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Virginia to consider Metro's funding request to address projected $750 million shortfall 10/27/2023 01:53pm • As Metro considers ways to address a looming $750 million shortfall and stave off changes to its operations, officials are requesting jurisdictions, including Virginia, review their options to help address the funding deficit that threatens thousands of jobs and various services. Metro hopes poli Pope orders Vatican to reopen case of priest accused of adult abuse but allowed to keep ministering 10/27/2023 11:21am • ROME (AP) ��� Pope Francis has ordered the Vatican to reopen the case of a well-known priest-artist accused of sexually, psychologically and spiritually abusing adult women, and removed the statute of limitations that had previously prevented a church trial based on their claims. The Vatican's annou Africa���s fashion industry is growing to meet global demands but needs more investment, UNESCO says 10/27/2023 09:32am • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) ��� Africa���s fashion industry is growing rapidly to meet local and international demand but inadequate investment limits its potential, UNESCO said Thursday in a report released during Lagos Fashion Week. Currently valued at $15.5 billion worth of exports annually, the earnings From Stalin to Putin, abortion has had a complicated history in Russia 10/27/2023 12:58am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� They were banned under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin but commonplace under later Kremlin leaders. Now, after less than a century, official attitudes about abortion in Russia are changing once again. Although abortion is still legal and widely available, new restrictions are As the Turkish Republic turns 100, here's a look at its achievements and challenges ahead 10/27/2023 12:38am • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ��� The Turkish Republic, founded from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire by the national independence hero Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, turns 100 on Oct. 29. Ataturk established a Western-facing secular republic modeled on the great powers of the time, ushering in radical reforms that ab Coach-to-player technology could have prevented sign-stealing scandal hitting college football 10/26/2023 04:49pm • The frustrating part about watching the Michigan sign-stealing scandal play out for Todd Berry, the executive director of the American Football Coaches Association, is that it all could have been avoided. For the past two years, Berry and his organization, which includes just about about every major China and the US appear to restart military talks despite disputes over Taiwan and South China Sea 10/26/2023 11:57am • BEIJING (AP) ��� China and the United States appear to be restarting dialogue between their militaries, despite continuing disputes over Beijing���s claims to Taiwan and the South China Sea. The U.S. confirmed on Thursday that it plans to send Cynthia Carras, principal director for China, Taiwan an Loyalty above all: Removal of top Chinese officials seen as enforcing Xi's demand for obedience 10/25/2023 08:27pm • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) ��� The removal of China���s foreign and defense ministers appears to enforce leader Xi Jinping���s demand for total obedience and the elimination of any potential rivals within the ruling Communist Party, analysts say. State media this week confirmed that former defense minister Most of Justice Thomas' $267,000 loan for an RV seems to have been forgiven, Senate Democrats say 10/25/2023 05:33pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� All or most of a $267,000 loan obtained by Supreme CourtJustice Clarence Thomas to buy a high-end motorcoach appears to have been forgiven, raising tax and ethics questions, according to a new report by Senate Democrats. Anthony ���Tony��� Welters, a longtime friend of Thomas who 'Let's Fly,' the latest exhibition from the Balloon Museum, awakens childlike wonder in all of us 10/25/2023 04:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The first thought that comes to mind when you enter the Balloon Museum for the ���Let���s Fly��� exhibit is the massive scale of the art. It's easy to think of such an environment as having either professional-level balloon art or installations that rival the scale of a Thanksgivin Honolulu tells story of healers with dual male and female spirit through new plaque in Waikiki 10/25/2023 04:33pm • HONOLULU (AP) ��� Honolulu officials on Tuesday introduced a new interpretive plaque for four large boulders in the center of Waikiki that honor Tahitian healers of dual male and female spirit who visited Oahu some 500 years ago. The centuries-old boulders ��� one for each of the four visiting heal Environmental groups reject deep-sea mining as key UN meeting looms 10/25/2023 02:29pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� Environmental groups on Wednesday urged a moratorium on deep-sea mining ahead of a meeting in Jamaica of a U.N. body that conservationists fear will soon authorize the world���s first license to harvest minerals from the ocean floor. More than 20 countries have called Lawsuit accuses city of Minneapolis of inequitable housing code enforcement practices 10/25/2023 10:08am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� A new lawsuit accuses the city of Minneapolis of discrimination by lax housing code enforcement, especially for rental properties in a part of the city with high populations of people of color. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday on behalf of eight current and former residents of the Anger boils in Morocco's earthquake zone as protesters demand promised emergency aid 10/25/2023 08:49am • AMIZMIZ, Morocco (AP) ��� Hundreds of protesters on Tuesday took to the streets of a city near the epicenter of a devastating earthquake that hit Morocco last month to express anger and frustration after weeks of waiting for emergency assistance. Flanked by honking cars and motorcycles, demonstrator Candidates spar over key tax issue in final gubernatorial debate before Kentucky election 10/24/2023 09:52pm • Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear and Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron sparred over a key tax policy in their final debate Tuesday night, sharpening their closing pitches to voters with two weeks left in their hard-hitting campaign for governor in Kentucky. The Bluegrass State campaign is one o