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Tyre Nichols remembered as beautiful soul with creative eye 02/03/2023 02:31pm • On most weekends, Tyre Nichols would head to the city park, train his camera on the sky and wait for the sun to set. ���Photography helps me look at the world in a more creative way. It expresses me in ways I cannot write down for people,��� he wrote on his website. He preferred landscapes and love Family of Minneapolis man killed in no-knock raid sues city 02/03/2023 02:17pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� The parents of Amir Locke, who was shot to death by a Minneapolis police officer when a SWAT team executed a no-knock search warrant one year ago, sued the city and the officer Friday, alleging he was ���gunned down in cold blood��� in violation of his constitutional rights. Loc Why is R&B music more explicit than ever? It���s complicated. 02/03/2023 02:07pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Tank was nervous after sending his manager a preview of ���When We��� ��� he���d never released a song that explicit. ���He���s like, ���You���re crazy, but it���s jammin'!������ the R&B singer recalled. ���It ended up being my biggest record ever.��� Released in 2017, the sedu Pope in South Sudan warns leaders as peace process stalls 02/03/2023 01:52pm • JUBA, South Sudan (AP) ��� Pope Francis, on a novel ecumenical peace mission to the world���s youngest country, warned South Sudan���s political leaders on Friday that history will judge them harshly if they continue to drag their feet implementing a 2018 peace accord. Accompanying him to the overwh Teen dies after suspected overdose at Arlington high school 02/03/2023 11:55am • A teen who authorities believed overdosed in an Arlington County, Virginia, high school bathroom earlier this week has died, police said. The teenager died in the hospital Thursday, police said. Investigators are now conducting a death investigation and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner wi Boyhood collides with masculinity in Oscar-nominated 'Close' 02/03/2023 11:00am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� When Lukas Dhont was 12, a camera was thrust into his hands. For Dhont, who would come out as gay as a young adult, the camera was an escape from the strains and stereotypes he was beginning to feel pushed on him. ���I needed this other reality in which I could disappear because my NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 02/03/2023 10:59am • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ___ House GOP did not tell Raskin to remove head cove Shlomo Perel, Holocaust survivor, film subject, dies at 98 02/03/2023 10:44am • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Shlomo Perel, who survived the Holocaust through surreal subterfuge and an extraordinary odyssey that inspired his own writing and an internationally renowned film, died on Thursday in central Israel. He was 98. Perel was born in 1925 to a Jewish family in Brunswick, Germany, jus Offices are more than 50% filled for the first time since the pandemic started 02/03/2023 07:47am • Nearly three years after the pandemic began, American offices are finally more than halfway filled again as workers have gradually returned to the office.Office occupancy across 10 major US cities crossed 50.4% of pre-pandemic levels for the first time since early 2020, according to security swipe t Sweden hits out at ���disinformation��� on child kidnappings 02/03/2023 07:19am • STOCKHOLM (AP) ��� The Swedish government again sought Friday to discredit claims that Swedish social service agencies kidnap Muslim children, saying Sweden was again seeing a ���systematized��� and ���extensive��� disinformation campaign. "This campaign has now gained momentum again,��� said Prime Belgian carnival town celebrates again after COVID hiatus 02/03/2023 02:53am • BINCHE, Belgium (AP) ��� On a sunny winter morning heralding a radiant Mardi Gras, Beatrice and Karl Kersten don���t have a minute to spare. In their warm workshop decorated with ancestral photos, the couple bend over their sewing machines. They are busy putting the finishing touches to the delicate Indian gay couples begin legal battle for same-sex marriage 02/03/2023 12:08am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� Utkarsh Saxena and Ananya Kotia���s love story began just like any other college romance. Except no one else knew about the gay couple���s relationship. It was 2008. Homosexuality was yet to gain a degree of acceptance in deeply conservative India, with many gay couples facing sti Asian shares trade mixed ahead of US jobs report 02/02/2023 11:18pm • TOKYO (AP) ��� Asian shares were trading mixed Friday ahead of a closely watched U.S. jobs report that may affect global interest rates. Weaker than expected earnings reports from U.S. technology companies, announced after Wall Street trading ended, pulled Chinese benchmarks lower. Japan's benchmar Michigan man says son, 6, ordered $1K in food from Grubhub 02/02/2023 11:09pm • CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) ��� A Michigan man says he was left with a $1,000 bill after his 6-year-old son ordered a virtual smorgasbord of food from several restaurants last weekend, leading to a string of unexpected deliveries ��� and maybe a starring role in an ad campaign. Keith Stoneh At Nichols' funeral, Black America's grief on public display 02/02/2023 08:45pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ��� The sound of the djembe drums started as a low tremble and grew more distinct as the musicians drew closer to the hundreds gathered inside the Memphis church. ���We love you, Tyre,��� the drummers chanted, referring to Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man whose beating by fi