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In a classic “Saturday Night Live” sketch, a young man hands his girlfriend a Valentine’s Day gift: a bear dressed in a bee costume that he picked up at the drugstore. “When did you get this?” she asks with a strained smile. “One minute ago,” he replies. It has more than a ring of truth. For a day meant to …

New York City, its schools and public hospital system announced a lawsuit Wednesday against the tech giants that run Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube, blaming their “addictive and dangerous” social media platforms for fueling a childhood mental health crisis that is disrupting learning and draining resources. Children and adolescents are especially susceptible to harm because their brains are not …

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan Republican accused of participating in a fake elector plot after the 2020 presidential election testified Wednesday that he did not know how the electoral process worked and never intended to make a false public record. “We were told this was an appropriate process,” James Renner, 77, said during a preliminary hearing for a half-dozen …

NEW YORK (AP) — When Kate Kleinart fell victim of a romance scam, what hurt the most wasn’t the thousands of dollars that she lost, but the love that she thought existed between her and the person who scammed her. “Losing the love was worse than losing the money,” said Kleinart, 70, who lost tens of thousands to a romance …

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin woman accused of killing a man who sexually assaulted her and other underage girls was arrested in Louisiana after nearly two weeks on the run. U.S. marshals took Chrystul Kizer, 23, of Milwaukee, into custody on Monday. She was being held in the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center, online jail records show. Kizer was free …

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Lawmakers in at least six states are considering longer prison sentences or bigger fines for harming or killing police dogs, and the idea has bipartisan support despite questions about how the animals are used and a fraught history. In Kansas on Wednesday, the Republican-controlled House voted 107-4 to pass a bill sponsored by its top leader …

Un tribunal de Moscú puso el miércoles a un alemán en prisión preventiva tras haber sido arrestado por posesión de unas gomitas de cannabis y acusaciones de tráfico de drogas, informó la agencia estatal rusa Tass. Patrick Schobel, de 38 años, fue detenido en el Aeropuerto de Pulkovo en San Petersburgo a finales del mes pasado y permanecerá en custodia …

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — For more than four decades, the people of Portland, Maine, awoke on Valentine’s Day to find large and small red hearts festooning storefronts, statues, parking garages and some of the city’s biggest landmarks. That tradition was imperiled by the death of the so-called Valentine’s Day Bandit last spring. But the bandit’s admirers responded with plenty of …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court on Wednesday convicted three former police officers of destroying internal files and other evidence in an attempted cover-up after a Halloween crowd crush that killed nearly 160 people in the capital, Seoul, in 2022. They were the first convictions over the deaths. The high death toll was largely blamed on official …

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — Aquella tarde de invierno en que Alejandro Roemmers se despidió de su caballo, el aire fresco y las caminatas a la orilla del río, la tristeza le obsequió la poesía. El poeta y empresario argentino nacido en 1958 apenas tenía 8 años, pero la melancolía de dejar atrás unos días felices en la sierra provocaron …