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Venice Film Festival: From ���Joker 2��� to ���Maria,��� here are 10 movies to get excited about 08/26/2024 12:44pm • VENICE, Italy (AP) ��� Some of Hollywood���s biggest stars are getting ready to descend on the Venice Film Festival this week, from George Clooney and Angelina Jolie to Lady Gaga and Brad Pitt. But while the allure of A-listers on those picturesque docks is a welcome return to form after last year� Ultraprocessed foods are everywhere. How bad are they? 08/26/2024 12:34pm • Whether they know it or not, most Americans don���t go a day ��� or often a single meal ��� without eating ultraprocessed foods. From sugary cereals at breakfast to frozen pizzas at dinner, plus in-between snacks of potato chips, sodas and ice cream, ultraprocessed foods make up about 60% of the U.S Court ruling on California���s ���Kids Code��� law raises concerns over fate of similar Maryland law 08/26/2024 12:20pm • Maryland is one of two states, with California, to pass a so-called Kids Code law ��� legislation aimed at providing privacy and other protections to children using online platforms. But a federal appeals court���s decision this month to uphold much of a lower court���s injunction of the Californ Sports betting roundup: Chiefs open NFL season next week with the best odds to win the Super Bowl 08/26/2024 11:46am • The NFL preseason is officially over and the next game on the schedule is the season opener between the Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens in Kansas City on Sept. 5 ��� a rematch of last year���s AFC championship game. With the regular season coming, Kansas City has the best Super Bowl odds at the BetM Sports on TV for Tuesday, Aug. 27 08/26/2024 10:10am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Tuesday, Aug. 27 COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN���S) 7 p.m. ESPN2 ��� Nebraska at Kentucky 9:30 p.m. ESPN2 ��� Wisconsin at Louisville MLB BASEBALL 6:30 p.m. TBS ��� Houston at Philadelphia 9:30 p.m. MLBN ��� Regional Coverage: N.Y. Mets at Marketing exec wants to shift Verizon's transactional image into one more tied to people's lives 08/26/2024 09:53am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Verizon Communications has long enjoyed its position as the leading provider of mobile services in the U.S. But a new trend of price-conscious customers holding onto their old phones has hurt the bottom line for telecom companies seeking to capitalize off the sale of new mobile pho Behind the rhetoric, a presidential campaign is a competition about how to tell the American story 08/26/2024 09:44am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic nomination ���on behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on Earth.��� America, Barack Obama thundered, ���is ready for a better story.��� JD Vance insisted that the Biden administration ���is not the end of o She's the sitting vice president. She's the candidate of change. How Harris is having it both ways 08/26/2024 07:38am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� She���s the sitting vice president who has been in office for 3 1/2 years. She���s also the presidential candidate of just five weeks promising a ���new way forward.��� Kamala Harris is having it both ways as she hits the campaign trail after the Democratic National Convention, Realignment shifts some of the top powers in women's college volleyball as popularity surges 08/26/2024 06:10am • Perhaps no sport will be impacted more by the most recent round of conference realignment than women���s volleyball. Five of the last nine schools to win national championships switched conferences during the offseason. Those five schools (Texas, Stanford, UCLA, Washington and Southern California) h How restrictive cellphone policies at DC-area schools will affect students' mental health 08/26/2024 04:03am • If you're a parent, you may already know about the newest TikTok trends or that Instagram filters are "so out." You may also know firsthand that social media can negatively affect children���s (3 to 18-year-olds) mental health. In June, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called for warning labels Protesters against judiciary overhaul plan urge Mexican president to 'respect democracy' 08/26/2024 03:25am • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Protestors took to the streets across Mexico on Sunday in the latest opposition to President Andr��s Manuel L��pez Obrador's proposed judicial overhaul and other moves by the governing party that critics say will weaken democratic checks and balances. Demonstrators rallied in Me This week: Consumer confidence; 2nd quarter GDP growth; consumer price inflation 08/26/2024 03:10am • A look at some of the key business events and economic indicators upcoming this week. Confidence boost The Conference Board issues its monthly index of U.S. consumer confidence Tuesday. Economists expect the August reading rose to 101.8. A reading of 90 or better reflects a healthy economy. The inde Its economy and infrastructure battered, can Lebanon afford a war with Israel? 08/26/2024 01:07am • BEIRUT (AP) ��� The ferocious exchange of fire by Hezbollah and the Israeli military is raising fears of a regional war beyond the tense border. The risks for Lebanon are far greater than in 2006, when a monthlong war with Israel ended in a draw. Lebanon has struggled with years of political and ec Rodman, Bethune score in NWSL return as Washington Spirit defeat KC Current 4-1 08/26/2024 12:50am • SEATTLE (AP) ��� Trinity Rodman scored a goal to lift the Washington Spirit to a 4-1 win over the Kansas City Current at D.C.'s Audi Field in the National Women's Soccer League Sunday afternoon. It was her fifth goal this season. Rodman scored three goals for the United States at the Paris Olympi This bird species was extinct in Europe. Now it's back, and humans must help it migrate for winter 08/25/2024 09:08pm • PATERZELL, Germany (AP) ��� How do you teach a bird how, and where, to fly? The distinctive northern bald ibis, hunted essentially to extinction by the 17th century, was revived by breeding and rewilding efforts over the last two decades. But the birds ��� known for their distinctive black-and-iride