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Advocates for stronger revenge porn laws highlight penalty disparities in DC area 04/12/2023 06:33pm • Two advocates who know all too well the difficulties of prosecuting someone who posts revenge porn are pushing for stronger laws during Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Even in the D.C. region, penalties for unlawful disclosure vary for those found guilty; and once an image is on the internet, the Joe O'Biden? In Ireland, president wonders why anyone leaves 04/12/2023 06:19pm • DUNDALK, Ireland (AP) ��� President Joe Biden returned to his ancestral home of Ireland on Wednesday, welcomed back by thousands of cheering people who lined up four and five deep for hours in the cold rain in hopes of getting a glimpse, a photo or even the slightest touch from him. In the town of D Judge admonishes Fox lawyers over evidence gap in libel case 04/12/2023 05:45pm • WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) ��� The judge presiding over a defamation case against Fox News admonished its attorneys Wednesday for potentially withholding evidence and said he is inclined to order an independent review by a special master that could lead to sanctions. The move by Delaware Superior Court J Look who's back: Donald Trump's big return to Fox News 04/12/2023 05:45pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� For several months, Fox News treated Donald Trump like yesterday's news. But now the former president has come roaring back at the popular network for conservative viewers, most notably since his indictment in New York on hush-money charges. The Trump revival was on display Tuesday Juul Labs agrees to pay $462 million settlement to 6 states 04/12/2023 04:45pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Electronic cigarette-maker Juul Labs Inc. will pay $462 million to six states and the District of Columbia, marking the largest settlement the company has reached so far for its role in the youth vaping surge, the attorneys general in several states announced Wednesday. The agreeme Makers of 'Elemental' explore family, tolerance and movement 04/12/2023 04:13pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� ���Elemental������ director Peter Sohn says his parents ignited the spark for the upcoming Disney and Pixar animated film. Sohn invited his parents ��� who both had emigrated from Korea to the U.S. ��� to an event. Seeing them from the stage filled him with a deep appreciation f Scott says GOP 'starved for hope' as he moves toward '24 bid 04/12/2023 02:30pm • MARION, Iowa (AP) ��� Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina said Wednesday that conservatives are ���starved for hope,��� as he tried to present a more positive vision for the future than many of his potential rivals for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. Scott, who announced plans earlier What is human metapneumovirus? Here's what to know 04/12/2023 01:27pm • ▶ Watch Video: Doctors see cases of mystery respiratory illnesses as flu, COVID-19 and RSV infections rise John V. Williams is a professor of pediatrics, microbiology and molecular genetics at the University of Pittsburgh. In the year 2000, Dutch scienti Trump and Iowa evangelicals: A bond that is hard to break 04/12/2023 01:04pm • MARION, Iowa (AP) ��� When South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott returns to Iowa on Wednesday, he will meet privately with a group of pastors at a Cedar Rapids church. For someone considering a Republican presidential campaign, the visit is part of a decades-old courtship ritual in the state that kicks off Adrift in the Atlantic, a boat of death and lost dreams 04/12/2023 12:43pm • BELLE GARDEN, Tobago (AP) ��� Around 6:30 a.m. on May 28, 2021, a couple of miles from Belle Garden Beach on the Caribbean island of Tobago, a narrow white-and-blue boat drifted onto the horizon. As it wobbled back and forth, fish gathered, feeding on the barnacles that had grown below the surface. Juul to pay $462 million to six states in its largest settlement ever 04/12/2023 12:35pm • Juul Labs, the e-cigarette maker, is paying $462 million to six US states and DC in the largest multi-state settlement yet for the troubled company that has been accused of contributing to the rise of vaping among youth. The settlement, which was co-led by New York Attorney General Letitia James and Musician Kauan Okamoto alleges talent manager assaulted him 04/12/2023 08:23am • TOKYO (AP) ��� When Johnny Kitagawa told one of the boys staying at his luxury house to go to bed early, everyone knew ���it was your turn.��� That was among the recollections shared Wednesday by musician Kauan Okamoto, then 15, about allegedly being sexually assaulted by Kitagawa, a powerful figur A tail-wagging reunion after a terrier taken during a car theft in Prince George's Co. is found safe 04/12/2023 04:50am • Gianni, a Boston terrier, was missing for weeks after Cary and Roxanne Zamilskis' car was stolen with Gianni inside in March. To the Zamilskis immense pleasure, Prince George's police located Gianni and reunited the pooch with the couple on Tuesday. Just over two weeks ago, a stop to fill up on As Ukraine war drags on, civilians' mental health needs rise 04/12/2023 02:35am • KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) ��� Huddled in the back of a caf�� near the train station where a missile killed dozens of people a year ago, Nastya took slow, deliberate breaths to calm herself. Overnight, her neighborhood had been bombed again, and she just couldn���t take any more. Heeding her parents�� Fox attorneys in libel case reveal dual roles for Murdoch 04/11/2023 11:12pm • WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) ��� Attorneys defending Fox in a defamation case related to false claims about the 2020 election withheld critical information about the role company founder Rupert Murdoch played at Fox News, a revelation that angered the judge when it came up at a Tuesday hearing. It was not