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Florida's new DeSantis-backed laws address immigration, guns and more 06/30/2023 01:48pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� Employers who hire immigrants in the country illegally will face tough punishments and gun owners will have more freedoms when more than 200 new Florida laws take effect Saturday, many of which Gov. Ron DeSantis will highlight as he seeks the Republican presidential nomina French Montana chronicles mom's sacrifice after emigrating from Morocco in doc film 'For Khadija' 06/30/2023 01:26pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� If French Montana���s father never abandoned him as a teenager, the rapper believes he would not have grown into a popular figure who has earned three Grammy nominations. Montana and his family left Morocco more than two decades ago in hopes of a better life in the U.S., but whe Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney says Bud Light didn't support her during backlash 06/30/2023 12:25pm • Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney says she felt abandoned by Bud Light after facing ���more bullying and transphobia than I could have ever imagined��� over her partnership with the beer giant. In a video posted Thursday to Instagram and TikTok, she said she "was waiting for the brand to reach o Md. native Frances Tiafoe heads to Wimbledon with career-high ranking and high hopes 06/30/2023 12:03pm • WIMBLEDON, England (AP) ��� There is a behind-the-scenes moment captured during a recently released episode of the Netflix docuseries ���Break Point��� where Frances Tiafoe is warming up in a nearly empty Arthur Ashe Stadium hours before his fourth-round U.S. Open match against 22-time Grand Slam ch Medical credit cards may lead patients to overpay for their health care, Democrats warn 06/30/2023 10:51am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A group of Democratic senators is asking the nation's consumer finance watchdog to take action against medical credit cards such as CareCredit, saying use of these cards can result in patients paying much more for their medical care than they should. Medical credit cards have hi Jersey Shore towns say state's marijuana law handcuffs police and emboldens rowdy teens 06/30/2023 10:22am • OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) ��� It's summer on the Jersey Shore. For many young people, that means one thing: Party time! But officials and residents of several beachside towns say New Jersey's criminal justice reforms in recent years ��� such as decriminalizing marijuana use ��� are having an unintended My Story: Melonie Johnson on her path to the top post at MGM National Harbor 06/30/2023 10:15am • Editor���s note: ���My Story��� is where business executives share their personal and professional backgrounds and journeys that have made them who they are, in their own candid words, from the challenges of confronting stereotypes to the glory in overcoming them. Amid calls for racial justice, we c French president urges parents to keep teens at home to quell rioting, says many arrested are young 06/30/2023 08:31am • PARIS (AP) ��� French president urges parents to keep teens at home to quell rioting, says many arrested are young. Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen had been a huge Facebook fan. Now he's threatening to ban it 06/30/2023 08:26am • PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) ��� Cambodia���s long-serving, tough-talking leader, Hun Sen, on Friday said he is considering banning Facebook in his country, largely because he is fed up with the abuse he receives on it from his political enemies abroad. Pulling the plug on Facebook for millions of Camb Caroline Wozniacki is returning to tennis 3 years after retiring. She will get a US Open wild card 06/30/2023 04:58am • Caroline Wozniacki, a former No. 1-ranked tennis player and the 2018 Australian Open champion, announced Thursday that she is returning to competition three years after she retired to start a family. The U.S. Tennis Association said it will grant Wozniacki a wild-card invitation to participate in th Fairfax Co. committee updates recommended changes for coed sex education lessons 06/30/2023 04:24am • Fairfax County Public Schools is expected to resume discussing possible changes to its sex education curriculum in the fall, after the Family Life Education Curriculum Advisory Committee revised its recommendations for coed instruction in the Virginia school system. In its latest report, the comm In rural India, summer's heat can be deadly. Ambulance crews see the toll up close 06/29/2023 11:04pm • BANPUR, India (AP) ��� Siren blaring, Sunil Kumar Naik's ambulance tore across a dry and rocky countryside blasted by dangerous midday heat, rushing to check on a vomiting and dizzy 30-year-old man with possible heat stroke. As soon as they reached the man's village, Naik's paramedic partner guided South Koreans grow younger overnight as the country changes how it counts people's ages 06/29/2023 08:42pm • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� As South Korea campaigns to retire an old and odd age-counting method that makes people a year or two older than they really are, children are among the few who seem most eager to stick with the past. ���I turned 6 and then became 5 again,��� Kim Da-in said when a TV repo Fate of record tech industry tie-up heads to judge as Microsoft defends $69B Activision deal 06/29/2023 08:31pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� The fate of what could be the priciest merger in tech industry history is now in the hands of a federal judge who must decide whether to stop Microsoft from closing its deal to buy video game company Activision Blizzard. Federal antitrust enforcers have sued to block the $69 b Deputy acquitted of all charges for failing to act during deadly Parkland school shooting 06/29/2023 08:16pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) ��� A Florida sheriff���s deputy was acquitted Thursday of felony child neglect and other charges for failing to act during the 2018 Parkland school massacre, concluding the first trial in U.S. history of a law enforcement officer for conduct during an on-campus shooting.