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Louisiana 'Don't Say Gay' bill advances out of committee 04/26/2023 07:43pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) ��� As several conservative states adopt legislation that prohibits school employees from teaching or discussing sexual orientation and gender identity in the classroom, Louisiana advanced its own ���Don���t Say Gay��� bill Wednesday. The anti-LGBTQ+ measure was narrowly approv Twitter relaxes pot ad rules to lure in more advertisers 04/26/2023 07:00pm • Twitter under its 420-friendly owner Elon Musk earlier this year became the first major social media company to allow cannabis advertisements. Now, the platform is relaxing those rules in an attempt to lure in more advertisers from U.S. states where marijuana is legal. ���Going forward, certified a DeSantis-backed New College board scraps 5 professors tenure 04/26/2023 06:42pm • The New College of Florida trustees now dominated by conservatives appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis voted Wednesday to deny tenure to five professors, overriding concerns by faculty and students that the decision poses a threat to academic freedom. The traditionally progressive public college in Saras Mississippi River flooding prompts evacuations, sandbagging 04/26/2023 06:00pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ��� Some residents along the swelling Upper Mississippi River evacuated their homes this week while others scrambled Wednesday to stack sandbags in preparation for what forecasters say could be near-record flooding caused by the rapid melting of a huge snowpack in northern Minn Facebook parent Meta posts solid 1Q results, stock soars 04/26/2023 05:38pm • Facebook parent company Meta's first-quarter results surpassed Wall Street's modest expectations on both profit and revenue, sending its stock soaring in after-hours trading. Meta reported that the monthly user base of its flagship platform ��� Facebook ��� inched close to 3 billion, and its revenue Indiana sends state-funded teacher gun training to governor 04/26/2023 05:25pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Indiana state lawmakers have sent the state's Republican governor a bill that would create a state-funded handgun training program available for teachers, something critics have said could wrongly increase the number of guns in schools. The state Senate gave the bill its final Justices cancel order cutting 16 years off murder sentence 04/26/2023 05:19pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ��� Justices on South Carolina's highest court on Wednesday erased an order that cut 16 years off a convicted murderer's sentence, a deal the inmate won by reporting another prisoner's escape that had gone undetected for two days. The 3-2 ruling came less than two hours after the Business Highlights: Meta, Microsoft, Disney 04/26/2023 04:40pm • ___ Facebook parent Meta posts solid 1Q results, stock soars Facebook parent company Meta���s first-quarter results surpassed Wall Street���s modest expectations on both profit and revenue while the monthly user base of its flagship platform inched close to 3 billion. Meta Platforms Inc. said Wednes Virginia Daybook 04/26/2023 04:30pm • Associated Press Virginia Daybook for Wednesday, Apr. 26. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. To see your Daybooks and events for Virginia and other S Biden bats away questions about age, polls; launches 2024 ad 04/26/2023 04:19pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden rolled out the first ad of his 2024 reelection campaign on Wednesday, casting himself as a warrior in defense of freedom, but immediately found himself grappling with questions about his advanced age and droopy poll numbers. At an afternoon news conference wi Black parents seek schools affirming their history amid bans 04/26/2023 04:01pm • DECATUR, Ga. (AP) ��� Every decision Assata Salim makes for her young son is important. Amid a spike in mass killings, questions of safety were at the top of her mind when choosing a school. Next on her checklist was the school���s culture. Salim and her 6-year-old, Cho���Zen Waters, are Black. In G UK blocks Microsoft-Activision gaming deal, biggest in tech 04/26/2023 03:25pm • LONDON (AP) ��� British antitrust regulators on Wednesday blocked Microsoft���s $69 billion purchase of video game maker Activision Blizzard, thwarting the biggest tech deal in history over worries that it would stifle competition for popular titles like Call of Duty in the fast-growing cloud gaming Is growing Las Vegas big enough for 3 major pro teams? 04/26/2023 02:36pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� Las Vegas will become the smallest TV market in Major League Baseball if the Oakland Athletics relocate, and it will by far be the tiniest to be home to three major professional sports franchises. But Las Vegas is unlike probably any other market, as the presence of the NFL's Raid Review: 'Polite Society' is a punk blast of pure delight 04/26/2023 01:57pm • Coming-of-age comedies about young protagonists with esoteric dreams are not exactly a rarity. What is less common, though, are films as spirited and charming as Nida Manzoor's ���Polite Society,��� a roundhouse kick of a movie about two British-Pakistani sisters that marries Jane Austen with kung-f Italy's Meloni urges quick start of Ukraine's EU entry talks 04/26/2023 01:11pm • ROME (AP) ��� Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday urged European allies to accelerate Ukraine's European Union membership bid, as Rome hosted a bilateral conference on the war-torn country's reconstruction attended by hundreds of Italian and Ukrainian businesses. ���The future of Ukraine mu