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Papua New Guinea leader takes offense after Biden implies his uncle was eaten by cannibals

April 22, 2024, 8:27am Nation & World

Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape accused Joe Biden of disparaging the South Pacific island nation by implying that an uncle of the U.S. president had been eaten by “cannibals” there during World War II. Read story

Vice President Harris announces final rules mandating minimum standards for nursing home staffing

April 22, 2024, 8:25am Health

The federal government is for the first time requiring nursing homes to have minimum staffing levels after the COVID-19 pandemic exposed grim realities in poorly staffed facilities for older and disabled Americans. Read story

This image made from video provided December, 2023, by Israeli Defense Forces shows Aharon Haliva, the head of Israel&rsquo;s military intelligence in Gaza City, Gaza Strip. Haliva resigned on Monday, April 22, 2024, over the failures surrounding Hamas&rsquo; unprecedented Oct.

Israeli military intelligence chief resigns over his role in failing to prevent Oct. 7 attack

This image made from video provided December, 2023, by Israeli Defense Forces shows Aharon Haliva, the head of Israel&rsquo;s military intelligence in Gaza City, Gaza Strip. Haliva resigned on Monday, April 22, 2024, over the failures surrounding Hamas&rsquo; unprecedented Oct.

April 22, 2024, 8:23am Nation & World

The head of Israeli military intelligence resigned on Monday over the failures surrounding Hamas’ unprecedented Oct. 7 attack, the military said, becoming the first senior figure to step down over his role in the deadliest assault in Israel’s history. Read story

FILE - A security guard waves for journalists to clear the road after a convoy carrying the World Health Organization team entered the Huanan Seafood Market on the third day of a field visit in Wuhan in central China&rsquo;s Hubei province on Jan. 31, 2021. The hunt for COVID-19 origins has gone dark in China. An AP investigation drawing on thousands of pages of undisclosed emails and documents and dozens of interviews found feuding officials and fear of blame ended meaningful Chinese and international efforts to trace the virus almost as soon as they began, despite years of public statements to the contrary.

Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous

FILE - A security guard waves for journalists to clear the road after a convoy carrying the World Health Organization team entered the Huanan Seafood Market on the third day of a field visit in Wuhan in central China&rsquo;s Hubei province on Jan. 31, 2021. The hunt for COVID-19 origins has gone dark in China. An AP investigation drawing on thousands of pages of undisclosed emails and documents and dozens of interviews found feuding officials and fear of blame ended meaningful Chinese and international efforts to trace the virus almost as soon as they began, despite years of public statements to the contrary.

April 22, 2024, 8:23am Health

The hunt for the origins of COVID-19 has gone dark in China, the victim of political infighting after a series of stalled and thwarted attempts to find the source of the virus that killed millions and paralyzed the world for months. Read story

Avian flu outbreak raises a disturbing question: Is our food system built on poop?

April 22, 2024, 8:22am Health

If it’s true that you are what you eat, then most beef-eating Americans consist of a smattering of poultry feathers, urine, feces, wood chips and chicken saliva, among other food items. Read story

This image released by A24 shows Wagner Moura, left, and Kirsten Dunst in a scene from &ldquo;Civil War.&rdquo; (Murray Close/A24 via AP)

‘Civil War’ continues box-office campaign at No. 1

This image released by A24 shows Wagner Moura, left, and Kirsten Dunst in a scene from &ldquo;Civil War.&rdquo; (Murray Close/A24 via AP)

April 22, 2024, 7:50am Entertainment

“Civil War,” Alex Garland’s ominous American dystopia, remained the top film in theaters in its second week of release, according to studio estimates Sunday. Read story

FILE - &ldquo;Ghost guns&rdquo; are displayed at the headquarters of the San Francisco Police Department, Nov. 27, 2019, in San Francisco. Nevada&rsquo;s Supreme Court upheld the state&rsquo;s ban on ghost guns Thursday, April 18, 2024, overturning a lower court&rsquo;s ruling that had sided with a gun manufacturer&rsquo;s&rsquo; argument the 2021 law regulating firearm components with no serial numbers was too broad and unconstitutionally vague.

Supreme Court will take up the legal fight over ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers

FILE - &ldquo;Ghost guns&rdquo; are displayed at the headquarters of the San Francisco Police Department, Nov. 27, 2019, in San Francisco. Nevada&rsquo;s Supreme Court upheld the state&rsquo;s ban on ghost guns Thursday, April 18, 2024, overturning a lower court&rsquo;s ruling that had sided with a gun manufacturer&rsquo;s&rsquo; argument the 2021 law regulating firearm components with no serial numbers was too broad and unconstitutionally vague.

April 22, 2024, 7:49am Business Updated 17 hours ago

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up a Biden administration appeal over the regulation of difficult-to-trace ghost guns that had been struck down by lower courts. Read story

FILE - A Brightline train is shown at a station in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Jan. 11, 2018. A fast-tracked plan to build a high-speed passenger rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area is set to mark the start of construction. Brightline West and U.S. transportation secretary and other officials projecting that millions of ticket-buyers will be boarding trains by 2028.

From Sin City to the City of Angels, building starts on high-speed rail line

FILE - A Brightline train is shown at a station in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Jan. 11, 2018. A fast-tracked plan to build a high-speed passenger rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area is set to mark the start of construction. Brightline West and U.S. transportation secretary and other officials projecting that millions of ticket-buyers will be boarding trains by 2028.

April 22, 2024, 7:43am Business Updated 13 hours ago

Work is set to begin Monday on a $12 billion high-speed passenger rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area, with officials projecting millions of ticket-buyers will be boarding trains by 2028. Read story

Alaska parents and legislators scramble for answers after judge rules homeschool allotments are unconstitutional

April 22, 2024, 6:00am Nation & World

Thousands of Alaska students face uncertainty about their education after a court decision issued late Friday upended the state’s long-standing correspondence schools. Read story

Bumper-to-bumper traffic builds on interstates 805 and 5 south as cars line up to wait over an hour to head into Mexico on March 26.

What’s the deal with the long vehicle lines to cross from California into Tijuana? The fix could take a while

Bumper-to-bumper traffic builds on interstates 805 and 5 south as cars line up to wait over an hour to head into Mexico on March 26.

April 22, 2024, 6:00am Nation & World

Long southbound lines at the San Ysidro-Tijuana vehicle border crossing used to be expected on Fridays. But now it’s almost a daily occurrence, as drivers have noticed for months. Read story