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What are carry trades and how did they contribute to this week's global market mayhem? 08/06/2024 06:55am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� The mayhem that swept across world markets this week was partly caused by a market strategy known as the ���carry trade.��� Japan���s benchmark Nikkei 225 plunged 12.4% on Monday and markets in Europe and North America suffered outsized losses as traders sold stocks to help cover r Helen Maroulis can strengthen case for greatest U.S. women's wrestler with success in Paris 08/06/2024 06:00am • PARIS (AP) ��� As Helen Maroulis��� career winds down, she has a perfect opportunity to strengthen her case for being the best women���s wrestler in U.S. history. Maroulis was the first American woman to win a gold medal back in 2016, when she upset three-time gold medalist Saori Yoshida in the 53-k Sierra Leone not long ago still chained mental health patients. A transformation is underway 08/06/2024 01:54am • FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) ��� Abdul Jalloh was the only practicing psychiatrist in Sierra Leone when he took over the country���s sole psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of the capital. Now six years later, the young doctor is leading a transformation of mental health services in the West Afric Hern��ndez, Ohtani homer as the Dodgers beat the Phillies 5-3 in opener between NL division leaders 08/06/2024 01:42am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Teoscar Hern��ndez hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer in the third inning, Shohei Ohtani went deep in the eighth and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-3 on Monday night in a matchup of NL division leaders. Tyler Glasnow (9-6) struck out nine and gave up thre Emotional Freddie Freeman gets hug from Bryce Harper in return to Dodgers as ailing son recovers 08/06/2024 01:25am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Freddie Freeman singled and got a hug from Phillies star Bryce Harper in his return to the Los Angeles Dodgers��� lineup on Monday night after missing eight games to be with his ailing 3-year-old son, who is out of danger after a serious medical diagnosis. ���I���m back," he sai White Sox lose 21st straight game, tying AL record set by 1988 Baltimore Orioles, falling 5-1 to A's 08/06/2024 12:59am • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ��� The Chicago White Sox lost their 21st straight game, tying the American League record with a 5-1 defeat to the Oakland Athletics on Monday night as Max Schuemann hit a tiebreaking, two-run single in the fourth inning. Chicago is on the longest losing streak since the 1988 The Latest: Harris, facing a crucial week, closes in on running mate pick 08/06/2024 12:28am • Vice President Kamala Harris, grappling with how to keep early 2024 Presidential election momentum alive, has begun a crucial week that includes her most critical decision yet: choosing a running mate. While Harris had quickly secured enough delegates to become the Democratic nominee, delegates stil Strategically important Myanmar military HQ appears to fall to the resistance, in a blow to regime 08/06/2024 12:17am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Myanmar's military regime acknowledged Monday it had lost communications with the commanders of a strategically important army headquarters in the northeast, adding credence to a militia group's claims it had captured the base. The fall of the army's Northeast Command in Lashio city Chad's military was responsible for deaths of detainees after protests in 2022, a rights group says 08/06/2024 12:05am • N���DJAMENA, Chad (AP) ��� Chad's military was responsible for the deaths of several detainees arrested following protests in October 2022, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. At least four people died en route to Koro Toro prison and six others died there, and it was not clear where another man died, Festa strikes out career-high 9, Twins beat Cubs 3-0 and close within 3 1/2 games of Guardians 08/05/2024 11:29pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� David Festa struck out a career-high nine over five innings, and the Minnesota Twins beat the Chicago Cubs 3-0 on Monday night. Minnesota drew within 3 1/2 games of AL Central-leading Cleveland, the closest the Twins have been to first place since before play on May 18. Making his f Families whose loved ones were left decaying in Colorado funeral home owed $950M, payout unlikely 08/05/2024 10:42pm • DENVER (AP) ��� The Colorado funeral home owners who allegedly stored 190 decaying bodies and sent grieving families fake ashes were ordered by a judge to pay $950 million to the victims' relatives in a civil case, the attorney announced Monday. The judgment is unlikely to be paid out since the owne Chapman homers in his third straight game as the Giants beat the Nationals 4-1 08/05/2024 10:30pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Matt Chapman homered in his third straight game, Logan Webb pitched into the sixth inning and the San Francisco Giants beat the Washington Nationals 4-1 on Monday night. The Giants have won nine of their past 12 games and at 57-57 have reached the .500 mark for the first time The Latest: Debby blamed for multiple deaths in Florida, Georgia, leaves thousands without power 08/05/2024 10:22pm • High winds and heavy rains from Tropical Storm Debby lashed Florida on Monday. At least four deaths were reported in the state, and hundreds had to be rescued from flooded homes. The storm is now threatening to flood some of America���s most historic Southern cities. Here's the Latest: Hundreds res Nobel Prize-winning physicist Tsung-Dao Lee dies at age 97 08/05/2024 09:40pm • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) ��� Chinese-American physicist Tsung-Dao Lee, who in 1957 became the second-youngest scientist to receive a Nobel Prize, died Sunday at his home in San Francisco at age 97, according to a Chinese university and a research center. Lee, whose work advanced the understanding of part A trademark lawyer sold the domain name ClintonKaine.com in 2016. He's sitting on HarrisWalz.com now 08/05/2024 08:38pm • Jeremy Green Eche took a chance and purchased the website HarrisWalz.com for $8.99 in 2020 when then-Sen. Kamala Harris of California was seeking the Democratic nomination for president. ���I just tried to grab her name and all the heartland governors I could think of,��� he recalled Monday in an in