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This image released by Netflix shows Edward Norton in a scene from "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery." Norton portrays Miles Bron, an eccentric tech billionaire who brings his wealthy friends to a private island in Greece to take part in a game to solve his murder. (John Wilson/Netflix via AP)

When Hollywood needs a movie villain, the tech bro answers

“A toast to the disruptors,” Edward Norton’s tech billionaire says in Rian Johnson’s Oscar-nominated “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.” And why not a toast? Sunday’s Academy Awards … more

By JAKE COYLE | 3/7/23

Misty Lenwell, mother of Jayden Pienta, receives a hug after speaking to students during a walkout at Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa, Calif., Monday, March 6, 2023. Pienta was fatally stabbed during a fight between students in a classroom at the school last week. (Christopher Chung/The Press Democrat via AP)

School safety talks planned after California fatal stabbing

A Northern California school district plans to hear community concerns about campus safety in the wake of a fatal stabbing at a high school. The school district will hold a “listening session” … more

3/7/23

FILE - video footage of Bakhmut shot from the air with a drone for The Associated Press on Monday, Feb. 13, 2023, shows how the longest battle of the year-long Russian invasion has turned the city of salt and gypsum mines in eastern Ukraine into a ghost town. The relentless Russian bombardment has reduced Bakhmut to smoldering wasteland with few buildings still standing intact as Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have fought ferocious house-to-house battles amid the ruins. (AP Photo, File)

Battle for Bakhmut takes center stage in war in Ukraine

Bakhmut, a city in eastern Ukraine, has been the focus of a Russian attacks for six months in the war’s longest and bloodiest battle. Little known outside Ukraine before the war, it has grown into … more

By The Associated Press | 3/7/23

The likeness of Benjamin Franklin is seen on a U.S. $100 bill, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, in Marple Township, Pa. If you are concerned you may be laid off, start saving. It's crucial to start building an emergency fund even when you feel secure at your job but especially if you think you might lose it. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

What to do if you're concerned you might be laid off

The job market in the U.S. remains strong overall, but recent high-profile layoffs at technology and media companies and predictions of a recession later this year have raised concerns about job … more

By ADRIANA MORGA | 3/7/23

FILE - Architect David Alan Chipperfield poses outside of the James-Simon-Galerie at the 'Museumsinsel', Museums Island, in Berlin, Germany, on July 1, 2019. Chipperfield is this year's recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. (Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Pritzker Prize awarded to British architect Chipperfield

The Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to British architect and urban planner David Alan Chipperfield, who was hailed on Tuesday for “a commitment to an architecture of understated but … more

By JOCELYN NOVECK | 3/7/23

This photo provided by NASA shows Emerati astronaut Sultan al-Neyadi during an interview at the International Space Station on Tuesday, March 7, 2023. The first Arab astronaut assigned to a long spaceflight is still adjusting to life off the planet, five days after rocketing to the International Space Station. (NASA via AP)

Latest astronaut from UAE getting used to space

The second astronaut from the United Arab Emirates is still adjusting to life off the planet, after rocketing to the International Space Station last week. Sultan al-Neyadi assured Dubai's ruler on … more

By MARCIA DUNN | 3/7/23

This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows inmate Gary Green. Green is facing execution for fatally stabbing his estranged wife and drowning her 6-year-old daughter in a bathtub in September 2009. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)

Man faces execution in death of estranged wife, her daughter

A Texas inmate is facing a scheduled execution Tuesday evening for fatally stabbing his estranged wife and drowning her 6-year-old daughter in a bathtub nearly 14 years ago. Gary Green is set to … more

By JUAN A. LOZANO | 3/7/23

FILE - Michael Scott Moore, author of "The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast," poses for a portrait at Los Angeles Public Library in Los Angeles on June 20, 2018. Federal prosecutors say two men have been convicted of helping Somali pirates who kidnapped Moore in 2012 for ransom and held him for 2 1/2 years. The U.S. attorney's office says Mohamed Tahlil Mohamed and Abdi Yusuf Hassan were convicted by a federal court jury in New York on Feb. 24, 2023, and could face life sentences. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

US citizen, Somali convicted in journalist's hostage-taking

Federal prosecutors say two men have been convicted of helping Somali pirates who kidnapped a U.S. journalist for ransom and held him for 2 1/2 years. The U.S. attorney's office says Mohamed Tahlil … more

3/6/23

Man accused of trying to open jet's door, attacking crew

Federal prosecutors say a Massachusetts man tried to open an airliner’s emergency door on a cross-country flight from Los Angeles to Boston and then tried to stab a flight attendant in the neck … more

3/6/23

FILE - Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director David Rausch speaks during a press conference, in Memphis, Jan. 26, 2023. Tennessee is outsourcing the testing of at least 550 rape kits to a private Florida lab through a $1.5 million federal grant, the state's lead investigative agency announced Monday, March 6, 2023, in a move aimed at reducing processing times that have drawn scrutiny. Rausch in September highlighted other plans for the agency to approach the problem, saying at the time his aim is to reduce turnaround times to eight to 12 weeks within a year for all evidence. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian via AP, File)

Florida lab to test 550 Tennessee rape kits with $1.5M grant

Tennessee is outsourcing testing of at least 550 rape kits to a private Florida lab under a $1.5 million federal grant. On Monday, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced the move that aims … more

By JONATHAN MATTISE | 3/6/23

FILE - Police tape blocks off a Waffle House restaurant on April 22, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn., after a gunman opened fire at the restaurant. An Illinois man has been sentenced Friday, March 3, 2023, to 18 months in prison after being convicted of illegally giving his son an assault-style rifle he later used to shoot and kill four people at a Waffle House in Tennessee. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Father of Nashville Waffle House shooter gets 18 months

