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ADVERTISEMENT View in Browser | APNews January 18, 2024 AP Afternoon Wire Advancing the Power of Facts What to know about the Justice Department’s report on police failures in the Uvalde school shooting The federal review, which was launched just days after the May 2022 shooting, provides a damning look at the missteps by police after a gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School. It was not a criminal investigation but one of the most exhaustive reviews of law enforcement’s failure to stop the attack. Read More. Netanyahu says he has told US he opposes Palestinian state in any postwar scenario Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday rejected U.S. calls to scale back Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip or take steps toward the establishment of a Palestinian state after the war, drawing an immediate scolding from the White House. Read More. Congress votes to avert a shutdown and keep the government funded through early March Congress sent President Joe Biden a short-term spending bill on Thursday that would avert a looming partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies into March. The measure extends current spending levels and buys time for the two chambers to work out their differences over full-year spending bills for the fiscal year that began in October. Read More. Potential problems with New Hampshire’s aging ballot scanners could prompt conspiracy theories When New Hampshire voters cast their ballots in Tuesday’s first-in-the-nation primary, many will do so using scanners that are at least 15 years old — with some potentially dating back to Bill Clinton’s presidency. Read More. < Top Trending            |            APNews.com > ADVERTISEMENT Transgender candidate facing disqualification now cleared to run despite omitting deadname A transgender candidate vying for a seat in the Republican-majority Ohio House was cleared to run Thursday after her certification had been called into question for omitting her former name on qualifying petitions as required by a little-used state elections law. Read More. Melania Trump remembers her mother as ‘a ray of light in the darkest days’ Former First Lady Melania Trump on Thursday remembered her mother as “a ray of light in the darkest of days” during a funeral service at a church not far from the family’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Read More. Court upholds block on Texas law requiring school book vendors to provide sexual content ratings Backers of the law, signed last year by Gov. Greg Abbott, have said it is designed to protect children from inappropriate sexual material. The law’s opponents said it could result in bans on literary classics such as “Romeo and Juliet” and “Of Mice and Men” in schools. Read More. Atlanta’s Spelman College just got the largest-ever single donation to an HBCU A billionaire couple is giving $100 million to Atlanta’s Spelman College, which the women’s school says is the largest-ever single donation to a historically Black college or university. Read More. ADVERTISEMENT Trending Now Largest deep-sea coral reef to date is mapped by scientists off the US Atlantic coast While researchers have known since the 1960s that some coral were present off the Atlantic, the reef’s size remained a mystery until new underwater mapping technology made it possible to construct 3D images of the ocean floor. Read More. We could see the world’s first trillionaire in the next decade. Here are some of today’s richest 1% In an annual assessment of global inequalities published earlier this week, Oxfam International said the first trillionaire could emerge within the next decade — as the anti-poverty organization pointed to the growing wealth gap that skyrocketed globally during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More. < Top Trending            |            APNews.com > ADVERTISEMENT SUPPORT THE AP. DONATE. *Advertisers have no control over editorial decisions or content. If you're interested in advertising, contact us here.