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Wrestling icon Vince McMahon resigns from WWE parent company after former employee files sex abuse lawsuit 01/26/2024 09:50pm • STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) ��� Wrestling icon Vince McMahon resigns from WWE parent company after former employee files sex abuse lawsuit. Vince McMahon, WWE founder, resigns amid sex trafficking allegations 01/26/2024 08:50pm • (CNN) — Vince McMahon has resigned from his role as executive chairman of TKO, the parent company of WWE, following disturbing allegations of sexual assault, trafficking and physical abuse.The allegations came to light in a lawsuit filed by a former WWE staffer, Janel Grant, who worked at the Iowa promised $75 million for school safety. Two shootings later, the money is largely unspent 01/26/2024 08:10pm • IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) ��� The June 2022 announcement was addressed to parents horrified by the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas: Iowa would spend $75 million in federal pandemic relief funds to improve school building security. Citing an urgent need to act after Uvalde and shootings How Dominican women fight child marriage and teen pregnancy while facing total abortion bans 01/26/2024 07:40pm • AZUA, Dominican Republic (AP) ��� It was a busy Saturday morning at Marcia Gonz��lez���s church. A bishop was visiting, and normally she would have been there helping with logistics, but on this day she was teaching sex education at a local school. ���I coordinate activities at the church and my hus Covering child care costs for daycare workers could fix Nebraska's provider shortage, senator says 01/26/2024 07:06pm • LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) ��� Nebraska is looking to follow in the footsteps of Kentucky in implementing a program that covers the costs of child care for child care workers. The idea, presented Friday by Omaha Sen. John Fredrickson to the Legislature's Health and Human Services Committee, is that the bene Twins have laid low this offseason with regional TV revenue uncertain; they still like their team 01/26/2024 06:00pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� Limited player movement across Major League Baseball this offseason has been no more pronounced than in Minnesota, where the defending AL Central champion Twins have so far claimed a couple of players off waivers and signed a middle reliever coming off an injury. Hot stove? Try Judge to fine a Massachusetts teachers union an extra $50,000 a day if 6-day strike continues 01/26/2024 05:19pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� A union representing striking teachers will be fined an additional $50,000 a day if the strike continues next week, a Massachusetts judge ruled Friday, according to The Boston Globe. Public schools in Newton have been closed for six days since the strike began last week. The Newton T Prosecutor uses texts to try to show mom of school shooter cared more about horses than son 01/26/2024 03:43pm • PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) ��� Prosecutors on Friday sought to portray the mother of a Michigan school shooter as an aloof parent more interested in horses than the mental health of her teenage son who was apparently having hallucinations months before killing four students. Jennifer Crumbley, 45, is on tr Exotic animals including South American ostrich and giant African snail seized from suburban NY home 01/26/2024 03:30pm • NORTH BELLMORE, N.Y. (AP) ��� Authorities seized about a hundred animals from a Long Island home packed with exotic species ��� including a giant African snail, a sulcata tortoise and a South American ostrich, advocates said Friday. The animals, some of which are endangered species, were discovered Georgia senators vote for board to oversee secretary of state despite constitutional questions 01/26/2024 02:56pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Georgia's Senate is backing a plan to give the state's appointed election board the power to investigate Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's handling of elections, despite the measure's sponsor saying that the bill is in ���murky water��� when it comes to its constitutionality. 'In the Summers' and 'Porcelain War' win top prizes at Sundance Film Festival 01/26/2024 02:01pm • ���In the Summers,��� an affecting, years-spanning drama about a complicated parent-children relationship, nabbed the Grand Jury prize at the 40th Sundance Film Festival, while the top honor for documentary went to ���Porcelain War,��� about a Ukrainian couple who craft fragile, intricately painted NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 01/26/2024 01:02pm • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. CLAIM: A judge on Monday delayed proceedings in former P From Microsoft to Levi's, here's a look at tech and retail companies that have recently made layoffs 01/26/2024 10:51am • 2024 has already proven to be a difficult year for layoffs. A handful of companies have been making job cuts in recent weeks, bringing uncertainty for workers across industries. In the world of retail and tech, some of these cuts arrive after a ramp-up in hiring seen during the COVID-19 pandemic ��� In response to Supreme Court decision, bill proposes that Maryland���s colleges and universities guarantee admission 01/26/2024 10:48am • Maryland will consider joining a number of states that guarantee admission to certain first-year students at one of the state���s four-year public colleges and universities. Proposed legislation ��� Senate Bill 5, sponsored by Senate President Pro Tem Malcolm Augustine (D-Prince George���s) ��� w Regional Mexican music is crossing borders and going global. Here's how it happened 01/26/2024 09:39am • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Regional Mexican music ��� a catchall term that encompasses mariachi, banda, corridos, norte��o, sierre��o and other genres ��� has become a global phenomenon, topping music charts and reaching new audiences as it crosses borders. While it has been around the U.S. for decades, w