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All welcome: Advocates fight to ensure citizens not fluent in English have equal access to elections 09/13/2024 02:32pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — In the heart of Las Vegas’ Chinatown, on the second floor of a sprawling shopping plaza that serves as a hub for the city’s Asian community, residents gather for a celebration of the annual Dragon Boat Festival. Some stop in to grab shiny, red packages of premade zongzi, a ric Buffalo Bills starting middle linebacker Terrel Bernard out indefinitely with pectoral injury 09/13/2024 02:22pm • ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills starting middle linebacker Terrel Bernard is out indefinitely after hurting a pectoral muscle, with coach Sean McDermott on Friday not ruling out placing the starter on the short-term injured reserve list. McDermott said the team is still having internal dis Stuck-in-space astronauts make first public comments from space station since Boeing capsule returned to Earth empty 09/13/2024 02:19pm • CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Stuck-in-space astronauts make first public comments from space station since Boeing capsule returned to Earth empty. No 'Friday Night Lights': High school football games canceled in some towns near interstate shooting 09/13/2024 02:12pm • As authorities keep searching for a highway shooter in Kentucky, a Friday night tradition of football, pep bands and cheering fans has been sidelined for some towns. Games were canceled at a handful of high schools near where the assailant opened fire on Interstate 75 in southeastern Kentucky. Twelv Measure to repeal Nebraska’s private school funding law should appear on the ballot, court rules 09/13/2024 01:52pm • A ballot measure seeking to repeal a new conservative-backed law that provides taxpayer money for private school tuition should appear on the state's November ballot, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday. The court found that the ballot measure does not illegally target a government appropriation, w Should you be concerned about delivery delays for a mail-in ballot? 09/13/2024 01:48pm • U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-VA, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, says he's concerned about continuing threats against election workers, which often arise from misinformation about voter fraud. Warner is also aware of continuing complaints about slow mail delivery and said he will be clo LA Sparks' franchise rebuild stalls out as team misses the playoffs for the 4th straight year 09/13/2024 12:49pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Sparks are still looking to the future. They had hoped to return to the WNBA playoffs this season for the first time since 2020, but will have to wait until next year. With a league-worst mark of 7-30, the Sparks have been eliminated from playoff contention. The Lionel Messi set to return to Inter Miami lineup after 2-month injury recovery 09/13/2024 12:44pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Lionel Messi has been cleared to play again after taking two months to recover from an ankle injury, and Inter Miami indicated that the eight-time Ballon d'Or winner will return to the lineup on Saturday when the team plays host to Philadelphia. “Messi is available,â IS militants kill 14 in a Shiite area of Afghanistan in one of the deadliest attacks this year 09/13/2024 12:25pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) — Islamic State militants killed 14 people in a Shiite-majority area in central Afghanistan in one of the deadliest attacks in the country this year. The militant group claimed responsibility for the shooting, which took place on Thursday and targeted a group of minority Hazaras tr Germany signs agreement with Kenya to bring in skilled workers and plug labor market gaps 09/13/2024 12:24pm • BERLIN (AP) — German and Kenyan officials signed an agreement Friday in Berlin to promote the recruitment of skilled workers who can fill gaps in Germany's labor market, and to facilitate the repatriation of Kenyans who don't have the right to stay in Germany. The agreement was signed during a vis Russia-UK expulsions have targeted scores over past decades 09/13/2024 12:24pm • Moscow's announcement Friday of expelling six British diplomats for alleged espionage has drawn a strong rebuke from the United Kingdom while also intensifying animosity between Russia and the West over the war in Ukraine. However, the six are but a small number in the history of Moscow-London acts Ferguson activist raised in the Black Church showed pastors how to aid young protesters 09/13/2024 12:15pm • As twilight descended on Ferguson, Missouri, for a third consecutive night after the killing of Michael Brown Jr. by a police officer, Gwendolyn DeLoach Packnett could no longer hold her peace. Each day since the killing on Aug. 9, 2014, she had watched her daughter, Brittany, leave the safety of ho Russian central bank hikes rates to fight inflation fuelled by military spending 09/13/2024 12:05pm • MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's central bank hiked interest rates to their highest since the Kremlin sent troops into Ukraine more than 2 1/2 years ago, a step aimed at combatting the inflation fuelled by massive government outlays for the military — and by robust spending from Russian consumers in shops India's top court releases New Delhi's chief minister on bail after 6 months in jail 09/13/2024 11:35am • NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top court on Friday freed on bail Arvind Kejriwal, a prominent opposition leader and chief minister of New Delhi, who was arrested nearly six months ago ahead of national elections on charges of receiving bribes from a liquor distributor. Supreme Court Justices Surya Kan Fresh wave of violence erupts in Haiti's capital over a soccer match 09/13/2024 11:29am • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A fresh wave of violence between rival gangs in one of the Haitian capital's poorest neighborhoods was sparked by gunfire that broke out over a referee's call during a soccer match, a pastor and newspaper said Friday. The awarding of a penalty kick in Wednesday's champ