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Britain's top players at Wimbledon stick to tennis on UK election day 07/04/2024 06:30am • LONDON (AP) ��� Some of Britain's top tennis players are avoiding election talk like double-faults at Wimbledon. Polls opened Thursday morning in the U.K.'s first national election in almost five years, but Britain's rising stars are sticking to the tennis at the All England Club. Jack Draper says h Stock market today: Japan's Nikkei 225 hits new record close, as other world markets advance 07/04/2024 06:28am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Japan���s benchmark Nikkei 225 surged Thursday to a record close of 40,913.65, while most other major world markets also advanced. Investors worldwide are keen to see the Federal Reserve cut rates that it has been keeping at two-decade highs to slow growth and tame inflation, and h Transgender, nonbinary 1,500 runner Nikki Hiltz shines on and off track, earns spot at Paris Games 07/04/2024 06:00am • EUGENE, Ore. (AP) ��� While Nikki Hiltz took a victory lap to celebrate a long-awaited trip to the Olympics, some fans reached out and handed bracelets to their favorite 1,500-meter runner ��� a runner who is doing this, in part, for them. These days, Hiltz, who's transgender and nonbinary, is shin Christian Walker hits 16th and 17th career homers at Dodger Stadium, Diamondbacks rout Dodgers 12-4 07/04/2024 02:43am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Christian Walker hit a go-ahead homer in the fourth inning and a three-run blast in the ninth ��� his 16th and 17th career shots at Dodger Stadium ��� and the Arizona Diamondbacks overcame a rough start to rout Los Angeles 12-4 on Wednesday night. Gabriel Moreno and Lourdes Gurr Polls open in British election in which voters appear eager for change after 14 years of Conservative government 07/04/2024 02:00am • LONDON (AP) ��� Polls open in British election in which voters appear eager for change after 14 years of Conservative government. These oldest inhabited termite mounds have been active for 34,000 years 07/04/2024 01:25am • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) ��� Scientists in South Africa have been stunned to discover that termite mounds that are still inhabited in an arid region of the country are more than 30,000 years old, meaning they are the oldest known active termite hills. Some of the mounds near the Buffels River in Masoud Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon who rose to power in parliament, runs to be Iran's next president 07/04/2024 01:02am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� After the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini, Iranian lawmaker Masoud Pezeshkian wrote that it was ���unacceptable in the Islamic Republic to arrest a girl for her hijab and then hand over her dead body to her family.��� Days later as nationwide protests and a bloody cra California Legislature votes to ask voters for permission borrow $20 billion for climate, schools 07/03/2024 11:45pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� Mired in a stream of multi-billion dollar budget deficits, the California Legislature on Wednesday turned to voters for help. Lawmakers voted to place a pair of $10 billion bonds on the November ballot. If approved, the money would pay for the building of new schools and NFL is liable for $4,707,259,944.64 in 'Sunday Ticket' case 07/03/2024 11:10pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The damages a federal jury has ordered the NFL to pay for violating antitrust laws in distributing out-of-market Sunday afternoon games on a premium subscription service is $4,707,259,944.64. The figures from the June 27 judgment against the NFL were listed on the verdict form, Japan's top court orders government to compensate disabled people who were forcibly sterilized 07/03/2024 09:34pm • TOKYO (AP) ��� In a landmark decision, Japan���s Supreme Court ordered the government Wednesday to pay suitable compensation to about a dozen victims who were forcibly sterilized under a now-defunct Eugenics Protection Law that was designed to eliminate offspring of people with disabilities. An esti 'Seven Samurai' at 70: Kurosawa's epic still moves like nothing else 07/03/2024 09:24pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Akira Kurosawa���s ���Seven Samurai��� is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. But despite its age, the vitality and fleet-footed movement of Kurosawa���s epic is still breathtaking. To watch it again is to be swept along, all over again, by its flowing action and breadth of California man convicted of murder in 2018 stabbing death of gay University of Pennsylvania student 07/03/2024 09:01pm • SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) ��� A California man was convicted of murder with a hate crime enhancement Wednesday for the 2018 stabbing death of a gay University of Pennsylvania student. Samuel Woodward, 26, was found guilty of first-degree murder plus the enhancement in the killing of Blaze Bernstein, a Migrants pause in the Amazon because getting to the US is harder. Most have no idea what lies ahead 07/03/2024 09:00pm • ASSIS BRASIL, Brazil (AP) ��� Dozens of migrants sleep in a mosquito-infested six-bedroom wooden shelter in the Brazilian Amazon, their dreams of a better life in the U.S. on hold because of President Joe Biden���shalt on asylum. Johany ���Flaca��� Rodr��guez, 48, was ready to leave behind the stru As temperatures soar, judge tells Louisiana to help protect prisoners working in fields 07/03/2024 08:44pm • Amid blistering summer temperatures, a federal judge ordered Louisiana to take steps to protect the health and safety of incarcerated workers toiling in the fields of a former slave plantation, saying they face ���substantial risk of injury or death.��� The state immediately appealed the decision. U Which states could have abortion on the ballot in 2024? 07/03/2024 07:05pm • Organizers in Arizona and Nebraska turned in more than enough signatures Wednesday to put abortion-related ballot questions before voters in November's election if a sufficient number of them are deemed valid. They now bring to five the number of states where election officials are validating sig