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Kansas will pay $50,000 to settle a suit over a transgender Highway Patrol employee's firing 08/15/2024 07:11pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ��� Kansas will pay $50,000 to settle a federal anti-discrimination lawsuit filed by a former state Highway Patrol employee who claimed to have been fired for coming out as transgender. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and eight leaders of the Republican-controlled Legislature unanimou Brewers' Devin Williams shows his worth by closing out the Dodgers on back-to-back days 08/15/2024 07:10pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) ��� Perhaps the biggest addition for any contender around the MLB trade deadline came when the Milwaukee Brewers welcomed back their own star closer from the injured list. Devin Williams made his 2024 debut on July 28 ��� two days before the trade deadline ��� after missing four month Jordan Chiles says panel's call for her to return Olympic bronze is 'unjust' and 'significant blow' 08/15/2024 06:46pm • American gymnast Jordan Chiles called an arbitration panel's decision that dropped her out of the bronze medal position in the floor exercise at the Paris Olympics ���unjust��� and a ���significant blow��� in a message posted on social media Thursday. The International Olympic Committee, in light of Israel-Hamas war latest: Palestinian death toll surpasses 40,000 as mediators hold cease-fire talks 08/15/2024 05:55pm • The White House says a new round of talks aimed at halting the Israel-Hamas war has resumed in Doha and is expected to run into Friday. The talks will also focus on securing the release of scores of hostages, with a potential deal seen as the best hope of heading off an even larger regional conflict US colleges revise rules on free speech in hopes of containing anti-war demonstrations 08/15/2024 05:31pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� As students return to colleges across the United States, administrators are bracing for a resurgence in activism against the war in Gaza, and some schools are adopting rules to limit the kind of protests that swept campuses last spring. While the summer break provided a respite in Torrid NL West is baseball's hottest division race with Dodgers, Padres and Diamondbacks 08/15/2024 05:24pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� The Arizona Diamondbacks are in the midst of a stretch that most big-league clubs can only dream about, winners of six straight games, 20 of 25 since the All-Star break and 30 of 40 since late June. Certainly, that should be enough to take control of the NL West. Right? Not even clo No. 12 Utah banking on improved health of offensive playmakers to fulfill expectations in Big 12 08/15/2024 05:14pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ��� Cam Rising was all smiles when Utah opened training camp ahead of its inaugural Big 12 Conference season. Rising soaked in the thrill of being on the field again after not playing a down last season because of a knee injury he suffered in the Rose Bowl two days into 2023. Now Iraq's Yazidis hope a new village will prompt survivors of a 2014 Islamic State massacre to return 08/15/2024 05:12pm • KOCHO, Iraq (AP) ��� Ten years ago, their village in Iraq's Sinjar region was decimated by Islamic State militants. Yazidi men and boys were separated and massacred, Yazidi women and children were abducted, many raped or taken as slaves. Now the survivors are coming back to Kocho, where Yazidi comm Alaska State Troopers beat, stunned and used dog in violent arrest of wrong man, charges say 08/15/2024 05:08pm • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ��� Two Alaska State Troopers who pepper-sprayed, beat, stunned and used a police dog on a man in a case of mistaken identity have been charged with assault, authorities said Thursday. Charging documents said the troopers ��� canine handler Jason Woodruff and Sgt. Joseph Mille Claudia Sheinbaum, who won Mexico's presidential vote in June, is finally declared president-elect 08/15/2024 04:51pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Claudia Sheinbaum, the woman who won Mexico���s June 2 presidential vote, has finally been formally declared Mexico���s President-elect, the first woman to hold the office in Mexico. At a ceremony Thursday, the former Mexico City mayor was handed the legal ruling declaring her t 'Feared for my life': Jury now has case of DC man who says fatal shooting of 13-year-old was self-defense 08/15/2024 03:30pm • Was it self-defense or murder? A D.C. jury is now weighing the fate of a man who fatally shot a 13-year-old boy after encountering the teen breaking into cars in his neighborhood last year. Jason Lewis, 42, is charged with second-degree murder while armed in the shooting death of Karon Bla NBA schedule released. Among highlights: Celtics-Knicks on ring night, Durant going back to school 08/15/2024 03:14pm • Boston will get its championship rings on Oct. 22, and the rival New York Knicks will be there for the celebration. The NBA schedule was released Thursday for the coming season, and Game 1 on the slate is the Celtics hosting the Knicks on opening night ��� the one where the NBA champions will get Jets QB Rodgers shines in two-minute drill. Panthers avoid key injuries in heated joint practice 08/15/2024 03:00pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers overcame a slow start to lead a well-executed touchdown drive during a two-minute drill, and the Carolina Panthers appear to have avoided two key injuries during a heated joint practice on Thursday. After throwing two interceptions ear Bears assistant Jennifer King was a successful basketball coach but couldn't pass up NFL opportunity 08/15/2024 02:56pm • Jennifer King was a champion women���s basketball coach when she made a tough decision to pursue a career in football. She hasn���t had to look back. Within three years of switching sports, King became the first Black female full-time coach in the NFL when Washington hired her in 2021 as an as Buffalo Bills starting linebacker Matt Milano out indefinitely with torn left bicep 08/15/2024 02:32pm • The Buffalo Bills will once again have to make due without the backbone of their defense with linebacker Matt Milano out indefinitely and expected to miss at least the first few months of the season with a torn left biceps. Bills coach Sean McDermott called it ���an unfortunate situation,��� in prov