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FTC ban on noncompete agreements comes under legal attack 08/14/2024 08:04am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The federal government wants to make it easier for employees to quit a job and work for a competitor. But some companies say a new rule created by the Federal Trade Commission will make it hard to protect trade secrets and investments they make in their employees. At least three co Brett Gabbert's return from injured leg makes defending MAC champion RedHawks preseason favorite 08/14/2024 06:10am • Brett Gabbert helped put Miami (Ohio) in position to win the 2023 Mid-American Conference crown. He spent the last five conference games watching his teammates fulfill that goal. Now, the almost completely healed 24-year-old quarterback begins his fourth and presumably final season as Miami's starte Having bid farewell to Saban, powerful SEC welcomes Oklahoma and Texas to the mix 08/14/2024 06:10am • Goodbye, Nick Saban. Hello, Oklahoma and Texas. For the first time in 17 years, Alabama's iconic coach won't be prowling the sidelines in the Southeastern Conference. With one longtime juggernaut headed to an ESPN gig and semi-retirement, two others enter the fray. The Sooners and Longhorns join the Using data and technology to make streets safer in Falls Church 08/14/2024 05:55am • A new traffic control box has been installed at a Falls Church intersection, the first step of a yearslong initiative that aims to turn the Northern Virginia jurisdiction into a "smart city." The project, which the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute's Division for Technology Implementation is Japanese are worried and confused after first-ever megaquake advisory. What does it mean? 08/14/2024 04:45am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Japan, one of the most earthquake-prone nations on earth, issued its first-ever ���megaquake advisory��� last week after a powerful quake struck off the southeastern coast of the southern main island of Kyushu. The magnitude 7.1 quake caused no deaths or severe damage but the advisory Paramount cuts 15% of US staff, writes down $6 billion in latest sign of TV troubles 08/14/2024 04:35am • New York (CNN) ��� Paramount Global, the storied media conglomerate, announced Thursday it will lay off 15% of its US staff and write down $6 billion in value of its cable television networks as it prepares to merge with Skydance Media. The layoffs, which will affect around 2,000 staffers in the Maui judge's ruling bars insurers from going after defendants who agreed to $4B wildfire settlement 08/14/2024 04:02am • HONOLULU (AP) ��� A Maui judge���s ruling Tuesday resolves a critical roadblock to finalizing a $4 billion wildfire settlement: Insurance companies who have paid out more than $2 billion in claims can seek reimbursement only from the settlement amount defendants, who victims blame for causing the de Japanese executive convicted in Myanmar for selling rice above set prices returns home 08/14/2024 02:00am • TOKYO (AP) ��� A Japanese business executive has returned home from Myanmar following his release from more than a month of detention after being convicted of violating rice pricing rules, his company said Wednesday. Hiroshi Kasamatsu, a director of the Myanmar supermarket Aeon Orange, was in custod Students who ousted Hasina are helping lead Bangladesh, from the streets to the ministries 08/14/2024 01:54am • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ��� Within a week of unseating Bangladesh���s longest-serving prime minister, the students who drove out Sheikh Hasina were directing Dhaka���s traffic. Decked out in neon vests, their university IDs slung around their necks, they clutch sticks and umbrellas to wave cars this Game of inches: Lobster fishermen say tiny change in legal sizes could disrupt imperiled industry 08/14/2024 12:04am • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ��� Gerry Cushman has seen Maine's iconic lobster industry survive numerous threats in his three decades on the water, but the latest challenge ��� which might sound tiny ��� could be the biggest one yet. Lobster fishing is a game of inches, and the number of inches is about to Longest-held Russian dissident freed in swap says ���colors get brighter by the day��� in his new life 08/14/2024 12:02am • BERLIN (AP) ��� Andrei Pivovarov knows there are about 1,000 hours in 42 days. Doing the math in his head and quietly marking milestones left in his sentence helped the Russian opposition politician survive more than three years in prison, much of it spent in complete isolation. ���You have no one t A strengthening Ernesto is poised to become a hurricane after brushing past Puerto Rico 08/13/2024 10:57pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� Tropical Storm Ernesto was poised to become a hurricane shortly after brushing past Puerto Rico late Tuesday as officials closed schools, opened shelters and moved dozens of the U.S. territory's endangered parrots into hurricane-proof rooms. Ernesto is forecast to beco Israel-Hamas war latest: Iran rejects European leaders' call to refrain from any retaliatory attacks 08/13/2024 10:36pm • Iran rejected a call Tuesday by three European countries urging it to refrain from any retaliatory attacks that would further escalate regional tensions. Iran calls it an ���excessive request.��� The leaders of Britain, France and Germany in a joint statement Monday asked Iran and its allies to refr There's an apostrophe battle brewing among grammar nerds. Is it Harris' or Harris's? 08/13/2024 10:02pm • Whatever possessed Vice President Kamala Harris to pick Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, it probably wasn���t a desire to inflame arguments about apostrophes. But it doesn���t take much to get grammar nerds fired up. ���The lower the stakes, the bigger the fight,��� said Ron Woloshun, a Ferguson police release body camera footage showing protester knocking officer to sidewalk 08/13/2024 08:38pm • FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) ��� Ferguson police on Tuesday released officer-worn body camera footage showing a protester knocking a Black police officer to the ground on the 10th anniversary of Michael Brown���s death, leaving the Missouri officer with a life-threatening brain injury. Police Chief Troy Doyle