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Daughter of ousted Thai prime minister could win his old job 05/04/2023 08:38pm • BANGKOK (AP) — She has confidence, she has charisma, but most of all she has the family name and a face that reminds many of her famous father. In the race to become Thailand’s next prime minister, opinion polls show Paetongtarn Shinawatra to be the heavy favorite to take the post after the May Money Market Account: What Is It and How Does It Work? 05/04/2023 08:00pm • Money market accounts are back in vogue, and annual percentage yields above 4% on MMAs at relatively low minimum deposit levels are a big driver of that trend. Given Federal Reserve interest rate hikes, which push bank rates up historically, investors expect money market rates to remain at this leve 7 Best Video Game Stocks to Buy 05/04/2023 08:00pm • U.S. gamers spent $56.6 billion on video game products in 2022, and the total number of U.S. digital gamers is expected to reach 172.5 million by 2026, according to Insider Intelligence. Video games are becoming more immersive and realistic by the day. Online gaming communities are now major social Worker killed in Massachusetts pharmaceutical plant blast 05/04/2023 07:13pm • NEWBURYPORT, Mass. (AP) — A worker was killed Thursday after a powerful explosion tore through a pharmaceutical chemical plant in Massachusetts, ripping the roof off the building and prompting a U.S. senator to demand accountability from the plant's owners. Acting Newburyport Fire Chief Stephen Br US often didn't screen workers at migrant centers: Watchdog 05/04/2023 07:06pm • SAN DIEGO (AP) — The federal Health and Human Services Department often failed to perform required background checks on workers at emergency holding centers for migrant children who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border alone during a surge in 2021, the agency's internal watchdog has found. The inspector Twitter alerts back on track for NYC subway after week off 05/04/2023 07:03pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Service alerts for New York City's subway, commuter trains and buses were back on Twitter on Thursday, a week after transit officials balked at paying to provide the information. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority lost access last week to Twitter’s application programming Judge extends suspension of Missouri AG's transgender rule 05/04/2023 07:02pm • A judge has extended her order barring the enforcement of a unique rule pushed by Missouri's Republican attorney general that would require adults and children to undergo more than a year of therapy and fulfill other requirements before they could receive gender-affirming treatments such as puberty Judge gives Trump time to decide on testifying at rape trial 05/04/2023 06:53pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump hinted Thursday that he might show up soon at the New York City trial where a jury is hearing allegations that he raped a woman in the mid-1990s. The former president's lawyers insist that he won't attend the proceedings or testify. Now the judge is offering him one la Tyre Nichols died of blows to the head, autopsy shows 05/04/2023 06:03pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Tyre Nichols died of blows to the head suffered when he was beaten by Memphis police during a January arrest, an autopsy report released Thursday showed. The autopsy said the manner of death was homicide. The report released by the medical examiner in Memphis described brain Investigator ordered to name client who tracked Reno mayor 05/04/2023 06:02pm • RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada judge ordered a private investigator on Thursday to identify the person who hired him to track Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve and an ex-county commissioner with GPS devices attached to their cars ahead of the November election. Lawyers for private investigator David McNeely Biden, Harris meet with CEOs about AI risks 05/04/2023 06:01pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris met on Thursday with the heads of Google, Microsoft and two other companies developing artificial intelligence as the Biden administration rolls out initiatives meant to ensure the rapidly evolving technology improves lives without putting people's ri ACLU sues amid Missouri GOP spat over abortion measure cost 05/04/2023 05:48pm • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri ACLU on Thursday sued statewide officials for stonewalling a constitutional amendment to restore abortion rights as the attorney general pushes for a price tag on the proposal that is 1 million times higher than what the state auditor has estimated. At issu In latest abortion law chapter: Bill signings, court rulings 05/04/2023 05:13pm • Courts this week blocked abortion restrictions from taking effect in two states, while lawmakers in a third are forging ahead with a plan for a new ban that's less stringent than most. Those are some of the latest developments in an abortion landscape that is being crafted by lawmakers, governors an Virginia Daybook 05/04/2023 04:30pm • Associated Press Virginia Daybook for Thursday, May. 04. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. To see your Daybooks and events for Virginia and other St Georgia election chief denies Democrats early 2024 primary 05/04/2023 04:26pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Republican secretary of state has set the battleground state’s 2024 presidential primary for March 12, rebuffing the wishes of Democrats, including President Joe Biden, to move the state into the early weeks of the nominating calendar as a part of elevating more divers