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Should young kids have smartphones? These parents in Europe linked arms and said no 06/21/2024 01:13am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ��� Try saying ���no��� when a child asks for a smartphone. What comes after, parents everywhere can attest, begins with some variation of: ���Everyone has one. Why can���t I?��� But what if no preteen in sight has one ��� and what if having a smartphone was weird? That���s the Should young kids have smartphones? These parents in Europe linked arms and said no 06/21/2024 01:10am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ��� Try saying ���no��� when a child asks for a smartphone. What comes after, parents everywhere can attest, begins with some variation of: ���Everyone has one. Why can���t I?��� But what if no pre-teen in sight has one ��� and what if having a smartphone was weird? That���s th 2 people killed when police clash with locals protesting pork processing plant in Mexico 06/21/2024 12:38am • SAN ANTONIO LIMON, Mexico (AP) ��� Two people were killed Thursday when locals protesting alleged water contamination by a pork processing plant clashed with police in the Mexican gulf coast state of Veracruz. Residents of the community of San Antonio Limon had been blocking a road demanding governm Today in History: June 21, U.S. Constitution goes into effect 06/21/2024 12:10am • Today in History Today is Friday, June 21, the 173rd day of 2024. There are 193 days left in the year. Summer begins today. Today���s Highlight in History: On June 21, 1788, the United States Constitution went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it. On this date: In 13 Thousands in Kenya demonstrate against proposed new taxes 06/21/2024 12:06am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� Thousands of mostly young people demonstrated Thursday in Kenya���s capital and across the country against new tax proposals by the administration of President William Ruto in its annual budget legislation. The protests brought Nairobi���s central business district to a stand Seattle police officer fired for off-duty racist comments 06/20/2024 11:13pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� A Seattle police officer was fired for calling his Chinese American neighbor racist and sexist slurs while off duty in 2022, according to a news report. Officer Burton Hill was fired in May, The Seattle Times reported. The termination stemmed from an altercation with his neighbor, Guatemalan President Bernardo Ar��valo says he found a 'semi-destroyed country' on taking office 06/20/2024 10:30pm • GUATEMALA CITY (AP) ��� Guatemala President Bernardo Ar��valo says opposition in the Congress and the Attorney General's Office have made it difficult to implement the change he seeks for the Central American nation which he found ���semi-destroyed��� when he took office almost six months ago. The Authorities arrest Alabama man wanted in connection with multiple homicides 06/20/2024 09:36pm • MORRILTON, Ark. (AP) ��� An Alabama man wanted in connection with homicides in Oklahoma and Alabama was apprehended Thursday in Arkansas after a search that spanned multiple southern states, Arkansas State Police said. Stacy Lee Drake, 50, was taken into custody around 10 a.m. in a wooded area in M Israel's pledge to guard an aid route into Gaza falls flat as lawlessness blocks distribution 06/20/2024 09:24pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� The Israeli military said Sunday that it was establishing a new safe corridor to deliver aid into southern Gaza. But days later, this self-declared ���tactical pause��� has brought little relief to desperate Palestinians. The United Nations and international aid organizations say Gleaming monolith pops up in Nevada desert, the latest in a series of quickly vanishing structures 06/20/2024 09:19pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� The strange monolith looks like it could have come from another world. Jutting out of the rocks in a remote mountain range near Las Vegas, the glimmering rectangular prism's reflective surface imitates the vast desert landscape surrounding the mountain peak where it has been erect Rapper Travis Scott arrested after Miami Beach police say he drunkenly yelled at people on a yacht 06/20/2024 08:25pm • MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) ��� Rapper Travis Scott was arrested in Miami Beach early Thursday on misdemeanor charges of trespassing and public intoxication after officers say they found him at the city's marina shouting obscenities at people on a yacht and disobeyed their order to leave. Officers went t Family of Black man shot while holding cellphone want murder trial for SWAT officer 06/20/2024 07:59pm • DENVER (AP) ��� The family of a Black man holding a cellphone when he was fatally shot by a SWAT officer called Thursday for a murder trial for the officer following the public release of portions of body camera footage of the shooting. Kilyn (KAI-lin) Lewis, 37, was shot as officers moved in to arr Tree destroys cabin at Michigan camp, trapping counselor in bed for 90 minutes 06/20/2024 07:28pm • BENONA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) ��� A tree crashed onto a cabin with 14 people, mostly girls, inside, trapping a counselor in her bed for 90 minutes early Thursday at a camp in northern Michigan, authorities said. ���Thankfully, the adult counselor walked out of the destroyed cabin and appears to be jus British Prime Minister Sunak says he's 'incredibly' angry over election date betting accusations 06/20/2024 07:10pm • LONDON (AP) ��� British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Thursday that anyone involved in using inside information to bet on the date of Britain���s July 4 national election should be expelled from his Conservative Party. Sunak said on the BBC that he was ���incredibly angry, incredibly angry��� to l Roller coaster strikes and critically injures man in restricted area of Ohio theme park 06/20/2024 06:29pm • CINCINNATI (AP) ��� A man who apparently entered a restricted area to retrieve his lost keys at a theme park in Ohio was critically injured when he was struck by a steel roller coaster, police and park officials said. The 38-year-old man appeared to have entered a fenced area at Kings Island Wednesd