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In battleground Wisconsin, election clerks must now accept absentee ballots with partial addresses 02/13/2024 03:25pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� The Wisconsin Elections Commission has complied with court orders and voted to tell the more than 1,800 local clerks who run elections in the battleground state that they can accept absentee ballots that are missing parts of a witness's address. The commission voted 5-1 Thursd Two Thai journalists arrested for covering anti-monarchist vandalism of temple wall freed on bail 02/13/2024 09:21am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Two Thai journalists arrested for reporting on the vandalism of Bangkok temple wall with graffiti criticizing a pro-monarchy law were released on bail Tuesday, a lawyer���s group said. The arrests, carried out separately on Monday, nearly a year after the incident, drew widespread Greta Gerwig, Ryan Gosling join fellow Oscar nominees for annual celebratory luncheon 02/13/2024 06:39am • BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) ��� The casts of ��� Barbie ��� and ��� Oppenheimer ��� gathered Monday at the annual Academy Award nominees luncheon alongside dozens of less famous and first-time Oscar hopefuls for handshakes, hugs, a huge group picture and instructions on nailing an acceptance speech. Fired FirstEnergy execs indicted in $60 million Ohio bribery scheme; regulator faces new charges 02/12/2024 06:31pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� Two fired FirstEnergy Corp. executives were indicted Monday in the long-running investigation into a $60 million bribery scheme in Ohio that has already resulted in a 20-year prison sentence for a former state House speaker. Former FirstEnergy CEO Chuck Jones and former First Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb. 18-24 02/12/2024 10:19am • Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb. 18-24: Feb. 18: Vocalist Yoko Ono is 91. Singer Herman Santiago of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers is 84. Singer Irma Thomas is 83. Actor Jess Walton (���The Young and the Restless���) is 78. Singer Dennis DeYoung (Styx) is 77. Actor Cybill Shepherd is 74. Si Game-time guacamole may get harder to make as climate reduces avocado shipments from Mexico 02/11/2024 08:08pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Guacamole, a favored game-time snack in the United States, may be getting harder to make because a lack of rain and warmer temperatures have resulted in fewer avocados being shipped from Mexico. The western state of Michoacan, which supplies almost 90% of the creamy textured fru What Law School Applicants With STEM Backgrounds Should Know 02/11/2024 07:00pm • Applicants with backgrounds in STEM fields -- science, technology, engineering and mathematics -- have a leg up in law school admissions. Law is becoming enmeshed with science and technology, and not just in the burgeoning areas of health law, tech law, patent law and environmental law. From forensi Madagascar law allowing castration of child rapists prompts criticism from rights groups 02/11/2024 02:04pm • ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) ��� Madagascar's Parliament has passed a law allowing for the chemical and, in some cases, surgical castration of those found guilty of the rape of a minor. The law has prompted criticism from international rights groups, but also found support from activists who say it City drops charges against pastor as sides negotiate over Ohio church's 24/7 ministry 02/09/2024 11:27am • An Ohio city has dropped criminal charges against a pastor over his around-the-clock ministry to the homeless and others in need of help while the two sides work to end the dispute that has landed in federal court. A municipal prosecutor this week moved to dismiss code violation charges against Dad' Malaysia's top court invalidates state's Islam-based laws on incest, sodomy and other offenses 02/09/2024 08:54am • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) ��� Malaysia's top court on Friday struck down Shariah-based criminal laws in an opposition-run state, saying they encroached on federal authority. Islamists denounced the decision and said it could undermine religious courts across the Muslim-majority nation. In an 8-1 Dane Coles, Bernard Foley, Liam Williams share concerns over rugby, referees and TMOs 02/09/2024 01:12am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) ��� Leading international players have expressed similar reservations about the way in which rugby is being played, citing the increasing involvement of television officials and the especially contentious area of accidental head contact. All Blacks hooker Dane Coles, Wal Kobe Bryant immortalized with a 19-foot bronze statue outside the Lakers' downtown arena 02/08/2024 09:33pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The Los Angeles Lakers unveiled a statue of Kobe Bryant on Thursday, honoring their late superstar with a 19-foot bronze likeness outside their downtown arena. The 4,000-pound statue depicts Bryant in his white No. 8 jersey with his right index finger raised as he walked off the Populist Slovak lawmakers back a new law that abolishes an anti-graft prosecutor 02/08/2024 03:29pm • BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) ��� Lawmakers for the new coalition government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico voted Thursday to amend the penal code and eliminate the office of the special prosecutor that deals with major crime and corruption. The legislation faced sharp criticism at home and abro 20 affordable Valentine's Day gift ideas for that special someone 02/08/2024 11:00am • The perfect Valentine's Day gift that doesn't send your bank account into cardiac arrest can be a challenge to pull off. But it can be done. An inexpensive gift doesn't mean you don't care about your significant other. You may simply be buried in bills right now, or you may be saving up for somet Microsoft's Nadella woos Indian developers to the company's AI tools 02/08/2024 06:20am • BENGALURU, India (AP) ��� Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella urged in a speech to more than a thousand Indian computer code developers on Thursday that they use the company's artificial intelligence tools being deployed across its products. Speaking in Bengaluru, India���s ���Silicon Valley,��� Nadella not