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Apple Pay will have more payment options this fall and will also welcome Windows, Chrome users 06/11/2024 12:06pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Apple Inc. plans to add several new features to Apple Pay and Apple Wallet later this year that will more deeply integrate financing, rewards, and buy now, pay later options into the iPhone. The new features are part of Apple's annual iOS update that will arrive in the fall, the c Book Review: Yume Kitasei explores space in a heist-driven action adventure novel 06/11/2024 11:34am • Grad student Maya Hoshimoto is having a hard time settling down on Earth after a thrilling career as an art thief, stealing looted objects and returning them to their people. So when her best friend Auncle ��� an octopus-like being from another solar system ��� offers one last job, of course she say As Congress investigates the Osprey, families balance grief with pilots' love for the warplane 06/11/2024 10:57am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The V-22 Osprey that crashed off the coast of Japan last year brought the aircraft's safety record back under scrutiny ��� but this time without one of its most vocal defenders. Air Force Maj. Jeff Hoernemann piloted the Osprey for more than a decade. Each time a new safety issu Takeaways from AP examination of flooding's effect along Mississippi River 06/11/2024 10:28am • WEST ALTON, Mo. (AP) ��� Commerce along the Mississippi River has evolved over the past century at the expense of many once-thriving river towns. But persistent and sometimes devastating flooding has added to the woes of some of those towns. An examination of data provided to The Associated Press fo UK's glum Conservatives try to shift the mood with a promise of tax cuts as polling day nears 06/11/2024 10:09am • LONDON (AP) ��� Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Tuesday implored British voters, and his own party, to throw him a lifeline in the U.K.'s election, pledging to cut taxes and reduce immigration if his Conservative Party is reelected on July 4. With the Conservatives trailing the left-of-center Labour P Russia, Belarus launch a second stage of drills to train troops in tactical nuclear weapons 06/11/2024 09:45am • MOSCOW (AP) ��� Russia and its ally Belarus on Tuesday launched a second stage of drills intended to train their troops in tactical nuclear weapons, part of the Kremlin's efforts to discourage the West from ramping up support for Ukraine. In announcing the nuclear maneuvers last month, the Russian D Change the behavior of givers: Prince William Co. proposal suggests not handing money to panhandlers 06/11/2024 09:07am • Homelessness and panhandling often go together. On Tuesday, Prince William County supervisors will be briefed on a new proposal to address the issue of panhandling. Among the suggestions: rather than hand money to panhandlers, well-intentioned residents would contact a panhandling team to provide Local chefs shine at 2024 James Beard Awards 06/11/2024 08:47am • Three local chefs from the D.C. area and Maryland were honored Monday night at the James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Awards, held at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. The prestigious awards recognize culinary excellence across the U.S. Michael Rafidi, chef and owner of Albi in Navy Yard, was n Attraction starring Disney's first Black princess replaces ride based on film many viewed as racist 06/11/2024 07:53am • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) ��� A new attraction starring the first Black Disney princess is opening at the company���s U.S. theme park resorts, and some Disney followers see it as a fitting replacement to a former ride based on a movie that contained racist tropes. The new theme park attraction updates Tian Scholar opposites: A university lecturer and a high school student breaking new ground at Olympics 06/11/2024 06:00am • BRISBANE, Australia (AP) ��� University lecturer Rachael ���Raygun��� Gunn chuckles when she recalls telling her students that she���s a breaker ��� you know, spinning on the ground and bustin��� moves to blaring hip-hop music. Some of her students didn���t seem to believe her. And that was before s Snubbed by their first choice, the Los Angeles Lakers must resume their head coaching search 06/11/2024 05:59am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The Los Angeles Lakers must continue their latest coaching search with the basketball world already knowing their first choice turned them down. The Lakers have endured their share of embarrassments in recent years, but a snub by a college coach ��� even the best in the game ��� Five-time Grammy winner Ang��lique Kidjo joins NSO for 'African Symphony' at Kennedy Center 06/11/2024 04:55am • She's a true legend of world music, winning five Grammy Awards over her prolific career. This Wednesday, Ang��lique Kidjo performs live with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center. "It has been a program we have been talking about for a while now," Kidjo told WTOP. "The thin A growing Filipino diaspora means plenty of celebration worldwide for Philippine Independence Day 06/11/2024 02:04am • In the Philippines ��� where Spanish and later U.S. colonial rule persisted for nearly four centuries ��� June 12 is the real Independence Day. That date in 1898 was the pivotal moment when the island nation first made a bold move for autonomy. Ahead of this year's holiday in Manila, the nation���s New Zealand renews search for father who vanished into forest with children 2 years ago 06/11/2024 02:04am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) ��� New Zealand authorities offered a reward and immunity from prosecution Tuesday to anyone who can help their search for three children who have been missing since their father vanished with them from a remote rural community more than two years ago. The December 2021 US envoy calls for Japan's help to quickly replenish US missile inventory, repair warships 06/11/2024 01:42am • TOKYO (AP) ��� The United States needs Japan's help to quickly replenish missile inventory and repair warships as conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine continue and Washington seeks to keep its deterrence credible in the Indo-Pacific, the U.S. ambassador to Japan said. "It is clear that the Unite