An Illinois man has received an 18-month prison sentence after being convicted of illegally giving his son an assault-style rifle he later used in a 2018 shooting attack that killed four people at a … more

3/6/23

A view of the scene Feb. 24, 2023, as the cleanup continues at the site of of a Norfolk Southern freight train derailment that happened on Feb. 3 in East Palestine, Ohio. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Monday, March 6, 2023 that Norfolk Southern has pledged several million dollars to cover the cost of the response and recovery in Pennsylvania after last month's derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals just across the border in Ohio. (AP Photo/Matt Freed, file)

Norfolk Southern announces safety upgrades amid derailments

Norfolk Southern says it plans to improve the use of detectors along the tracks that are supposed to spot overheating bearings and other problems in the wake of a fiery Ohio derailment a month ago. … more

By RON TODT | 3/6/23

FILE - This Nov. 2014, file photo provided by the U.S. National Park Service shows a mountain lion known as P-22, photographed in the Griffith Park area near downtown Los Angeles. Tribal leaders, scientists and conservation advocates buried Southern California's most famous mountain lion Saturday in the mountains where the big cat once roamed. (U.S. National Park Service, via AP, File)

Tribes bury Southern California's famed mountain lion, P-22

Tribal leaders, scientists and conservation advocates have buried Southern California’s most famous mountain lion Saturday in the mountains where the big cat once roamed. After making his home in … more

By STEFANIE DAZIO | 3/6/23

Snowfall surrounds businesses in Crestline, Calif., Friday, March 3, 2023, following a huge snowfall that buried homes and businesses. (Watchara Phomicinda/The Orange County Register via AP)

Californians still digging out from severe snowfall

Residents of Southern California mountain towns are still struggling to dig out and get necessities in the aftermath of a blizzard last month that dumped so much snow that roads became impassable and … more

3/6/23

FILE- A line of Holstein dairy cows feed through a fence at a dairy farm on March 11, 2009, outside Jerome, Idaho. Greenhouse gas emissions from the way humans consume food could add nearly one degree of warming to the Earth’s climate by 2100, according to a new study Monday, March 6, 2023. Researchers found that the majority of greenhouse gas emissions come from three major food groups — meat from animals like cows, sheep and goats, dairy and rice. (AP Photo/Charlie Litchfield, File)

Food consumption may add nearly 1 degree of warming by 2100

Greenhouse gas emissions from the way humans consume food could add nearly 1 degree of warming to Earth’s climate by 2100, according to a study out Monday in Nature Climate Change. The scientists … more

BY DREW COSTLEY | 3/6/23

FILE - Defendant Alex Murdaugh gives testimony during his murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., on Feb. 23, 2023. Prosecutors in the case against Murdaugh had no murder weapon or any other direct evidence linking him to the killings of his wife and son. Yet, a jury took less than three hours to convict him — thanks, in large part, to the defendant himself. (Grace Beahm Alford/The Post And Courier via AP, Pool, File)

Jurors: Murdaugh didn't help his defense by testifying

Three jurors say Alex Murdaugh didn't help himself by testifying in his own defense against charges he murdered his wife and son. Jurors told the NBC Today show on Monday that Murdaugh only managed … more

The Associated Press | 3/6/23

FILE - Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, left, looks over the electric chair in the death chamber at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va., with Operations Director George Hinkle, center, and Director of the Department of Corrections Harold Clarke, right, prior to signing a bill abolishing the state's death penalty, March 24, 2021. The Virginia Department of Corrections has recorded audio of at least 30 executions over the last three decades, but it has no plans to release the tapes publicly. The department rejected an Associated Press request under the state's public records law to release the recordings after NPR obtained and reported on four of them. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Virginia DOC says execution audio tapes should remain secret

The Virginia Department of Corrections has recorded audio of at least 30 executions over the last three decades, but it has no plans to release the tapes publicly. The department rejected an … more

By DENISE LAVOIE and SARAH RANKIN | 3/6/23

FILE - Several different versions of the NJOY electronic cigarettes are shown in Richmond, Va., Friday, March 22, 2013. Days after exiting its stake in troubled electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs, Altria announced a $2.75 billion investment in electronic cigarette startup NJOY Holdings Inc. “We believe we can responsibly accelerate U.S. adult smoker and competitive adult vaper adoption of NJOY ACE in ways that NJOY could not as a standalone company,” Altria CEO Billy Gifford said in a statement on Monday, March 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Altria makes $2.75B investment in e-cigarette startup NJOY

Days after exiting its stake in troubled electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs, Altria announced a $2.75 billion investment in electronic cigarette startup NJOY Holdings Inc. As part of the deal, … more

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN | 3/6/23

Exxon Mobil sued as 5 nooses displayed at Louisiana facility

The U.S. government says Exxon Mobil violated federal law for failing to take sufficient action as five hangman's nooses were displayed at a facility in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The lawsuit was filed … more

3/5/23

Multiple cars of a Norfolk Southern cargo train lie toppled on one another after derailing at a train crossing with Ohio 41 in Clark County, Ohio, Saturday, March 4, 2023. (Bill Lackey/Springfield-News Sun via AP)

Latest Ohio derailment poses no public risk, officials say

Authorities in Ohio say there is no indication of any risk to public health from the derailment of a Norfolk Southern cargo train between Dayton and Columbus, the second derailment of a company train … more

3/5/23