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Vatican prosecutor appeals verdict that largely dismantled his fraud case but convicted cardinal 12/22/2023 09:40am • VATICAN CITY (AP) ��� The Vatican���s chief prosecutor has appealed a court verdict that largely dismantled his theory of a grand conspiracy to defraud the Holy See of millions of euros but found a cardinal guilty of embezzlement. Prosecutor Alessandro Diddi filed his appeal this week of the three-j Gymnastics star Simone Biles named AP Female Athlete of the Year a third time after dazzling return 12/22/2023 08:51am • There were jitters, of course. Considering all that happened, how could there not be? When Simone Biles walked onto the floor at a suburban Chicago arena in late July for her first gymnastics competition in two years, she knew plenty of people were wondering how it was going to go. ���I though Alex Verdugo shaves off beard 2 months early to get Yankees feeling after trade 12/21/2023 06:21pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Alex Verdugo complied with the New York Yankees' rule against facial hair by a lot more than a whisker. He clipped off his red beard two months before spring training. ���My mom loves it,��� he said Thursday, showing off his impeccably shaved cheeks during a Zoom news conference. � Large St. Louis-area urgent care chain to pay $9.1 million settlement over false claims allegations 12/21/2023 03:44pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) ��� One of the largest urgent care chains in Missouri will pay $9.1 million to settle allegations that the company submitted false claims for medical services, including COVID-19 testing. The U.S. Attorney's office in St. Louis on Thursday announced the settlement with Total Access Ur From AI and inflation to Elon Musk and Taylor Swift, the business stories that dominated 2023 12/20/2023 05:57pm • The tide turned against inflation. Artificial intelligence went mainstream ��� for good or ill. Labor unions capitalized on their growing might to win more generous pay and benefits. Elon Musk renamed and rebranded the social media platform Twitter, removed guardrails against phony or obscene posts Cocoa grown illegally in a Nigerian rainforest heads to companies that supply major chocolate makers 12/20/2023 03:48pm • OMO FOREST RESERVE, Nigeria (AP) ��� Men in dusty workwear trudge through a thicket, making their way up a hill where sprawling plantations lay tucked in a Nigerian rainforest whose trees have been hacked away to make room for cocoa bound for places like Europe and the U.S. Kehinde Kumayon and his a Holiday drunken driving enforcement efforts are ramping up 12/20/2023 10:15am • For weeks, police departments all across the D.C. region have been issuing warnings to people about driving drunk. And as we count down the final days of 2023, those warnings are being amplified again after a rash of alcohol-related crashes to close out last year. Between Thanksgiving of 2022 and AI systems can't be named as the inventor of patents, UK's top court rules 12/20/2023 10:12am • LONDON (AP) ��� An artificial intelligence system can't be registered as the inventor of a patent, Britain's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in a decision that denies machines the same status as humans. The U.K.'s highest court concluded that ���an inventor must be a person��� to apply for patents un TGI Fridays boneless chicken bites recalled over possible plastic contamination 12/20/2023 06:06am • (Courtesy USDA.gov) (NEW YORK) -- Approximately 26,550 pounds of frozen TGI Fridays boneless chicken bites products have been recalled due to possible contamination with "clear, hard plastic," the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced. "The problem wa Thailand���s LGBTQ+ community hopeful as marriage equality bill is set to be discussed in Parliament 12/19/2023 11:42pm • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Naphat Krutthai and Rasithaya Jindasri have been in a committed relationship for eight years, but only now can they consider getting married. In a clothing shop in Siam Square, a commercial hub in Thailand's capital, the happy couple excitedly eyed multi-colored garments as they dis California heroin dealers who used code words like 'taco' in phone orders get 24 years in prison 12/19/2023 08:34pm • SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) ��� Two Southern California brothers who ran a heroin-delivery operation ��� taking telephone orders from customers using code words like ���taco��� ��� have been sentenced to 24 years each in federal prison, prosecutors announced. Julio Cesar Martinez, 45, of Riverside, and V ACLU of Montana challenges law defining the word 'sex' in state code as only male or female 12/19/2023 05:09pm • HELENA, Mont. (AP) ��� The ACLU of Montana has filed a lawsuit challenging a law that defines the word ���sex��� throughout state code as either male or female, based on a person's biology at birth. The plaintiffs argue the law denies legal recognition and protections to people who are gender non-co Thousands rally across Slovakia to protest the government's plan to amend the penal code 12/19/2023 02:09pm • BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) ��� Thousands returned to the streets of major cities across Slovakia on Tuesday to continue their protests against a plan by the new government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico to amend the country���s penal code. The changes proposed by the coalition government incl Clemson S Mukuba transfers home to Texas; QB Dante Moore chooses Oregon after freshman year at UCLA 12/18/2023 10:18pm • Former Clemson safety Andrew Mukuba announced Monday he is transferring to Texas, his hometown school, cornerback Decamerion Richardson said he is leaving Mississippi State for rival Mississippi and quarterback Dante Moore committed to Oregon after spending his freshman year at UCLA. Entering the po 10 Fun Things to Do in Your Free Time That Cost Nothing 12/18/2023 07:00pm • If you're financially wiped out from buying holiday gifts, going on a vacation or whatever you've been spending your money on lately, you may be looking for something fun to do in your free time that costs nothing. "You don't have to spend a fortune to have fun," says Katie Ross, executive vice pres