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UnitedHealth sticks to 2024 outlook despite strong quarter with costs from massive cyberattack high 07/16/2024 10:45am • UnitedHealth topped second-quarter forecasts but remains cautious about the year as it continues to eat costs from a massive cyberattack and deals with rising medical expenses. The health care giant on Tuesday said it was sticking with an earnings forecast for 2024 it first laid out last fall that i Youngkin touts Trump as fellow ���outsider Republican businessman��� at Republican National Convention 07/16/2024 10:42am • The Republican National Convention began Monday, and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin helped kick off the festivities by celebrating former president Donald Trump, who became the party���s official nominee. The gathering in Milwaukee, Wisconsin took place days after a shooter attempted to assassinate Baltimore officials sue to block 'baby bonus' initiative that would give new parents $1,000 07/16/2024 10:16am • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� Baltimore���s mayor and city council have filed a lawsuit seeking to stop a proposal that would let voters decide whether to give all new parents a one-time $1,000 ���baby bonus��� meant to help alleviate childhood poverty from birth. The complaint was filed Thursday, according Thousands of Philadelphia city workers are back in the office full time after judge rejects lawsuit 07/16/2024 09:37am • Thousands of Philadelphia city employees are back in their offices full time after a judge rejected a union's request to block Mayor Cherelle Parker���s requirement that they return. District Council 47 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees had sued the city, claiming t LeBron James at 39 still is the center of attention for USA Basketball. That won't change in Paris 07/16/2024 09:26am • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� This is how the U.S. Olympic men���s basketball team took the floor for warmups before an exhibition game in Abu Dhabi: Stephen Curry opened with a layup, followed by ones from Tyrese Haliburton, Anthony Edwards and Derrick White, and then a short jumper from Devin Booker. All wer Formula 1 team Haas extends its partnership with engine provider Ferrari until 2028 07/16/2024 09:16am • KANNAPOLIS, NC (AP) ��� The Haas Formula 1 team has extended its partnership with engine provider Ferrari until the end of the 2028 season. Haas said in a statement Tuesday that the deal ���provides long-term engine stability��� with the next major change in regulations due in 2026. To improve sust Soros' Open Society Foundations say their restructuring is complete and pledge $400M for green jobs 07/16/2024 09:01am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Open Society Foundations, the philanthropic organizations that billionaire investor George Soros has built up since the 1970s, revealed its first new major commitment on Tuesday after a years-long internal reorganization, pledging $400 million over eight years to support green econ 'Proud to come home': Montgomery Co.'s new superintendent explains the realities of the job he's taken on 07/16/2024 07:13am • The new superintendent of schools for Montgomery County, Maryland, is entering his third week on the job with the new school year beginning in just over a month. Thomas Taylor, who came from Stafford County, Virginia, now leads Maryland's largest school district, with a budget of $3.3 billion, mo Olympic tennis players return to the red clay of Paris' Roland Garros after Wimbledon's grass 07/16/2024 06:00am • PARIS (AP) ��� The competition surface doesn���t change for most Olympic sports. A pool���s a pool. A track���s a track. A wrestling mat���s a mat. And so on. Tennis? That���s a whole other story, with tournaments contested on clay, hard or grass courts ��� and now there���s a shift for the Paris Ga Ex-NATO chief George Robertson to lead a UK defense review, says China among 'deadly' challenges 07/16/2024 05:46am • LONDON (AP) ��� Former NATO leader George Robertson will lead a review of Britain���s military strategy to counter what he calls the ���deadly quartet��� of China, Iran, Russia and North Korea. Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the strategic defense review on Tuesday as one of his first major ac Provisional election results show Rwanda's Kagame cruising to victory, an outcome that was expected 07/15/2024 11:21pm • KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) ��� President Paul Kagame has won 99% of the vote in provisional results from Monday's presidential election in Rwanda, electoral authorities said, an outcome that was widely expected as the country's long-time ruler aims to extend this three-decade grip on power. Kagame's oppon Trump's grand RNC entrance, a VP pick and the new GOP: Takeaways from day 1 07/15/2024 11:20pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) ��� Trump-Vance 2024. The Republican presidential ticket came together on Monday when Donald Trump named JD Vance as his running mate. In turning to the 39-year-old Ohio senator, the Republican nominee injected new energy into a campaign that has centered in recent weeks on questio Paul Skenes in spotlight, starting All-Star Game after just 11 major league games 07/15/2024 11:10pm • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ��� Paul Skenes looked like a summer intern reporting for duty in a light gray suit, white shirt and cream-colored tie, teenage acne on his face and wonder in his voice. In a ballpark filled with six dozen All-Stars, the 22-year-old Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher with 11 major leag President Joe Biden says it was a 'mistake' to say he wanted to put a 'bull's-eye' on Donald Trump 07/15/2024 10:42pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden told NBC News in an interview Monday that it was a ���mistake��� to say he wanted to put a ���bull's-eye��� on Republican nominee Donald Trump, but argued that the rhetoric from his opponent was more incendiary while warning that Trump remained a threat to dem Protesters rally peacefully at GOP convention for abortion and immigrant rights, end to war in Gaza 07/15/2024 10:38pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) ��� Hundreds of demonstrators converged Monday on downtown Milwaukee to protest around the Republican National Convention, following through on their long-standing plans to rally outside the site despite the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. The protests were pe