TikTok logo displayed on a cellphone. Hyoung Chang | Denver Post | Getty Images Montana legislators approved a bill on Friday that would ban TikTok from being offered…
Read more Montana lawmakers pass bill to ban TikTokTikTok and its parent company combined to spend more than $13 million on lobbying federal government officials since 2019 — an effort that appears to have fallen flat…
Read more How TikTok and its parent company spent over $13 million on struggling lobbying campaignJERUSALEM — Israel’s ties to the Jewish American community, one of its closest and most important allies, are about to be put to the test, with Israel’s emerging…
Read more US Jews fear collision with expected Israeli governmentOTTUMWA, Iowa — A southeast Iowa school district failed to protect a Black student from pervasive racial harassment and now must take steps to help the student and…
Read more Iowa school district agrees to deal with racial harassmentPolice in Springfield, Missouri, are investigating after vandals spray-painted a swastika during a vandalism spree at an elementary school that is under construction SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Police in…
Read more Vandalism at Missouri elementary school includes a swastikaFARIBAULT, Minn. — A southern Minnesota school district voted Monday to accept a $1.1 million state grant meant to help curb drug use among students of color, after…
Read more Minnesota board accepts anti-drug aid for minority studentsTORONTO — The Canadian branch of Amnesty International said Monday it was the target of a cyber attack sponsored by China. The human rights organization said it first…
Read more Amnesty International Canada says it was hacked by BeijingUNITED NATIONS — The first attempt to survey the extent of violence and harassment at work around the globe has found that workplace abuse is widespread, and particularly…
Read more Global survey: workplace violence, harassment is widespreadWASHINGTON — Investigators believe a shooting that damaged power substations in North Carolina was a crime. What they haven’t named yet is a suspect or a motive. Whatever…
Read more EXPLAINER: US power grid has long faced terror threatWASHINGTON — About 200 protesters lit candles and shouted “Free China!” two blocks from the White House on Sunday in a show of support for demonstrations in China…
Read more Protesters near White House demand ‘Free China!’Now that he’s back on Twitter, neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin wants somebody to explain the rules. Anglin, the founder of an infamous neo-Nazi website, was reinstated Thursday, one of…
Read more As Musk is learning, content moderation is a messy jobNow that he’s back on Twitter, neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin wants somebody to explain the rules. Anglin, the founder of an infamous neo-Nazi website, was reinstated Thursday, one of…
Read more As Musk is learning, content moderation is a messy jobWASHINGTON — Performers such as Gladys Knight or the Irish band U2 usually would be headlining a concert for thousands but at Sunday’s Kennedy Center Honors the tables…
Read more George Clooney, Gladys Knight among Kennedy Center honoreesGUWAHATI, India — Anilya Boro may not have won the crown at India’s Miss Trans NE pageant this year, but having her parents there in support was a…
Read more AP PHOTOS: Pageant celebrates transgender life in IndiaLA VISTA, Neb. — A former employee at the Oriental Trading Co. has been sentenced to prison for leaving a noose on a floor scrubber that a Black…
Read more Nebraska man gets prison for leaving noose for coworkerDETROIT — Mamie King-Chalmers, who as a young Black woman appeared in an iconic photo about civil rights struggles in Alabama, has died at the age of 81.…
Read more Mamie King-Chalmers, woman in civil rights photo, dies at 81JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi man who burned a cross in his front yard to intimidate his Black neighbors pleaded guilty to a hate crime in federal court,…
Read more Man pleads guilty to federal hate crime for cross burningHAVANA — Cuba enacted a new penal code this week that activists and human rights organizations warned Friday could further limit free expression and snuff out protests at…
Read more Human rights groups criticize Cuba’s new criminal codeCONCORD, N.H. — Police and federal law enforcement officers are among 20 people from multiple states saying they were wounded by a popular type of Sig Sauer pistol,…
Read more Wounded officers sue Sig Sauer, say gun goes off by itselfTwitter has suspended rapper Ye after he tweeted a picture of a swastika merged with the Star of David. It is the second time this year that Ye…
Read more Musk says Twitter has suspended rapper Ye over swastika post
