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Thoughts for MLK Jr., Election Day

Dear Readers: Wishing you all a very happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day! I thought it would be a good time to find some impactful quotes from presidential inaugural speeches and from King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. I found quotes that inspire, unify and motivate ...

Hundreds of dead sea turtles are washing ashore on India’s coast

By SIBI ARASU The Associated Press BENGALURU, India — Over 400 endangered sea turtles have washed ashore on India’s east coast near the city of Chennai in the last two weeks in an event not witnessed in over two decades. Olive ridley turtles travel thousands of miles for ideal nesting ...

Nintendo says its new Switch 2 console will be released in 2025

LOS ANGELES — Gaming giant Nintendo revealed its newest console Thursday in a highly anticipated announcement gamers had been waiting for since rumors of its release first spread years ago. But the initial reaction to the Nintendo Switch 2 was lackluster, and the company’s Tokyo-traded ...

How TikTok grew into a potential national security threat

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — If it feels like TikTok has been around forever, that’s probably because it has, at least if you’re measuring via internet time. What’s now in question is whether it will be around much longer and, if so, in what form? Starting in 2017, when the Chinese social ...

GOP leaders are restarting debate on taxing Skill games

HARRISBURG — Top lawmakers in the Pennsylvania Senate have released a memo calling for the regulation and taxation of so-called skill games, signaling that the issue will be high on the agenda for the second session in a row. Skill games are the tens of thousands of slot-like machines that ...

AP finds homes were already burning before Pacific Palisades evacuation order

The Associated Press An Associated Press analysis of emergency communications shows that the first evacuation order covering neighborhoods closest to the start of the devastating Pacific Palisades wildfire didn’t come until about 40 minutes after some of those homes were already burning. The ...