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Music Review: Katy Perry returns with the uninspired and forgettable '143' 09/20/2024 09:59am • Katy Perry's new album title, “143,” is code for “I love you,” based on the number of letters in each word of the phrase. She may love us, but the album is more like 144 — “I made mush.” Perry's first LP since 2020’s lackluster “Smile” is just as lackluster, an 11-track blur of t Philippine senator says China should do more to help fight cybercrime gangs 09/20/2024 07:52am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) — China should do more to battle the illegal online gambling and scam call centers run by Chinese criminal syndicates in Southeast Asian countries often using forced labor, a Philippine senator who led an investigation into the centers said Friday. The U.N. human rights of Guardians pushing unexpected season into postseason, will have chance to end Series title drought 09/20/2024 01:00am • CLEVELAND (AP) — Soaked to the skin from being sprayed with Champagne and beer, manager Stephen Vogt stood in the middle of the clubhouse and triumphantly lifted a fake jeweled championship belt over his head like a conquering boxer. Cleveland will fight for a real one in October. Led by their 39- Western nations were desperate for Korean babies. Now many adoptees believe they were stolen 09/20/2024 12:32am • Yooree Kim marched into a police station in Paris and told an officer she wanted to report a crime. Forty years ago, she said, she was kidnapped from the other side of the world, and the French government endorsed it. She wept as she described years spent piecing it together, stymied at every turn The night when 43 students disappeared in Mexico: A timeline of key events 09/20/2024 12:18am • IGUALA, Mexico (AP) — Ulises Martínez is still uncomfortable in this city, even though it's been 10 years since 43 of his fellow students from a rural teachers college were abducted here. Martínez was in his third year at the Rural Normal School at Ayotzinapa, an institute known for its radical Israel-Hamas war latest: Hezbollah leader says Israel crossed a `red line' 09/19/2024 08:39pm • The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah is promising to retaliate for deadly attacks on its communication devices after Israel's defense minister announced a “new phase” of the war. Hezbollah and the Israeli military traded new strikes over the border on Thursday. Fears are increasing that 11 months o Widespread adoption fraud separated generations of Korean children from their families, AP finds 09/19/2024 02:57pm • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As the plane descended into Seoul, Robert Calabretta swaddled himself in a blanket, his knees tucked into his chest like a baby in the womb. A single tear ran down his cheek. The 34-year-old felt like a newborn — he was about to meet his parents for the first time since A news site that covers Haitian Americans is facing harassment over its post-debate coverage of Ohio 09/19/2024 10:56am • NEW YORK (AP) — Journalists at a news site that covers the Haitian community in the United States say they've been harassed and intimidated with racist messages for covering a fake story about immigrants eating the pets of people in an Ohio town. One editor at the Haitian Times, a 25-year-old onli California laws cracking down on election deepfakes by AI face legal challenges 09/18/2024 10:36pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California now has some of the toughest laws in the United States to crack down on election deepfakes ahead of the 2024 election after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed three landmark proposals this week at an artificial intelligence conference in San Francisco. The state could Days after posting mugshot of a boy accused of school threat, sheriff puts video of 2 teens online 09/18/2024 08:56pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Around the country, communities are being battered by a wave of school shooting threats, sparking emergency notifications, urgent group chats and heightened fears among parents that their child’s school could be the next Parkland or Sandy Hook or Uvalde — or any other Milwaukee's new election chief knows her office is under scrutiny, but she's ready 09/18/2024 03:37pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) — As election officials across the country boost security ahead of November's election, the leader of one of the most intensely scrutinized offices in a presidential swing state said it's not personal threats or worries about conflicts at the polls that keep her up at night. It's th 'Fake heiress' Anna Sorokin debuts on 'Dancing with the Stars' — with a sparkly ankle monitor 09/18/2024 12:30am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Convicted con artist Anna Sorokin has hit the dancefloor on “Dancing With the Stars” with a featherweight — and very sparkly — ankle monitor. The so-called ‘fake heiress,' who was convicted of swindling banks, hotels and friends in 2019 after falsely building a repu Israel has a long history of pulling off complex attacks like the exploding pagers 09/17/2024 05:13pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Hezbollah and the Lebanese government were quick to blame Israel for the nearly simultaneous detonation of hundreds of pagers used by the militant group's members in an attack Tuesday that killed at least nine people and wounded nearly 3,000 others, according to officials. Many of Russia goes all-out with covert disinformation aimed at Harris, Microsoft report says 09/17/2024 03:20pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The video was seen millions of times across social media but some viewers were suspicious: It featured a young Black woman who claimed Vice President Kamala Harris left her paralyzed in a hit-and-run accident in San Francisco 13 years ago. In an emotional retelling from a wheelchai California governor signs laws to protect actors against unauthorized use of AI 09/17/2024 02:41pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed off Tuesday on legislation aiming at protecting Hollywood actors and performers against unauthorized artificial intelligence that could be used to create digital clones of themselves without their consent. The new laws come as Californ