Sheryl Sandberg, who helped to transform Facebook from a tech startup into a digital , will step down from the board of Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

“With a heart filled with gratitude and a mind filled with memories, I let the Meta board know that I will not stand for reelection this May,” Sandberg wrote in a Facebook post.

Sandberg left Google to join Facebook in 2008, four years before the company went public. As the No. 2 executive at Meta under CEO Mark

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s lawmakers voted Thursday to approve the key 2024 state budget, but the draft still needs approval from , who is allied with the right-wing opposition.

The budget also requires endorsement from the Senate and must be presented for Duda’s signing by Jan. 29 or the president could call early elections.

Duda said that ”I don’t see such a possibility at all” for calling early elections.

“I hope I will be able to

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in Haiti said they are investigating allegations of sexual abuse and abuse of authority and public property at a state university in the southern coastal city of Jacmel.

A commission has been deployed to the University of the South-East in Jacmel to investigate accusations that first surfaced in September, according to a statement issued late Wednesday by Haiti’s Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training.

The agency said it had temporarily suspended all university officials cited in the allegations. No further details

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri abortion-rights campaign announced Thursday that it’s throwing support behind an amendment to the state constitution that would enshrine access to the procedure while allowing restrictions in later stages of pregnancy.

Missourians for Constitutional Freedom said it is committing to a proposal, one of 11 versions, that would let lawmakers regulate or ban abortion after what’s called , with an exception for the protection of the life and physical and mental health of the woman.

Supporters include the ACLU

TOKYO (AP) — Japan signed a deal with the United States on Thursday to purchase up to 400 Tomahawk cruise missiles as part of its ongoing military buildup in response to increased regional threats.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government has pledged to double its annual defense spending to around 10 trillion yen ($68 billion) by 2027, which would make Japan the world’s third-biggest military spender after the United States and China.

Defense Minister Minoru Kihara announced in December a

One person is dead and the Ontario Fire Marshal is investigating following a fire at a rooming house in Toronto’s east end on Thursday morning.

Emergency crews were initially called to a row house on Coxwell Avenue north of Dundas Street East around 5:30 a.m. for reports of a fire.

Crews arrived to find smoke coming from the second floor.

Officials say a man, one of the tenants of the rooming house, was pulled from inside the home without vital signs. Paramedics confirm to CityNews the

WOLVERHAMPTON, England (AP) — A fan of English soccer club Wolverhampton was unable to celebrate his team’s late winner in an FA Cup replay — because he’d been plucked from the crowd to stand in as a match official.

Ross Bennett attended the Wolves-Brentford game on Tuesday with his 11-year-old son and volunteered to fill in as the fourth official in the technical area near the dugouts following an injury to one of the assistant referees in extra time.

Bennett, a qualified referee

A series of electricity grid alerts in Alberta during the deep freeze last week made headlines across the country, but experts say power systems all across North America are increasingly at risk of being overloaded during severe weather.

Francis Bradley, CEO of the industry association Electricity Canada, said there is virtually nowhere the electricity grid isn’t vulnerable to the rising severity and duration of climate change-related extreme weather.

“Over the last two years or so, during these extremes of weather, we’ve seen new peaks hit in

BEIRUT (AP) — An airstrike on southern Syria early Thursday killed at least nine people and was probably carried out by Jordan’s air force, Syrian opposition activists said, the latest in a series of strikes in an area where cross-border have been active.

There was no immediate confirmation from Jordan on the strike that hit the province of Sweida,

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said nine people, including two children and at least three women, were killed in