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Corruption case involving a former Singaporean transport minister expanded with more charges 03/25/2024 07:39pm • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) ��� A corruption case involving a former high-ranking Singaporean official expanded Monday with new charges alleging that the ex-transport minister received bottles of whisky and wine, golf clubs and a luxury Brompton bike from a contractor who had dealings with the gover Ohio man gets 2.5 years in prison for death threats made in 2022 to Arizona���s top election official 03/25/2024 07:31pm • An Ohio man who acknowledged making death threats in voicemails left for then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs during the 2022 election season was sentenced Monday to 2 1/2 years in prison. Joshua Russell of Bucyrus, Ohio, had pleaded guilty in late August to a federal charge of making an inte Girl dies from gunshot wound after grabbing Los Angeles deputy's gun, authorities say 03/25/2024 06:25pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� A girl died Sunday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after she entered a Los Angeles County sheriff���s station and grabbed a deputy���s gun, the department said. The incident was the first time in at least five years where someone shot themselves with an on-duty deputy's gun, More than 130 abducted schoolchildren in Nigeria are returning home after weeks in captivity 03/25/2024 05:31pm • KADUNA, Nigeria (AP) ��� More than 130 Nigerian schoolchildren rescued after more than two weeks in captivity arrived Monday in their home state in northwestern Nigeria ahead of their anticipated reunions with families, following the latest in a series of mass school abductions in the West African n Florida's DeSantis signs one of the country's most restrictive social media bans for minors 03/25/2024 05:11pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� Florida will have one of the country's most restrictive social media bans for minors ��� if it withstands expected legal challenges ��� under a bill signed by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday. The bill will ban social media accounts for children under 14 and Editorial Roundup: United States 03/25/2024 05:01pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: March 23 The Washington Post on SCOTUS and abortion The Supreme Court declared nearly two years ago, when it overruled Roe v. Wade, that the rules on abortion were now up to the states ��� but as the justices hear a critical case this Big brands could pivot easily if TikTok goes away. For many small businesses, it's another story 03/25/2024 03:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� If content creators and corporate executives made TikTok videos about the platform���s possible U.S. demise, disco diva Gloria Gaynor���s ���I Will Survive��� could supply the soundtrack. Sure, businesses that built strategies around TikTok and promote products there would prefer n MLB pitcher Dennis Eckersley's daughter reunited with her son after giving birth in woods in 2022 03/25/2024 03:05pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� The daughter of MLB Hall of Fame pitcher Dennis Eckersley has been reunited with her son as she awaits trial on reckless conduct and other charges after giving birth more than a year ago in a tent in subfreezing temperatures, her attorney said Monday. Alexandra Eckersley, 27, Judge dismisses lawsuit by Musk's X against nonprofit researchers tracking hate speech on platform 03/25/2024 02:08pm • A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Elon Musk's X Corp. against the non-profit Center for Countering Digital Hate, which has documented the increase in hate speech on the site since it was acquired by the Tesla owner. X, formerly known as Twitter, had argued the center���s researchers violate Loudoun Co. school board to cut the cameras on public comments 03/25/2024 09:52am • Livestreaming cameras at Loudoun County School Board meetings will no longer show parents, students or anyone else during the public comment period, after the board voted to remove them from meetings starting next month. The move is sparking outrage from some parents already. The board voted 6-3 Abducted as babies in the 1970s, these Argentines found a way toward their true identity 03/25/2024 08:17am • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ��� Claudia Poblete can���t help it. On certain days, as she passes in front of a church, she automatically crosses herself while her children gaze at her with confusion. She didn���t raise them as Catholics ��� as she was ��� because her spirituality has shifted. In 200 Why are bidets just now getting popular in America? 03/25/2024 08:13am • New York (CNN) ��� Bring up installing a bidet to the average American before the pandemic, and they might have likely flushed the idea straightaway. The bathroom washer business, once a foreign concept to many in the US, experienced a huge boom during the Covid-19 pandemic, when shoppers were ba Fairfax Co. native celebrates first Black women who climb the corporate ladder via film 03/25/2024 06:19am • This is part of WTOP���s continuing coverage of people making a difference from our community authored by Stephanie Gaines-Bryant.��Read more of that coverage. Shannon Nash is a Fairfax County native and part of an organization called Black Women On Boards. (Courtesy Shannon Nash) The tale of Kiki Iriafen carries No. 2 Stanford in 87-81 OT win over Iowa State, advance to Portland Regional 03/25/2024 01:22am • STANFORD, Calif. (AP) ��� Kiki Iriafen hit midrange jumpers from every possible spot. She took the ball hard at the hoop and right at star Iowa State freshman Audi Crooks, then blocked Crooks' path on the defensive end. Iriafen crashed the boards and converted all nine of her free throws ��� and To make water last year-round, Kenyans in dry regions are building sand dams on seasonal rivers 03/24/2024 11:05pm • MAKUENI, Kenya (AP) ��� On a dry riverbed one recent sunny morning, residents of Kasengela village toiled away mixing cement and sand to make concrete. The sound of their shovels resonated through the valley while other residents, working in pairs, carried rocks to the site in wooden frames. They we