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Idaho’s near-total abortion ban will not take full effect Thursday as planned after a federal judge temporarily blocked parts of the law. “Idaho’s choice to impose severe and sweeping sanctions that decrease the overall availability of emergency abortion care flies in the face of Congress’s deliberate decision to do the opposite,” wrote Idaho District Court Judge Lynn Winmill. The law would’ve ban...

President Joe Biden confirmed Wednesday what many have anticipated for months – a plan to forgive or reduce student loan debt for millions of debt-saddled borrowers. If you earn less than $125,000 annually, he said, you're eligible to receive cancellation of up to $10,000 in federal student loans. If you received a Pell Grant, you can get up to $20,000 forgiven. If you're not eligible for any stud...

The Justice Department has released a long-sought legal memo arguing that then-President Donald Trump’s actions during special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation did not warrant prosecution for obstruction of justice, even if a president was susceptible to criminal charges while in office. In the nine-page memo disclosed Wednesday, two of the most senior officials in the Justice D...

UVALDE, Texas — Pete Arredondo has been fired as Uvalde CISD's chief of police. The decision is effective immediately. The vote by district school board members was unanimous Wednesday evening, in a meeting where the embattled Arredondo – who led the botched law enforcement response at Robb Elementary exactly three months ago – was a no-show. Instead, his attorney submitted a 17-page statement cal...

As Ukrainians marked the 31st anniversary of their country’s break from the Soviet Union with a somber parade in Kyiv on Wednesday, Russia launched a deadly missile attack on a train station and residential area in a town 300 miles to the southeast, killing at least 25 people and wounding dozens more, officials said. https://www.tsbrenterprises.co/all-pages

Vanessa Bryant and her co-plaintiff, Chris Chester, have been awarded a combined $31 million by a Los Angeles jury. The final verdict was reached late Wednesday afternoon with the jury finding Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) and Fire Department (LAFD) did share photos of the bodies of Bryant and Chris' loved ones and in doing so invaded their privacy and caused emotional distress. h...

Transgender activists have had a terrible few weeks. In a recent announcement from the United Kingdom's attorney general, sex-segregated bathrooms must be provided in schools, teachers cannot assist children in "social transitioning" without their parents' permission, and teachers aren't necessarily required to use a student's new "preferred pronouns."

In digital marketing, it’s so easy (and tempting) to separate the various sub-disciplines into their little worlds. Here’s SEO over here, the big one. Then there’s social media marketing, and over here are PPC ads. But that’s a black-and-white view of things. In this case, I want to talk about the intersection of PPC and great content. If that statement doesn’t even make sense to you, then this po...

A coalition of armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has killed at least seven people this week in clashes between community militias over mineral trafficking in the highlands of South Kivu, eastern DRC, local sources said Friday.

“Some random guy walks out the door telling us to back up and starts pushing up,” said witness Sebastian Alvarado. “We didn’t take that too lightly, a few of our friends were talking back to him. He was saying he was going to beat us all up.”

LeBron James agreed to a two-year, $97.1 million extension with the Los Angeles Lakers that includes a player option for the 2024-25 season on August 17th. Despite committing to the Lakers for at least the 2023-24 season, James remains “privately adamant” that the roster needs to be improved, according to an August 17th report from Jovan Buha of The Athletic.

A magistrate judge in Florida on Thursday said, despite Justice Department objections, he may seek to unseal portions of the affidavit supporting the search warrant executed at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate last week. After hearing in-person arguments on a request from a coalition of media outlets to make the affidavit public, the judge said he might decide that at least a port...

A single-engine Cessna 152 and a twin-engine Cessna 340 collided during their final decent, according to a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration. One person was on board the Cessna 152 and two people were on board the Cessna 340, the FAA said. No one was injured on the ground, the FAA added. A pet on board one of the planes was also killed, Montesino said.

An ammunition depot in Russia’s southern Belgorod region bordering Ukraine ignited late Thursday, the region’s governor wrote on his social-media pages. Around the same time, unverified videos on social media showed billowing clouds of smoke and fire in the city of Kadiivka in Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region, which Russian forces captured in early July. Russian-installed authorities in Luhansk sa...

Biden will deliver a keynote speech at the gathering, which the White House says will include civil rights groups, faith leaders, business executives, law enforcement, gun violence prevention advocates, former members of violent hate groups, the victims of extremist violence and cultural figures. The White House emphasized that it also intends to bring together Democrats and Republicans, as well a...

R. Kelly’s attorney will get the chance Friday to cross-examine the key witness in his Chicago federal trial, a woman who now says she was the young teenager seen on an infamous sex tape that led to Kelly’s indictment on child pornography charges two decades ago.

HOOD COUNTY, Texas — A 9-year-old boy has died after he was accidentally shot by his father, according to the Hood County Sherriff's Office. The sheriff's office said deputies responded to a home on Abbey Park Court in the Acton area of Hood County. Sheriff Roger Deeds told WFAA that "a terrible accident occurred where a father accidentally shot his 9-year-old son." https://www.tsbrenterprises.co/...

Meta is rolling out new tools to help small business advertisers take advantage of advances in AI and automation. When creating an ad through a Facebook page, small businesses can now utilize Meta’s Advantage+ advertising technologies. Advantage+, Meta’s most advanced AI and automation offering for advertisers, was exclusive to full-fledged campaigns. Now, it will be used when running single ads....

At the "Summit for the Future" in 2023, the UN, together with civil society and the private sector, are expected to agree on shared principles for an "open, free and secure digital future for all". This includes promoting a "trustworthy Internet" with accountability criteria for discrimination and misleading content as well as regulating Artificial Intelligence to be consistent with "our shared gl...

KIGALI, Rwanda — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said on Thursday that he had urged the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to end their support for militias in eastern Congo, warning that continuing to back the groups threatened stability across the Great Lakes region of Africa. “Whoever it’s by, whoever it’s to, that support has to cease,” Mr. Blinken said at a news confe...

OnlyFans star Courtney Clenney has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of her estranged boyfriend at their Miami apartment earlier this year, according to reports. The 25-year-old influencer, who goes by Courtney Tailor on social media, was arrested in Hawaii on Wednesday and is currently awaiting extradition to Florida, where she’ll face a second degree murder charge for allegedly kill...

Gasoline prices have dipped under $4 for the first time in more than five months — good news for consumers who are struggling with high prices for many other essentials. AAA said the national average for a gallon of regular was $3.99 on Thursday, down from the mid-June record of $5.02. However, that’s still about 80 cents higher than the average a year ago. https://www.tsbrenterprises.co/all-pages

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Authorities on Thursday identified the three people killed in a house explosion that rocked an suburban Indiana neighborhood and damaged nearly 40 homes. Officials were still investigating the cause of Wednesday's blast but said it was accidental. The Vanderburgh County Coroner's Office released the names of those who died: Charles "Charlie" Hi...

A male with a firearm remains in a standoff with law enforcement in Clinton County after he tried to gain entry to the Cincinnati FBI field office Thursday morning, officials said. Lt. Nathan Dennis with the Ohio State Highway Patrol said troopers have the male suspect contained and a perimeter has been established. He said there's currently no threat to the public. https://www.tsbrenterprises.co/...

In brief remarks from the Justice Department as the government filed its request in federal court, Garland defended the move to have dozens of federal agents descend on Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago, saying he "does not take such decisions lightly." He noted, however, that he was bound by federal law, department rules and ethical obligations from providing more information about the basis of the...