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FILE - The U.S. Surgeon General’s Warning appears on a pack of Camel cigarettes purchased at a Chicago area news stand on Nov. 30, 2012. In a Monday, June 17, 2024, opinion piece for The New York Times, Dr. Vivek Murthy has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms similar to those now mandatory on cigarette boxes. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Social media access should come with health warning: US surgeon-general

America’s top doctor wants product labeled in similar fashion to cigarette packages

 

A security agent walks alongside a barrier surrounding Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, July 5, 2023, in Parkland, Fla. Demolition of the building where 17 people died in the 2018 Parkland school shooting is set to begin, as crews will begin tearing down the three-story building at the high school on Thursday, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Demolition of the Parkland classroom building where 17 died in 2018 shooting is set to begin

A crew is scheduled Friday to begin tearing down the three-story classroom…

 

Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court as jurors are expected to begin deliberations in his criminal hush money trial in New York, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. (Yuki Iwamura/Pool Photo via AP)

Guilty: Trump becomes first former U.S. president convicted of felony crimes

Ex-president charged with falsifying records in an alleged scheme to hide embarrassing stories

 

Former President Donald Trump gestures as he walks to the courtroom during his hush money trial at Manhattan criminal court, Wednesday, May 29, 2024, in New York. (Yuki Iwamura/Pool Photo via AP)

Judge excuses jurors, ending first day of deliberations in Trump’s criminal trial

Deliberations in huh money case will resume Thursday morning

Former President Donald Trump gestures as he walks to the courtroom during his hush money trial at Manhattan criminal court, Wednesday, May 29, 2024, in New York. (Yuki Iwamura/Pool Photo via AP)
Trains are seen as cargo containers sit idle on rail tracks in Delta, B.C., on Friday, July 7, 2023. The U.S. Department of Justice in Washington State says two men are facing human smuggling charges for their alleged role in a scheme to get people across the Canada-U.S. border in B.C. on freight trains. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

B.C. freight trains used in human smuggling operation, US officials say

Two men charged in what authorities called ‘an extremely dangerous smuggling scheme’

Trains are seen as cargo containers sit idle on rail tracks in Delta, B.C., on Friday, July 7, 2023. The U.S. Department of Justice in Washington State says two men are facing human smuggling charges for their alleged role in a scheme to get people across the Canada-U.S. border in B.C. on freight trains. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Former President Donald Trump reacts as he walking back into the courtroom after a break during closing arguments in his hush money trial at Manhattan criminal court in New York, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. (Spencer Platt/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump jury set to start deliberations in hush money trial

Prosecutor says former president tried to hoodwink voters, defence says he’s innocent

Former President Donald Trump reacts as he walking back into the courtroom after a break during closing arguments in his hush money trial at Manhattan criminal court in New York, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. (Spencer Platt/Pool Photo via AP)
Former President Donald Trump speaks alongside his attorney Todd Blanche following the day’s proceedings in his trial Tuesday, May 21, 2024, in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York. (Michael M. Santiago/Pool Photo via AP)

Closing arguments underway in Trump hush money trial

Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business records, punishable by up to 4 years in prison

Former President Donald Trump speaks alongside his attorney Todd Blanche following the day’s proceedings in his trial Tuesday, May 21, 2024, in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York. (Michael M. Santiago/Pool Photo via AP)
A home damaged by a storm the night before is seen, Sunday, May 26, 2024, in Pryor, Okla. Powerful storms left a wide trail of destruction Sunday across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas after obliterating homes and destroying a truck stop where dozens sought shelter in a restroom during the latest deadly weather to strike the central U.S. (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP)

Latest deadly weather in US kills at least 20 as storms carve path of ruin across multiple states

Powerful storms killed at least 20 people, injured hundreds and left a…

A home damaged by a storm the night before is seen, Sunday, May 26, 2024, in Pryor, Okla. Powerful storms left a wide trail of destruction Sunday across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas after obliterating homes and destroying a truck stop where dozens sought shelter in a restroom during the latest deadly weather to strike the central U.S. (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP)
FILE - A Paqui One Chip Challenge chip is displayed in Boston, Friday, Sept. 8, 2023. A medical examiner says a Massachusetts teen who participated in a spicy tortilla chip challenge died from ingesting a substance “with a high capsaicin concentration,” according to autopsy results The Associated Press obtained late Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Capsaicin is a chili pepper extract. Harris Wolobah died on Sept. 1, 2023, after eating the chip. (AP Photo/Steve LeBlanc, File)

Teen who died after eating spicy chip had congenital heart defect

Paqui pulled product from store shelves shortly after Massachusetts death

FILE - A Paqui One Chip Challenge chip is displayed in Boston, Friday, Sept. 8, 2023. A medical examiner says a Massachusetts teen who participated in a spicy tortilla chip challenge died from ingesting a substance “with a high capsaicin concentration,” according to autopsy results The Associated Press obtained late Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Capsaicin is a chili pepper extract. Harris Wolobah died on Sept. 1, 2023, after eating the chip. (AP Photo/Steve LeBlanc, File)
Former President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before departing Manhattan criminal court, Monday, May 6, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, Pool)

Stormy Daniels takes the stand in Trump hush money trial

Porn actor who says she was paid to keep quiet about an encounter with former president testifies

