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Nebraska is the latest state to add abortion to November ballots. What would the measures do? 08/23/2024 03:37pm • Competing abortion measures to expand or limit abortion rights will be on the November ballot in Nebraska after election officials on Friday confirmed each side had turned in enough signatures. The move makes Nebraska the first state to carry competing abortion amendments on the same ballot since t Ukraine says it used US glide bombs in Russia's Kursk region and has retaken some land in Kharkiv 08/23/2024 03:24pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Ukraine���s military says it used high-precision U.S. glide bombs to strike Russia���s Kursk region, and that is has recaptured some territory in the eastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv that has been under a Russian offensive since spring. Ukraine���s Air Force Commander Lt. G Mexico is protesting US ambassador's criticism of proposed judicial overhaul 08/23/2024 02:42pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Mexico said Friday it is sending a diplomatic note protesting supposed U.S. interference after the American ambassador openly criticized a proposed Mexican judicial overhaul that would make all judges stand for election. President Andr��s Manuel L��pez Obrador called the commen Kamala Harris' racial and cultural firsts were onstage throughout the Democratic convention 08/23/2024 02:32pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Vice President Kamala Harris, on the night she became the first woman of Black and South Asian heritage to be a major party���s presidential nominee, didn't explicitly mention the history she would make if elected to the White House. Instead, she opted for direct mentions of her mul Senators demand the USDA fix its backlog of food distribution to Native American tribes 08/23/2024 02:27pm • A bipartisan group of senators is demanding immediate action from USDA Secretary Thomas Vilsack after several tribal nations reported that a federal food distribution program they rely on has not fulfilled orders for months, and in some cases has delivered expired food. Last spring, the USDA consoli Floridians balk at DeSantis administration plan to build golf courses at state parks 08/23/2024 01:54pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� The golf course is not a threatened species in the Sunshine State ��� but the Florida scrub-jay is. And advocates are warning that life for the small blue and gray birds and many other imperiled species could get much harder if Gov. Ron DeSantis��� administration follows t At least 9 playoff teams from the 2023 NFL season enter this year with new play-callers 08/23/2024 01:54pm • SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) ��� Kyle Shanahan's decision to bring in an outsider to run the San Francisco 49ers defense backfired last season when the previously dominant unit took a step back in 2023 under Steve Wilks. The Niners still ended up making it to the Super Bowl but lost to Patrick Mahome Georgia lawmakers say the top solution to jail problems is for officials to work together 08/23/2024 01:44pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� A Georgia Senate committee says more cooperation among county officials would improve conditions in Fulton County's jail, but it also called on the city of Atlanta to hand over all of its former jail to the county to house prisoners. The committee was formed last year to examine con Prosecutor: Evidence of blood, cleanup in case against Manassas Park man charged with concealing wife's body 08/23/2024 01:04pm • Prosecutors say evidence of blood was found in the master bedroom and shower of the Manassas Park home shared by Mamta Kafle Bhatt, who's been missing for over three weeks, and her husband, Naresh, who is charged with concealing her body. During Friday's arraignment, Prince William County Senior For many Asian Americans, Ferguson unrest set them on a path of resistance and reflection 08/23/2024 12:33pm • Like a lot of people, Ellen Lo Hoffman was shocked and disturbed by the shooting death of Michael Brown, a Black teenager, at the hands of a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer a decade ago this month. Hoffman ��� an assistant regional director for the national campus ministry InterVarsity Christian Spain's prime minister visits Canary Islands to discuss irregular migration and unaccompanied minors 08/23/2024 12:28pm • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ��� Spain���s leader met with the regional president of the Canary Islands on Friday to discuss irregular migration as the archipelago struggles to care for thousands of unaccompanied minors who made it there. Prime Minister Pedro S��nchez, a socialist, has been on vacation wit 11th victim found after a boat carrying migrants capsized on a river on the Serbia-Bosnia border 08/23/2024 11:16am • BRATUNAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) ��� A man's body was pulled out of the Drina River on the border between Serbia and Bosnia on Friday, bringing to 11 the number of people who drowned when a boat carrying migrants capsized a day earlier, Serbian police said. The body of an ���irregular migrant��� wa Daunting, daring or dumb? Florida's 'healthy' schedule provides obstacles and opportunities 08/23/2024 10:56am • GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) ��� There���s little chance Florida will ever put together a schedule like this again. No one should, really. It���s daunting. It���s daring. It might even be dumb for anyone in an era in which 12 teams ��� and potentially 16 down the road ��� make the College Football Playoff How to prepare for the Fed's forthcoming interest rate cuts 08/23/2024 10:55am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The Federal Reserve is poised to cut its benchmark interest rate next month from its 23-year high, with consequences for consumers when it comes to debt, savings, auto loans and mortgages. Right now, most experts envision three quarter-point Fed cuts ��� in September, November and Harris confronts Democratic divisions over Gaza war in convention speech 08/23/2024 10:44am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� With anger over the war in Gaza simmering, Vice President Kamala Harris tried to defuse one of the most divisive issues within the Democratic Party on the biggest political stage of her life. Her remarks Thursday night in her speech accepting the party's presidential nomination h