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Florida expands 'Don't Say Gay'; House OKs anti-LGBTQ bills 04/19/2023 07:35pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis added more wins to his agenda targeting the LGBTQ+ community as a state board approved an expansion of what critics call the ���Don���t Say Gay��� law Wednesday, and the House passed bills on gender-transition treatments, bathroom use a No vote after Uvalde parents plead for tougher gun laws 04/19/2023 06:53pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� It was getting close to midnight Tuesday when Kimberly Mata-Rubio finally got her first chance since the Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde ��� nearly one year ago ��� to ask Texas lawmakers to their faces to pass proposed restrictions on guns that had finally gotten a Republican effort to undo VA abortion rule fails in Senate 04/19/2023 06:50pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Senate rejected a Republican effort on Wednesday to reverse a Department of Veterans Affairs policy that has expanded some abortion services to veterans, a victory for President Joe Biden and Democrats who say the services are necessary medical care. The vote was one of sever Snapchat rolls out chatbot powered by ChatGPT to all users 04/19/2023 05:54pm • Snapchat is about to give new meaning to the "chat" part of its name.Snap, the company behind Snapchat, announced on Wednesday that its customizable My AI chatbot, is now accessible to all users within the app. The feature, which is powered by the viral AI chatbot ChatGPT, was previously only availa Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemorated on 80th anniversary 04/19/2023 05:25pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) ��� Sirens wailed, church bells rang and the presidents of Germany, Israel and Poland bowed their heads Wednesday before a memorial to Jewish insurgents who fought a mismatched, desperate battle against Nazi German forces in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Celebrations of the uprisin Film Review: Little Richard biopic celebrates a rock pioneer 04/19/2023 04:49pm • The king of rock ���n��� roll didn't die at Graceland in 1977. He died just three years ago in Tullahoma, Tennessee, and he never really got the crown he deserved. That's the persuasive case made by Lisa Cort��s' documentary ���Little Richard: I Am Everything,��� an insightful biography of an unlik Connecticut man sentenced to 55 years in manhunt killing 04/19/2023 04:09pm • MILFORD, Conn. (AP) ��� As the killer of her boyfriend was about to be sentenced to 55 years in prison Wednesday, Shannon Spies said the plea deal provided no solace. It couldn't bring back Nicholas Eisele, or erase the trauma of being a kidnapping victim. On March 24, 2020, Peter Manfredonia shot E Mississippi governor touts 'culture of life' with new laws 04/19/2023 04:06pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said bills he signed Wednesday are designed to improve foster care, speed up adoptions and help private organizations provide aid to pregnant women in the state that brought the U.S. Supreme Court case that upended abortion rights nationwide. ���M Chevron Championship debuts in Texas after California run 04/19/2023 03:57pm • THE WOODLANDS, Texas (AP) ��� The Chevron Championship has left the California desert for the woods of suburban Houston, and that means top-ranked Lydia Ko has dealt with some new challenges while preparing for the LPGA���s first major of the year. ���I was sneezing so much. I told that to my husba Police: Maine man recently released from prison confessed to killing parents, parents��� friends and firing on motorists 04/19/2023 03:28pm • BOWDOIN, Maine (AP) ��� Police: Maine man recently released from prison confessed to killing parents, parents��� friends and firing on motorists. California boy dies when stabbing suspect's car hits teens 04/19/2023 03:27pm • THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) ��� The driver of a car that crashed into a group of Southern California high school students, killing one and injuring three, was arrested for investigation of murder and other crimes, including an earlier stabbing, authorities said Wednesday. The students were struck whi Are you a Facebook user? You could get some settlement cash 04/19/2023 02:25pm • Anyone in the U.S. who has had a Facebook account at any time since May 24, 2007, can now apply for their share of a $725 million privacy settlement that parent company Meta has agreed to pay. Meta is paying to settle a lawsuit alleging the world���s largest social media platform allowed millions of Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 04/19/2023 01:23pm • Here���s a look at how AP���s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP���s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov US judge sends Hugo Chavez's ex nurse to prison for 15 years 04/19/2023 12:43pm • MIAMI (AP) ��� A federal judge in Miami handed down a 15-year prison sentence Wednesday to the former nurse of late Venezuelan President Hugo Ch��vez for taking bribes from a billionaire media mogul to green-light lucrative currency transactions when she served as Venezuela's national treasurer. Cla Fox settlement part of flurry of lawsuits over election lies 04/19/2023 12:15pm • DENVER (AP) ��� Fox News��� nearly $800 million settlement of a voting machine company's defamation lawsuit marks the first milestone in a larger legal strategy designed to combat the false claims and conspiracy theories about elections that have rippled through the United States for nearly three ye