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All welcome: Advocates fight to ensure citizens not fluent in English have equal access to elections 09/13/2024 02:32pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� In the heart of Las Vegas��� Chinatown, on the second floor of a sprawling shopping plaza that serves as a hub for the city���s Asian community, residents gather for a celebration of the annual Dragon Boat Festival. Some stop in to grab shiny, red packages of premade zongzi, a ric Measure to repeal Nebraska���s private school funding law should appear on the ballot, court rules 09/13/2024 01:52pm • A ballot measure seeking to repeal a new conservative-backed law that provides taxpayer money for private school tuition should appear on the state's November ballot, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday. The court found that the ballot measure does not illegally target a government appropriation, w Biden is taking on cheap products from China. It could mean higher prices 09/13/2024 01:38pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Biden administration is cracking down on cheap products sold out of China, expanding a push to reduce U.S. dependence on Beijing and bolster homegrown industry, but that could trigger higher prices for U.S. consumers who flock to popular shopping sites like Temu and Shein. Pr Meet the straight ally who is protesting Ghana���s anti-LGBTQ bill 09/13/2024 01:02pm • ACCRA, Ghana (AP) ��� Texas Kadiri Moro stood in the middle of the hustle and bustle of Accra on Thursday, dressed in short pink Speedos and a pink polo shirt. Accompanied by trumpet players, carrying a banner with slogans including, ���Why should a society of evildoers judge others?��� and ���Justi Boar���s Head to close Virginia plant linked to deadly listeria outbreak 09/13/2024 12:56pm • (CNN) — Boar���s Head will close the Virginia plant that produced deli meat tied to a deadly listeria outbreak, the company said on Friday.The move is part of several changes made following what it called a ���dark moment in our company���s history.�����Boar���s Head said it will permanently d Scott Borchetta saved IndyCar in Nashville despite financial losses and matchup against the Titans 09/13/2024 12:52pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� IndyCar star Colton Herta, one of Nashville's newest residents, can see promotion of the season finale all around the city. He made a joke that there are plenty of billboards around Nashville ��� Pato O'Ward complained two weeks ago the sign outside the Milwaukee Mile adver Police killing of an unarmed Nebraska man prompts officers to reconsider no-knock warrants 09/13/2024 12:26pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ��� Police in Nebraska's largest city have stopped using some no-knock search warrants, at least for now, after an unarmed Black man was killed by an officer while executing a no-knock warrant last month. Omaha Deputy Police Chief Scott Gray said the use of standard entry no-knock w Ferguson activist raised in the Black Church showed pastors how to aid young protesters 09/13/2024 12:15pm • As twilight descended on Ferguson, Missouri, for a third consecutive night after the killing of Michael Brown Jr. by a police officer, Gwendolyn DeLoach Packnett could no longer hold her peace. Each day since the killing on Aug. 9, 2014, she had watched her daughter, Brittany, leave the safety of ho Harris supported the Green New Deal. Now, she's promoting domestic oil drilling 09/13/2024 11:49am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Even as she promoted her efforts to boost clean energy, Vice President Kamala Harris said in Tuesday's debate that the Biden-Harris administration has overseen ���the largest increase in domestic oil production in history because of an approach that recognizes that we cannot over European politicians say migration is out of control. The numbers tell a different story 09/13/2024 11:40am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ��� Unauthorized migration to European Union countries dropped significantly overall in the first eight months of this year, even as political rhetoric and violence against migrants increased and far-right parties espousing anti-immigration policies made gains at the polls. Th Dozens of Hong Kong journalists and some of their families have been harassed, media group says 09/13/2024 11:31am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Dozens of Hong Kong journalists and some of their family members and associates have been harassed in recent months, a leading media professional group said Friday. Drastic political changes have created an increasingly restricted environment for journalists in the semi-autonomous Vietnam typhoon death toll rises to 233 as more bodies found in areas hit by landslides and floods 09/13/2024 11:12am • HANOI, Vietnam (AP) ��� The death toll in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi in Vietnam climbed to 233 on Friday as rescue workers recovered more bodies from areas hit by landslides and flash floods, state media reported. Flood waters from the swollen Red River in the capital of Hanoi were beginning to Central Europe braces for heavy rains and flooding forecast over the weekend 09/13/2024 10:44am • PRAGUE (AP) ��� Central European nations braced on Friday for severe flooding forecast to hit the Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Germany, Slovakia and Hungary over the weekend. Czech authorities erected metal barriers or protective walls from sandbags, while water was released from dams to make sp High Court rejects the UK's first new coal mine in 30 years 09/13/2024 10:25am • LONDON (AP) ��� A judge on Friday rejected plans for the United Kingdom���s first new coal mine in three decades, delivering a victory for climate groups who challenged the project's claim it would have zero impact on global emissions. High Court Justice David Holgate's decision follows a June rulin Max Verstappen has a 'monster' to tame in Baku as Red Bull's era of F1 dominance comes under threat 09/13/2024 10:17am • Lando Norris is only one of Max Verstappen's problems at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. The other is his own car. Verstappen needs to tame a car he's called a ���monster��� to hold off Norris and defend his Formula 1 title, all while the Red Bull team's years of dominance in Formula 1 seem to be nearin