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AP Headline News - Mar 18 2024 08:00 (EDT)
This is AP News. I'm Rita Folle. New this morning from the UN Food Agency. It says famine is imminent in northern Gaza. Where about 70% of the population faces catastrophic hunger. The World Food Program report says virtually everybody in Gaza is struggling to get enough food. Russian President Putin wins another term in office in an election that's being called a predetermined landslide. But not everybody voted for Putin. The AP's Donna Warder has this. The widow of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny cast her ballot in Russia's presidential election on Sunday. Yulia Navalnya voted at the Russian embassy in Berlin. Upon exiting the embassy, reporters asked her if she had a message for Russian President Vladimir Putin. There could be no any negotiations and nothing with Mr Putin because he's a killer, he's a gunster, he's the portal who brought my country through the war. She says she wrote her late husband's name on the ballot. Today the Supreme Court takes up a dispute over social media posts. The Supreme Court hears arguments today between Republican led states and the Biden administration over how far the federal government can go to combat controversial social media posts. Lower courts sided with the states in Surgeon General Murthy versus Missouri, but the Supreme Court blocked those rulings while it considers the issue. The states argue that federal officials leaned on social media platforms like Facebook and X to unconstitutionally squelched conservative points of view. Solicitor General Elizabeth Preligar says states can't point to evidence that the government ever imposed any sanction when the platforms declined to moderate content that the government had flagged. Jennifer King, Washington. More than 30 U.S. citizens running from gang violence in Haiti landed in Miami yesterday on a government chartered flight. This is AP News. News from the entertainment world. Model actor Cara Delevine says her heart is broken after her house in Los Angeles burned down on Friday. Investigators are looking into the cause of the fire. Delevine is in a stage production of Cabaret in London and was apparently not home. It's good, good, but we... Usher was named Entertainer of the Year at the NAACP Awards Saturday in Los Angeles. He was also given the President's Award for his public service. In the ceremony broadcast on BET, Usher says he owes a lot to his mother, who raised him by herself. Far too often in our industry do women, you know, not get the recognition that they truly deserve. San Francisco now runs a cable car that's dedicated to late-singer Tony Bennett. It's been running for about a month and goes past the Fairmont Hotel, where he first performed "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" in 1961. I'm Archie Zaroleda. And I'm Rita Foley, AP News.