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10 years on, parents of Chinese passengers on MH370 are still asking: What happened to my child? 03/08/2024 03:47am • BEIJING (AP) ��� Ten years on, the families of Chinese passengers who disappeared on board a lost Malaysia Airlines flight still are searching for answers. On Friday, a few dozen relatives of the passengers met officials at China���s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing as part of their long jour Katie Britt calls Biden a 'diminished leader' in GOP response to the State of the Union 03/08/2024 02:11am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Sitting at her kitchen table in Alabama, Sen. Katie Britt called President Joe Biden a ���dithering and diminished leader��� and warned of a bleak American future under his presidency in the Republican rebuttal to his State of the Union address Thursday evening. The first-term A A new Uvalde report defends local police. Here are the findings that outraged some families in Texas 03/08/2024 12:08am • UVALDE, Texas (AP) ��� An independent report commissioned by the City of Uvalde into a deadly 2022 school shooting found that none of the city's officers violated department policy, infuriating families of some of the 19 children and two teachers who were killed in one of the deadliest classroom sho The Latest | Biden says temporary pier in Gaza will boost aid deliveries as hopes for truce dim 03/07/2024 11:36pm • U.S. President Joe Biden Biden said Thursday night the U.S. military will help establish a temporary pier on the coast of Gaza as a way to boost the delivery of aid for Palestinians trapped in the besieged territory by the Israel-Hamas war. He unveiled the plan during his State of the Union address Lawsuit filed against San Jose Sharks' parent company for sexual abuse by youth hockey coach 03/07/2024 10:27pm • SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) ��� A lawsuit has been filed against the company that owns the San Jose Sharks alleging that a 12-year-old player was sexually abused by a former youth hockey coach. The suit filed in Santa Clara Superior Court on Thursday alleges that Sharks Sports & Entertainment, LLC and Transit crime is back as a top concern in some US cities, and political leaders have taken notice 03/07/2024 09:36pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Fear of crime on subways and buses is back as a top concern in some U.S. cities, and so are efforts to persuade public officials to take the issue seriously. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday she would task 750 members of the National Guard with helping patrol the nation��� Michigan appeals court stands by ruling that ex-officer should be tried for murder 03/07/2024 09:34pm • GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) ��� The Michigan Court of Appeals denied a request Thursday to reconsider its earlier opinion stating that a former Grand Rapids police officer should stand trial for murder in the 2022 killing of a Black motorist. The court ruled 2-1 on Jan. 25 that it agreed there was ���a Uvalde parents angered by new report that clears city police of missteps during Texas school attack 03/07/2024 09:09pm • UVALDE, Texas (AP) ��� An investigation Uvalde city leaders ordered into the Robb Elementary School shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers defended the actions of local police in a report released Thursday, prompting shouts of ���cowards��� during a City Council meeting and causing severa The new pro women's hockey league allows more hitting. Players say they like showing those skills 03/07/2024 08:42pm • LOWELL, Mass. (AP) ��� With an early-season PWHL game between Montreal and Boston winding down, the speakers blared the Olivia Newton-John classic, ���Let���s Get Physical.��� And that's just what the players did. In a break from previous top professional women's hockey leagues, the PWHL has written Shooting at park in Salem, Oregon, kills 1 person and wounds 2 others 03/07/2024 08:15pm • SALEM, Ore. (AP) ��� Three people were shot Thursday afternoon in a park in Salem, Oregon, and one of them has died, police said. The Salem Police Department said in a news release that officers were called to the reported shooting near Bush���s Pasture Park at about 1:45 p.m. Officers found three Evidence of traumatic brain injury in shooter who killed 18 in deadliest shooting in Maine's history 03/07/2024 08:00pm • AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) ��� An Army reservist responsible for the worst gun massacre in Maine's history had evidence of traumatic brain injuries before he shot and killed 18 people last year, according to a brain tissue analysis that was requested by the state's chief medical examiner. The revelation Florida public schools could make use of chaplains under bill going to DeSantis 03/07/2024 07:54pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� Florida school districts could opt to allow volunteer chaplains in schools under a bill the Legislature sent to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis over the objections of opponents who argued that religion should be kept out of schools. Supporters argued the legislation will prov New Orleans' mayor says she's not using coveted city apartment, but council orders locks changed 03/07/2024 07:47pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� The New Orleans City Council voted Thursday to change the locks on a coveted city-owned apartment in its latest dispute with Mayor LaToya Cantrell, whose use of the French Quarter property drew scrutiny and figured in a failed recall effort. The newly flaring dispute centers on Concealed guns could be coming soon to Wyoming schools, meetings 03/07/2024 07:43pm • CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) ��� A bill that would allow concealed carry of firearms in schools and government meetings is headed to Wyoming's governor after clearing the state Legislature by a wide margin Thursday. What happens next is somewhat uncertain because Wyoming governors traditionally don���t say i Haiti extends a state of emergency and nighttime curfew to try and repel widespread gang attacks 03/07/2024 07:40pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� Haiti���s government said Thursday that it was extending a state of emergency and nighttime curfew to try and curb violent gang attacks that have paralyzed the capital of Port-au-Prince in a fierce battle for political power. An initial three-day curfew was announced o