• French president urges parents to keep teenagers home to quell rioting spreading across France

    French president urges parents to keep teenagers home to quell rioting spreading across France

    Jun 30, 2023 01:44 PM EST

    ... the streets and blamed social media for fueling unrest. Despite repeated government appeals for calm and stiffer policing, Friday saw brazen daylight violence, too. An Apple store was looted in the eastern city of Strasbourg, where police fired tear gas, and the windows of a fast-food outlet were smashed ...

  • WATCH: Biden, Modi hold meeting with U.S. and Indian business leaders

    WATCH: Biden, Modi hold meeting with U.S. and Indian business leaders

    Jun 23, 2023 11:19 PM EST

    ... as state visit by Indian Prime Minister Modi concludes “Our countries are taking innovation and cooperation to new levels,” Biden told the group, which included Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. “We’re going to see more technological change … in the next 10 ...

  • WATCH: Biden hosts Indian Prime Minister Modi at White House for state dinner

    WATCH: Biden hosts Indian Prime Minister Modi at White House for state dinner

    Jun 22, 2023 11:00 PM EST

    WATCH: Biden welcomes Modi for state visit amid concerns over India’s human rights record Other notables included social media influencer Jay Shetty, big Democratic donors like Florida lawyer John Morgan and civil rights activist Martin Luther King III. The CEO contingent included Apple's Tim Cook, Google's Sundar ...

  • Supreme Court rules against man given 27 years in prison on gun charges

    Supreme Court rules against man given 27 years in prison on gun charges

    Jun 22, 2023 05:01 PM EST

    ... conviction became final.” Only two instances, newly discovered evidence or the court's new interpretation of a constitutional provision, authorize a second bite at the apple under a 1996 federal law meant to limit federal appeals, Thomas wrote. Most federal appeals court would have allowed Jones to reopen his case ...

  • Retread scare: Trump and other Republicans evoke another era by calling Democrats 'communists'

    Retread scare: Trump and other Republicans evoke another era by calling Democrats 'communists'

    Jun 19, 2023 07:36 PM EST

    ... led efforts to blacklist accused communists in the 1950s. In a country that has historically positioned itself against Marxism, "red-baiting is as American as apple pie in political communications," said Tanner Mirrlees, an associate professor at Ontario Tech University in Canada who has researched political discourse about "cultural Marxism ...

  • How some families are banned from food stamps for life due to past drug convictions

    How some families are banned from food stamps for life due to past drug convictions

    Jun 09, 2023 04:39 PM EST

    At the South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center in Columbia, attorney Sue Berkowitz assists families like Butler’s whose lives have been upended by this law. People of color and people living in or near poverty are disproportionately affected, worsening long-running disparities, she said. The law also ignores the ...

  • Canadian wildfires blanket eastern U.S. with smoke, causing poor air quality for millions

    Canadian wildfires blanket eastern U.S. with smoke, causing poor air quality for millions

    Jun 07, 2023 10:55 PM EST

    ... Tourist: It's very unexpected. Like, it really happened out of the blue. And I just really hope that everyone stays safe, wear a mask outside, so the smoke doesn't go into their lungs. Stephanie Sy: Today, the Big Apple ranked worst in the world for its air quality.

  • U.S. sues cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Binance for securities violations

    U.S. sues cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Binance for securities violations

    Jun 06, 2023 10:40 PM EST

    ... of FTX last year, if you saw what happened with very well-capitalized banks and bank runs, again, these things rhyme. They're not necessarily apples to apples, but you could have situations where your liquidity is not available. If you thought, OK, I want the best of both worlds ...

  • Federal watchdogs advise against storing money in payment apps, say those funds may be vulnerable

    Federal watchdogs advise against storing money in payment apps, say those funds may be vulnerable

    Jun 05, 2023 05:01 PM EST

    ... it was going to allow parents to create accounts for their teenage children, potentially bringing in tens of millions of new customers for the app. Apple recently announced a savings account tied to its Apple Card that is operated by Goldman Sachs. The savings account took in billions of dollars ...

  • News Wrap: Senate votes to block Biden's student debt forgiveness plan

    News Wrap: Senate votes to block Biden's student debt forgiveness plan

    Jun 01, 2023 10:50 PM EST

    ... on the possible timing of Ukraine's accession to the alliance. The main Russian intelligence agency is accusing the U.S. of hacking thousands of Apple iPhones inside Russia. The Federal Security Service charged today that -- quote -- "hidden data collection was carried out through software vulnerabilities in" the phones. The ...