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#HongKong #NationalSecurity #HumanRights
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Father of US-based Hong Kong activist convicted under national security law
HONG KONG (AP) -- The father of a U. S. -based activist wanted by Hong Kong authorities was convicted of attempting to deal with an absconder's financial assets on Wednesday, in the first court case of its kind brought under a homegrown national security law.
#CaliforniaGovernorRace #DemocraticCandidates #PoliticalLandscape
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Crowded Democratic field in California governor's race might provide a rare opening for the GOP
In the race for California governor, so many Democratic candidates have crowded into the contest that party insiders have become fearful of a historic calamity in the making.
#Privacy #Surveillance #DigitalFootprint
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Video in investigation into Nancy Guthrie's abduction raises questions about surveillance technology
Tuesday's release of video surveillance footage showing an armed, masked person at Nancy Guthrie's doorstep on the night she was abducted has raised a host of questions about why it took so long to publicly release, how it was retrieved and what it means for privacy.
#TumblerRidge #ActiveShooter #SchoolSafety
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'Multiple victims' in school shooting in northeastern British Columbia, Canadian police say
TUMBLER RIDGE, British Columbia (AP) -- There are "multiple victims" in a shooting at a high school in the northeast part of the province of British Columbia, Canadian police said Tuesday.
#Venezuela #Corruption #Politics
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Close Maduro ally pardoned by Biden once again a target of US criminal investigation
MIAMI (AP) -- Less than three years after President Joe Biden pardoned a close ally of Nicol谩s Maduro, the Justice Department is once again targeting the businessman, The Associated Press has learned, an investigation that could bolster the U.
#ImmigrationRights #CivilLiberties #LawEnforcement
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U.S. citizens and legal residents sue over aggressive immigration raid at Idaho horse racing track
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Three Idaho families who are U. S. citizens and lawful permanent residents are suing after they and hundreds of others were detained for hours during an aggressive immigration raid at a rural horse racing track last year.
#SouthSudan #Peacekeeping #HumanRights
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UN warns that South Sudan is on a 'dangerous precipice' as political deadlock escalates violence
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Political deadlock in South Sudan is sharply escalating violence, putting the world's newest nation on a "dangerous precipice," the United Nations' peacekeeping chief warned Tuesday.
#Privacy #Surveillance #CivilRights
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Privacy activists call on California to remove covert license plate readers
More than two dozen privacy and advocacy organizations are calling on California Gov. Gavin Newsom to remove a network of covert license plate readers deployed across Southern California that the groups believe feed data into a controversial U.
#ArtificialIntelligence #LatamGPT #LatinAmerica
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Chile launches open-source AI model designed for Latin America
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Chile on Tuesday launched the first open-source artificial intelligence language model trained on the diverse cultures of Latin America, aiming to better reflect regional realities and strengthen the region's presence in the global AI race.
#GordieHoweBridge #USCanadaRelations #TradePolicy
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U.S.-Canada bridge brouhaha deepens as White House says Trump could amend a permit for the project
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House says President Donald Trump has the right to amend a permit for a new bridge between Canada and Michigan, prolonging the latest dispute between the U.
#Olympics #FigurSkating #Inspiration
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US skater Maxim Naumov makes an emotional Olympic debut one year after losing parents in plane crash
MILAN (AP) -- U. S. figure skater Maxim Naumov carried the memory of his late parents with him to the Olympics on Tuesday night, delivering an emotional, heartfelt short program at the Milan Cortina Games that fulfilled a dream they had long shared together.
#Privacy #Congress #Telecommunications
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Republican lawmakers grill telecom officials over phone records access in Trump investigation
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican lawmakers decried Tuesday what they said were invasive tactics in the investigation of President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, pressing representatives from leading telecommunications companies about their role in providing prosecutors with phone records of certain sitting members of Congress.
#RoyalFamily #PrinceAndrew #Justice
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King Charles III seeks 'moral high ground' with pledge to help police as Epstein scandal deepens
LONDON (AP) -- In an earlier era, Britain's royal family might have tried to bury the scandal surrounding Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
#EpsteinFiles #Accountability #PoliticalResignation
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick acknowledges meetings with Epstein that contradict previous claims
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Under questioning from Democrats Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick acknowledged that he had met with Jeffrey Epstein twice after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a child, reversing Lutnick's previous claim that he had cut ties with the late financier after 2005.
