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Virginia joins other states with effort to restrict cellphones in schools 07/09/2024 06:07pm • FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Virginia on Tuesday joined a growing number of states that are pushing for cellphone restrictions in public schools, citing concerns over students' academic achievement and mental health. Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued an executive order to establish state guidance and mode Key senators reach agreement on spending levels for next year, setting up clash with House 07/09/2024 05:34pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate will pursue a spending increase next year of about 3.4% for defense and 2.7% increase for non-defense programs under an agreement reached by top Democratic and Republican lawmakers on the Senate Appropriations Committee, setting up a certain clash with the House, which Chaos and horror at a Kyiv hospital as the city is hit with heaviest bombardment in months 07/09/2024 05:32pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The sky was crystal clear as Oksana Femeniuk took her daughter to Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital for routine dialysis. Around 10 a.m, air-raid sirens blared. Sixteen-year old Solomiia was undergoing the treatment that required her to sit still for up to five hours a NRA's ex-CFO agreed to 10-year not-for-profit ban, still owes $2M for role in lavish spending scheme 07/09/2024 04:47pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The National Rifle Association’s former finance czar, Wilson “Woody” Phillips, has been banned for a decade from managing money for any nonprofit company in New York, the state’s attorney general said Tuesday. Phillips agreed to the ban in May, three months after a jury fou The threat of litigation looms as Purdue Pharma returns to settlement talks 07/09/2024 04:45pm • OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma is trying to chart the course for a new mass settlement of thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids after the U.S. Supreme Court last month rejected its previous deal, which was years in the making. State, local and tribal governments and individual victims want a US disrupts Russian government-backed disinformation campaign that relied on AI technology 07/09/2024 04:43pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russian propaganda campaign backed by the Kremlin that spread online disinformation in the United States and was boosted by artificial intelligence has been disrupted, the Justice Department said Tuesday. U.S. officials described the internet operation as part of an ongoing eff Jefe de policía de las Bahamas puesto en licencia tras desaparición de estadounidense 07/09/2024 04:25pm • El Superintendente Jefe de la Real Fuerza Policial de Bahamas ha sido puesto en licencia, según anunciaron las autoridades, lo que plantea interrogantes sobre la integridad de la organización mientras prosiguen las investigaciones sobre los casos de personas desaparecidas en Bahamas, incluido el d Kura Sushi: Fiscal Q3 Earnings Snapshot 07/09/2024 04:16pm • IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — Kura Sushi USA, Inc. (KRUS) on Tuesday reported a loss of $558,000 in its fiscal third quarter. The Irvine, California-based company said it had a loss of 5 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to less than 1 cent on a per- Pistons and Cunningham agree on $224M, 5-year deal that could be worth nearly $270M, AP sources say 07/09/2024 03:42pm • DETROIT (AP) — Cade Cunningham and the Detroit Pistons have agreed on a five-year contract extension worth at least $224 million, two people familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The deal could reach nearly $270 million if Cunningham becomes eligible for a supermax exte New Hampshire Air National Guard commander killed in hit-and-run crash 07/09/2024 03:32pm • ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The commander of the New Hampshire Air National Guard was killed in a hit-and-run crash, authorities said Tuesday. Brig. Gen. John Pogorek was securing a load on his trailer on the side of the road in the city of Rochester on Monday night when he was struck by an SUV that c Turistas acuden en masa al Valle de la Muerte en California en medio de la peligrosa ola de calor 07/09/2024 03:24pm • DEATH VALLEY, California – Cientos de turistas europeos que recorrían el oeste de Estados Unidos y visitantes de todo el país seguían acudiendo al parque nacional del Valle de la Muerte, a pesar de que la desolada región conocida por ser uno de los lugares más calurosos del planeta sufre Renovación del PRI: ¿se perpetuará la presencia de Alejandro Moreno? 07/09/2024 02:53pm • (CNN Español) -- El Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) se prepara para renovar su dirigencia. Este proceso inició con un polémico cambio a los estatutos internos: este domingo, la Asamblea Nacional del partido aprobó reformas que permitirán a su actual presidente, Alejandro ‘Alito’ NYC prosecutors intend to bring new sexual assault charges against Harvey Weinstein ahead of retrial 07/09/2024 02:41pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan prosecutors said Tuesday that they intend to bring new sexual assault charges against Harvey Weinstein as they anticipate a November retrial for the disgraced media mogul. Assistant District Attorney Nicole Blumberg said in court that prosecutors are actively pursuing cla Georgia slave descendants submit signatures to fight zoning changes they say threaten their homes 07/09/2024 02:29pm • DARIEN, Ga. (AP) — Residents of one of the South's last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants submitted signatures Tuesday, hoping to force a referendum on whether to reverse zoning changes that they fear will make them sell their land. Elected commissioners in Georgia's McIntosh C Appeals court orders release of woman whose murder conviction was reversed after 43 years in prison 07/09/2024 02:06pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An appellate court has ordered the release of a Missouri woman whose murder conviction was overturned after she served 43 years in prison, but the state attorney general is still trying to keep her behind bars as the case is reviewed. Monday's ruling by a panel of appeals c