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An Oregon senator plans to introduce a bill Thursday that would dramatically increase the security of the benefits cards that low-income families use to buy groceries. The bill comes amid a startling number of thefts from participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, whose electronic benefits transfer cards contain data …

MAGA Inc., the super PAC backing former President Donald Trump’s presidential bid, is questioning President Joe Biden’s ability to serve a second term in a new TV ad, with a narrator asking if Biden can “even survive til 2029.” The ad begins with a video clip showing Biden pausing during …

Netflix is coming out swinging in the world of live sports. Mike Tyson, the scandal-plagued former heavyweight champion, will go head to head with the YouTuber-turned-fighter Jake Paul in a “boxing mega-event” that will stream live exclusively on Netflix on July 20, the entertainment giant announced Thursday. Tyson and Paul …

In Hollywood, actor Kevin Bacon is a big star. In Wisconsin’s Kenosha County, Kevin Bacon is one big pig! The 450-pound porker wandered from his pen last week then moseyed on down the road, where he was caught hamming it up on the Molgaard family’s security camera. “My wife spotted …

Sweden is expected to formally join NATO in Washington on Thursday, two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine forced a complete rethink of its national security policy and the realization the alliance offered the best guarantee of safety. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson is in Washington to hand over the final documentation, …

WASHINGTON — A former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets from the company while secretly working with two companies based in China, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Linwei Ding, a Chinese national, was arrested in Newark, California, on four counts of federal trade …

Just three days before the Oscars, the 11th annual UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report noted an important milestone: For the first time in the report’s history, the top 2023 films were those with the most diverse casts. Three franchise movies highlighted in the report — “Creed III,” “Scream VI” and “John …

Aboard her 40-foot racing boat First Light, 29-year-old Cole Brauer just became the first American woman to race nonstop around the world by herself. The New York native pulled into A Coruña, Spain, on Thursday after a treacherous 30,000-mile journey that took 130 days. She thanked a cheering crowd of family and fans who had been waiting for her on-shore. “This …

Tech firms and Silicon Valley billionaires have been pouring money into nuclear energy for years, pitching the sustainable power source as crucial to the green transition. Now they have another incentive to promote it: artificial intelligence. While generative AI has grown at lightning speed, nuclear power projects are heavily regulated …

With the Oscars quickly approaching, it’s time to catch up on this year’s most popular nominated films.  The 96th Academy Awards ceremony Sunday will honor queer storylines that span decades, geographies and genres, taking us from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s (“Rustin”) to the French Alps (“Anatomy of …

A look at the war in Gaza five months after the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel. Alabama passes a new law to protect in vitro fertilization, weeks after a controversial state Supreme Court ruling. And why a Chinese American family in California is donating millions for Black college students. Here’s …

Thai customs officials rescued a red panda, snakes, monkeys and chameleons from checked-in luggage at the country’s main airport this week after arresting six Indian nationals for attempted smuggling. A total of 87 reptiles and mammals were found in the baggage, including chameleons, snakes, a large-beaked parrot, red-eyed squirrels, bats …

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Nikki Haley’s campaign is over, but the fight to win over her supporters has just begun. With former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden essentially set in stone as their parties’ respective presidential nominees, the Haley voting bloc — those who previously cast ballots for Trump …

Gayle Borne has fostered more than 300 children in Springfield, Tennessee. She’s cared for kids who have rarely seen a doctor — kids so neglected that they cannot speak. Such children are now even more vulnerable because of a law Tennessee passed last year that requires the direct consent of …

Five months after Hamas launched multipronged attacks on Israel, almost half of Gaza’s buildings lie in ruins and at least 30,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry, which, along with aid agencies, is warning that some of the most vulnerable children in the territory have begun …

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for greater war fighting capabilities against the United States and South Korea, state media reported Thursday, after his defense ministry vowed to respond to the ongoing South Korean-U.S. military drills that it views as an invasion rehearsal. During a visit to a western …

BEIJING — China’s foreign minister said Thursday that the United States was “obsessed” with suppressing China, potentially jeopardizing efforts to strengthen relations between the world’s two biggest economies. Relations fell to their lowest point in decades last year amid disputes over tech, trade, human rights, the status of Taiwan, an …

Three teens and a 20-year-old have been indicted in the death of an Arizona 16-year-old who was found badly beaten outside of a Halloween party last year, the Maricopa County prosecutor said. The beating of Preston Lord, 16, who died two days after he was found on a road in …

An Alabama fertility clinic that paused in vitro fertilization services last month expects to resume them now that state lawmakers have passed a bill to protect doctors and clinics that discard embryos as part of routine IVF services. The bill “provides the protections that we need to start care — …

The decision to blow open five tank cars and burn the toxic chemical inside them after a freight train derailed in Eastern Ohio last year wasn’t justified, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board told Congress Wednesday. But, she said, the key decision-makers who feared those tank cars were going to explode three days after …