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Can a lottery winner run an effective foundation? Meet Roy Cockrum 07/17/2024 09:05am • In the early 1980s, soon after graduating from college, Roy Cockrum was trying to make it as an actor in New York. He was hanging on by his fingernails, getting paid $40 a show for two supporting roles in the off-Broadway comedy ���Vampire Lesbians of Sodom.��� To cover his rent, Cockrum would pick FACT FOCUS: A look at ominous claims around illegal immigration made at the Republican convention 07/17/2024 07:20am • After Donald Trump triumphantly entered the hall on the second night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, the program turned to one of his signature issues: illegal immigration. An ominous video of chaos at the U.S.-Mexico border led into to a speech by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, wh Pointer Sisters are so excited ��� and they just can't hide it ��� to play MGM National Harbor 07/17/2024 04:06am • D.C. music fans are so excited ��� and we just can't hide it ��� for a triple dose of nostalgia next week. The Pointer Sisters will join The Commodores and The Spinners for a trio of legendary groups at MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on July 26. "This is the first time I've wo Stock market today: Asian stocks slip, while Australian index tracks Wall St rally to hit record 07/17/2024 02:15am • Asian stocks were mostly lower Wednesday even as investors wagered that the Federal Reserve will come ahead with a cut to interest rates, while Australia���s benchmark hit a new record. U.S. futures were mixed and oil prices were little changed. In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 index gave up early gains to UN climate talks leader says financial help for poor nations is urgent goal of negotiations 07/17/2024 02:02am • The head of upcoming climate negotiations told world leaders Wednesday that a new financial aid package for poor and disaster-struck nations is the urgent, make-or-break goal of United Nations talks this fall. ���Time lost is lives, livelihoods and the planet lost,��� said Mukhtar Babayev, the Azerb 'Hellishly hot' southern Europe bakes under temperatures topping 104 F 07/17/2024 01:32am • ROME (AP) ��� The Italian health ministry placed 12 cities under the most severe heat warning Tuesday as a wave of hot air from Africa baked southern Europe and the Balkans and sent temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), with the worst still to come. Croatia reported the high Ukraine faces twin challenges of fighting Russia and shifting political sands in the US 07/17/2024 01:04am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� After almost 30 months of war with Russia, Ukraine���s difficulties on the battlefield are mounting even as its vital support from the United States is increasingly at the mercy of changing political winds. A six-month delay in military assistance from the U.S., the biggest s Southern California school district sues Gov. Newsom over new gender-identity law 07/17/2024 12:17am • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� A Southern California school district involved in an ongoing legal battle with the state over the district's gender-identity policy sued Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom Tuesday over a new law banning districts from requiring that parents be notified of their child's gender i Donald Trump is feted by his former rivals in a show of Republican unity after rally shooting 07/16/2024 11:24pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) ��� Donald Trump was celebrated Tuesday at the Republican National Convention by former rivals who just months ago leveled harsh critiques about him, a show of unity that contrasts with the divisions increasingly ripping through the Democratic Party. Nikki Haley, the former U.N. ambas 2024 Election Latest: RNC enters second day with focus shifting to immigration 07/16/2024 10:48pm • The Republican National Convention's second day is in full swing ��� now with Donald Trump officially as its presidential nominee and U.S. Sen. JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate. Trump energized the crowd Monday night by entering the arena with a bandage on his right ear after being injured durin Clark vows to keep deliberations internal after failed attempt to oust baseball union negotiator 07/16/2024 10:32pm • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ��� Baseball players' association head Tony Clark vowed to keep the union's deliberations internal following a failed attempt in March to remove his chief labor negotiator. Harry Marino, a former union lawyer who spearheaded the organization of minor leaguers, marshaled an atte Nevada county reverses controversial vote and certifies two recounts while legal action looms 07/16/2024 10:02pm • RENO, Nev. (AP) ��� Commissioners in Nevada's second most populous county certified the results of two local recounts on Tuesday, reversing course on a controversial vote against certification that spurred legal action and put Washoe County in unchartered legal territory. The 4-1 decision overturns Corbin Burnes has whirlwind All-Star experience after checking in on newborn twins 07/16/2024 09:50pm • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ��� Corbin Burnes planned to break away from his newborn twin daughters and show up at the All-Star Game regardless of whether he was the starting pitcher for the American League. In a Midsummer Classic filled with replacements and first-time All-Stars, the Baltimore right-h Montgomery Co. senior scammed out of $900K in gold bar 'big-money scheme' 07/16/2024 09:45pm • Scammers persuaded an 82-year-old Montgomery County, Maryland, woman to buy a fortune's worth of gold bars and then hand them over earlier this year, according to prosecutors, who said the scammers posed as federal agents working to protect her savings. Zhenyong Weng, 19, of New York City, has be Violence plagued all levels of American politics long before the attempt on Trump's life 07/16/2024 09:37pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) ��� Long before a would-be assassin wounded former President Donald Trump, the fuse of political violence had been burning across America. Members of Congress have been shot. One lawmaker's staffers in Virginia were attacked with a baseball bat. In Louisville, a bullet grazed the