Search

Paris Hilton backs California bill to bring more transparency to youth treatment facilities 04/15/2024 10:06pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Paris Hilton joined California state lawmakers Monday to push for legislation aimed at cracking down on the industry that cares for troubled teens by requiring more transparency from youth treatment facilities. The bill supported by the Hilton Hotel heiress and media pers Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth 04/15/2024 06:22pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth while lawsuits over the law proceed, reversing lower courts. The justices' order Monday allows the state to put in a place a 2023 law that subjects physicians to up to 10 years i 4 family members plead not guilty in abduction and abuse of a malnourished Iowa teen 04/15/2024 04:44pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Four members of a rural Iowa family have pleaded not guilty in the abduction and abuse of an 18-year-old relative who had allegedly showed up at a hospital so badly beaten that his brain was bleeding and so malnourished that he weighed just 70 pounds (32 kilograms), accordi Ex-youth center worker testifies that top bosses would never take kids' word over staff 04/15/2024 04:17pm • BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A man who oversaw staff training and investigations at New Hampshire’s youth detention center testified Monday that top-level administrators sided with staff against residents, while lower-level workers wanted to punish kids for speaking up. Virgil Bossom returned to the w 'Heartbreaking': DC neighbors devastated, fed up with gun violence after drive-by shooting death of 15-year-old girl 04/15/2024 03:50pm • A 15-year-old girl was killed Sunday night when D.C. police say suspects inside a vehicle fired shots at a group of people outside a Southeast apartment building. The drive-by shooting happened in the 2400 block of Elvans Road, Southeast, just before 11 p.m., according to police. "This neighbo Beyoncé is bringing her fans of color to country music. Will they be welcomed in? 04/15/2024 03:48pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Dusty, worn boots. Horses lapping up water. Sweat dripping from the foreheads of every shade of Black skin as country classics blare through giant speakers. These moments are frequently recreated during Tayhlor Coleman’s family gatherings at their central Texas ranch. For her, Be Iran's attack on Israel raises fears of a wider war, but all sides have also scored gains 04/14/2024 06:47am • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The unprecedented attack by Iran on Israel early Sunday ratcheted up regional tensions, confirming long-held fears about the Israel-Hamas war spiraling into a broader conflagration. But Iran, Israel, the United States and Hamas also walked away with some gains. Here’s a l Young Ugandans tangle in the mud. They dream of becoming professional wrestlers 04/14/2024 02:12am • MUKONO, Uganda (AP) — In a forested area outside Uganda's capital, a few dozen youth gather around a makeshift ring to watch two amateur wrestlers tangle in the mud. The training sessions, complete with an announcer and referee, imitate the pro wrestling contests the teens regularly see on televis Sex crimes charges dropped against California Marine after missing teen found in barracks 04/13/2024 04:13pm • SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Southern California Marine accused of having sex with a missing 14-year-old girl found in his Camp Pendleton barracks room last summer no longer faces sex crimes charges, military officials said this week. Under an agreement offered by his defense attorney, Pfc. Avery Rosario pl McKenna Haase sold batteries door to door as a teen to buy her 1st sprint car. Now she'll race more 04/13/2024 03:43pm • FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — McKenna Haase started her own racing team at age 13, and at one point she went door to door selling batteries when trying to raise money to buy her first sprint car. Now 27, Haase will be able to hire a crew chief and expand her racing schedule with help from that same bat West Bank sees biggest settler rampage since war in Gaza began as Israeli teen's body is found 04/13/2024 01:40pm • Al-MUGHAYYIR, West Bank (AP) — Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank went on the largest rampage against Palestinians there since the war in Gaza began, as Israel's army said Saturday the body of a missing Israeli teen was found after he was killed in a “terrorist attack.” Witnesses said The Latest | Israel says it opened new aid crossing into hard-hit northern Gaza 04/13/2024 01:30am • Israel said Friday it had opened a new crossing for aid trucks into hard-hit northern Gaza as it ramps up humanitarian deliveries to the besieged enclave. However, the United Nations says the surge of aid is not being felt in Gaza because of persistent distribution difficulties inside the war-torn t A Palestinian is killed as Israeli settlers rampage in his village and troops fire on stone-throwers 04/13/2024 12:22am • JERUSALEM (AP) — Dozens of Israeli settlers stormed into a Palestinian village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday, shooting and setting houses and cars on fire. The rampage killed a Palestinian man and wounded 25 others, Palestinian health officials said. The violence was the latest in a Brookland Metro teen shooting suspect ordered to remain in custody 04/12/2024 09:34pm • The 16-year-old boy charged in the deadly shooting of 14-year-old Avion Evans on the Brookland-CUA Metro platform last week will remain held without bond while he awaits trial. On Friday, as the 16-year-old appeared in D.C. Superior Court, his attorney, William Howell, argued that the shooting wa Jury visits a ranch near US-Mexico border where an Arizona man is charged with killing a migrant 04/12/2024 03:53pm • PHOENIX (AP) — Jurors in the case of an Arizona rancher charged with fatally shooting a migrant on his property near the U.S.-Mexico border visited the scene of the killing as the third week of the trial wrapped up. Court officials on Thursday took jurors in a van to view various locations at Geor