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Iran's presidential candidates talk economic policies in 2nd live debate ahead of June 28 vote 06/20/2024 06:13pm • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — In the second live debate on state television, six presidential candidates on Thursday discussed Iran's economic problems ahead of the country's June 28 election following a helicopter crash last month that killed President Ebrahim Raisi and seven others. It was the second of f Graduation, lack of opportunity force most gymnasts to quit. A women's league is out to change that 06/20/2024 06:09pm • Luisa Blanco knows her gymnastics career has an expiration date. The funny thing is, the older the recent Alabama graduate gets, the more it seems to keep getting pushed back. For a long time, the 22-year-old Blanco figured her final season with the Crimson Tide this spring would be it. Then she qu Montgomery County Schools officials say they're making progress on tackling bullying, sexual harassment complaints 06/20/2024 05:43pm • By the time classes start for the 2024-2025 school year, Montgomery County Public Schools will have a number of changes in place designed to address complaints of bullying and sexual harassment by school employees. That's according to school officials who briefed the members of two Montgomery Cou Change Healthcare to start notifying customers who had data exposed in cyberattack 06/20/2024 05:04pm • Change Healthcare is starting to notify hospitals, insurers and other customers that they may have had patient information exposed in a massive cyberattack. The company also said Thursday that it expects to begin notifying individuals or patients in late July. Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of heal Maryland lets sexual assault victims keep track of evidence via a bar code 06/20/2024 05:00pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — For Angela Wharton, Maryland's new statewide tracking system for sexual assault evidence represents a ray of hope, enabling survivors to monitor the data online. Wharton was raped in 1996 and described the trauma she experienced more than 20 years later, when she was infor NCAA presents options to expand March Madness tournaments from current 68 teams, AP source says 06/20/2024 05:00pm • The NCAA has presented a plan to Division I conference commissioners that would expand the lucrative men's and women's basketball tournaments by four or eight teams alongside an option to leave each field at 68 teams, according to a person familiar with the details. The proposals were outlined to th Expanded Kentucky Bourbon Trail to feature both age-old distilleries and relative newcomers 06/20/2024 04:58pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Bourbon Trail is maturing, like the fine whiskeys it showcases. A new-look Bourbon Trail unveiled Thursday will lead visitors to large and small distilleries alike, linking relative newcomers and age-old brands in a collective strategy to build on bourbon touris Biden administration old-growth forest proposal doesn't ban logging, but still angers industry 06/20/2024 04:49pm • BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration is advancing its plan to restrict logging within old-growth forests that are increasingly threatened by climate change, with exceptions that include cutting trees to make forests less susceptible to wildfires, according to a U.S. government analysis Ryne Nelson's 7 efficient innings help Diamondbacks handle Nationals, 5-2 06/20/2024 04:42pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Ryne Nelson pitched seven efficient innings, Christian Walker hit his team-high 17th home run in the ninth inning, and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Washington Nationals 5-2 on Thursday. Randal Grichuk drove in two runs for the Diamondbacks, who took two of three at Washin Former Prince George's Co. Council member Mel Franklin charged with theft, embezzlement and perjury 06/20/2024 04:31pm • Former Prince George's County Council member Jamel "Mel" Franklin has been charged with multiple counts of felony theft scheme, embezzlement and perjury after prosecutors say he used campaign funds to pay for personal expenses, including cosmetic procedures for himself and a friend. Franklin abru Accenture, KB Home rise; Snap, Jabil fall, Thursday, 6/20/2024 06/20/2024 04:20pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Thursday: Accenture Plc., up $20.81 to $306.16. The consulting company raised part of its revenue forecast for the year. Snap Inc., down 41 cents to $15.39. Snapchat's owner will pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit alle Heat wave claims lives of at least 125 in Mexico this year, hitting country's most vulnerable 06/20/2024 04:01pm • VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) — When the nursing home in southern Mexico began to bake in the country’s ongoing heat wave, staff cycled their elderly residents through the few cooling options they had. First, some would sit in front of fans buzzing in the sweltering heat of Veracruz. Then they’d be mo Fossil fuel opponents score victory in a UK Supreme Court ruling on case near a London airport 06/20/2024 03:54pm • LONDON (AP) — Fossil fuel opponents won a major victory Thursday as the U.K. Supreme Court ruled that planners reviewing well-drilling permits must consider the greenhouse gas emissions from burning the extracted oil. A woman had challenged a decision by Surrey County Council south of London to al Slovakia’s parliament backs a contentious plan to overhaul the country's public broadcasting 06/20/2024 03:18pm • BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s parliament voted on Thursday to approve a government plan to overhaul the country’s public broadcasting services, a move that critics say would result in the government taking full control of the media. The coalition government of populist Prime Minister U.S. bans on gasoline-powered leaf blowers grow, as does blowback from landscaping industry 06/20/2024 03:13pm • TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The roar of the leaf blower has become an inescapable part of daily life in communities across America, leading towns and states to ban or restrict blowers that run on gasoline. But the measures face blowback from the landscaping industry and some property owners who say that