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Anonymous users are dominating right-wing discussions online. They also spread false information 04/06/2024 11:37am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The reposts and expressions of shock from public figures followed quickly after a user on the social platform X who uses a pseudonym claimed that a government website had revealed ���skyrocketing��� rates of voters registering without a photo ID in three states this year ��� two of Though Rwanda has come a long way since the 1994 genocide, scars of the past still haunt the nation 04/06/2024 03:05am • KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) ��� Rwanda is preparing to mark the 30th anniversary of the East African nation's most horrific period in history ��� the genocide against its minority Tutsi. To this day, new mass graves are still being discovered across the country of 14 million people, a grim reminder of the s Maryland lawmakers approve $63B budget with some tax, fee increases 04/05/2024 06:12pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ��� Maryland lawmakers gave final passage on Friday to the state's $63 billion budget legislation, which includes tax and fee increases to help pay for transportation and education, though not as much as some lawmakers wanted. The General Assembly, which is controlled by Democ Cleanup begins as spring nor'easter moves on. But hundreds of thousands still lack power 04/05/2024 03:27pm • GILFORD, N.H. (AP) ��� Snow showers lingered Friday as the cleanup began following a major spring storm that brought heavy snow, rain and high winds to the Northeast, left hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power, and contributed to at least two deaths. Well over a foot (30 centim Hulu's 'We Were the Lucky Ones' is a good reminder to talk to your elders while you still can 04/05/2024 01:50pm • In Hulu's limited-series ��� We Were the Lucky Ones, " the Kurc family in Poland is separated during World War II and spends years trying to reunite. This was before the Internet and cell phones so tracking each other's whereabouts was hard. It's based on a non-fiction book of the same name by Georg Russia renews big attacks on Ukrainian power grid using better intelligence and new tactics 04/05/2024 01:20am • When the Russian barrage hit the Ukrainian power plant, a worker named Taras was manning the control panel ��� a crucial task that required him to stay as the air-raid siren blared and his colleagues ran for safety. After the deafening explosions came a cloud of smoke, then darkness. Fires blazed, a When Trump needs cash, a California bank and one of its top shareholders have come to the rescue 04/04/2024 04:42pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Donald Trump left the White House facing a cash crunch and a tattered reputation after his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, threatening the viability of his business empire. Soon, though, a new source stepped forward to provide a financial lifeline when many longtime lende The true toll of the war in Ukraine is measured in bodies. This man brings them home, one at a time 04/04/2024 04:27am • DOVHENKE, Ukraine (AP) ��� Yukov says the same thing to all the mothers. He tells them to talk about their dead children, so they will be remembered. There is one person in particular whose story Yukov does not want forgotten: Oleksandr Romanovych Hrysiuk ��� Sasha, to his mother, Olha. In a cryptic The true toll of the war in Ukraine is measured in bodies. This man brings them home, one at a time 04/04/2024 04:25am • DOVHENKE, Ukraine (AP) ��� The smell in the car is sick and sweet, the overpowering scent of corpses that have lain too long in muck and ruin, the ones the dogs didn���t devour. Oleksii Yukov, a 38-year-old martial arts instructor who leads a team of volunteer body collectors in Ukraine, doesn���t n NYC's AI chatbot was caught telling businesses to break the law. The city isn't taking it down 04/03/2024 07:11pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� An artificial intelligence-powered chatbot created by New York City to help small business owners is under criticism for dispensing bizarre advice that misstates local policies and advises companies to violate the law. But days after the issues were first reported last week by tec Mexican cartel not only forced vendors to buy chicken at inflated prices, they sold them bad birds 04/03/2024 07:07pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� A Mexican drug cartel not only forced vendors to buy chicken at wildly inflated prices ��� they sold them chicken ���not fit for human consumption,��� investigators concluded this week. Prosecutors in the State of Mexico this week concluded a monthslong investigation that found With higher cancer death rates in rural areas, U.Va. seeks to improve prevention, access to clinical trials 04/03/2024 06:04pm • For years, doctors, public health experts and researchers have known the risk of dying from cancer is substantially higher if a patient lives in a rural area compared to an urban area. Now, two University of Virginia Cancer Center experts have outlined steps to improve cancer prevention for milli Maryland lawmakers reach budget deal after debate influenced by fiscal uncertainty, US Senate race 04/03/2024 05:21pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ��� Maryland lawmakers announced an agreement on Wednesday to resolve differences over proposed tax and fee increases, settling on a far more modest approach after a $1.3 billion package was considered too high in the current economic climate, especially in an election year featu George Carlin estate settles with podcasters over fake comedy special purportedly generated by AI 04/02/2024 07:55pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The estate of George Carlin has agreed to a settlement with the media company it sued over a fake hourlong comedy special that purportedly used artificial intelligence to recreate the late standup comic���s style and material. In the settlement agreement filed with a federal cou This mob-era Las Vegas casino is officially closed. Here are some big moments in its 67 years 04/02/2024 04:44pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� From its lavish opening in 1957 on a Las Vegas Boulevard surrounded by wide-open desert, to its sleepier years amid a boom in megaresorts, the Tropicana Las Vegas has been a familiar landmark home to colorful events in a city known for constant reinvention. Now it's a jewel of Sin