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These people were charged with interfering in the 2020 election. Some are still in politics today 04/26/2024 05:20pm • ATLANTA (AP) — As Donald Trump seeks a return to the White House, criminal charges are piling up for the people who tried to help him stay there in 2020 by promoting false theories of voter fraud. At least five states that were won in 2020 by President Joe Biden have investigated efforts to insta Stock market today: Alphabet and Microsoft help Wall Street clinch its best week in nearly 6 months 04/26/2024 05:08pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The best week for U.S. stocks since November closed out with more gains thanks to Alphabet and Microsoft on Friday. The S&P 500 rallied 1% to finish its first winning week in the last four. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 153 points, or 0.4%, and the Nasdaq composite jump Why you might have heard Paul Simon’s ‘The Sound of Silence’ at Spanish Mass 04/26/2024 04:57pm • (RNS) — One song has stuck with Julio Cuellar Gonzales for practically his entire life. Among his first memories of church in the 1970s in Villa Serrano, a town in the Bolivian region of Chuquisaca, Cuellar remembers singing a specific version of the Our Father. At the time, Cuellar thought it wa Commerce Department announces new restrictions on U.S. firearms exports 04/26/2024 04:42pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Commerce Department on Friday announced new restrictions on U.S. firearms exports in an effort to prevent the guns from ending up in the hands of drug traffickers and criminals in other nations. Oversight of legal firearms exports has become a political struggle in Washington Southwest Airlines is considering changes to its quirky boarding and seating practices 04/26/2024 04:13pm • DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines is studying changes to its quirky boarding and seating policies as it searches for ways to raise more revenue. Airline officials say they are studying possible changes but won't have anything to announce until September. That tease is leading to speculation about w Planning for potential presidential transition underway as Biden administration kicks it off 04/26/2024 04:03pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's administration on Friday formally began planning for a potential presidential transition, aiming to ensure continuity of government no matter the outcome of November's general election. Shalanda Young, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, sen US postpones decision on aid to Israeli army battalion accused of abuses against Palestinians 04/26/2024 03:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken has determined that an Israeli army battalion committed grave human-rights abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank before the war in Gaza. But he said in a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson that he is postponing a decision on blocking aid Oregon State and Washington State face player exodus amid realignment 04/26/2024 03:34pm • Perhaps the biggest blow for Oregon State in recent weeks was the departure of running back Damien Martinez, who had previously pledged his loyalty to the Beavers. The former Pac-12 Freshman of the Year had proclaimed in interviews and on social media that he was not abandoning the team as the scho Animal groups are urging tourists not to visit Wyoming after a man hit a wolf then took it to a bar 04/26/2024 03:33pm • CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — As Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming opens for the busy summer season, wildlife advocates are leading a call for a boycott of the conservative ranching state over laws that give people wide leeway to kill gray wolves with little oversight. The social media accounts of Wyom New York to require internet providers to charge low-income residents $15 for broadband 04/26/2024 03:05pm • NEW YORK (AP) — New York can move ahead with a law requiring internet service providers to offer heavily discounted rates to low-income residents, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The decision from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan reverses a lower court ruling from 2021 that Orbán challenger leads protest calling for child protection after sexual abuse scandal in Hungary 04/26/2024 02:51pm • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — An aspiring challenger to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán renewed his calls for change Friday as he led a protest of several thousand people demanding a more robust child protection system and the resignation of Orbán's government. The demonstrators gathered outsi A ban in Kansas on gender-affirming care also would bar advocacy for kids' social transitions 04/26/2024 02:34pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A proposed ban in Kansas on gender-affirming care for minors also would bar state employees from promoting it — or even children's social transitioning. Teachers and social workers who support LGBTQ+ rights worry that they could be disciplined or fired for helping kids who a El caso Asunta: la historia real detrás de la nueva miniserie de Netflix 04/26/2024 02:27pm • (CNN Español) -- El caso Asunta, la nueva miniserie de Netflix, está inspirada en la historia real de uno de los crímenes más mediáticos de España: el asesinato en 2013 de Asunta Basterra, una niña gallega de 12 años de origen chino, por el que fueron condenados sus padres adoptivos, Rosario Berkshire Hathaway's real estate firm to pay $250 million to settle real estate commission lawsuits 04/26/2024 02:09pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A real estate company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to pay $250 million to settle lawsuits nationwide claiming that longstanding practices by real estate brokerages forced U.S. homeowners to pay artificially inflated broker commissions when they sold Surging auto insurance rates squeeze drivers, fuel inflation 04/26/2024 01:15pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Relentlessly rising auto insurance rates are squeezing car owners and stoking inflation. Auto insurance rates rose 2.6% in March and are up 22% from a year ago. Premium costs have been marching steadily higher since 2022, even as inflation at the consumer level steadily cooled from