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Can a marriage survive a gender transition? Yes, and even thrive. How these couples make it work 06/20/2024 08:10am • Marissa Lasoff-Santos and the person she would marry quickly fell head over heels in love. Lasoff-Santos was a gay woman. Her girlfriend was a bisexual woman ��� or so they thought. Now her partner has become her husband, and they both identify as queer. And things are better than ever. ���We���ve a Russia hammers Ukraine's power grid again and Kyiv's drones target more enemy oil depots 06/20/2024 07:46am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Russia resumed its aerial pounding of Ukraine���s power grid and Kyiv���s forces again targeted Russian oil facilities with cross-border drone strikes, seeking to curb each other's ability to fight in a war that is now in its third year, officials said Thursday. With no major Down a step from elite college football, officials pitch a model for a new sports landscape 06/20/2024 06:10am • Facing upheaval on the way in college athletics, a handful of administrators and athletes from smaller schools have been working on a new model of governance. The hope by members of the Football Championship Subdivision and Division I-AAA (programs without football) is to give their athletes more of Mutual defense pact between North Korea and Russia raises new questions, but it's far from unique 06/20/2024 06:02am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� A new mutual-defense pact signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un commits each country to come to the other's aid if attacked. Just what the threshold for such assistance would be is currently unclear -- maybe deliberately so, to deter other c Dalton Knecht hones game over 3-school basketball journey, now a projected lottery pick in NBA draft 06/20/2024 06:00am • DENVER (AP) ��� Dalton Knecht has always packed one thing with him throughout his cross-country, multi-school basketball journey ��� a chip on his shoulder. Feeling overlooked has powered the guard from Colorado along his stops at Northeastern Junior College (Colorado), Northern Colorado and Tenness It's hard to find treatment for snakebites in Kenya. Thousands of people are dying every year 06/20/2024 03:58am • MWINGI, Kenya (AP) ��� Esther Kangali felt a sharp pain while on her mother���s farm in eastern Kenya. She looked down and saw a large snake coiling around her left leg. She screamed, and her mother came running. Kangali was rushed to a nearby health center, but it lacked antivenom to treat the snak Climate change made killer heat wave in Mexico, Southwest US even warmer and 35 times more likely 06/20/2024 03:31am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Human-caused climate change dialed up the thermostat and turbocharged the odds of this month's killer heat that has been baking the Southwestern United States, Mexico and Central America, a new flash study found. Sizzling daytime temperatures that triggered cases of heat stroke i New Petrobras chief is sworn in as market worries Brazil's government will have heavier hand 06/20/2024 02:14am • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� The head of Brazil���s state-run oil giant Petrobras, Magda Chambriard, was sworn in Wednesday amid market concerns of increased government intervention in the company. President Luiz In��cio Lula da Silva ��� who nominated Chambriard ��� attended the ceremony at a Petrobras South Africa beats US, England defeats West Indies in Super Eight playoffs at the T20 World Cup 06/20/2024 12:40am • NORTH SOUND, Antigua (AP) ��� South Africa had to work hard to earn an 18-run win over the fast-improving United States in the opening game of the Super Eight at the Twenty20 World Cup on Wednesday. Co-host the West Indies also lost it first match in the Super Eight stage Wednesday, beaten by eight Nurses in Oregon take to the picket lines to demand better staffing, higher pay 06/20/2024 12:30am • More than 3,000 nurses at six Oregon hospitals spent a second day on the picket lines Wednesday carrying signs that say, ���Patients over profits��� and ���We're out to ensure it's safe in there,��� as they continued to demand fair wages and better staffing levels. Nurses are striking at six Provid Record-breaking Matthew Fallon leads young contingent on U.S. men's Olympic swim team 06/20/2024 12:01am • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Matthew Fallon's record-breaking swim at the U.S. Olympic trials put him squarely in spotlight as he heads to Paris later this summer. Teenager Thomas Heilman is still trying to ignore the comparisons with Michael Phelps. Now they're teaming up to give the American men a Tributes to Willie Mays pour in as mural is unveiled in Alabama 06/19/2024 08:48pm • BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) ��� Willie Mays gave a message to his longtime friend Dusty Baker just a day before he died. Mays, who died Tuesday afternoon at 93 years old, knew that he wouldn't be able to make the trip to Birmingham, Alabama, for a week of festivities honoring the contributions that he and Hendricks delivers throwback performance in Cubs' win over Giants 06/19/2024 08:00pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Kyle Hendricks delivered a throwback performance in his return to the Cubs' rotation and walked off the mound to a standing ovation. The wily right-hander pitched neatly into the sixth inning, allowing one run and two hits to help Chicago beat the San Francisco Giants 6-5 on Wednesd 9 Social Security Calculators That Can Help You Decide When to Claim 06/19/2024 08:00pm • One of the key retirement decisions you will make is when to apply for Social Security. Using a retirement calculator can help you determine the ideal retirement age to start Social Security payments and encourage you to consider taking action to maximize the amount you will receive from Social Secu What Does Greenwashing Mean in Sustainable Investing? 06/19/2024 08:00pm • Consumers and investors interested in eco-friendly products, including investment funds, should watch out for a practice called "greenwashing." What Is Greenwashing?Greenwashing happens when a company falsely presents itself as environmentally friendly to capitalize on the growing demand for sustain