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Complex supply chains and climate change make "clean beauty" near impossible, but some keep trying 08/27/2024 01:06pm • EAST GARAFRAXA, Ontario (AP) ��� Julie Thurgood-Burnett had no idea that her COVID-19 lockdown whim of starting a lavender patch on her husband's family farm outside Toronto would turn into a small business. She had never been a farmer, but before long she had a bright purple field and a new hobby o Slovakia sets its sights on qualifying for the Olympics with NHL players back for the Milan Games 08/27/2024 12:32pm • PRAGUE (AP) ��� In the days leading up to Slovakia's chance to return to the Olympics, coach Craig Ramsay made sure to remind players what is at stake. ���We want to defend our medal and maybe look for something even better, and we should be thinking that way,��� Ramsay said this week, 2 1/2 years s Presidential transition planning has begun in earnest, but Trump and Harris are already behind 08/27/2024 12:30pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Biden administration offered federal resources to Donald Trump and Kamala Harris for presidential transition planning for the first time Tuesday, with experts suggesting both are behind in preparing for their potential administrations. While transitions kick into high gear af Sports on TV for Wednesday, Aug. 28 08/27/2024 10:10am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Wednesday, Aug. 28 COLLEGE SOCCER (WOMEN���S) 10 p.m. BTN ��� BYU at UCLA HORSE RACING 1 p.m. FS2 ��� NYRA: Saratoga Live MLB BASEBALL 1 p.m. MLBN ��� Regional Coverage: Kansas City at Cleveland OR Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh (12:30 p.m. Comic Relief US launches new Roblox game to help children build community virtually and in real life 08/27/2024 09:58am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The notion that online gaming could help players develop charitable habits seemed bold when the anti-poverty nonprofit Comic Relief US tested its own multiverse on the popular world-building app Roblox last year. As philanthropy wrestles with how to authentically engage new generat High rents are forcing small businesses into tough choices like raising prices or changing location 08/27/2024 09:54am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� While many costs have come down for small business, rents remain high and in some cases are still rising, forcing many owners into some uncomfortable decisions. ���Every time the rent goes up, we have to raise prices, to keep up with the cost,��� said Adelita Valentine, owner of H Danny Jansen plays for both teams in Blue Jays-Red Sox game, an MLB first 08/27/2024 07:52am • BOSTON (AP) ��� Former Blue Jays and current Red Sox catcher Danny Jansen didn���t just play for both teams in the same game ��� a first in Major League Baseball history. He batted for both teams in the same inning. In a statistical oddity made possible by two of the quirkiest entities on Earth ��� New Champions League format promises more of almost everything storied clubs wanted from UEFA 08/27/2024 06:18am • GENEVA (AP) ��� The new Champions League format this season will see more teams playing more games for more prize money. On Thursday, UEFA makes the draw in Monaco for the match schedule of the new single-standings league phase that replaces the traditional group stage. The first new Champions Leag Grammy-nominated 'American Idol' alum Jordin Sparks joins WTOP en route to DC's Atlantis 08/27/2024 06:04am • She's sold over 10 million digital tracks in the U.S. since winning "American Idol" back in 2007. On Thursday, Jordin Sparks brings her "No Restrictions: Live & Intimate" Tour to The Atlantis in D.C. The tour is named after her new "No Restrictions" album that drops next month. "There' Being Black in Germany has never been easy. Elections in eastern states could make it harder still 08/27/2024 05:20am • ERFURT, Germany (AP) ��� It was a balmy summer night in 2020, shortly after the lifting of Germany���s first COVID-19 lockdown, and Omar Diallo and two friends from his home country of Guinea wanted to celebrate Eid al-Adha, the Muslim festival of sacrifice. ���We were enjoying life, playing music, Navy Football Preview: Anticipated air attack in Annapolis? 08/27/2024 04:00am • How difficult is it to change a reputation? Not just how you're perceived but the very fiber of your being? Navy enters year two under head coach Brian Newberry staring at four straight losing seasons and is attempting to do just that. After years of being seen as a run on first, second, third an Sri Lanka's Dissanayake a strong contender for president with his alliance's focus on working class 08/27/2024 03:59am • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) ��� A political alliance centered on the working class has emerged as a strong contender in Sri Lanka's presidential race, announcing itself to be the agent of change that millions of people called for when an unprecedented economic crisis led to disillusionment with traditio What is the Pacific Islands Forum? How a summit for the world's tiniest nations became a global draw 08/27/2024 03:17am • NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga (AP) ��� As leaders of Pacific nations were welcomed to their annual meeting in Nuku���alofa, Tonga, on Monday, they were greeted first by torrential rain and then by an earthquake. The magnitude 6.9 quake was deep enough not to cause damage, but the long shudder and ankle-deep wa Spencer Torkelson's 3-run homer helps Tigers beat MLB-worst White Sox 6-3 for 4-game sweep 08/27/2024 12:10am • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Spencer Torkelson hit a three-run homer during a five-run seventh inning, and the Detroit Tigers beat the Chicago White Sox 6-3 on Monday night to complete a four-game sweep and drop the majors' worst team to 31-101. Parker Meadows led off the seventh with a homer off Jared Shuster Latest fatal landslide in Alaska kills 1 and injures 3 in Ketchikan, a popular cruise ship stop 08/26/2024 11:55pm • JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) ��� A landslide cut a path down a steep, thickly forested hillside and crashed into several homes in Ketchikan, killing one person and injuring three in the latest such disaster to strike mountainous southeast Alaska. The landslide Sunday afternoon prompted a mandatory evacuatio