#WestBank #Palestine #IsraeliSettlement
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Israeli minister calls West Bank measures 'de facto sovereignty,' says no future Palestinian state
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- A top Israeli official said Tuesday that measures adopted by the government that deepen Israeli control in the occupied West Bank amounted to implementing "de facto sovereignty," using language that mirrors critics' warnings about the intent behind the moves.
#Milan2026 #WinterOlympics #LeonardoDaVinci
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Milan's nightly Olympic cauldron light show draws thousands to Arch of Peace
MILAN (AP) -- Thousands of people gather each evening in Milan to watch the Olympic cauldron, inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's intricate knot patterns, as it swells and pulsates with colored light to an original soundtrack in a spectacle that is quickly becoming a focal point of the Milan-Cortina Winter Games.
#optimism #AmericanDream #polling
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How Americans' optimism about their future has changed, according to new polling
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans' hope for their future has fallen to a new low, according to new polling.
In 2025, only about 59% of Americans gave high ratings when asked to evaluate how good their life will be in about five years, the lowest annual measure since Gallup began asking this question almost 20 years ago.
#Immigration #Deportation #Congress
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Trump's immigration chiefs to testify in Congress following protester deaths
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The heads of the agencies carrying out President Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda will testify in Congress Tuesday and face questions over how they are prosecuting immigration enforcement inside American cities.
#America250 #Democracy #PoliticalDivisions
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'We hold these truths': Viewing the Declaration of Independence, visitors reflect on America at 250
WASHINGTON (AP) -- America's 250th anniversary arrives at a time of deep political divisions and, in some quarters, heightened anxiety over whether representative government in the world's oldest democracy can be sustained.
#PressFreedom #HongKong #Journalism
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Plight of imprisoned Hong Kong ex-publisher Jimmy Lai evokes grief over loss of press freedoms
HONG KONG (AP) -- Nearly five years after Hong Kong's pro-democracy Apple Daily shut down, its founder, Jimmy Lai, jailed, the newspaper's former staff and readers are lamenting the loss of the city's press freedoms.
#UkraineWar #Russia #InternationalRelations
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Russia thinks it can outsmart the US during Ukraine peace talks, a European intelligence chief says
LONDON (AP) -- Russian officials have no desire to halt Russia's almost 4-year-old invasion of neighboring Ukraine and think they can "outsmart" the United States during talks with Washington about how to end the war, a senior European intelligence official told The Associated Press.
#ClimateChange #SnowDrought #WildfireRisk
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Record snow drought in Western US raises concern for a spring of water shortages and wildfires
A record snow drought with unprecedented heat is hitting most of the American West, depleting future water supplies, making it more vulnerable to wildfires and hurting winter tourism and recreation.
#ClimateChange #SnowDrought #WildfireRisk
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Record snow drought in Western US raises concern for a spring of water shortages and wildfires
A record snow drought with unprecedented heat is hitting most of the American West, depleting future water supplies, making it more vulnerable to wildfires and hurting winter tourism and recreation.
#Russia #OilSanctions #UkraineWar
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Oil exports have been a cash cow for Russia. But revenues are dwindling, thanks to sanctions
Oil and gas exports have sustained Russia's finances throughout its war against Ukraine. But as the fourth anniversary of the full-scale invasion approaches, those cash flows have suddenly dwindled to lows not seen in years.
#Palestine #WestBank #EconomicCrisis
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Palestinians in the West Bank struggle to get by as Israel severely limits work permits
TULKAREM, West Bank (AP) -- Hanadi Abu Zant hasn't been able to pay rent on her apartment in the occupied West Bank for nearly a year after losing her permit to work inside Israel.
#Bangladesh #Democracy #Elections
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In their words: Bangladeshis talk about the election that could redefine the nation's future
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- Bangladesh's election Thursday is the country's most consequential. It follows youth-led protests 18 months ago that overthrew the government of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and ushered Bangladesh into an interim administration led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus.
#IranNuclearTalks #IsraelUSRelations #MiddleEastPolitics
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Israel's Netanyahu is meeting with Trump this week to push for a far broader Iran deal
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is heading to Washington on Tuesday to encourage President Donald Trump to expand the scope of high-stakes nuclear talks with Iran.
#SocialMedia #MentalHealth #Addiction
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Social media 'addicting the brains of children,' plaintiff's lawyer argues in landmark trial
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Comparing social media platforms to casinos and addictive drugs, lawyer Mark Lanier delivered opening statements Monday in a landmark trial in Los Angeles that seeks to hold Instagram owner Meta and Google's YouTube responsible for harms to children who use their products.
