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Potential Development offers $350K to buy former grocery store for school

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YOUNGSTOWN — Potential Development, a pre-K through grade 12 school system for students with autism, is offering $350,000 to the city to buy the long-empty former Bottom Dollar grocery store with a planned $1,066,067 investment to make it a K-3 school. DeMaine Kitchen, the city’s community planning and economic development director, said he is pleased with the proposal and wants to move ahead with the sale. “I feel good about the purpose and the organization,” Kitchen said. “They are a long-standing member of the community. I don’t have reservations about them in that ...

Animosities could prolong US-Canada trade war

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and Canada have ramped up their trade war, hitting each other with steep new tit-for-tat tariffs. Despite the bravado coming from both sides of the border, though, analysts suspect the longtime allies will eventually strike a deal to end a conflict neither really ...

Goodell: NFL considering whether to punish York

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Commissioner Roger Goodell said the NFL is looking into whether San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York will be punished for violating the league’s personal conduct policy after he was caught in a prostitution sting in Ohio. “It’s being reviewed under the personal conduct policy,” Goodell said Wednesday at the owners’ meetings in Atlanta. “We’ll do that and when there’s something to be reported we’ll talk.” York was arrested Sunday in an East Palestine mobile home park by the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force after police said he ...

Meta reaches $18 billion settlement in trial over teen social media addiction

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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Meta agreed Wednesday to pay up to $18 billion and add stronger child-safety measures to its Facebook and Instagram platforms as part of a landmark legal settlement that ended a trial over teen social media addiction and settled claims filed by nearly every state. The settlement resolved a pivotal case years in the making that sought to hold the tech giant accountable for the role its platforms played in undermining children’s mental health. The effort targeted features designed to hook young people’s attention. The agreement “institutes real change, real ...

US issues security alert in Mexican border city

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. government issued a travel alert for Americans planning to visit Mexicali in northern Mexico and temporarily suspended consular activities in the border city due to a “potential threat,” without providing details. The notice, released Monday night, said that because of information about “a threat,” consular activities and travel to the capital of Baja California state, across the border from the U.S. city of Calexico, California, were suspended. The U.S. did not provide details about the threat or whom it was directed at and only urged its ...

Secret Service confirms awareness of Iranian state media video threatening Barron Trump’s life

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Secret Service has confirmed it is aware that Iranian state media has aired a video that appears to threaten the life of Barron Trump, President Donald Trump’s youngest son. “The U.S. Secret Service is aware of the video and investigates anything that can be perceived as a threat toward our protectees,” Secret Service spokesman Nate Herring said in a statement. “Out of concern for operational security, we do not discuss matters of protective intelligence.” Since the U.S. assassination of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian media have on ...