By ADRIAN SAINZ, Associated Press BROWNSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Ford Motor Co. officials on Tuesday pledged to be good neighbors to those in rural West Tennessee who live near the automaker’s planned electric truck factory, a project expected to create thousands of jobs and change the face of the region. More than 200 people attended … Read more
By AMANDA SEITZ, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – The social media posts are of a distinct type. They hint darkly that the CIA or the FBI are behind mass shootings. They traffic in racist, sexist and homophobic tropes. They revel in the prospect of a “white boy summer.” White nationalists and supremacists, on accounts often … Read more
By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – The Biden administration on Wednesday accused three US companies of sending to China blueprints and technical drawings for satellite and rocket technology and other defense prototypes. The Commerce Department leveled the allegations as it blocked the three companies from exporting items to foreign countries for 180 days. … Read more
By DAVID KLEPPER, Associated Press The young man in jeans and sunglasses proudly shows off his gun in the YouTube video, then instructs his 1 million subscribers how to fit an extra clip in his gun belt, and offers a chilling observation. “Pretty cool for active shooter stuff, if you need extra mags.” It’s a … Read more
By AMANDA SEITZ, Associated Press Washington (AP) – The warning signs were there for anyone to stumble upon, days before the 18-year-old gunman entered a Texas elementary school on Tuesday, slaughtering 19 children and two teachers. There was the Instagram photo of a hand holding a gun magazine, a TikTok profile that warned, “Kids be … Read more
By ADAM BEAM, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California could soon hold social media companies responsible for harming children who have become addicted to their products, permitting parents to sue platforms like Instagram and TikTok for up to $ 25,000 per violation under a bill that passed the state Assembly on Monday. The bill … Read more
By AMANDA SEITZ, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – Nina Jankowicz, like so many millennials, was excited to share a social media post announcing her new job on Twitter late last month when she was named executive director for a new disinformation board established by the Department of Homeland Security. But instead of well-wishes, Jankowicz’s tweet … Read more
By BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A toxic cesspool. A lifeline. A finger on the world’s pulse. Twitter is all these things and more to its over 217 million users around the world – politicians, journalists, activists, celebrities, weirdos and normies, cat and dog lovers and just about anyone else with … Read more
By BRIAN SLODYSKO and FATIMA HUSSEIN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – Erin Houchin braced for the worst when a mysterious, well-financed group started buying television ads last month in her highly competitive southern Indiana congressional race. Houchin assumed she would face a negative blitz, like the one that crushed her in 2016 when she ran … Read more
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Telecommunications industry groups on Wednesday ended their bid to block California’s net neutrality law that bars broadband providers from throttling service. In a federal court filing in Sacramento, the groups and California Attorney General Rob Bonta jointly agreed to dismiss the case. The move followed a January decision by the 9th … Read more