A Pennsylvania law that makes it a crime to release information about teacher disciplinary complaints is an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment, a federal judge has ruled. The judge who sought to publicize a misconduct allegation against his son’s school psychologist — and criticize the state’s dismissal of it — without fear of being prosecuted for the disclosure.

The unusual case involves the , a state law that controls how the Pennsylvania Department of Education investigates and prosecutes misconduct complaints against teachers and other school staff. The law’s confidentiality

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan Senate deal to pair border enforcement measures and Ukraine aid faced potential collapse Thursday as Senate Republicans grew increasingly wary of an election-year compromise that Donald Trump, the likely Republican presidential nominee, says is “meaningless.”

Senate negotiators have been striving for weeks to finish a on border and immigration policy that is meant to tamp down the number of migrants who come to the U.S. border with Mexico. But now that negotiations have dragged for weeks, are weighing it down.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Jenson Button, so entrenched in his preparation for the Rolex 24 at Daytona, seemed to miss the news that Red Bull’s junior Formula One team had been rebranded.

After climbing off the timing stand Thursday at Daytona International Speedway, he was asked his thoughts on the team known as AlphaTauri the last four years — a moniker that has been widely panned by fans as the worst in F1 history.

“What is the new name?” he asked The Associated

BURNABY, B.C. — The manager of a Vancouver rooming house where a fire killed two people in 2022 says the sprinkler system was to be reset but the blaze broke out hours before workers arrived.

The jury at an inquest into the deaths Mary Ann Garlow, 63, and Dennis Guay, 53, at the Winters Hotel heard this week that a small fire broke out on April 8, three days before the fatal fire.

Manager Gina Vanemberg testified Thursday that rules around using pre-

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen killed at least 50 villagers over two days in Nigeria’s north-central Plateau state, survivors said Thursday, prompting a 24-hour curfew and calls for authorities to end violence between nomadic cattle herders and .

No group took responsibility for the killings that took place in remove villages over a two-day period, the second such attack in less than a month in the restive state where more than 1 .

Gunmen stormed villages in Plateau’s Mangu district on Monday

Five GTA school boards have rescheduled a professional development day due to the total solar eclipse taking place on April 8.

The Peel District School Board and Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board have moved their previously scheduled PA day on May 17 while the Halton District and Halton Catholic School Boards have switched their PA day on April 22 and the Durham District School Board moved its April 19 PA day.

The eclipse is expected to begin at approximately 2:00 p.m. and end around 4:3

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey finalized the ratification of Sweden’s membership in NATO on Thursday, bringing the previously nonaligned Nordic country a step closer to joining the military alliance.

Hungary now remains not to have ratified Sweden’s accession.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson welcomed Turkey’s move, saying on X, formerly known as Twitter: “With this, a key milestone has been reached in Sweden’s path towards NATO membership.”

Turkey’s parliament in a vote held Tuesday after more than

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s federal police are investigating the country’s former intelligence chief as part of a wider probe into alleged spying on political opponents under former President Jair Bolsonaro, court records showed Thursday.

The former intelligence chief, Alexandre Ramagem, was among those targeted by the 21 search warrants that the Supreme Court authorized and that were carried out by police early Thursday morning.

Police are investigating an “organized crime” group that operated within the intelligence agency, known by its Portuguese acronym ABIN

MILAN (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni slammed carmaker Stellantis, accusing it of weakening Italy’s industrial footprint since the merger of FiatChrysler and PSA Peugeot that created the world’s fourth largest auto maker.

As one of Italy’s top private sector employers, Fiat and its successors, FiatChrysler and then Stellantis, have always gotten government attention, but rarely have premiers been so pointed in their comments. Meloni also characterized the merger that created Stellantis in 2021 as a French takeover.

“We want