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What is 'price gouging' and why is VP Harris proposing to ban it? 08/16/2024 06:49pm • With inflation and high grocery prices still frustrating many voters, Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday proposed a ban on ���price gouging��� by food suppliers and grocery stores, as part of a broader agenda aimed at lowering the cost of housing, medicine, and food. It's an attempt to tackle a Dirt track racer Scott Bloomquist, known for winning and swagger, dies in plane crash 08/16/2024 06:26pm • Scott Bloomquist, a dirt track race car driver who was known for his bravado and for being one of the sport's best, died Friday in a plane crash on his family's farm in Mooresburg, Tennessee, friends and local officials said. Bloomquist, 60, stood out with his long hair and a race car that was embla Alexander Rossi back for Arrow McLaren for St. Louis IndyCar race after broken thumb in Toronto 08/16/2024 05:54pm • MADISON, Ill. (AP) ��� Alexander Rossi will be making his return to IndyCar this weekend at World Wide Technology Raceway near St. Louis. He hopes it begins a memorable finish to his time with Arrow McLaren. Rossi has been sidelined since breaking his thumb during a practice crash on the streets of Newlyweds and bride's mother killed in crash after semitruck overturns in Colorado 08/16/2024 05:53pm • DENVER (AP) ��� A newlywed couple and the bride's mother were killed in a crash after a semitruck overturned on Interstate 70 west of Denver, spilling its cargo of large plastic tubes, just days after the wedding, family members said. Ruben Rodriguez, 33; Juliana Rodriguez Plata, 37, and her mother, Prisoner serving life for murder who escaped in North Carolina has been caught, authorities say 08/16/2024 05:08pm • KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (AP) ��� A prisoner serving a life sentence for murder was captured at a North Carolina hotel early Friday, three days after his escape on the way to a medical appointment, and authorities say he had help from at least one person. Ramone Alston, 30, escaped from a van Tuesday as it Ukrainian officials urge civilians to evacuate eastern city of Pokrovsk as Russian troops close in 08/16/2024 04:59pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Military authorities in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk urged civilians to speed up their evacuation Friday because the Russian army was quickly closing in on what has been one of Moscow���s key targets for months. Pokrovsk officials said in a Telegram post that Russian DC man who said he shot 13-year-old boy in self-defense convicted of manslaughter 08/16/2024 03:09pm • The D.C. man who said he shot a 13-year-old boy in self-defense after encountering the teen in his neighborhood last year has been convicted of manslaughter. The jury acquitted Jason Lewis of a more serious second-degree murder charge. The verdict came after the jury in D.C. Superior Court Gov. Gavin Newsom signs new California laws aiming to reduce robberies, car thefts and shoplifting 08/16/2024 01:51pm • SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) ��� Gov. Gavin Newsom signs new California laws aiming to reduce robberies, car thefts and shoplifting. Man didn't know woman he fatally shot in restaurant drive-thru before killing himself, police say 08/16/2024 12:30pm • STOW, Ohio (AP) ��� A man who got out of his car in the drive-thru lane of a fast-food restaurant in Ohio and fatally shot a woman in another vehicle before turning the gun on himself did not know the woman, police said. A motive for the shooting may never be known, Stow police Chief Jeff Film said Settler rampage in West Bank sparks rare condemnation from Israeli leaders 08/16/2024 12:28pm • JIT, West Bank (AP) ��� Israeli leaders on Friday roundly condemned a deadly settler rampage in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a rare Israeli denunciation of the settler violence growing more common since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. The settler riot in the village of Jit, near the city of Na How Ferguson elevated the profile of the Justice Department's civil rights enforcers 08/16/2024 11:51am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� As the first images out of Ferguson, Missouri surfaced 10 years ago ��� the bloodied body of a man left for hours in the street beneath white sheets, protesters smashing car windows and looting stores ��� it didn���t take long for the federal government to see a role for itself. BMW recalls 1.3 million vehicles in China that may have Takata airbag inflators 08/16/2024 09:09am • BEIJING (AP) ��� BMW was recalling more than 1.3 million vehicles in China that might have Takata airbag inflators following a similar recall in the United States last month, officials said Friday. The recall covers nearly 600,000 vehicles made in China between 2005 and 2017 and more than 750,000 im AP Week in Pictures: Global 08/16/2024 07:01am • AUG. 9���15, 2024 A Ukrainian tank passes by a burning car near the Russian-Ukrainian border, a river floods a road after Tropical Storm Ernesto passed through Toa Baja in Puerto Rico, a Palestinian man mourns his 4-day-old twin relatives in Deir al-Balah, and people in the Northern Hemisphere gathe Mediators hold new Gaza cease-fire talks and hope to head off a wider war 08/16/2024 01:29am • DOHA, Qatar (AP) ��� International mediators held a new round of talks Thursday aimed at halting the Israel-Hamas war and securing the release of scores of hostages, with a potential deal seen as the best hope of heading off an even larger regional conflict. The United States, Qatar and Egypt met wi 4 arrested in killing of former 'General Hospital' actor Johnny Wactor 08/15/2024 10:48pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Los Angeles police arrested four people on Thursday in the fatal shooting of former ���General Hospital��� actor Johnny Wactor. Robert Barceleau, Leonel Gutierrez, and Sergio Estrada, all 18 years old, were booked on arrest warrants for murder. Frank Olano, 22, was booked for be