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UN rights chief raises alarm about Myanmar's Rohingya civilians trapped by fighting 08/23/2024 06:18pm • BANGKOK (AP) ��� The U.N.���s human rights chief joined a chorus of concern Friday for members of Myanmar���s Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority after many were reported killed in recent fighting between the military government and the Arakan Army, an armed ethnic rebel group. According to a statement Arizona receiver Zay Jones suspended 5 games for violating NFL's personal conduct policy 08/23/2024 04:36pm • TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) ��� Arizona Cardinals receiver Zay Jones has been suspended without pay for the first five games of the season for violating the NFL���s personal conduct policy, the league announced on Friday. The league did not disclose a reason for the suspension. In 2023, Jones was arrested on Kansas judge throws out machine gun possession charge, cites Second Amendment 08/23/2024 04:13pm • A federal judge in Kansas has tossed out a machine gun possession charge and questioned if bans on the weapons violate the Second Amendment. If upheld on appeal, the ruling by U.S. District Judge John W. Broomes in Wichita could have a sweeping impact on the regulation of machine guns, including hom Rams starting LT Alaric Jackson suspended 2 games for violating NFL's personal conduct policy 08/23/2024 03:51pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Los Angeles Rams left tackle Alaric Jackson has been suspended without pay for the first two games of the season for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy. The NFL announced the suspension Friday, giving no further details. Jackson started 15 games and a playoff game at le Judge rules Breonna Taylor's boyfriend caused her death, dismisses some charges against ex-officers 08/23/2024 02:50pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� A federal judge has thrown out major felony charges against two former Louisville officers accused of falsifying a warrant that led police to Breonna Taylor's door before they fatally shot her. U.S. District Judge Charles Simpson's ruling declared that the actions of Taylor' Sri Lanka hanging on in first test after Jamie Smith's century leaves England in command 08/23/2024 02:48pm • MANCHESTER, England (AP) ��� Sri Lanka was battling to stay alive in the first test against England following another top-order collapse after wicketkeeper Jamie Smith's maiden century put the hosts in command at Old Trafford on Friday. Smith's 111 helped England to 358 all out and a first-innings l Bears' Coleman released from hospital 'in good spirits' after scary injury, Chicago coach says 08/23/2024 02:33pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Bears cornerback Douglas Coleman III was released from a Kansas City hospital and returned to Chicago on Friday after he was injured while making a tackle during a preseason game against the Chiefs. ���He was walking around,��� Bears coach Matt Eberflus told Chicago radio station WS Pick Six: Boise State, Liberty and UTSA are top contenders for the Group of Five's spot in playoff 08/23/2024 02:27pm • Boise State has won 83 of 100 Mountain West games and five championships since joining the conference in 2011, and the stage is set for the Broncos to take the next step. The expansion of the College Football Playoff guarantees the Group of Five will be included in the 12-team field. It's opportunit Judge limits scope of lawsuit challenging Alabama restrictions on help absentee ballot applications 08/23/2024 02:24pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ��� A federal judge has sided with the state of Alabama in narrowing the scope of a lawsuit challenging a new law that criminalizes some ways of helping other people to apply for an absentee ballot. Chief U.S. District Judge David Proctor ruled Wednesday that civic groups can p North Carolina court says speedway can sue top health official over COVID-19 closure 08/23/2024 02:22pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� A North Carolina racetrack shuttered briefly for defying state gathering limits during the pandemic can sue the top health regulator on allegations that Gov. Roy Cooper's administration violated the constitutional rights of its operators by trying to make an example out of it, Wofford basketball gets probation, former coach McAuley given 2-year penalty for overworking players 08/23/2024 01:39pm • SPARTANBUG, S.C. (AP) ��� The NCAA has placed Wofford's men's basketball on probation for a year after finding it failed to monitor the program when former coach Jay McAuley regularly made players participate in team activities on days off. Wofford, McAuley and the NCAA reached a negotiated settleme Prosecutor: Evidence of blood, cleanup in case against Manassas Park man charged with concealing wife's body 08/23/2024 01:04pm • Prosecutors say evidence of blood was found in the master bedroom and shower of the Manassas Park home shared by Mamta Kafle Bhatt, who's been missing for over three weeks, and her husband, Naresh, who is charged with concealing her body. During Friday's arraignment, Prince William County Senior Two freelance journalists reportedly killed with guerrillas in army raid on home in southern Myanmar 08/23/2024 01:01pm • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Two freelance journalists in the strife-torn nation of Myanmar were killed, one allegedly after being captured, when security forces raided the home of one of them in the southern state of Mon, colleagues and media reports said Friday. Win Htut Oo, 26, a freelancer working for DVB Son of Texas woman who died in June says apartment complex drops effort to collect for broken lease 08/23/2024 12:37pm • SAN ANTONIO (AP) ��� A San Antonio apartment complex has dropped its attempt to collect more than $15,000 from the family of a 91-year-old woman for breaking her lease after she died in June, the woman's son said Friday. David Naterman said The Lodge at Shavano Park sent the letter after WOAI-TV fir Woman from India disappears down a sinkhole in Malaysia's capital 08/23/2024 11:50am • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) ��� A woman from India disappeared in Malaysia���s capital Friday when pavement collapsed beneath her and she fell into a sinkhole where she may have been swept away by an underground water current, police said. The woman plunged into the 8-meter-deep (26-foot-deep) sinkh