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Democrats go to new heights to spotlight Project 2025, flying banners over college football stadiums 09/07/2024 03:32pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Democrats have denounced it in hundreds of ads and billboards, printed it in oversize book form as a convention prop, and mentioned it in seemingly every speech and press statement. On Saturday, they took their campaign against the conservative Project 2025 blueprint, written by Suarez returns to the site of the closest finish in NASCAR history looking for a playoff payoff 09/07/2024 03:15pm • HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) ��� The best year of Daniel Suarez���s life began in February when he won the NASCAR Mexico race at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, an event essentially staged with Suarez as the star. Later that month came the closest finish in NASCAR history, a photo-finish victory at Atlanta As US colleges raise the stakes for protests, activists are weighing new strategies 09/07/2024 02:59pm • University of Southern California law student Elizabeth Howell-Egan isn���t allowed on campus because of her role in last spring���s anti-war protests, but she is keeping up her activism. She and like-minded students are holding online sessions on the Israel-Hamas war and passing out fliers outside Taylor Fritz can end a Grand Slam drought for American men by beating Jannik Sinner at the US Open 09/07/2024 02:47pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Taylor Fritz got choked up when it hit him that he had reached the U.S. Open final. His explanation: ���I cry at happy endings of movies and not at sad stuff. That���s kind of just how I am.��� Imagine what the 26-year-old Californian's reaction would be if he actually were to take Officials say a troubled and delayed Baltic high-speed rail project still set for completion by 2030 09/07/2024 01:52pm • HELSINKI (AP) ��� Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said Saturday they are committed to completing by the end of the decade a financially troubled and badly delayed high-speed rail project integrating the three Baltic countries with the continental European rail network. Set to link the Baltic capitals Environment solution: New metals refinery for nickel and cobalt opens in Ohio 09/07/2024 01:50pm • In a step forward for efforts to acquire the metals crucial to addressing climate change, on Monday a new plant that can extract nickel and cobalt from scrap material opens in Fairfield, Ohio. The resulting metals will be used in new batteries and other clean energy markets. Extracting metals out of Pope urges church in Papua New Guinea to be close to women after hearing of sorcery 'superstitions' 09/07/2024 11:56am • PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) ��� Pope Francis called Saturday for the Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea to be particularly close to women who have been abused and marginalized, speaking out in a country where violence against women is reported to be more than twice the global average. Franc Tight race for control of Congress could be decided by just a handful of campaigns 09/07/2024 11:28am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The race for control of Congress is as close as ever, with barely two dozen House seats and a handful in the Senate likely to determine the majority this November and whether a single party sweeps to power with the White House. Lawmakers are returning to Washington for a three-we 'Wicked' director Jon M. Chu on 'shooting the moon,' casting Ariana Grande and growing 9M tulips 09/07/2024 10:59am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� ���Musical��� has been a dirty word lately in Hollywood marketing, but ���Wicked��� director Jon M. Chu isn���t having it. Of course, there���s no running from the term when you���re bringing to the screen one of the most popular Broadway shows of the 21st century, or telling a sto Typhoon Yagi leaves at least 4 dead and scores injured in Vietnam 09/07/2024 10:36am • HANOI, Vietnam (AP) ��� Vietnamese authorities say Typhoon Yagi has killed at least four people and injured 78 others after making landfall Saturday afternoon in the north of the country. Yagi, described by Vietnamese meteorological officials as ���one of the most powerful typhoons in the region ov Sports on TV for Sunday, Sept. 8 09/07/2024 10:10am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Sunday, Sept. 8 AUTO RACING 7:30 a.m. TRUTV ��� FIM MotoGP: The San Marino Grand Prix, Misano Adriatico, Italy 2 p.m. CBSSN ��� FIM Motocross: The MX2, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey 3 p.m. CBSSN ��� FIM Motocross: The MXGP, Afyonkarahisar, Tur US higher education advocates welcome federal support for Hispanic-serving institutions 09/07/2024 10:02am • Higher education advocates in Latino communities say they are optimistic about a new federal effort to support hundreds of local colleges and universities. Hispanic-serving institutions, or HSIs, which are not-for-profit schools with a full-time equivalent undergraduate student enrollment that is a Takeaways from Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's response to violence after George Floyd's murder 09/07/2024 09:21am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� Kamala Harris' selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be the Democratic vice presidential candidate has revived the debate over how he handled the biggest crisis of his political career. Minneapolis and St. Paul erupted after a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Flo With father of suspect charged in Georgia shooting, will more parents be held responsible? 09/07/2024 09:03am • Murder charges filed against the father of a 14-year-old boy accused of a Georgia school shooting follow the successful prosecution of two parents in Michigan who were held responsible for a similar tragedy at a school north of Detroit. Is it a sign of a crackdown on parents accused of gross neglige Sharp divisions persist over Walz's response to the riots that followed the murder of George Floyd 09/07/2024 08:38am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� Gov. Tim Walz faced the biggest crisis of his political career when Minnesota���s two largest cities erupted in protests and riots after a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd. The Black man's murder in 2020 sparked a nationwide reckoning over racial discriminati