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Commissioner Brett Yormark says Big 12 has solidified itself as one of nation's top 3 conferences 07/09/2024 04:54pm • Brett Yormark believes the Big 12 has clearly solidified itself as one of the nation's top three conferences in a period of drastic change in college athletics, and the commissioner said the expanding league is more relevant than it has ever been in its nearly three-decades history. “We are truly Biden's low-profile doctor has been thrust into the spotlight after the president's debate disaster 07/09/2024 04:31pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — As the physician to President Joe Biden, Dr. Kevin O'Connor is well-known around the White House. The stocky former Army surgeon is always close by his number one patient, ready to provide care or a consult as needed though few outside the building would know who he is. But Biden Assured Guaranty, Kymera rise; BP, Helen of Troy fall, Tuesday, 7/9/2024 07/09/2024 04:24pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Tuesday: BP Plc., down $1.75 to $34.80. The energy giant warned investors about a $2 billion impairment charge. Helen of Troy Ltd., down $24.68 to $64.33. The Hydro Flask maker's fiscal first-quarter earnings fell short With new $50 million contract, UConn's Dan Hurley keeps focus on the court 07/09/2024 04:19pm • STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Even with a deal that would make him one of the highest-paid college basketball coaches in the country, UConn's Dan Hurley never let his thoughts stray far from what got him to the top of the men's college basketball world. About a month after declining to become the head coac To counter China, NATO and its Asian partners are moving closer under US leadership 07/09/2024 04:18pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — In the third year of the war in Ukraine, NATO is set to deepen relations with its four Indo-Pacific partners, which, although not part of the military alliance, are gaining prominence as Russia and China forge closer ties to counter the United States and the two Koreas support op Wisconsin elections officials to discuss absentee ballot drop box rules after ruling 07/09/2024 03:27pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin elections officials will meet this week to discuss how to implement a state Supreme Court ruling that once again allowed for unstaffed absentee ballot drop boxes to be used in the presidential battleground, the state elections administrator said Tuesday. The Wisconsi Caitlin Clark leads Angel Reese in race for Rookie of the Year, according to panel of AP voters 07/09/2024 03:27pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Caitlin Clark leads Angel Reese in the race for WNBA Rookie of the Year honors at the midpoint of the season, according to a national panel of voters who also rank the AP Power Poll each week. Clark and Reese have garnered national attention with record-setting rookie seasons †Former US Sen. Jim Inhofe, defense hawk who called human-caused climate change a 'hoax,' dies at 89 07/09/2024 03:07pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Former Sen. Jim Inhofe, a conservative known for his strong support of defense spending and his denial that human activity is responsible for the bulk of climate change, has died. He was 89. Inhofe, a powerful fixture in Oklahoma politics for over six decades, died Tuesday mo Pretty cool: Helicopters deliver massive air conditioning units to roofs of 2 Virginia high schools 07/09/2024 02:42pm • With temperatures nearing 100 degrees, a helicopter hoisted gargantuan air conditioning units to the roofs of two Loudoun County, Virginia, high schools on Tuesday. The first delivery was at Freedom High School, in South Riding. The school community had been informed that the school building Georgia slave descendants submit signatures to fight zoning changes they say threaten their homes 07/09/2024 02:29pm • DARIEN, Ga. (AP) — Residents of one of the South's last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants submitted signatures Tuesday, hoping to force a referendum on whether to reverse zoning changes that they fear will make them sell their land. Elected commissioners in Georgia's McIntosh C Mexico's efforts to seize US-bound fentanyl drop sharply, while seizures of meth soar 07/09/2024 02:12pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Even as Mexican-made fentanyl continues to flood into the United States, Mexico’s efforts to seize the drug have declined dramatically, according to figures released Tuesday by the Defense Department. Figures for the first half of 2024 show that Mexican federal forces seized o No more confusion: Jags rusher Josh Allen changes last name to Hines-Allen to honor maternal family 07/09/2024 02:10pm • JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jacksonville Jaguars star pass rusher Josh Allen has changed his last name to Hines-Allen to honor his maternal family and relatives who have worn that surname on their jerseys. That will also help eliminate confusion with the Buffalo Bills star quarterback. Hines-Allen a Overall health of Chesapeake Bay gets best grade in more than 2 decades, annual report shows 07/09/2024 01:34pm • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The overall health of the Chesapeake Bay, the nation’s largest estuary, received its highest grade since 2002 in an annual report released by scientists Tuesday: a C-plus. Scientists at the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental Science made special note of Penn The Camino, a Catholic pilgrimage, increasingly draws the spiritual but not religious 07/09/2024 01:03pm • (RNS) — In her early 30s, Rachael Sanborn found herself in a bad relationship and dreaming of an escape to the Camino de Santiago in Spain, a pilgrimage her father had undertaken that had profoundly changed his life. Sanborn, a rebel and adventurer by nature (she dropped out of college to meditat Appeals panel keeps 21-month sentence for ex-Tennessee lawmaker who tried to withdraw guilty plea 07/09/2024 12:03pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal appeals panel is keeping a 21-month prison sentence in place for a former Tennessee state senator who tried to withdraw his guilty plea on campaign finance law violations. The ruling Monday in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals focuses on the August 2023 senten