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Mark Zuckerberg says a web version of Threads will be available in the next few days 08/22/2023 11:07am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Threads users, get happy ��� you will finally be able to use the social media platform without an app. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Threads post on Tuesday morning that a web version of the app will be rolling out over the next few days. The move will allow the nascent plat How Trump's attacks on prosecutors build on history of using racist language and stereotypes 08/22/2023 09:27am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Donald Trump���s aggressive response to his fourth criminal indictment in five months follows a strategy he has long used against legal and political opponents: relentless attacks, often infused with language that is either overtly racist or is coded in ways that appeal to racists. Biden says federal government will help Maui 'for as long as it takes' to recover from wildfire 08/21/2023 11:40pm • LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) ��� President Joe Biden on Monday told survivors of Hawaii���s wildfires that the nation ���grieves with you��� and promised that the federal government will help ���for as long as it takes��� Maui to recover from damage caused by the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a centu 20 Practical Ways Seniors Can Cut Expenses 08/21/2023 08:00pm • If you're a retired senior citizen, there's a good chance you're living on a fixed income. That means you're probably on the hunt for ideas to save money. You're in luck. Some of these money-saving strategies will work for any age, but most are aimed at people in their 60s or older. Hopefully they'l China fines US research firm $1.5 million in crackdown on information-gathering 08/21/2023 10:48am • BEIJING (AP) ��� An American research firm has been fined $1.5 million by China's government in a crackdown on information-gathering that has rattled foreign investors. Mintz Group was one of a series of foreign consultants that were raided starting in April after Chinese leader Xi Jinping's governm Need to leave kids home alone as the school year gets underway? Here are some tips 08/21/2023 10:10am • As the school year begins for some students in Northern Virginia, some parents may be considering leaving their child home alone before or after school for the first time. In Virginia, there are no specific rules about how old a child should be when they're left alone. But Twana Johnson, Program Biden administration announces more new funding for rural broadband infrastructure 08/21/2023 05:10am • The Biden administration on Monday continued its push toward internet-for-all by 2030, announcing about $667 million in new grants and loans to build more broadband infrastructure in the rural U.S. ���With this investment, we���re getting funding to communities in every corner of the country because The US mall is not dying 08/20/2023 03:28pm • Retail experts have long sounded the alarm on malls in the US. But malls are not going extinct, they are merely adapting to a new environment. In fact, many have reported robust occupancy levels and bigger crowds than before the pandemic, according to a recent market analysis from Coresight Resea Local governments are spending billions of pandemic relief funds, but some report few specifics 08/19/2023 11:25am • Joplin officials say they have big plans for $13.8 million of pandemic relief funds the tornado-ravaged southwestern Missouri city received under a two-year-old federal law. Yet the latest federal records show none of the money has been spent ��� or even budgeted. In fact, about 6,300 cities and Blue light blocking glasses may not help eye strain, researchers find 08/19/2023 10:46am • ▶ Watch Video: Study finds blue light glasses don't offer more eye protection Blue light glasses gained popularity over the past few years with the idea they protect our eyes against screen usage����� but a new analysis shows they might not be as beneficial to our eye health as previou Would a Texas law take away workers' water breaks? A closer look at House Bill 2127 08/19/2023 10:30am • As unrelenting heat set in across Texas this summer, opponents of a sweeping new law targeting local regulations took to the airwaves and internet with an alarming message: outdoor workers would be banned from taking water breaks. Workers would die, experts and advocates said, with high temperatures Thousands more Mauritanians are making their way to the US, thanks to a route spread on social media 08/19/2023 09:28am • CINCINNATI (AP) ��� Aissata Sall was scrolling through WhatsApp in May when she first learned about the new route to the United States. For Ibrahima Sow, the discovery came on TikTok a few weeks later. By the time their paths crossed at the tidy one-story brick house in Cincinnati, they had encount In rural Zimbabwe, a group of grandmothers counters alleged election intimidation, bias on WhatsApp 08/19/2023 02:11am • DOMBOSHAVA, Zimbabwe (AP) ��� Four grandmothers wearing bright yellow headscarves, T-shirts and skirts huddled around a cellphone in Zimbabwe���s rural Domboshava area. They cackled at a video showing a troop of mischievous baboons ripping up ruling party election posters with the face of the presid Canada wildfire evacuees can't get news media on Facebook and Instagram. Some find workarounds 08/18/2023 05:27pm • Before fleeing about 900 miles (1,500 kilometers) south of Yellowknife by car, Agnes Grandejambe looked to social media to find out almost everything she needed to know about escaping the encroaching wildfires. Some from official government accounts. Mostly from friends and family, including an offe Trump PAC foots the bill for private eye in Manhattan cases 08/18/2023 09:14am • ▶ Watch Video: Trump PAC pays bill for private investigator in Manhattan court cases As Donald Trump's New York legal troubles began to mount this spring, his lawyers and political action committee sought the help of Sean Crowley, a local private eye.Save Ameri