#SocialMedia #MentalHealth #Addiction
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Social media 'addicting the brains of children,' plaintiff's lawyer argues in landmark trial
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Comparing social media platforms to casinos and addictive drugs, lawyer Mark Lanier delivered opening statements Monday in a landmark trial in Los Angeles that seeks to hold Instagram owner Meta and Google's YouTube responsible for harms to children who use their products.
#Consumerism #China #JapanRelations
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In China, consumerism trumps nationalism despite tensions with the U.S. and Japan
HONG KONG (AP) -- In China, consumerism appears to outweigh nationalism regardless of how testy relations have become in recent diplomatic spats with countries like Japan and the United States.
#TradeRelations #Infrastructure #CanadaUSA
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Trump is threatening to block a new bridge between Detroit and Canada from opening
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to block the opening of a new Canadian-built bridge across the Detroit River, demanding that Canada turn over at least half of the ownership of the bridge and agree to other unspecified demands in his latest salvo over cross-border trade issues.
#Iran #USRelations #NuclearTalks
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Top Iran security official to travel to Oman, site of talks with US, likely with nuclear message
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- A top Iranian security official will travel Tuesday to Oman, the Mideast sultanate now mediating talks between Tehran and the United States over the Islamic Republic' nuclear program aimed at halting a possible American strike.
#Terrorism #Justice #HateSpeech
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New Zealand mosque shooter always planned to admit his crimes, his former lawyers tell appeals court
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- The self-professed white supremacist who murdered 51 Muslims in New Zealand's deadliest mass shooting was pleased to be charged with terrorism and wanted to be described as a terrorist, his former lawyer has told a court deciding if the man was in a fit state to admit to his crimes.
#PonziScheme #Fraud #InvestorProtection
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Investors impatient to recover $140M from alleged Georgia Ponzi scheme
ATLANTA (AP) -- Seven months after the collapse of an alleged $140 million Ponzi scheme that touched the top ranks of Republican politics in Georgia and Alabama, some investors are impatient to get their money back.
#IllegalCannabis #EnvironmentalImpact #CaliforniaWildlife
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'Ticking environmental time bomb.' Illegal cannabis farms poison California's forests.
Law enforcement raided the illegal cannabis operation in Shasta-Trinity National Forest months before, but rotting potatoes still sat on the growers' makeshift kitchen worktop, waiting to be cooked.
#SuperBowl #HalftimeShow #BadBunny
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Bad Bunny may have trounced Kid Rock in Super Bowl halftime showdown if historic trends hold
The morning after the Seahawks became Super Bowl champions, people spent Monday trying to figure out who had won the other widely talked about competition of the night: Dueling halftime performances between Bad Bunny and conservative darling Kid Rock.
#DeshaunWatson #SexualMisconduct #NFL
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Last 2 civil lawsuits alleging sexual assault by Browns QB Deshaun Watson dismissed
HOUSTON (AP) -- The final two of nearly 30 civil lawsuits that Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson had faced from women accusing him of sexual misconduct have been dismissed, according to court records.
#FreedomOfPress #HumanRights #MaliNews
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Mali's junta arrests prominent journalist for criticizing Niger's military leader, rights group says
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Malian authorities arrested a prominent journalist for criticizing the leader of neighboring Niger, a rights group said Monday, as the military regime in the West African country increasingly curtails freedom of expression during a security crisis.
#Affordability #CostOfLiving #HousingCrisis
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Governors tackle rising cost of living with relief checks, tax cuts and housing policy
State officials are attempting to address voters' worries about the rising cost of living, including housing and everyday items such as groceries, utilities and child care.
#GhostGuns #GunControl #3DPrinting
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California sues websites that publish blueprints for 3D printer ghost guns
Two websites that distribute instructions for how to manufacture ghost guns are facing a new lawsuit from the state of California alleging that they provide access to illegal and untraceable firearms.
#CFPB #ConsumerProtection #FinancialRegulation
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Trump administration's changes to the CFPB cost Americans $19B, a new report says
NEW YORK (AP) -- One year after the Trump administration took control of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the consumer watchdog has largely retreated from enforcement and regulatory work, changes that consumer advocates and Democrats now estimate have cost Americans at least $19 billion in financial relief.
