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Vikings try to keep up in deep division after entering post-Cousins era at QB 08/28/2024 12:12pm • MINNESOTA VIKINGS (7-10) EXPECTATIONS: The third season under head coach Kevin O'Connell and general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah was bound to be a transition year after the departure of QB Kirk Cousins, and the season-ending knee injury for J.J. McCarthy put a damper on the excitement around the rook Questions about the safety of Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' system are growing 08/28/2024 11:07am • DETROIT (AP) ��� Three times in the past four months, William Stein, a technology analyst at Truist Securities, has taken Elon Musk up on his invitation to try the latest versions of Tesla���s vaunted ���Full Self-Driving��� system. A Tesla equipped with the technology, the company says, can travel Errant ostrich brings traffic to a halt in South Dakota after escaping from a trailer 08/28/2024 10:53am • SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) ��� An ostrich brought traffic to a halt in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on Tuesday as motorists tried to lure and nudge the towering bird off a multilane thoroughfare. Drivers called Sioux Falls police just before noon to report the roughly 7-foot-tall bird in the middle of a b Sweaty corn is making it even more humid 08/28/2024 10:33am • Barb Boustead remembers learning about corn sweat when she moved to Nebraska about 20 years ago to work for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and found herself plunked down in an ocean of corn. The term for the late-summer spike in humidity from corn plants cooling themselves was � Drying lakes and thirsty trees: In drought-hit Greece, water trucks are keeping crops alive 08/28/2024 03:53am • NEA SILATA, Greece (AP) ��� Six weeks before harvest, there���s no water left in the ground for farmer Dimitris Papadakis��� olive grove in northern Greece, so he has started a new morning routine. Joined by his teenage son, he uses a truck to bring water from nearby areas. Using a small generator, Having a family is expensive. Here's what Harris and Trump have said about easing costs 08/28/2024 12:07am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The high cost of caring for children and the elderly has forced women out of the workforce, devastated family finances and left professional caretakers in low-wage jobs ��� all while slowing economic growth. That families are suffering is not up for debate. As the economy emerge Israel-Hamas war latest: Israeli forces rescue a hostage in Gaza 08/27/2024 09:50pm • Israeli forces conducted a ���complex operation��� to free a hostage in Gaza, the military said Tuesday. Qaid Farhan Alkadi was abducted during the October attack by Hamas that sparked the war in Gaza. Overjoyed family members sprinted through the hospital where he was brought after they received th San Diego police officer killed and another critically injured in crash with fleeing car 08/27/2024 09:34pm • SAN DIEGO (AP) ��� A San Diego police officer was killed and another was critically injured when a speeding vehicle crashed into their patrol car, the police chief said Tuesday. The speeding driver also was killed. The crash occurred late Monday after a vehicle was spotted traveling at high speed on New January 6 footage reveals Pelosi���s focus on Trump in hours after insurrection 08/27/2024 09:31pm • (CNN) — The morning after the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was clear: She wanted attention to be on getting Donald Trump out of office.While in the car on her way to the Capitol, Pelosi���s senior aide, Drew Hammill, was reading the speaker a draft Tesla's fight against Louisiana auto sales law revived by appeals court 08/27/2024 08:37pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� Tesla's federal court challenge to a Louisiana law that prohibits automobile manufacturers from selling directly to consumers has been revived by an appeals court. The lawsuit by the electric car company owned by billionaire Elon Musk is part of a broader effort in multiple sta Cruising the Commonwealth: Virginia Tech, Virginia and James Madison prepare for the CFB season 08/27/2024 07:48pm • Is Virginia Tech back? After enjoying eleven 10+ win seasons from 1995-2011, the Hokies have posted just one double-digit victory year (2016) since. And that season was last time they finished in the Top 20. Last fall looked like more of the same (Tech went 14-21 from 2020-22) when they started 2 A 10-month-old Palestinian baby suddenly stopped crawling. Polio had struck Gaza 08/27/2024 05:53pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� Born into the devastating Israel-Hamas war, 10-month-old Abdel-Rahman Abu El-Jedian started crawling early. Then one day, he froze ��� his left leg appeared to be paralyzed. The baby boy is the first confirmed case of polio inside Gaza in 25 years, according to the Williams drops Logan Sargeant from its F1 lineup mid-season and promotes Franco Colapinto 08/27/2024 03:45pm • GROVE, England (AP) ��� Logan Sargeant, the only American driver in Formula 1, was fired by Williams on Tuesday and will be replaced starting this weekend at the Italian Grand Prix by Argentinian driver Franco Colapinto. Sargeant leaves F1 with one point in 36 race starts since he joined Williams a Man accused of starting destructive California wildfire by throwing firework out car window 08/27/2024 03:13pm • OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) ��� A 26-year-old man has been accused of igniting a destructive California wildfire in early July by throwing a firework from a car window during hot, dry and windy weather. Spencer Grant Anderson, of Oroville, was charged Monday after weeks of continuous surveillance by inves DP World Tour Schedule 08/27/2024 03:01pm • Nov. 23-26 _ Joburg Open (Dean Burmester) Nov. 23-26 _ Fortinet Australian PGA Championship (Min Woo Lee) Nov. 30-Dec. 3 _ Investec South African Open Championship (Dean Burmester) Nov. 30-Dec. 3 _ ISPS Handa Australian Open (Joaquin Niemann) Dec. 7-10 _ Alfred Dunhill Championship (Louis Oosthuizen