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Counselor recalls morning of Michigan school attack when parents declined to take shooter home 03/11/2024 03:52pm • PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The parents of a Michigan school shooter declined to take their son home hours before the attack, leaving instead with a list of mental health providers after being presented with his violent drawing and disturbing messages, a counselor testified Monday. A security camera ima More eyes, more scrutiny: South Carolina-LSU scrap seen as a bad look for growing women's game 03/11/2024 03:20pm • GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — More eyes, more fans and more scrutiny. The good and the bad of the game has all come into sharper focus as women's college basketball continues to grow in popularity. What fans saw Sunday in the Southeastern Conference tournament championship was No. 1 South Carolina and L Could Biden and Trump win their parties' nominations this week? What to watch in the next contests 03/11/2024 12:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden and his likely Republican challenger, Donald Trump, are on track to win enough delegates this week to become their parties' presumptive nominees, ushering in a bruising eight-month campaign for the White House. Elections in four states on Tuesday will likely giv Who is Robert Hur? A look at the special counsel due to testify on Biden classified documents case 03/11/2024 11:22am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The special counsel who impugned the president's age and competence in his report on how Joe Biden handled classified documents will himself be up for questioning this week. Robert Hur is scheduled to testify before a congressional committee on Tuesday as House Republicans try Reddit looking to raise almost $750 million in initial public offering 03/11/2024 09:36am • Social media company Reddit is looking to raise almost $750 million in an initial public offering of its common stock. The company said in a regulatory filing that the IPO will include 22 million shares of Class A common stock. Reddit is offering approximately 15.3 million shares, while the selling The Vatican unveils its project for the Venice Biennale of Art: inside a women's prison 03/11/2024 09:32am • VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Monday unveiled its groundbreaking project for the upcoming Venice Biennale of Art: A multimedia installation located inside Venice’s women’s prison, created with the active participation of inmates and artists and open to the public under strict security con China's congress ends with a show of unity behind Xi's vision for national greatness 03/11/2024 04:53am • BEIJING (AP) — China’s national legislature wrapped up its annual session Monday with the usual show of near-unanimous support for plans designed to carry out ruling Communist Party leader Xi Jinping's vision for the nation. The weeklong event, replete with meetings carefully scripted to allow Pistons GM Troy Weaver has expletive-laced response to heckling fan in the stands 03/10/2024 04:32pm • Detroit Pistons general manager Troy Weaver had an expletive-laced response to a heckling fan in the stands and pointed the man out to security at Little Caesars Arena. The heated exchange, which was shared on social media, occurred during Detroit's 142-124 loss to the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday n TikTok is a 'national security issue,' Sens. Mark Warner and Marco Rubio say 03/10/2024 01:36pm • ▶ Watch Video: TikTok is a "national security issue," Sens. Mark Warner and Marco Rubio say Washington — Sens. Mark Warner and Marco Rubio, who sit atop the Senate Intelligence Committee, warned Sunday of the threat posed by TikTok, a social media app owned by a China-based company t Gunmen kidnap nearly 300 students in northwest Nigeria. 2 days later, some lose hope of finding them 03/10/2024 08:47am • KURIGA, Nigeria (AP) — Rashidat Hamza is in despair. All but one of her six children are among the nearly 300 students abducted from their school in Nigeria’s northwest, riddled with Islamic extremists and armed gangs. It has been more than two days after her children — ages 7 to 18 — went t West Virginia Legislature ends session with pay raises, tax cut and failure of social issue bills 03/10/2024 03:43am • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia's Republican-dominated state Legislature on Saturday concluded a 60-day session marked by budget disputes and controversial social issue bills that advanced but ultimately didn't go anywhere. Lawmakers conferenced behind closed doors Saturday to reach an agre What to know about Russia’s presidential election, set to give Putin another six-year term 03/10/2024 12:11am • This week's election in Russia is expected to cement President Vladimir Putin's grip on power until at least 2030. Any opposition figures who could have challenged him are either in prison or exiled abroad. Independent media outlets that could show criticism of his policies have been blocked. And On eve of Ramadan, Jerusalem’s Old City offers little festivity as Gaza war rages 03/09/2024 12:17pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — On the eve of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Jerusalem’s Old City bears few of its usual hallmarks of festivity. Nearly half of the grotto-shaped gift shops are sealed behind metal shutters. The narrow streets that run toward Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third-holiest site, a A lonely radio nerd. A poet. Vladimir Putin's crackdown sweeps up ordinary Russians 03/09/2024 12:58am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A lonely man jailed for criticizing the government on his ham radio. A poet assaulted by police after he recited a poem objecting to Russia’s war in Ukraine. A low-profile woman committed to a psychiatric facility for condemning the invasion on social media. President Vl Who are the Russian dissidents still serving time after Alexei Navalny died behind bars? 03/09/2024 12:56am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to secure his fifth term in power this month on the heels of opposition leader Alexei Navalny's death in prison, which devastated Kremlin critics and spurred concerns about the safety of other imprisoned dissidents. Putin has go