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NCAA women's selection committee to reveal full seeding of tournament teams next season 07/12/2024 03:00pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� The NCAA women's selection committee will release the seeding for the entire tournament field for the first time next season. The NCAA Division I Women���s Basketball Committee announced the change on Friday after its summer meetings, meaning the full seed list for all 68 team Caribbean seeks help in fighting climate change after Hurricane Beryl devastates small islands 07/12/2024 02:36pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� Caribbean officials on Friday demanded more access to funding and help in fighting climate change, weeks after Hurricane Beryl devastated the region. The urgent request was made at an OAS meeting in Washington, D.C., where officials noted that the historic storm expose Extreme heat and some medicines can be a risky combo. Here's what to know 07/12/2024 02:25pm • Extreme heat can raise the danger of heat-related illnesses and threaten health in a more subtle way ��� by amplifying the side effects of many common medications. Hot weather, too, can damage medicines such as insulin that require refrigeration. Inhalers can explode. Epinephrine injectors such as Georgia sheriff laments scrapped jail plans in county under federal civil rights investigation 07/12/2024 02:25pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� The sheriff in a Georgia county where prison conditions have led to a federal civil rights investigation criticized a decision not to move forward with plans for a new jail, calling the vote ���shortsighted" on Friday. The Fulton County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday voted 4-3 Poland's centrist government suffers defeat in vote on liberalizing abortion law 07/12/2024 01:49pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) ��� Poland���s Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his centrist coalition government suffered a bitter defeat Friday in parliament, where a slim majority rejected legislation that would have eased the strict anti-abortion law. The vote was 218-215 with two abstentions to reject the l Small Nashville museum wants you to know why it is returning artifacts to Mexico 07/12/2024 01:44pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� When Bonnie Seymour took a job as assistant curator of Nashville's Parthenon museum, one of the first things she did was to look through the collections. Among paintings by American artists and memorabilia from Tennessee���s 1897 Centennial Exposition ��� the event for whic For at least a decade Quinault Nation has tried to escape the rising Pacific. Time is running out 07/12/2024 01:42pm • TAHOLAH, Wash. (AP) ��� Standing water lies beneath the home Sonny Curley shares with his parents and three children on the Quinault reservation a few steps from the Pacific Ocean in Washington's Olympic Peninsula. The back deck is rotting, and black mold speckles the walls inside, leaving the 46-ye Macario will miss the Olympics because of right knee irritation, Williams set to step in 07/12/2024 01:39pm • Forward Catarina Macario won't be able to play at the Olympics because of irritation in her right knee, U.S. coach Emma Hayes said Friday. Macario will be replaced on the 18-player roster for France by alternate Lynn Williams, pending approval by the U.S. Olympic Committee, FIFA and the Internation King Charles III hosts Idris Elba to hear from young people about the troubles they face 07/12/2024 01:13pm • LONDON (AP) ��� We hear you. That was the simple message offered to a group of young people hosted in London on Friday by King Charles III, who also invited Hollywood megastar Idris Elba and Prime Minister Keir Starmer to St. James' Palace to discuss the troubles that young people face. Elba, the Lo Paris Olympics: What to know and who to watch during the cycling competition 07/12/2024 01:12pm • A roadmap to follow for cycling ��� BMX freestyle and racing, time trial and road racing, track cycling and cross-country mountain biking ��� during the Paris Olympics: Athletes to Watch ���Chloe Dygert, United States: The reigning time trial world champion also will compete in the road race and the Paris Olympics: What to know and who to watch during women's basketball 07/12/2024 01:11pm • A roadmap to follow for the women���s basketball competition during the Paris Olympics: Athletes to Watch ���Lauren Jackson, Australia: She returned to international play at the 2022 World Cup to lead the Opals to the bronze medal. The 43-year-old three-time WNBA MVP hasn't played in the Olympics si European Union says X's blue checks are deceptive 'dark patterns' that breach its social media laws 07/12/2024 01:02pm • LONDON (AP) ��� The European Union said Friday that blue checkmarks from Elon Musk's X are deceptive and that the online platform falls short on transparency and accountability requirements, the first charges against a tech company since the bloc's new social media regulations took effect. The Euro Police ID woman killed by falling tree limb in Capitol Hill park; witnesses heard 'loud pops' before it came crashing down 07/12/2024 01:02pm • Police in D.C. have identified the woman who was killed after being struck by a falling tree limb in a Capitol Hill park on Wednesday. Sarah Noah, 35, of Southeast D.C. was struck by the limb, which fell from a tree in Garfield Park just before 7:30 a.m., and became pinned underneath it. T Music Review: Megan Moroney's charms grow stronger on sophomore album, 'Am I Okay?' 07/12/2024 12:36pm • It begins with the title track: ���Am I Okay?��� Megan Moroney, a storied student of country music ��� and an expert in the genre's ability to flip a turn of phrase and change its meaning in surprising and unexpected ways ��� does exactly that. It's a love song, a declaration that maybe, just maybe, 2028 Los Angeles Olympics to include multiple events in the nearby cities of Carson and Long Beach 07/12/2024 12:30pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics on Friday announced more venue assignments, with the cities of Carson and Long Beach reprising their roles from previous games held in the region. Carson will host track cycling at the velodrome, field hockey in the adjacent fields, rugby sevens in