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A bill that could ban TikTok advances to the Senate. What’s next? 04/20/2024 03:22pm • The House has approved legislation that would ban TikTok if its Beijing-based parent company doesn’t divest from the popular social media platform, escalating the fight over the hot-button issue. The TikTok legislation, which was included in a package of bills that would send aid to Ukraine and Is Longtime AP journalist, newspaper publisher John Brewer dies at age 76 04/20/2024 03:09pm • John Brewer, whose coast-to-coast journalism career spanned 50 years, including nearly two decades at The Associated Press, has died. He was 76. Brewer and his longtime friend Randy Johnson were on their annual fly fishing trip in Montana on Friday when the boat Brewer was in hit a submerged log and Mexican police investigate a man as a possible serial killer after finding bones and a saw 04/20/2024 03:45am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City police said late Friday they are investigating a murder suspect as a possible serial killer after bones, a saw, blood and the ID cards of missing women were found at rooms he rented. Mexico City prosecutors did not identify the suspect by name, but said that he was Theater Review: 'Stereophonic' is a brilliant 'Behind the Music' play on Broadway 04/20/2024 12:01am • It's July 1976 in a Northern California recording studio and the rock ‘n’ roll band cutting their latest album is exhausted and wary. The coffee machine is broken. Never mind, there's always cocaine — and heaps of it. “That’s not the same thing,” one of the musicians says. "It’s the ex Oklahoma City bombing still 'heavy in our hearts' on 29th anniversary, federal official says 04/19/2024 10:44pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Federal officials are resolved never to allow a terrorist attack like the Oklahoma City bombing happen again, Deputy Homeland Security Adviser Caitlin Durkovich told survivors and loved ones of the 168 people killed in the April 19, 1995, bombing Friday. “What happened here The Heat are headed to Boston after ousting the Bulls 112-91 in East play-in finale 04/19/2024 10:30pm • MIAMI (AP) — The chants started raining down in the fourth quarter. “We want Boston,” the Miami Heat crowd kept shouting, over and over. The fans got their wish. And a rematch of the last two Eastern Conference finals awaits in Round 1 this year. Miami — even with Jimmy Butler sidelined for Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroom 04/19/2024 04:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to check her in. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, Video of 2 bear cubs pulled from trees prompts North Carolina wildlife investigation but no charges 04/19/2024 04:41pm • ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A video of people pulling two bear cubs from a tree in North Carolina as one person posed for a photo with one of the wild animals prompted an investigation, but a state wildlife official said Friday that no charges will be filed. When North Carolina Wildlife Resources Comm Judge drops some charges against ex-Minnesota college student feared of plotting campus shooting 04/19/2024 12:40pm • NORTHFIELD, Minn. (AP) — A judge has dismissed some of the most serious charges against a former Minnesota college student who police and prosecutors feared was plotting a campus shooting. Waylon Kurts, of Montpelier, Vermont, who was then a student at St. Olaf College in Northfield, was charged l The Latest | Iran says air defense batteries fire after explosions reported near major air base 04/19/2024 12:19am • Iran fired air defense batteries Friday reports of explosions near a major air base at the city of Isfahan, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. It remained unclear if the country was under attack, but tensions remain high after Iran’s unprecedented missile-and-drone attack on Israel. The Isra Ex-youth center resident testifies that counselor went from trusted father figure to horrific abuser 04/18/2024 08:01pm • BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — The man who blew the lid off decades of abuse allegations at New Hampshire’s youth detention center continued testifying at his civil trial Thursday, describing being treated for gonorrhea after being raped at age 15. But the real turning point, he said, was the first of Could Rising Energy Costs Undermine a Bitcoin Halving Bull Run? 04/18/2024 08:00pm • The fourth Bitcoin halving is finally upon us. But unlike previous halving events, which have heralded seismic bull runs and all-time-high Bitcoin prices, the original cryptocurrency's ascension after the 2024 "halvening" may be hampered by high energy consumption, among other factors. With some ana 3 hurt after school bus crashes into Virginia DMV building 04/18/2024 03:10pm • Three people, including two kids, were taken to the hospital after a school bus crashed into a Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles building on Thursday morning, according to Fairfax County police. The DMV location is at the intersection of Braddock Road and Burke Station Road. The school bus Kenya’s military chief dies in a helicopter crash 04/18/2024 02:17pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s military chief Gen. Francis Ogolla died in a helicopter crash west of the country, President William Ruto announced Thursday and declared three days of national mourning. The helicopter was carrying 11 people, including Gen. Ogolla, when it crashed Thursday and caug A lab chief's sentencing for meningitis deaths is postponed, extending grief of victims' families 04/18/2024 01:51pm • HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge on Thursday suddenly postponed the sentencing of a man at the center of a fatal meningitis outbreak that hit multiple states, dismaying people who were poised to speak about their grief 12 years after the tragedy. The judge who took a no-contest plea from Barr