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Jury holds key to fate of $1 billion transmission project 04/10/2023 09:36pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ��� A battle over a $1 billion transmission line that won all regulatory approvals only to be rebuked by state residents in a referendum now comes down to nine regular folks. In a rare move, a jury is being asked to decide a complicated constitutional matter ��� whether devel What You Need to Know About Those Companies That Buy Houses 04/10/2023 08:00pm • When you're ready to sell your home, the traditional method is to prepare the house, list it for sale with a real estate agent and hope buyers will compete for a winning bid -- ideally ending in monetary profit for you. But if the traditional route doesn't appeal to you or circumstances make it diff Artificial Intelligence Stocks: The 10 Best AI Companies 04/10/2023 08:00pm • Virtually every industry is being disrupted by artificial intelligence, automation and robotics. In recent months, the world got a firsthand look at the remarkable advances in AI technology, including expanded public access to OpenAI's DALL-E 2 AI image and art generator and the public launches of O Mother of 6-year-old who shot teacher indicted by grand jury 04/10/2023 06:36pm • NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) ��� A grand jury in Virginia has indicted the mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher on charges of child neglect and failing to secure her handgun in the family's home, a prosecutor said Monday. A grand jury sitting in Newport News charged the boy's 25-year-old mot Indiana Senate backs bill on student names, pronoun changes 04/10/2023 06:20pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Indiana schools may soon be required to notify parents if their children request a name or pronoun change at school, after the state Senate on Monday advanced a House bill that some worry could out transgender kids to their families. The Republican-dominated state Senate's 37-1 Family: QB Haskins was drugged before he was fatally struck 04/10/2023 05:28pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) ��� The family of deceased Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins has filed a lawsuit against several people, businesses and the state of Florida, claiming he was drugged, robbed and extorted before he was fatally struck while standing drunk on a highway after runn Illustrated Anne Frank book removed by Florida school 04/10/2023 02:50pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) ��� A high school along Florida's Atlantic Coast has removed a graphic novel based on the diary of Anne Frank after a leader of a conservative advocacy group challenged it, claiming it minimized the Holocaust. ���Anne Frank���s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation��� was removed from a l Michael Lerner, ���Barton Fink��� Oscar nominee, dies at 81 04/10/2023 01:51pm • Michael Lerner, the Brooklyn-born character actor who played a myriad of imposing figures in his 60 years in the business, including monologuing movie mogul Jack Lipnick in ���Barton Fink,��� the crooked club owner Bugsy Calhoun in ���Harlem Nights��� and an angry publishing executive in ���Elf��� h Biden kicks off Easter egg roll with talk of reelection bid 04/10/2023 01:06pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Not even the annual White House Easter Egg Roll is safe from presidential politics. President Joe Biden, the host of Monday's festivities on the South Lawn, said he plans to participate in ���at least three or four more Easter egg rolls, maybe five.��� Biden was alluding to his e Next abortion battles may be among states with clashing laws 04/10/2023 10:53am • Abortion is banned in Idaho at all stages of pregnancy, but the governor on Wednesday signed another law making it illegal to provide help within the state���s boundaries to minors seeking an abortion without parental consent. The new law is obviously aimed at abortions obtained in other states, Kimberly Palmer: How to protect parents from financial scams 04/10/2023 07:00am • When a scam artist called Cameron Huddleston���s mom to tell her to wire money in order to claim a prize, Huddleston had to intercept the calls. Her mom, who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer���s, was convinced she had to wire the money as soon as possible. ���That was a wake-up call for me. If y As India���s population soars above all, fewer women have jobs 04/10/2023 12:20am • MUMBAI, India (AP) ��� Sheela Singh cried the day she handed in her resignation. For 16 years, she had been a social worker in Mumbai, India's frenetic financial capital, and she loved the work. But her family kept telling her she needed to stay at home to take care of her two children. She resisted As streamers cut costs, TV shows ��� and residuals ��� vanish 04/09/2023 04:51pm • Actor Diana-Maria Riva is all too familiar with one of her shows being canceled. For a performer, it���s a painful, unfortunate part of show business. But this was different. In December, Riva was floored when she found out that ���Gordita Chronicles,��� her recently canceled family comedy, would be ���The Super Mario Bros. Movie��� is a box office smash 04/09/2023 01:03pm • Audiences said let���s go to the movie theater for ��� The Super Mario Bros. Movie ��� this weekend. The animated offering from Universal and Illumination powered up with $204.6 million in its first five days in 4,343 North American theaters, including $146.4 million over the weekend, according to s AMA's first gay president to take over at tumultuous time 04/09/2023 08:45am • CHICAGO (AP) ��� The first openly gay person to lead the American Medical Association takes the reins at a fractious time for U.S. health care. Transgender patients and those seeking abortion care face restrictions in many places. The medical judgment of physicians is being overridden by state laws