EXPLAINER: What is the metaverse and how will it work?
By MATT O’BRIEN and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press The term “metaverse” is the latest buzzword to capture the tech industry’s imagination _…
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Dems trying to include help for immigrants in Biden plan
By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats want to again try letting millions of immigrants stay temporarily in the U.S. as…
Continue ReadingCounty botches Spanish-language ballot instructions
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Some Spanish-speaking voters in a heavily Hispanic city in Pennsylvania are at risk of being disenfranchised in…
Continue ReadingOfficial: Meeting didn’t impact Noem daughter’s application
By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press South Dakota’s labor secretary says officials had decided to give Gov. Kristi Noem’s daughter another chance…
Continue ReadingWisconsin sheriff seeks investigation of nursing home voting
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Racine County sheriff is accusing the Wisconsin Elections Commission of breaking the law…
Continue ReadingAmazon stumbles on slower sales growth, higher labor costs
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon isn’t just grappling with the easing of pandemic-induced splurges. The online…
Continue ReadingFacebook Inc.: A look at other corporate rebranding efforts
By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook Inc. says it is changing its name to Meta Platforms Inc., joining a long list of…
Continue ReadingIllegal pot edibles sold in California as popular snacks
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — California Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued a consumer alert warning about illegal, potent cannabis edibles for sale…
Continue ReadingGOP revels in Atlanta World Series after All-Star Game move
By JEFF AMY and JEFF MARTIN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The World Series shifts to Georgia on Friday amid a complicated stew of politics and…
Continue ReadingFeds: Hacker illegally streaming games tried to extort MLB
NEW YORK (AP) — A Minnesota man has been charged with trying to extort $150,000 from the MLB as he illegally streamed copyrighted content from…
Continue Reading3 guilty in killing of girl, 12, that shook New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Three men have pleaded guilty in connection with a summer shooting that left a 12-year-old New Orleans girl dead and outraged…
Continue ReadingPhiladelphia settles in fatal shooting of Walter Wallace Jr.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia has agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Walter Wallace Jr. after his shooting by…
Continue ReadingSen. Burr under investigation again for pandemic stock sales
By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr and his brother-in-law are under investigation for insider…
Continue ReadingS.D. high court: Warrants in Sanford probe will be unsealed
By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The South Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that search warrants will be unsealed in an…
Continue ReadingGordon Wood and Woody Holton clash over past and present
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — They are two prominent historians with very different views of the past — and the present.…
Continue ReadingOklahoma executes inmate who dies vomiting and convulsing
By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma has executed a man who stabbed a prison cafeteria worker to death in 1998 in the…
Continue ReadingUS proposes changes to Mexican gray wolf management
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal wildlife officials are proposing to change the way Mexican gray wolves are…
Continue ReadingLegal experts see strong self-defense claim for Rittenhouse
By MICHAEL TARM and TODD RICHMOND Associated Press When Kyle Rittenhouse goes on trial Monday for shooting three men during street protests in…
Continue Reading3 Arizona family members win $108M Mega Millions jackpot
PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Lottery has announced that three members of a family from Lake Havasu City have claimed the $108 million Mega Millions…
Continue ReadingIn the middle of a crisis, Facebook Inc. renames itself Meta
By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says his company is rebranding itself as Meta, an…
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