouri law on hold that bars police from enforcing federal gun laws, rejecting an emergency appeal from the state. The 2019 law was ruled unconstitutional by a district judge but allowed to remain in effect. A federal appeals court then blocke After 189 bodies were found in Colorado funeral home, evidence suggests families received fake ashes 10/20/2023 02:16pm • COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado funeral home where 189 decaying bodies were discovered this month appears to have fabricated cremation records and may have given families fake ashes, according to information gathered by The Associated Press from customers and crematories. The families th Juveniles charged with dousing acid on playground slides that injured 4 children 10/20/2023 02:00pm • LONGMEADOW, Mass. (AP) — Two juveniles have been charged after several slides at a Massachusetts park were doused with acid in this summer and four children were injured, the Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni said. The juveniles, whose identities cannot be released due to their ages, have 300-year-old painting stolen by an American soldier during World War II returned to German museum 10/20/2023 01:22pm • CHICAGO (AP) — After a stopover in the U.S. that lasted the better part of a century, a baroque landscape painting that went missing during World War II was returned to Germany on Thursday. The FBI handed over the artwork by 18th century Austrian artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer to a German m Affordable Care Act provisions codified under Michigan law by Gov. Whitmer as a hedge against repeal 10/20/2023 12:58pm • LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Federal law that prohibits insurers from denying healthcare based on preexisting conditions, or kicking dependents off their parent’s coverage until age 26, is now codified separately into Michigan law. Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation Thursday that attem Central America scrambles as the international community fails to find solution to record migration 10/20/2023 11:16am • PASO CANOAS, Costa Rica (AP) — The fleet of buses roared past the Panama-Costa Rica border. Hundreds of Venezuelan, Haitian and Ecuadorian migrants pressed their faces to the windows as they looked out onto a sign that read “Welcome to Costa Rica.” But few of them will see more of the country NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 10/20/2023 10:27am • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ___ Qatar hasn’t threatened to cut off natural gas Quin Snyder hopes high-scoring Hawks, led by Trae Young, will decide to play defense 10/20/2023 09:10am • ATLANTA HAWKS Last season: 41-41, lost in six games to Boston in first round of playoffs after beating Miami in play-in tournament. Coach: Quin Snyder (2nd season with Hawks, 10-11; 10th season overall, 382-275). What to expect: Snyder's late-season hiring provided him with an opportunity to learn t Russia extends detention of a US journalist detained for failing to register as a foreign agent 10/20/2023 09:03am • A Russian-American journalist was ordered Friday to be detained for another three days on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent, Russian media reported. Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, appeared in court in the central Russian cit Britain's opposition Labour Party wins 2 big prizes in momentum-building special elections 10/20/2023 08:45am • LONDON (AP) — Britain's main opposition Labour Party decisively won two special elections Friday, snatching seats in Parliament that long were rock-solid bastions of the governing Conservatives. Voters in Tamworth, central England, and Mid-Bedfordshire, located north of London, switched from the C Refugee children's education in Rwanda under threat because of reduced UN funding 10/20/2023 06:35am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Cuts to U.N. funding for refugees living in Rwanda is threatening the right to education for children in more than 100,000 households who have fled conflict from different East African countries to live in five camps. A Burundian refugee, Epimaque Nzohoraho, told The Associat