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Iran's hard-line parliament approves all members of president's Cabinet, first time since 2001 08/22/2024 02:11am • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ��� Iran's hard-line parliament on Wednesday approved all members of reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian's Cabinet, the first time in over two decades a leader has been able to get all of his officials through the body. The approval marks an early win for Pezeshkian, a longtime In Mexico, an Indigenous Triqui artist embraces his roots through contemporary rap 08/22/2024 01:43am • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Backstage at a celebration of Indigenous peoples in Mexico City's sprawling central square, Carlos CGH traced his fingers across a black and red ���gab��n,��� which is similar to a poncho. The garment, native to the Triqui people in western Oaxaca, is a source of pride for the 2 Ex-politician testifies he's innocent in the killing of a Las Vegas investigative reporter 08/22/2024 01:41am • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� In his first words to a jury, a former Las Vegas-area Democratic elected official declared Wednesday that he didn't kill an investigative reporter who wrote articles critical of him and his workplace conduct. Then he promised to tell them his story. ���This is the day I've been wa Jose Siri hits go-ahead homer for second straight game, pushes Rays to 4-2 win over Athletics 08/22/2024 01:06am • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ��� Jose Siri hit a late go-ahead homer for the second straight game, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Oakland Athletics 4-2 on Wednesday night. Siri���s 423-foot, two-run blast to left in the seventh inning broke a 2-2 tie. The center fielder had been hitless in 21 at-bats prio Bill Pascrell Jr., long-time New Jersey congressman, dies at 87 08/22/2024 12:02am • TRENTON, N.J. (AP) ��� New Jersey Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., a 14-term incumbent and a fixture in his hometown of Paterson for more than four decades, died Wednesday. He was 87. Pascrell had been in and out of the hospital with an illness recently. He died Wednesday morning at Cooperman Bar The Latest: Walz accepts the party���s nomination for vice president at DNC Day 3 08/21/2024 11:56pm • Vice presidential nominee Tim Walz and former President Bill Clinton headlined the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, the third day of the party���s choreographed rollout of a new candidate, Kamala Harris, and her pitch to voters. Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and Transportation Secretary P Movie Review: Style triumphs over logic in Zo�� Kravitz���s great-looking but vexing ���Blink Twice��� 08/21/2024 11:31pm • ���Love means never having to say you���re sorry,��� somebody once famously said in the movies. It made utterly no sense in 1970, but even less so now. In recent decades, the apology has become all the rage. So at the beginning of Zo�� Kravitz���s ���Blink Twice,��� when her tech-mogul protagonist, New coach DeShaun Foster and UCLA look to exceed others' low expectations in 1st season in Big Ten 08/21/2024 11:14pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� DeShaun Foster knows many expect him to struggle in his first season as UCLA's coach. Not only is the former Bruins running back and assistant a first-time head coach after Chip Kelly left to become Ohio State's offensive coordinator, but the program is in its first season in t Brandon Marsh's 8th-inning RBI lifts Phillies to comeback 3-2 win over Braves 08/21/2024 10:58pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Brandon Marsh's tie-breaking, pinch-hit sacrifice fly in the eighth inning lifted the Philadelphia Phillies to a 3-2 win over the Atlanta Braves on Wednesday night. The win pushed the Phillies' lead in the National League East to seven games over the Braves, with five games remainin Trump speaks from behind bulletproof glass at first outdoor rally since his attempted assassination 08/21/2024 10:25pm • ASHEBORO, N.C. (AP) ��� At his first outdoor rally since last month���s attempted assassination, Donald Trump spoke from behind bulletproof glass Wednesday in North Carolina at an event focused on national security. On politics, he called his predecessor Barack Obama ���nasty��� for his comments the Professor Pete? Former Trojans, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll returning to USC to teach a class 08/21/2024 10:20pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Pete Carroll is heading back to the University of Southern California ��� as a teacher. Carroll told KJR-FM on Tuesday that he plans to teach a class at USC in the spring, and the university confirmed Wednesday the championship-winning football coach���s return in some role. ��� Nancy Pelosi thanked Biden for his wins, as she said Harris will take US to new heights 08/21/2024 10:14pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Nancy Pelosi opened her convention speech with a sense of gratitude for President Joe Biden, even after her doubts about his campaign fed into the pressures that led him to end his reelection effort. ���Thank you, Joe,��� Pelosi said after going through Biden's legislative achieveme Brazil will restrict entry to some Asian nationals, aiming to curb migration to the US and Canada 08/21/2024 09:55pm • SAO PAULO (AP) ��� Brazil will begin imposing restrictions on the entry of some foreigners from Asia who use the country as a launching point to migrate to the United States and Canada, the justice ministry���s press office said Wednesday. The move, which starts on Monday, will affect migrants from Miles from her collapsed home, flood victim's sonograms of son found on Connecticut beach 08/21/2024 09:34pm • Devastated after her home collapsed in the aftermath of Sunday's deadly flooding in Connecticut, Randi Marcucio got some good news this week that warmed her heart and eased her despair. Sonograms of the single mom's now-3-year-old son that washed away in the swollen brook next to her home in Oxford Fannie Lou Hamer rattled the Democratic convention with her 'Is this America?' speech 60 years ago 08/21/2024 08:59pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� Vice President Kamala Harris is accepting the Democrats' presidential nomination Thursday, exactly 60 years after another Black woman mesmerized the nation with a televised speech that challenged the seating of Mississippi's all-white delegation to the 1964 Democratic Nationa