FTC orders company to quit surveillance app business
BOSTON (AP) — The Federal Trade Commission has for the first time banned a company that makes so-called stalkerware — software used to surreptitiously track a cellphone user's activities and location — from continuing in the surveillance app business. ...
Arizona Senate releases more records of 2020 election review
PHOENIX (AP) — Lawyers representing the Republican-controlled Arizona Senate in a review of 2020 election results in the state's most populous county released a slew of communications between GOP lawmakers, their audit liasions and others under a court...
Biden to survey Ida’s storm damage in Louisiana on Friday
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will visit Louisiana on Friday to survey the aftermath of Hurricane Ida and speak with local and state leaders, the White House said Wednesday. Biden will also deliver a speech Thursday outlining his administration...
Ex-FBI official accused of claiming hours he didn’t work
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A former section chief at the FBI’s Quantico laboratory is facing federal charges, accused of claiming nearly 900 hours of work he didn’t do over four years, according to court documents.
Mixed feelings in El Paso about looser Texas gun limits
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Martin Portillo got a gun after the mass shooting at a Walmart in his hometown of El Paso two years ago, even though it went against his upbringing.
South Dakota governor sends AG crash investigation to House
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Wednesday renewed her efforts to force the state’s attorney general from office after he hit and killed a pedestrian last year, delivering to the House speaker an external hard
QAnon event in Las Vegas loses Caesars Entertainment site
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Casino giant Caesars Entertainment Inc. said Wednesday that a conference scheduled next month in Las Vegas by a group espousing the fringe conspiracy theory known as QAnon won't be held at any Caesars property.
Alabama sets new execution date for inmate for 1991 murder
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has rescheduled the execution of a state inmate who had a lethal injection called off in February when the U.S. Supreme Court sided with his request to have his personal pastor with him in the
Highest one-day total since May: Alberta reports 1,315 new COVID-19 cases; 107 in ICU
EDMONTON — Alberta is reporting 1,315 new cases of COVID-19, the highest one-day total since mid-May, when the peak of the last wave began to recede. The province also says there are 465 infected people in hospital, including 107 in intensive
AP sources: Intel shows extremists to attend Capitol rally
WASHINGTON (AP) — Far right extremist groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are planning to attend a rally later this month at the U.S. Capitol that is designed to demand “justice” for the hundreds of people who have