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Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 23-29 06/17/2024 10:08am • Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 23-29: June 23: Singer Diana Trask is 84. Actor Ted Shackelford (���Knots Landing���) is 78. Actor Bryan Brown (���The Thorn Birds���) is 77. Actor Jim Metzler (���North and South���) is 73. Former ���American Idol��� judge Randy Jackson is 68. Actor Frances This Week: Existing home sales, retail data for May and Kroger's first-quarter results 06/17/2024 09:13am • A look at some of the key business events and economic indicators upcoming this week: RETAIL RECEIPTS The Commerce Department on Tuesday reports retail sales data for May. Analysts expect that retail sales rose 0.3% last month after stagnating in April. Shopping by consumers accounts for nearly 70% Seattle Sounders and investment firm Carlyle finalize acquisition of NWSL's Seattle Reign 06/17/2024 08:24am • The Seattle Sounders and international investment firm Carlyle have finalized their deal to acquire the Seattle Reign of the National Women's Soccer League. The OL Groupe, the holding company that owned eight-time French champion Lyon, announced in March it had agreed to sell the team to the Major L 'The Outsiders' wins best musical and 'Stereophonic' best play as women make strides at Tony Awards 06/17/2024 07:46am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� ���The Outsiders,��� a gritty adaptation of the classic young adult novel, became the essence of a Broadway insider on Sunday, winning the Tony Award for best new musical on a night when women made strides. The musical based on the beloved S. E. Hinton book is about rival gangs of The war in Gaza has wiped out entire Palestinian families. AP documents 60 who lost dozens or more 06/17/2024 06:42am • BEIRUT (AP) ��� He is among the very last survivors of his Gaza family, a clan so close they knew without thinking how blood and marriage bound them across generations and city blocks. Then, branch by branch, 173 of Youssef Salem���s relatives were killed in Israeli airstrikes in a matter of days in Ukraine employs a flexible defense while waiting for new Western ammo to get to the front 06/17/2024 06:41am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Ukrainian firepower has been improving since U.S. lawmakers approved a much-needed military aid package this spring, though not quickly enough to halt the Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine. Although the influx of Western munitions has shrunk Kyiv's glaring artillery disadva Chinese and Philippine ship collision just the latest in a string of South China Sea confrontations 06/17/2024 06:20am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� China has been at odds with many other countries in the Asia-Pacific for years over its sweeping maritime claims, including almost all of the South China Sea, a strategic and resource-rich waterway around which Beijing has drawn a 10-dash-line on official maps to delineate what it China keeps lending rate unchanged as data show housing market is still struggling 06/17/2024 06:14am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� China's central bank kept a key lending rate unchanged on Monday, choosing not to loosen credit as data for May showed signs of persisting weakness in the world's No. 2 economy's manufacturing and real estate sectors. The central bank kept its rate for 1-year medium-term lending fa Panthers and Oilers turn to poker and Mario Kart on long flights in the Stanley Cup Final 06/17/2024 06:00am • When the Florida Panthers' first flight of the Stanley Cup Final was delayed, it meant extra time on the tarmac before the nearly six-hour trek across North America. As forward Anton Lundell joked upon arrival, ���The guys who played cards had a little bit more time to win or lose some money.��� Don Review: HBO's 'House of the Dragon' returns for Season 2 premiere with Team Black vs. Team Green 06/17/2024 05:35am • In 2019, "Game of Thrones" wrapped its phenomenal eight-season run on HBO, winning 59 Emmys, including the top prize of Best TV Drama four times. The final season left many of us disappointed, but the series finale was still watched by 19.3 million viewers, a personal record for the epic fantasy 2 political outliers claim seats in European Parliament by leveraging social media's viral power 06/17/2024 05:19am • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) ��� One is a wildly popular, seemingly happy-go-lucky YouTuber from Cyprus. The other is a brash, fringe figure of Spain's far right who rails against unauthorized immigrants. They both are new members of the European Parliament thanks to their savvy use of video-based social me Chinese premier agrees with Australia to 'properly manage' differences 06/17/2024 04:46am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� Chinese Premier Li Qiang said he agreed with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday to properly manage their nations' differences as they emerge from a hostile era in which minister-to-minister contacts were banned and trade barriers cost Australian export Takeaways from the AP investigation into the Palestinian families being decimated in Gaza 06/17/2024 01:21am • BEIRUT (AP) ��� To a degree never seen before, Israel���s air and ground campaign in Gaza is killing entire Palestinian families. Entire bloodlines, sometimes four generations from the same family, have perished in single airstrikes or a series of airstrikes on members of the same family sheltering The high cost of living is still biting the UK. Many don't think the election will change anything 06/17/2024 12:09am • LONDON (AP) ��� Dominic Watters watches his gas and electricity meter like a hawk. He topped it up a few days ago, but now there���s just 1.85 pounds ($2.40) of credit left. That may determine what kind of dinner he and his teen daughter get tonight, he says. Watters, a campaigner for better access NASCAR Cup Series Iowa Corn 350 Powered by Ethanol Results 06/17/2024 12:05am • Sunday At Iowa Speedway Newton, Iowa. Lap length: 0.88 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (2) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 350 laps, 57 points. 2. (4) William Byron, Chevrolet, 350, 42. 3. (9) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 350, 44. 4. (10) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 350, 33. 5. (35) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevr