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Kenya labor court rules that Facebook can be sued 02/06/2023 11:28am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� A judge in Kenya has ruled that Facebook���s parent company, Meta, can be sued in the East African country. Meta tried to have the case dropped, arguing that Kenyan courts do not have jurisdiction over their operations, but the labor court judge dismissed that in a ruling on US states take control of abortion debate with funding focus 02/06/2023 10:31am • LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) ��� Though the Insight Women���s Center sits at the epicenter of a reinvigorated battle in the nation���s culture wars, the only hint of its faith-based mission to dissuade people from getting abortions is the jazzy, piano rendition of ���Jesus Loves Me��� playing in a waiting ro 'Tiger Mom' Amy Chua writes first novel, 'The Golden Gate' 02/06/2023 10:13am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Amy Chua, the Yale Law School professor and author sometimes known as ���Tiger Mom," has written her first novel. ���The Golden Gate," a murder mystery centered around a wealthy family in Berkeley, California in 1944, will come out Sept. 19. Chua said in a statement released Monday Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb. 12-18 02/06/2023 09:07am • Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb. 12-18: Feb. 12: Actor Joe Don Baker is 87. Country singer Moe Bandy is 79. Actor Maud Adams (���Octopussy���) is 78. Actor Cliff DeYoung is 77. Actor Michael Ironside is 73. Guitarist Steve Hackett (Genesis) is 73. Singer Michael McDonald (Doobie Brothers) is National Enquirer, caught in 'catch-and-kill' scandal, sold 02/06/2023 08:48am • The National Enquirer, the scandal-plagued tabloid that engaged in ���catch-and-kill��� practices to bury stories about Donald Trump during his presidential campaign, has been sold. VVIP is buying the National Examiner and another tabloid, the Globe, from magazine publisher a360 Media in an all-cash Beyonc�� emerges as Grammys queen; Styles wins album honor 02/06/2023 08:19am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Beyonc�� sits alone atop the Grammy throne as the ceremony's most decorated artist in history, but at the end of Sunday's show it was Harry Styles who walked away with the album of the year honor. The Grammys spread its top awards among other artists, leaving Beyonc�� off stage Pope, Anglican, Presbyterian leaders denounce anti-gay laws 02/06/2023 05:21am • ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) ��� Pope Francis was backed by the ceremonial head of the Anglican Communion and top Presbyterian minister in calling for gays to be welcomed by their churches as he again decried laws that criminalize homosexuality as unjust. The three Christian leaders spoke on LGBTQ r Sports pitch for level playing field in cricket-mad Pakistan 02/06/2023 01:12am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� On Islamabad���s outskirts, burly men bind together in a scrum on a rugby pitch that has seen better days. The sign bearing the club���s name is worn. The floodlights are too costly to use, given high electricity prices and the paltry $135 total that the club earns in membership f FACT FOCUS: Egg shortage breeds chicken-feed conspiracies 02/05/2023 07:19pm • Social media users claim to have found a new culprit for sky-high egg prices: chicken feed. The theory gained steam on Facebook, TikTok and Twitter in recent weeks, with some users reporting that their hens stopped laying eggs and speculating that common chicken feed products were the cause. Some we How to rescue loved ones from a deadly opioid overdose 02/05/2023 03:16pm • A rash of opioid overdoses in area schools, including a recent��death at an Arlington, Virginia, high school, have parents concerned. So how can you protect your kids and loved ones from dying when an overdose does happen? ���Nobody thinks that this is going to happen to them," said Ginny Lovitt At Cubans respond with zeal to new US migration policy 02/05/2023 11:16am • HAVANA (AP) ��� In barely a week, 25-year-old engineer Marcos Marzo went from riding his small electric motorcycle past the low buildings of Havana���s Vedado district to traveling the mega-highways of Florida, amazed by the towering high-rises and giant supermarkets. A close relative told Marzo on Tyre Nichols' mom, chief: Women on two sides of a tragedy 02/05/2023 09:36am • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ��� Tyre Nichols ��� mother was just steps away from her son but couldn't hear his anguished cries. Beaten and broken, struggling to survive, Nichols had called out for her as five Memphis Police Department officers punched him, kicked him, and hit him with a baton after a tra Pope says South Sudan's future depends on treatment of women 02/04/2023 12:38pm • JUBA, South Sudan (AP) ��� Pope Francis warned Saturday that South Sudan���s future depends on how it treats its women, as he highlighted their horrific plight in a country where sexual violence is rampant, child brides are common and the maternal mortality rate is the highest in the world. On his s In Tyre Nichols' neighborhood, Black residents fear police 02/04/2023 11:03am • MEMPHIS (AP) ��� In a terrible way, the death of Tyre Nichols brings vindication to members of the Black community in Memphis who live in constant fear of the police. Often, before, people didn't believe them when told how bad it is. The fatal beating of Nichols, 29, by five police officers tells t Disney World unions vote down offer covering 45,000 workers 02/04/2023 10:44am • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) ��� Union members voted down a contract proposal covering tens of thousands of Walt Disney World service workers, saying it didn't go far enough toward helping employees face cost-of-living hikes in housing and other expenses in central Florida. The unions said that 13,650 out