Former President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before departing Manhattan criminal court, Monday, May 6, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, Pool)
Former President Donald Trump speaks to media as he returns to his trial at the Manhattan Criminal Court, Friday, May 3, 2024, in New York. (Charly Triballeau/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump slapped with $1,000 fine for gag order violation

Judge warns jail time could follow as former president’s hush money trial continues

Former President Donald Trump speaks to media as he returns to his trial at the Manhattan Criminal Court, Friday, May 3, 2024, in New York. (Charly Triballeau/Pool Photo via AP)
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Zebras gallop through neighborhood in Washington state

It was an unusual wildlife sighting Sunday when four zebras escaped from…

(Photo courtesy of Grace Luccio)
Former President Donald Trump awaits the start of proceedings at Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in New York. (Eduardo Munoz/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump fined $9K for contempt as hush money trial proceeds in New York

Judge warns former president of jail time if he violates gag order tied to aspects of the trial

Former President Donald Trump awaits the start of proceedings at Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in New York. (Eduardo Munoz/Pool Photo via AP)
Kim Kardashian listens during a discussion in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 25, 2024, on criminal justice reform and the pardons issued by President Joe Biden earlier this month. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Kim Kardashian talks criminal justice reform at White House

Kim Kardashian attended a White House event hosted by Vice President Kamala…

Kim Kardashian listens during a discussion in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 25, 2024, on criminal justice reform and the pardons issued by President Joe Biden earlier this month. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
A TikTok content creator, sits outside the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Washington as Senators prepare to consider legislation that would force TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell the social media platform under the threat of a ban, a contentious move by U.S. lawmakers. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Sell or face ban, U.S. tells social media giant TikTok

Senate passes bill forcing TikTok’s parent company to sell or face ban, sends to Biden for signature

A TikTok content creator, sits outside the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Washington as Senators prepare to consider legislation that would force TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell the social media platform under the threat of a ban, a contentious move by U.S. lawmakers. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)
FILE - This photo taken Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, shows the site of a proposed station for a high-speed rail line to Las Vegas, background, at the end of the Dale Evans Parkway exit from Interstate 15, on the far outskirts of the Mojave Desert city of Victorville, Calif. Brightline West and U.S. transportation secretary and other officials projecting that millions of ticket-buyers will be boarding trains by 2028. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

$12B bullet train linking LA and Vegas could be operational by 2028: firm

Brightline West touts project as the dawn of a new American rail era

FILE - This photo taken Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, shows the site of a proposed station for a high-speed rail line to Las Vegas, background, at the end of the Dale Evans Parkway exit from Interstate 15, on the far outskirts of the Mojave Desert city of Victorville, Calif. Brightline West and U.S. transportation secretary and other officials projecting that millions of ticket-buyers will be boarding trains by 2028. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
Former president Donald Trump leaves Trump Tower on his way to Manhattan criminal court, Monday, April 22, 2024, in New York. Opening statements in Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial are set to begin. Trump is accused of falsifying internal business records as part of an alleged scheme to bury stories he thought might hurt his presidential campaign in 2016. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

Trump lawyers say he’s innocent as historic trial opens in New York

Former U.S. president charged with ‘criminal scheme to corrupt’ the 2016 presidential election

Former president Donald Trump leaves Trump Tower on his way to Manhattan criminal court, Monday, April 22, 2024, in New York. Opening statements in Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial are set to begin. Trump is accused of falsifying internal business records as part of an alleged scheme to bury stories he thought might hurt his presidential campaign in 2016. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)
FILE - In this July 20, 2017 file photo, former NFL football star O.J. Simpson reacts after learning he was granted parole at Lovelock Correctional Center in Lovelock, Nev. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76. (Jason Bean/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP, Pool, File)

Simpson death could put Goldman, Brown families in better position to collect

Simpson ordered to pay $33.5M in wrongful death civil suit, most remains uncollected

FILE - In this July 20, 2017 file photo, former NFL football star O.J. Simpson reacts after learning he was granted parole at Lovelock Correctional Center in Lovelock, Nev. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76. (Jason Bean/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP, Pool, File)
A cargo ship is stuck under the part of the structure of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after the ship hit the bridge Tuesday March 26, 2024, in Baltimore, Md. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

6 presumed dead in wake of container ship slamming into Baltimore bridge

Investigators say crash appears an accident, working to determine cause as divers probe wreckage

A cargo ship is stuck under the part of the structure of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after the ship hit the bridge Tuesday March 26, 2024, in Baltimore, Md. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
FILE - Supporters of President Donald Trump riot at the Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump is making the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol a cornerstone of his bid to return to the White House. Trump opened his first rally as the presumed Republican Party presidential nominee standing in salute with a recorded chorus of Jan. 6 prisoners singing the national anthem. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Trump embracing Jan. 6 attack in his bid to return to the White House

2020 election-deniers being added to the Republican National Committee

FILE - Supporters of President Donald Trump riot at the Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump is making the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol a cornerstone of his bid to return to the White House. Trump opened his first rally as the presumed Republican Party presidential nominee standing in salute with a recorded chorus of Jan. 6 prisoners singing the national anthem. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)