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Joe Lee, founder of a popular DC-area record store, dies at 76 07/10/2024 04:53pm • Joe Lee, whose Montgomery County shop, Joe's Record Paradise, was a popular gathering spot for D.C.-area music fans, died July 4 at the age of 76. His son Johnson told WTOP Lee had been battling throat cancer and died at a hospice center in Rockville, Maryland. Joe Lee (left) and Zev Feld AI presents pluses and minuses in new Apple TV+ mystery series, 'Sunny,' starring Rashida Jones 07/10/2024 04:18pm • As an actor and a writer, Rashida Jones has spent a lot of time thinking about artificial intelligence. The use of AI was a major issue at the bargaining table during last year's Hollywood strikes. AI is also front and center in her new series ���Sunny" for Apple TV+. ���My feeling today ��� because Harris focuses on her personal story, not Biden questions, as she speaks to Black and Asian voters 07/10/2024 04:15pm • DALLAS (AP) ��� First, Vice President Kamala Harris went to Nevada to launch the reelection���s outreach campaign to Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders and addressed the crowd as ���longtime friends.��� Then, she was in Dallas to speak at the annual gathering of Alpha Kappa Alp Goodyear, Smart Global rise; LegalZoom falls, Wednesday, 7/10/2024 07/10/2024 04:13pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Wednesday: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., up $6.53 to $191.05. The chipmaker reported a jump in June revenue from a year ago. United Parcel Service Inc., up $1.37 to $135.65. The package delivery service named Which states could have abortion on the ballot in 2024? 07/10/2024 04:12pm • A ballot measure to scale back the abortion ban in Arkansas won���t go before voters after the secretary of state on Wednesday found that organizers failed to submit required paperwork about the paid canvassers it used to help gather signatures that were submitted earlier this month. But the issue w Book Review: Gonzo journalist Barrett Brown���s memoir a piquant take on hacktivism���s rise 07/10/2024 03:42pm • His talents in full flower and basking in public admiration, gonzo journalist and inveterate anti-establishment troublemaker Barrett Brown is jailed in his native Texas on various federal felony charges. It is 2013 and Brown���s adventures have included helping Anonymous hacktivists publicly expose UN declares 2025 to 2034 the decade to combat increasing sand and dust storms from Africa to China 07/10/2024 03:41pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday declared 2025 to 2034 the United Nations Decade on Combating Sand and Dust Storms ��� extreme weather events that are increasing and threatening health and economies from central Africa to northern China. Uganda's U.N. Ambassador Godfrey In swing-state Pennsylvania, a Latino-majority city embraces a chance to sway the 2024 election 07/10/2024 03:34pm • READING, Pa. (AP) ��� Religion and politics frequently overlap in Reading, an old industrial city in one of the most pivotal swing states of this year���s presidential election. In Pennsylvania, there is early precedent for this kind of thing. The state began as a haven for Quakers and other Europea Their Vermont homes were inundated by extreme flooding. A year later, they still struggle to recover 07/10/2024 03:28pm • MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) ��� A year after catastrophic flooding inundated parts of Vermont, Lisa Edson Neveu and her two teenage sons still live in their flood-wracked home despite unrepaired damage that festers like an open wound: torn-out walls and floors, a missing ceiling in one room and a downstair Maryland governor proposes nearly $149M in midyear budget cuts 07/10/2024 03:26pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ��� Maryland Gov. Wes Moore's administration proposed nearly $149 million in midyear spending reductions on Wednesday to steer more money to help fund child care and Medicaid as state officials continue to wrestle with budget challenges. Moore will present the cuts next week to t Clippers bring back Nicolas Batum and sign Derrick Jones Jr. and Kevin Porter Jr. 07/10/2024 03:20pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Nicolas Batum is returning to the Los Angeles Clippers, with the team signing the veteran forward along with forward Derrick Jones Jr. and guard Kevin Porter Jr. on Wednesday. Batum played in 60 games for the Clippers and Philadelphia 76ers last season, averaging 5.3 points, 4.1 A defiant Biden borrows some tactics from his rival as he tries to put debate debacle behind him 07/10/2024 03:15pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� He���s calling in to his favorite morning cable news show, bashing the ���elites��� of his party and dismissing unfavorable polls. He���s even talking up his crowd sizes. As an increasingly defiant President Joe Biden rejects calls to step aside after a disastrous debate performanc NYPD nixing 'Courtesy, Professionalism, Respect' slogan on new patrol cars for crime-focused motto 07/10/2024 02:28pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The New York Police Department will stop promoting ���Courtesy, Professionalism, Respect��� on the exterior of its patrol cars, dropping the three-word motto decades after it was adopted to repair fraying community relations. Instead, the department is now outfitting all of its new Confusion, clinic closures may have caused big declines in contraception use, study shows 07/10/2024 11:05am • Clinic closures in the wake of the Dobbs decision and questions about the legality of emergency contraceptives, including disinformation that some are abortion drugs, may have contributed to a sharp drop in the rate of prescriptions for contraceptives in states with the most restrictive abortion ban Russian lawmakers approve an increase in income taxes for the wealthy 07/10/2024 10:29am • MOSCOW (AP) ��� Russia's parliament on Wednesday approved a bill that would raise income taxes for the rich, in a move to help fill government coffers during the fighting in Ukraine. The bill was endorsed in the final third reading by the lower house, the State Duma, and hours later by the upper hou