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Business Highlights: UAW strike expands to GM plant in Texas; Big profits lift Wall Street 10/24/2023 05:12pm • ___ UAW strikes at General Motors plant in Texas as union goes after automakers��� cash cows DETROIT (AP) ��� First it was Ford, then Stellantis, and now a General Motors factory has been added to the growing list of highly profitable plants where the United Auto Workers union is on strike. On Tuesd Tennessee faces federal lawsuit over decades-old penalties targeting HIV-positive people 10/24/2023 04:38pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� LGBTQ+ and civil rights advocates on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit challenging Tennessee's aggravated prostitution statute, arguing that the law stems from the decades-old AIDS scare and discriminates against HIV-positive people. The sweeping complaint details how Tenness 'Are you Max's mom?' 14-year-old dog stolen at gunpoint in DC reunited with owner 10/24/2023 04:22pm • A 14-year-old dog, Max, is enjoying ice cream treats and naps at home Tuesday after being stolen at gunpoint in Northeast, D.C., last weekend. Max is recuperating at home after being stolen at gunpoint last weekend in D.C. (Courtesy Zaleena Ahmed) Zaleena Ahmed, 38, of Northeast D.C. told WTO Haitian gang leader charged with ordering kidnapping of US couple that left woman dead 10/24/2023 04:21pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A powerful Haitian gang leader has been charged by U.S. prosecutors with ordering the kidnapping of an American couple from their home in Haiti, which left the woman dead, authorities said Tuesday. Vitel���Homme Innocent ��� who remains at large and is believed to be living in T How safe are cockpits? Aviation experts weigh in after security scare on board Horizon Air flight 10/24/2023 04:17pm • The attempt by an off-duty pilot to shut down the engines of a U.S. airliner in midflight highlights the threat that insiders pose to aviation safety with their ability to go where passengers are prohibited. Events like the one Sunday on a Horizon Air jetliner are very rare, but they are potentially Police: 8 children rescued in California after their mother abducted them from Arkansas foster homes 10/24/2023 03:41pm • ANDERSON, Calif. (AP) ��� Authorities rescued eight children in California on Saturday after they were abducted by their biological mother and found roughly 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) from their foster homes in Arkansas, police said. The 36-year-old mother had lost her custodial rights, accordin The 19 people accused of trying to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia to keep Trump in power 10/24/2023 02:21pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Four of the 18 people charged alongside former President Donald Trump with participating in an illegal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia have now negotiated deals with prosecutors, pleading guilty to reduced charges in exchange for their tru Massachusetts police searching woods for an armed man in connection with his wife's shooting death 10/24/2023 02:04pm • GARDNER, Mass. (AP) ��� Police in Massachusetts were searching a large area of woods on Tuesday for a man in connection with the shooting death of his wife, who was found in their home on Sunday. Police were focused on 400 acres (160 hectares) after a hunter found a car in the area belonging to Aar Woman killed in Montgomery Co. crash that closed Columbia Pike for hours 10/24/2023 02:00pm • Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, say one of the three people involved in a car crash Monday afternoon on the Columbia Pike has died. Bridget Corcoran-Martin, 70, of New York, was a passenger in one of the vehicles in a crash that happened at the intersection of southbound Columbia Pike and An off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot who police say tried to cut the engines on a jet midflight now faces a federal charge 10/24/2023 01:07pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� An off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot who police say tried to cut the engines on a jet midflight now faces a federal charge. Myanmar reinstates family visits to prisoners to end a ban started during the pandemic 10/24/2023 12:58pm • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Military-ruled Myanmar on Tuesday allowed prisoners to have family visitors from outside, a right that had been suspended for 3�� years because of the coronavirus pandemic, the military���s information office and prison officials said. The rule allowing visitors carries detailed con With a sex scandal in his troubled diocese under police investigation, a Polish bishop resigns 10/24/2023 12:40pm • ROME (AP) ��� The pope on Tuesday accepted the resignation of a Polish bishop whose diocese has been rocked by reports of a sex party involving a male prostitute in a priest���s apartment, as well as previous violent incidents involving his clergy. The Vatican didn���t give a reason for why Bishop G Trump's lawyers file challenges to Washington election subversion case, calling it unconstitutional 10/24/2023 11:02am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Lawyers for Donald Trump are raising new challenges to the federal election subversion case against him, telling a judge that the indictment should be dismissed because it violates the former president's free speech rights and represents a vindictive prosecution. The motions file Saints receiver Chris Olave arrested on reckless driving charge in New Orleans suburb 10/24/2023 10:50am • New Orleans Saints receiver Chris Olave is facing a reckless driving charge after being arrested for allegedly driving 70 miles per hour in a 35 mph zone, Kenner police said. Olave was booked into the Kenner jail and released around 11:30 p.m. Monday, police Capt. Michael Cunningham said. Olave was The damage to a Baltic undersea cable was 'purposeful,' Swedish leader says but gives no details 10/24/2023 09:57am • STOCKHOLM (AP) ��� The damage to a telecommunications cable running under the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Estonia was ���purposeful,��� Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Tuesday but declined to be drawn on the details. ���We will not be more precise than that as of today," Kristersson s