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Detainees in El Salvador's gang crackdown cite abuse during months in jail 12/01/2023 12:01am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — The day he was arrested, Luis was in a government office trying to get a document attesting to his clean criminal history so he could apply for a call center job. “What I wanted at that time was something better for my life,” said the 23-year-old, who was working as a baker. Fire upends Christmas charity in Michigan but thousands of kids will still get gifts 11/30/2023 07:14pm • Donations are pouring in at a beloved Christmas charity after smoke damage from a fire stymied plans for the delivery of wrapped gifts for thousands of children in western Michigan. Santa Claus Girls of Kent County has been going door-to-door with gifts for more than a century in the Grand Rapids ar Eyeing 2024, Michigan Democrats expand voter registration and election safeguards in the swing state 11/30/2023 05:14pm • LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Democrats are building on an effort to overhaul election laws in the state by allowing 16-year-olds to register before they can legally vote at 18 and adding more protections for election officials ahead of a 2024 presidential election that the swing state could play New York punished 2,000 prisoners over false positive drug tests, report finds 11/30/2023 02:35pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s prison system unfairly punished more than 2,000 prisoners after tests of suspected contraband substances falsely tested positive for drugs, according to a report released Thursday. In hundreds of cases, the prisoners had committed no offense, but the flawed results Leaked document says US is willing to build energy projects in case Snake River dams are breached 11/30/2023 02:30pm • SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. government is willing to help build enough new clean energy projects in the Pacific Northwest to replace the hydropower generated by four controversial dams on the Snake River, according to a leaked Biden administration document that is giving hope to conservationists who h Former UK Treasury chief Alistair Darling, who steered nation through a credit crunch, has died 11/30/2023 12:52pm • LONDON (AP) — Former British finance minister Alistair Darling, a central figure in the U.K.’s response to the 2008 financial crisis who later helped organize the campaign against Scottish independence, has died. He was 70. Darling had been treated for cancer and died in a hospital in Edinburgh, Virginia state senator seeks dismissal of lawsuit over 'baseless' residency allegations 11/30/2023 09:30am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia state senator asked a court Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit that challenges her qualification to hold office over what her attorneys called “baseless” allegations that she did not meet the state's residency requirements. Democrat Ghazala Hashmi has served in t Hungary will not agree to starting EU membership talks with Ukraine, minister says 11/30/2023 08:56am • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary will not support any European Union proposal to begin talks on making Ukraine a member of the bloc, a government minister said Thursday. Gergely Gulyas, the chief of staff to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, said at a news conference in Budapest that it was Coal-producing West Virginia is converting an entire school system to solar power 11/29/2023 06:58pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An entire county school system in coal-producing West Virginia is going solar, representing what a developer and U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin's office touted on Wednesday as the biggest-ever single demonstration of sun-powered renewable electricity in Appalachian public schools. Congress is eying immigration limits as GOP demands border changes in swap for Biden overseas aid 11/29/2023 06:12pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — As record numbers of migrants surge at the southern U.S. border, many seeking asylum, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has told Congress the country's “broken” immigration system is in need of a top-to-bottom update. But rather than undertake a comprehensive imm NASCAR to include streaming in new 7-year media rights deal that welcomes Amazon, TNT and Max 11/29/2023 06:06pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn, (AP) — NASCAR has added two new partners and streaming elements to a seven-year media rights deal announced Wednesday that will run from 2025 through the 2031 season. The new media rights deal is worth $7.7 billion when the previously announced $1.1 billion agreement with CW is in Senate Majority Leader Schumer warns that antisemitism is on the rise as he pushes for Israel aid 11/29/2023 06:03pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat who is the highest-ranked Jewish elected official in the U.S., warned Wednesday that antisemitism in the United States has reached levels unseen in generations and called on his fellow Democrats to clearly condemn it. Schumer's rem Chemical firms to pay $110 million to Ohio to settle claims over releases of 'forever chemicals' 11/29/2023 05:01pm • DOVER, Del. (AP) — The DuPont Co. and two spin-off firms will pay $110 million to the state of Ohio to settle a lawsuit over environmental threats from toxic chemicals used at a former DuPont facility in neighboring West Virginia, the companies said Wednesday. The settlement involving DuPont, the Alexandria ends single-family-only zoning with housing-supply issues in mind 11/29/2023 03:26pm • Neighborhoods in Alexandria, Virginia, that were once exclusive to single-family homes could now include multifamily homes under a bill the city council unanimously passed early Wednesday morning. The zoning change is part of a controversial housing bill that allows builders to put up homes with Lawsuit seeks $5M for Black former delivery driver who says white men shot at him in Mississippi 11/29/2023 01:08pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Black former delivery driver in Mississippi who says two white men shot into his work van and then pursued him in a high-speed chase last year has filed a new lawsuit against the men and his former employer, FedEx. This is the second civil suit on behalf of D'Monterrio Gibs