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Tunisia passes law to strip courts of power over election authority appointed by president 09/27/2024 02:06pm • TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) ��� Tunisia���s parliament amended a law on Friday, stripping power from courts over decisions made by an embattled election authority whose members are appointed by President Kais Saied. Nine days before the presidential election, a majority of members of parliament voted in fav Jill Erber looks back on 20 years running Del Ray's Cheesetique 09/27/2024 01:48pm • Fresh into Jill Erber���s budding career in software development, things went a little sideways. In the early 2000s, Tysons business software firm MicroStrategy misstated its earnings and subsequently closed its subsidiaries, including the one Erber worked for. The dot-com bubble was bursting, Erber Coco Gauff and Carlos Alcaraz advance at the China Open 09/27/2024 01:15pm • BEIJING (AP) ��� Coco Gauff reached the third round of the China Open by beating Clara Burel 7-5, 6-3 on Friday in her first match since the U.S. Open. The No. 6-ranked Gauff, who saved a set point when trailing 5-4 in the first set, will play Katie Boulter of Britain, who advanced by beating Ameri Netanyahu cuts short U.S. visit and will return immediately to Israel 09/27/2024 01:06pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Netanyahu cuts short U.S. visit and will return immediately to Israel. Brazil to rely on Real Madrid forwards in World Cup qualifiers against Chile and Peru 09/27/2024 12:55pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� Under pressure after a series of bad results, Brazil's national team is likely to have a Real Madrid trio up front for two upcoming World Cup qualifying matches in October. Coach Dorival J��nior included seven forwards in his squad announced Friday, with Madrid's Vinicius J�� Maryland man convicted of shooting and wounding 2 police officers in 2023 09/27/2024 12:26pm • TOWSON, Md. (AP) ��� A Maryland man who shot and wounded two police officers has been convicted of attempted murder, armed carjacking and firearms charges. A Baltimore County Circuit Court jury found David Linthicum, 26, guilty Thursday after a weeklong trial. A 39-hour police chase on Feb. 8, Chicago Sky fire coach Teresa Weatherspoon after 1 season 09/27/2024 12:00pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� The Chicago Sky fired coach Teresa Weatherspoon after one season despite having two of the WNBA's most promising rookies. The Sky confirmed the decision Friday, a day after two newspapers reported the move. ���After careful consideration, we have decided it is in the best interest o Nebraska to become last Big Ten school to sell alcohol at football games in 2025 if regents give OK 09/27/2024 11:36am • LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) ��� Nebraska would sell alcohol at Memorial Stadium in 2025 if the university's Board of Regents gives its approval at its next meeting. The proposal is listed on the agenda for the October meeting in Kearney next Friday and was first reported by The Omaha World-Herald. Nebraska w University of Wisconsin fires former porn-making chancellor who wanted to stay on as a professor 09/27/2024 11:29am • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents voted unanimously Friday to fire a communications professor who was seeking to retain tenure after his dismissal as chancellor of one of the system's campuses for making pornographic films. Joe Gow, who had served as chancellor of Takeaways on AP's story about challenges to forest recovery and replanting after wildfires 09/27/2024 11:09am • The U.S. is struggling to replant forests destroyed by increasingly intense wildfires, with many areas unlikely to recover on their own. Researchers are studying which species are likely to survive ��� and where ��� as climate change makes it difficult or impossible for many forests to regrow. But Jaguars Pro Bowl TE Evan Engram is doubtful to play at the Texans this week 09/27/2024 11:04am • JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) ��� Jaguars coach Doug Pederson all but ruled out Pro Bowl tight end Evan Engram for Jacksonville's game at Houston on Sunday. Pederson called Engram doubtful to return in time for the AFC South matchup after missing the last two games. Engram strained a hamstring in pregame Joe Wolf, who played for North Carolina and 7 NBA teams, dies at 59 09/27/2024 10:42am • Joe Wolf, a former North Carolina captain for Dean Smith who went on to play for seven teams in an 11-year NBA career before becoming a coach, died unexpectedly Thursday, the Milwaukee Bucks announced. Wolf, an assistant coach for the Wisconsin Herd ��� the Bucks' G League affiliate ��� was 59. ���T Ex-Defense Minister Ishiba chosen to lead Japan's ruling party and become prime minister 09/27/2024 10:39am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Japan���s governing party on Friday picked former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba as its leader, setting him up to become prime minister next week. The party leadership is a ticket to the top job because the Liberal Democratic Party���s governing coalition controls parliament. Conside Man City's Rodri will miss the rest of the season after undergoing knee surgery 09/27/2024 09:41am • MANCHESTER, England (AP) ��� Manchester City midfielder Rodri will miss the rest of the season after undergoing ACL surgery on Friday. The Spain international also had meniscus damage. ���This season is over (for him). We got the worst (news possible) but it is what it is,��� City manager Pep Guardi As many forests fail to recover from wildfires, replanting efforts face huge odds -- and obstacles 09/27/2024 09:31am • BELLVUE, Colo. (AP) ��� Camille Stevens-Rumann crouched in the dirt and leaned over evergreen seedlings, measuring how much each had grown in seven months. "That's two to three inches of growth on the spruce,��� said Stevens-Rumann, interim director at the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. Her