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Florida governor signs bill allowing more armed teachers

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - More Florida teachers will be eligible to carry guns in the classroom under a bill Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Wednesday that immediately implements recommendations from a ...

May 08, 2019

Santa Fe Opera announces plans to stage world premieres

SANTA FE, N.M. - World-premiere operas derived from the gender-bending Broadway hit "M. Butterfly" and from meditations on Victorian-era repression in Bram Stroker's "Dracula" are coming to the Santa ...

May 08, 2019

Refusal to hand over Trump's tax returns sets up legal fight

WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has made it official: The administration won't be turning President Donald Trump's tax returns over to the Democratic-controlled House. Mnuchin told Ways...

May 08, 2019

Can fines rein in Big Tech? Privacy regulators spur a debate

WASHINGTON - As they negotiate a record fine against Facebook, federal privacy regulators sparked a debate in Congress Wednesday over how effective such penalties can be in preventing future abuses by...

May 08, 2019

Police arrests end sit-in against policing at Johns Hopkins

Baltimore police arrested seven people on Wednesday as they ended a monthlong sit-in in the lobby of an administrative building at Johns Hopkins University, where a group of protesters have demonstrat...

May 08, 2019

Deborah Dugan, CEO of (RED), picked to lead the Grammys

NEW YORK - Deborah Dugan, the CEO of Bono's (RED) organization, has been named president and CEO of the Recording Academy, becoming the first woman appointed to lead the organization. The academy anno...

May 08, 2019

Trump administration seeks to target nationwide injunctions

WASHINGTON - Vice-President Mike Pence will announce Wednesday that the Trump administration intends to challenge the right of federal district courts to issue nationwide injunctions. He'll make the a...

May 08, 2019

Ice Cube, others mourn director Singleton at private funeral

LOS ANGELES - Family, friends and dignitaries including Ice Cube, Stevie Wonder and Congresswoman Maxine Waters were among those mourning director John Singleton at his Los Angeles funeral on Monday. ...

May 08, 2019

Coffee cup in 'Game of Thrones' scene perks up viewers

LOS ANGELES - "Game of Thrones" fans got a taste of the modern world when eagle-eyed viewers spotted a takeout coffee cup on the table during a celebration in which the actors drank from goblets and h...

May 08, 2019

Wool wrap for royal baby suggests tradition will win out

LONDON - Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor slept through his first press conference, but royal experts say the merino wool wrap in which he snuggled said a lot about how his parents, Prince Harry an...

May 08, 2019