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France's divided National Assembly votes to keep centrist speaker as political turmoil persists 07/18/2024 03:57pm • PARIS (AP) — France’s divided National Assembly on Thursday kept a centrist member of President Emmanuel Macron’s party as speaker after a chaotic early election produced a hung legislature. Speaker Yaël Braun-Pivet, 53, has been at the head of the National Assembly since 2022 and she retain MLS modifies rules to improve flexibility in how teams add world-class or developing players 07/18/2024 03:05pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Soccer is modifying roster rules to give clubs more flexibility in how they build their rosters as well as providing more benefits when players are transferred or loaned to clubs outside of the league. MLS announced the changes Thursday, saying they would go into effec Green agendas clash in Nevada as company grows rare plant to help it survive effects of a mine 07/18/2024 02:37pm • GARDNERVILLE, Nev. (AP) — A botanist gently strokes the pollen of endangered wildflowers with a paintbrush as she tries to reenact nature inside a small greenhouse in the shadow of the Sierra Nevada. It's part of a lithium mining company's grand experiment intended to help keep an extremely rare d A woman becomes commander of the Canadian Armed Forces for the first time 07/18/2024 02:35pm • TORONTO (AP) — A woman has become the top commander of Canada's military for the first time. Gen. Jennie Carignan officially took over command of the Canadian Armed Forces in a ceremony at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa on Thursday. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that Carignan is the first Hungary's Orbán releases letter to EU leaders detailing his maligned Ukraine 'peace mission' 07/18/2024 02:27pm • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Thursday released a letter he addressed to the heads of European Union countries where he presented his impressions from a recent series of visits with some of the bloc's biggest adversaries that angered many of his allies. The le British climate protesters who plotted highway shutdown given record harsh prison sentences 07/18/2024 01:53pm • LONDON (AP) — Five climate activists who planned a protest to cause gridlock and block traffic over four days on a major highway circling London were sentenced Thursday to as much as five years in prison. The sentences were the harshest terms handed down for a peaceful protest in England, accordin Court says Jim Crow-era felony voting ban in Mississippi can be altered by lawmakers, not judges 07/18/2024 01:45pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi legislators, not the courts, must decide whether to change the state's practice of stripping voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes such as forgery and timber theft, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The state's Inquiry finds Britain was ill-prepared for COVID-19 pandemic and failed its citizens 07/18/2024 01:29pm • LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government was ill-prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic and serious errors in planning failed its citizens, an inquiry found Thursday. Retired judge Heather Hallett, who is leading the ongoing inquiry, said the government wrongly believed in 2019 that it was one of the best-pr New York Mets 1B Pete Alonso among MLB stars who could use big second half heading into free agency 07/18/2024 12:54pm • PHOENIX (AP) — Pete Alonso's disappointing performance in this year's Home Run Derby wasn't a particularly big deal for the future of his big-league career. His play over the next three months could be a different story. The 29-year-old is one of the most coveted free agents in Major League Baseba Biden administration cancels another $1.2 billion in student loans for public service workers 07/18/2024 12:49pm • The Biden administration is cancelling an additional $1.2 billion in student loans for borrowers who work in public service through changes to an existing forgiveness program. The relief for roughly 35,000 borrowers was announced Thursday by the Education Department and made through changes to the P Evgeny Kuznetsov clears unconditional waivers, has his NHL contract terminated by the Hurricanes 07/18/2024 12:46pm • Evgeny Kuznetsov had his contract terminated Thursday after clearing unconditional waivers, bringing an abrupt end to the talented but inconsistent center's NHL career, at least for the time being. The Carolina Hurricanes put Kuznetsov on unconditional waivers Wednesday for the purpose of terminatin Campenaerts wins a 3-man sprint to take Tour de France stage as Pogacar keeps yellow jersey 07/18/2024 12:20pm • BARCELONETTE, France (AP) — Belgian rider Victor Campenaerts posted the biggest win of his career Thursday as he claimed the tough and hilly 18th stage of the Tour de France after a three-man sprint. Two-time Tour champion Tadej Pogacar kept the race leader's yellow jersey as the top of the overal EggSnob pop-up will bring breakfast to Kevin Tien’s Hot Lola’s in Rosslyn 07/18/2024 11:31am • Rosslyn workers and residents will have a new breakfast pit stop starting next week with the opening of EggSnob, a pop-up inside celebrity chef Kevin Tien’s Hot Lola’s at 1501 Wilson Blvd. The breakfast sandwich pop-up will be a change for chef Dario Arana-Rojas, the chef and owner of Saoco C China Communist Party policy meeting endorses leader Xi's high-tech vision for economy 07/18/2024 11:19am • BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party wrapped up a top-level meeting on Thursday by endorsing policies aimed at advancing the country’s technological power and fortifying its national security. A statement released when the four-day meeting ended provided only a broad-brush summary. M Spain heats up under 1st heatwave of the year as Southern Europe swelters 07/18/2024 10:41am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain sweated under its first official heatwave of the year with temperatures expected to reach 40 degrees Celcius (104 Fahrenheit) in a large swathe of the country on Thursday, while Italy, Greece and other areas of southern Europe also struggled to stay cool. After a rela