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By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed a bill that would allow parents to block their children from getting social media posts suggested by a platform’s algorithm, a move to limit feeds critics argue are addictive. Under the legislation, feeds on apps like TikTok and Instagram would be limited

Associated Press Mechanics at the Canadian airline WestJet say they are dropping plans to begin a strike now that the airline has agreed to resume negotiations on a new collective-bargaining agreement. Members of the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association had been preparing to walk off the job on Thursday night. The union’s president says the union

MILAN (AP) — The Italian coast guard has recovered 12 more bodies from a weekend shipwreck in the Ionian Sea off the southern Italian coastline. This brings to 20 the number of known victims from the sinking. Dozens more are missing and presumed dead. The bodies — including women and children — were being transferred

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has ruled there is sufficient evidence for a Southern California judge to stand trial on a murder charge in the shooting death of his wife. The decision came Thursday after Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson’s preliminary hearing. Ferguson was arrested in August

By KEVIN McGILL and SARA CLINE Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A bill signed into law this week makes Louisiana the only state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every classroom in public schools and colleges — and stirs the long-running debate over the role of religion in government institutions. Under

By WILL GRAVES AP National Writer A new professional women’s gymnastics league is hoping to give athletes a chance to walk away from the sport on their terms. The Global Impact Gymnastics Alliance plans to begin holding competitions in 2025. Organizers believe interest in women’s sports and gymnastics in particular has reached a point where

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two years have passed since a leader of one of Mexico’s organized crime gangs stormed into a Catholic church in the remote Tarahumara mountains and fatally shot two Jesuit priests. Among many faith leaders nationwide, the pain unleashed on June 20, 2022 — when the

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Sutherland, the Canadian actor whose wry, arrestingly off-kilter screen presence spanned more than half a century of films from “M.A.S.H.” to “The Hunger Games,” has died. He was 88. Sutherland died Thursday in Miami after a long illness, according to a statement from Creative

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S., Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has announced new sanctions against members of La Nueva Familia Michoacana drug cartel, a notoriously violent group that wars for territorial control with a slate of other Mexican cartels. Announced Thursday in Atlanta to promote the Biden administration’s efforts

WOODSTOCK, Conn. (AP) — A minivan carrying 14 puppies hit a utility pole and rolled over in Connecticut. The crash in Woodstock happened at about 6 a.m. Thursday on a rural road. The driver was not seriously hurt, but several dogs were brought to a veterinarian center in nearby Massachusetts to be examined. Fire officials

By MORGAN LEE and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — More than 1,000 firefighters in New Mexico took advantage of a break in the weather on Thursday to get the upper hand — for now — on a pair of wildfires that have killed two people, destroyed hundreds of homes and

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — An ongoing fight between residents and animal rights activists over whether to cull pigeons in a small German town has led to an uproar. A majority of residents have voted in favor of culling the birds in a referendum earlier this month. Officials in the central German

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House announced Thursday that it will rush delivery of air defense interceptor missiles to Ukraine by redirecting planned shipments to other allied nations, as Washington scrambles to counter increased Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. National security spokesman John Kirby said the U.S. had taken

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Supreme Court has removed a measure from the state’s November ballot that would have made it harder to raise taxes. Gov. Gavin Newsom and his Democratic allies in the state Legislature had sued to remove the measure. On Thursday the California Supreme Court sided

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — There is one more item to scratch off the list before everyone from Sha’Carri Richardson to Noah Lyles to Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone embark on their trips to Paris for the Olympics. They have to make the team. No athlete, no matter how well-known or successful in

By GONZALO SOLANO TURUCU, Ecuador (AP) — In the Indigenous community of Turucu, near the active Cotacachi volcano in northern Ecuador, soccer had always been a man’s thing. The only gleaming green field belongs to them, especially on weekends. But things changed a year ago when a group of women decided to create a new

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — For the second time this month, a police dog has been killed while trying to help arrest a suspect in South Carolina. Authorities say a Richland County Sheriff’s Department dog named Wick was struck and killed by a car on Interstate 77 Thursday when his leash

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer The NCAA has presented a plan to Division I conference commissioners that would expand the lucrative men’s and women’s basketball tournaments by four or eight teams alongside an option to leave each field at 68 teams, according to a person familiar with the details. The proposals were outlined to

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia is suffering unusually high temperatures for June. Authorities have urged people to stay indoors when possible and avoid heavy labor in the hottest hours of the day. The heat exceeded 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in several parts of the small, landlocked Balkan country Thursday. Authorities have

By PATRICK WHITTLE and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Former U.S. Marine Gerry Brooks died alone at a nursing home in Maine, abandoned and all but forgotten. Then the funeral home posted a notice asking if anyone would serve as a pallbearer or simply attend his burial. Within minutes, it was turning