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As US colleges raise the stakes for protests, activists are weighing new strategies 09/07/2024 02:59pm • University of Southern California law student Elizabeth Howell-Egan isn���t allowed on campus because of her role in last spring���s anti-war protests, but she is keeping up her activism. She and like-minded students are holding online sessions on the Israel-Hamas war and passing out fliers outside A hurricane-damaged Louisiana skyscraper is imploded 09/07/2024 11:13am • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) ��� An abandoned, 22-story building in Lake Charles, Louisiana ��� once an icon in the city that became a symbol of destruction from hurricanes Laura and Delta ��� was imploded Saturday after sitting vacant for nearly four years. The Hertz Tower crashed down in a matter of sec A wish at Rome's Trevi Fountain could soon cost more than the coin you toss 09/07/2024 03:25am • ROME (AP) ��� Seemingly every tourist in Rome knows the key to returning to the Eternal City is to toss a coin into the Trevi Fountain and make a wish. The result: Hoards of visitors packing the Baroque monument any given day, taking selfies and betting on a return trip. Officials are now considerin RFK Jr. notches wins in North Carolina and Michigan in his effort to get off ballots 09/06/2024 08:25pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� Robert F. Kennedy Jr. scored a pair of legal victories Friday in the battleground states of North Carolina and Michigan, and a setback in Wisconsin, in his quest to get his name off of the ballots in some states after he suspended his campaign and endorsed former President Don Election 2024 Latest: Judge postpones sentencing in Trump's hush money case until after the election 09/06/2024 04:04pm • A judge has agreed to postpone Donald Trump ���s sentencing in his New York hush money case until after the November election. Judge Juan M. Merchan said in his decision Friday that he wanted to avoid any perception that the sentence was intended to tilt the scales in the presidential campaign. The Supreme Court Justice Alito reports German princess gave him $900 concert tickets 09/06/2024 04:03pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Justice Samuel Alito reported Friday that he accepted $900 worth of concert tickets from a German princess, but disclosed no trips paid for by other people, according to a new financial disclosure form. The required annual filing, for which Alito has often sought an extension, d Mayor of Alabama's capital becomes latest to try to limit GOP 'permitless carry' law 09/06/2024 03:22pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ��� The mayor of Alabama���s state capital signed a local ordinance into law on Friday requiring anyone carrying a concealed firearm to also carry a photo ID, saying Republican lawmakers' decision to toss permit requirements for concealed guns had hindered police officers' abil Police deny Venezuela gang has taken over rundown apartment complex in Denver suburb 09/05/2024 06:03pm • AURORA, Colo. (AP) ��� Police in the Denver suburb of Aurora say a Venezuela street gang with a small presence in the city has not taken over a rundown apartment complex ��� yet the allegation continues to gain steam among conservatives and was amplified by former President Donald Trump in a Wednesd US secures the release of 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners 09/05/2024 05:22pm • GUATEMALA CITY (AP) ��� The U.S. government announced Thursday that it secured the release of 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners, who have arrived in Guatemala where they will apply for entry to the United States or other countries. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said in a statement that th How do you know when AI is powerful enough to be dangerous? Regulators try to do the math 09/05/2024 01:17pm • How do you know if an artificial intelligence system is so powerful that it poses a security danger and shouldn���t be unleashed without careful oversight? For regulators trying to put guardrails on AI, it���s mostly about the arithmetic. Specifically, an AI model trained on 10 to the 26th floating You aren't likely to lose a job in the US but may find it harder to land one 09/05/2024 09:15am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Laid off by the music streaming service Spotify last year, Joovay Arias figured he���d land another job as a software engineer fairly soon. His previous job search, in 2019, had been a breeze. ���Back then," he said, ���I had tons of recruiters reaching out to me ��� to the point Maryland will participate in the IRS's online tax filing program 09/05/2024 05:26am • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ��� Maryland is participating in the IRS's Direct File program, a new free service that will allow eligible taxpayers to prepare and file their tax return online, state and federal officials announced Wednesday. Comptroller Brooke Lierman said the eligibility qualifications fo America is trying to fix its maternal mortality crisis with federal, state and local programs 09/04/2024 10:06am • TULSA, Okla. (AP) ��� At the site of a race massacre that reduced neighborhoods to ashes a century ago, where murals memorialize a once-thriving ��� Black Wall Street,��� one African American mother strives to keep others from dying as they try to bring new life into the world. Black women are more What is the cellphone policy at your child's DC-area school? 09/04/2024 04:00am • From vaping, the cost of school supplies to cellphone policies, the WTOP team is studying up on hot-button topics in education across the D.C. region. Follow on air and online in our series�����WTOP Goes Back to School�����this August and September. Cellphone use in schools has become one of the Raise taxes on the rich or cut them? Harris, Trump differ on how to boost the US economy 09/04/2024 12:01am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Donald Trump is betting that Americans crave trillions of dollars in tax cuts ��� and that growth will be so fantastic that it's not worth worrying about budget deficits. In short, he's hoping that most economic analyses of his ideas are dead wrong. Vice President Kamala Harris