BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Civil liberties groups filed a lawsuit this week to block Louisiana's new law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom, a measure they contend is unconstitutional. Plaintiffs in the suit include parents of Louisiana public school children with various religious backgrounds, who are represented [...]
Robin Alderman faces an agonizing reality: Gene therapy might cure her son Camden's rare, inherited immune deficiency. Yet it's not available to him. In 2022, London-based Orchard Therapeutics stopped investing in an experimental treatment for the condition, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, and there are no gene therapy studies he can join. "We feel like we are the [...]
MENOKEN, N.D. (AP) — Someday, the passenger jets that soar 35,000 feet over Dan McLean's North Dakota farm could be fueled by corn grown on his land and millions of other acres across the Midwest. It's a vision the U.S. airline industry embraces and agricultural groups see as a key to ensuring strong future sales [...]
France isn’t the only country producing top prospects for the NBA — it just sort of seems that way. Victor Wembanyama was the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft a year ago and went on to win the league’s Rookie of the Year award. Two more Frenchmen — Alexandre Sarr and Zaccharie Risacher — [...]
PARADISE, Calif. — The letter from the insurance company arrived just before Brian and Morgan Gobba finally finished construction on their new house: Their homeowner's policy was being canceled. The Gobbas were among the first families to return to Paradise after the 2018 Camp Fire killed 85 people and destroyed 90 percent of the homes [...]
LONDON — European Union regulators on Monday leveled their first charges under the bloc's new digital competition rulebook, accusing Apple of preventing app makers from pointing users to cheaper options outside its App Store. The European Commission said that according to the preliminary findings of its investigation, the restrictions that the iPhone maker imposes on [...]
NEW ORLEANS — Employers who challenged some federal health insurance requirements cannot be forced to provide no-cost coverage for certain types of preventive care, including HIV prep and some kinds of cancer screenings, a federal appeals court in New Orleans ruled. The ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is narrow, applying only [...]
OMAHA, Neb. — A new federal rule aims to ensure first responders can find out what hazardous chemicals are on a train almost immediately after a derailment so they can respond appropriately. Too often in past disasters such as last year's fiery Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine, firefighters risked their lives trying to extinguish [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Car dealerships in North America continue to wrestle with major disruptions that started last week with cyberattacks on a software company used widely in the auto retail sales sector. CDK Global, a company that provides software for thousands of auto dealers in the United States and Canada, was hit by back-to-back [...]