• Utah becomes the first state to pass legislation requiring app stores to verify ages
    SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah on Wednesday became the first state to pass legislation requiring app stores to verify users’ ages and get parental consent for minors to download apps to their devices. The bill headed to the desk of Gov. Spencer Cox has pitted Meta, which operates Facebook and Instagram, against app store […]
  • Trump to order abolishment of Department of Education, WSJ reports
    (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order aimed at abolishing the U.S. Department of Education, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The order may come as soon as Thursday, the newspaper said. (Reporting by Janaki Venugopalan in Bengaluru; Editing by Tom Hogue) Brought […]
  • Privately run immigration detention center that previously held families in Texas will reopen
    A private prison company has signed an agreement to reopen an immigrant detention facility in Texas that previously held families with children for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the business said Wednesday. Nashville-based CoreCivic announced the contract with ICE and the city of Dilley regarding the 2,400-bed South Texas Family Residential Center, located about 85 […]
  • China’s premier and the American president: Two leaders, two speeches, two differing world visions
    BEIJING (AP) — Their words came just an hour apart this week — two major speeches by two of the world’s most powerful leaders, delivered on opposite sides of the planet. Together, they illustrate the very different approaches the world’s 21st-century powers are taking to achieve their respective national ambitions. For China, it was a […]
  • Southern University student’s death being investigated as a possible act of fraternity hazing
    BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The death of a 20-year-old Southern University student in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is being investigated by local law enforcement as a possible act of fraternity hazing, school authorities confirmed to The Associated Press on Wednesday. Caleb Wilson, who died on Feb. 27, was a mechanical engineering junior at Southern University […]