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Georgia counties urge state elections board to stop changing rules ahead of November 08/21/2024 12:15pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� County election officials in Georgia are asking the State Election Board to stop changing the rules ahead of the November election, citing concerns about creating unnecessary confusion for poll workers and voters. The state board has been considering a slew of rule proposals in rece Predicting the first 12-team playoff from Ohio State to Memphis with 4 SEC teams -- but no Alabama 08/21/2024 11:14am • Not everything is changing in college football this season. Texas and Oklahoma will still descend on the Texas State Fair in early October and split the Cotton Bowl in half for the Red River Rivalry. There will just be a Southeastern Conference logo on the field when the Longhorns and Sooners square Republicans scrambled to get Cornel West on the Arizona ballot. The left-wing academic is OK with it 08/21/2024 11:11am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A group of lawyers with deep ties to the Republican Party scrambled over the weekend to rescue an effort to get independent presidential candidate Cornel West on the Arizona ballot, offering one of the clearest examples yet of the GOP���s extensive involvement in furthering the l Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer retires from international soccer and will focus on Bayern 08/21/2024 11:00am • MUNICH (AP) ��� Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer said Wednesday he is retiring from the national team after 15 years and 124 games. He is staying in club soccer with Bayern Munich. The 38-year-old Neuer made his debut for Germany in 2009 and won the World Cup in 2014. His last game for the national t Ford to shift electric vehicle strategy by building new lower-cost pickups and a commercial van 08/21/2024 10:14am • DETROIT (AP) ��� Facing competition from automakers with lower costs, Ford Motor Co. is shifting its electric vehicle strategy and now will focus on making two new electric pickup trucks and a new commercial van. The company says all will cost less, have longer range and be profitable before taxes w Sports on TV for Aug. 26 - Sept. 1 08/21/2024 10:00am • Adv24 (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Monday, Aug. 26 MLB BASEBALL 6:30 p.m. FS1 ��� Houston at Philadelphia 9:30 p.m. FS1 ��� Tampa Bay at Seattle TENNIS Noon ESPN ��� ATP/WTA: The U.S. Open, First Round, New York 7 p.m. ESPN ��� ATP/WTA: The U.S. Open, First Round, Denmark and Sweden vow to hunt down gang leaders who hire minors to kill from abroad 08/21/2024 09:23am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� The Danish and Swedish justice ministers vowed Wednesday to go after organized crime leaders abroad, whom they say have been hiring teenagers in Sweden to carry out deadly shootings in Denmark. Denmark���s Peter Hummelgaard has said that gangs have hired young Swedes to Putin's slow response to the Kursk attack could test the patience of some of his backers in Russia 08/21/2024 09:18am • A year ago this week, President Vladmir Putin strode onto a stage in the Kursk region to commemorate the 80th anniversary of one of the Soviet army's proudest moments in World War II. Addressing a rapt audience that included soldiers fresh from fighting in Ukraine, Putin called the decisive victory Former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley calls for more international support for Taiwan 08/21/2024 09:16am • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) ��� The former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, on Wednesday called for more international backing for Taiwan and a coordinated pushback against China���s claims over the self-ruled democracy. ���The United States should elevate Taiwan on the world stage. You s The internet's love for 'very demure' content spotlights what a viral trend can mean for creators 08/21/2024 08:36am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� It's not just you. The word ���demure��� is being used to describe just about everything online these days. It all started earlier this month, when TikTok creator Jools Lebron posted a video that would soon take social media by storm. The hair and makeup she's wearing to work? Very Starbucks brings back Pumpkin Spice Latte earlier than ever 08/21/2024 08:00am • New York (CNN) ��� It���s still summer, but the Pumpkin Spice Latte is coming back to Starbucks earlier than ever. Beginning Thursday, the fall favorite beverage returns to US menus ��� two days earlier than in 2023. Its return also marks the launch of Starbucks��� full autumn menu, which include FACT FOCUS: A look at claims made during the second night of the Democratic National Convention 08/21/2024 05:55am • The second night of the Democratic National Convention was filled with excitement as a celebratory roll call marked Vice President Kamala Harris' nomination to be the party's candidate for president. As speaker after speaker addressed the convention extolling her qualities to lead the country, they 2 injured Russian climbers rescued after 6 days stranded on Pakistan peak 08/21/2024 05:40am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� After six days stranded on a remote peak in Pakistan���s northeast, two injured Russian climbers were rescued, while another remains missing and is presumed dead, a mountaineering official said Wednesday. The five-member team was attemping to climb one of Gasherbrum's peaks to ret How presidential polling and voter enthusiasm have been shaken up in Virginia 08/21/2024 04:33am • There hasn't been much, if any, polling released in Virginia in the presidential race since President Joe Biden announced almost a month ago that he would be ending his campaign for reelection. But that changed Tuesday as Roanoke College released a poll filled with new data. The Roanoke College p Indonesia searches for ways to balance domestic industries with surging Chinese imports 08/21/2024 03:58am • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) ��� A flood of Chinese products into Indonesia has hit local manufacturers hard, prompting the government to look for ways to placate domestic producers while avoiding angering the country���s biggest trading partner. Garment makers ��� both home-based piece work producers a