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California legislature votes to phase out 'forever chemicals' in cookware 09/14/2025 06:25am • ▶ Watch Video: How a dying woman's fight led to the toughest PFAS ban in the U.S. California lawmakers voted to ban a group of chemicals known as PFAS, which are often called "forever chemicals," in cookware. The move has pulled in celebrity chefs on one side and environmentalists, includin California to extend cap-and-trade program aimed at advancing state climate goals 09/13/2025 07:17pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will extend a key climate program under a bill state lawmakers passed Saturday, sending the measure to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has championed it as a crucial tool to respond to the Trump administration’s environmental rollbacks. The Democrat-dominated Legislat Schumer warns of a shutdown if Republicans don’t accept Democrats’ health care demands 09/12/2025 12:23pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer weathered backlash from Democrats earlier this year when he voted with Republicans to keep the government open. But he’s now willing to risk a shutdown at the end of the month if Republicans don’t accede to Democratic demands. Schumer sa Ireland set to keep hosting a college football game each season to 2037 09/12/2025 10:38am • Dublin would continue hosting an annual college football game through 2037 under a plan awaiting formal approval in the Irish capital, organizers have told The Associated Press. The “Week 0” game in Dublin has become a fixture on the college football calendar and typically attracts well over 20, Microsoft resolves European Union probe into Teams 09/12/2025 10:31am • LONDON (AP) — European Union regulators have accepted Microsoft's proposed changes to Teams, resolving a long-running antitrust investigation that targeted the company's messaging and videoconferencing app. The European Commission said in a statement Friday that Microsoft's final commitments to un Russian drone incursion in Poland prompts NATO leaders to take stock of bigger threats 09/11/2025 10:26pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — European leaders on Thursday expressed alarm over growing Russian hostility threatening their countries as Moscow's forces pursue their invasion of Ukraine — concerns exacerbated by events of the previous day when multiple Russian drones struck Polish soil. The incursion i The Latest: Pentagon 9/11 ceremony moved inside due to security concerns 09/11/2025 05:27pm • President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump marked 24 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks at a service at the Pentagon on Thursday. While traditionally observed near the building’s memorial outside the Pentagon’s walls, it was moved to the internal courtyard following the “heartbre NFL averaged 22.3 million viewers per game for opening week, its highest on record 09/11/2025 04:54pm • The NFL averaged 22.3 million viewers per game during the league’s opening week, making it the most-watched Week 1 on record for the second straight year. The per-game average on TV and digital platforms was a 5% increase from the 21 million Week 1 average of last season, according to the league a NC lawmakers likely to propose tougher pretrial release laws after fatal stabbing 09/11/2025 04:49pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's top legislative leaders said Thursday that they are aiming to advance a package of proposed laws in part designed to tighten pretrial release rules following the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte commuter train that prompted national attenti Residents who complained of rodents and bats in Md. apartment complex awarded $11M settlement 09/11/2025 03:09pm • Residents of a notorious Prince George’s County apartment complex are getting a restitution package worth about $11 million after a legal settlement between their landlord and the state of Maryland. The state’s case against Heather Hill Apartments in Temple Hills was supposed to go to court t Penix gets tough test with night road game vs. Vikings D, as Falcons seek rebound from opening loss 09/11/2025 12:12pm • Atlanta (0-1) at Minnesota (1-0) Sunday, 8:20 p.m. EDT, NBC. BetMGM NFL Odds: Vikings by 4½. Against the spread: Falcons 0-1, Vikings 1-0. Series record: Vikings lead 22-12. Last meeting: Vikings beat Falcons 42-21 on Dec. 8, 2024, in Minneapolis. Last week: Falcons lost to Buccaneers 23-20, Viking Volunteers prep millions of meals for fellow New Yorkers on 24th anniversary of 9/11 09/10/2025 05:06pm • NEW YORK (AP) — When longtime friends David Paine and Jay Winuk set out to encourage people to take part in volunteer and service projects on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, their goal was simple: to turn a day of unimaginable tragedy into a day for doing good. Now, as the nation pr Coalition’s Hail Mary push for last-minute changes to RFK stadium deal ahead of final council vote 09/10/2025 04:55pm • There's just a week to go before the D.C. Council takes its final vote on the RFK stadium redevelopment deal. A coalition of more than 30 organizations, many of which previously opposed the project, is making a last-ditch effort to secure changes they say are critical to protecting the environme Judge says 3 months in jail are enough for Chinese scientist in US smuggling case 09/10/2025 03:09pm • DETROIT (AP) — A young Chinese scientist interrogated for hours after an international flight to Detroit and held in jail for three months was sentenced to time served Wednesday for illegally shipping biological material to the U.S. that nonetheless wasn't a threat to the public. U.S. District Jud Macron appoints Defense Minister Lecornu as France's latest prime minister 09/09/2025 08:14pm • PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday appointed Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu as new prime minister and tasked him with immediately trying to get the country's fractious political parties to agree on a budget for one of the world's biggest economies. Lecornu, 39, was the y