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LL Flooring, formerly Lumber Liquidators, is going out of business and closing all of its stores 09/06/2024 11:26am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� LL Flooring, the hardwood flooring retailer formerly known as Lumber Liquidators, is going out of business. Less than a month after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the Virginia-based company says it is now ���winding down operations" after failing to find a buyer in re 'Demon Copperhead' author Barbara Kingsolver to receive National Book Award for lifetime achievement 09/06/2024 11:12am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Barbara Kingsolver, this year's recipient of a National Book Award medal for literary achievement, remembers well the years she couldn't imagine receiving such honors. ���I just felt this continuous skepticism, not from readers but from critics and the gatekeepers. It was on two co Hundreds of places in the US said racism was a public health crisis. What's changed? 09/06/2024 11:06am • More than 200 cities and counties declared racism was a public health crisis in the past few years, mostly after George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis in May 2020. Racial justice advocates said they finally felt heard by the quick swell of political will to address disparities like disp Sports on TV for Sept. 7 - 8 09/06/2024 10:10am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Saturday, Sept. 7 AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN���S) 5:30 a.m. FS2 ��� AFL Finals: Carlton at Brisbane, Qualifying Final AUTO RACING 8:30 a.m. TRUTV ��� FIM MotoGP: The San Marino Grand Prix Sprint, Misano Adriatico, Italy 11 a.m. USA Jamaica's female farmers rebuild after Hurricane Beryl through women-led cash voucher program 09/06/2024 10:03am • CROSS KEYS, Jamaica (AP) ��� Alance Wisdom got inside her home just in time to watch the ceiling of her front room collapse. As the rain rushed in, a violent wind ripped at the roof, piece by piece. ���Everything just fell,��� Wisdom, 79, said of the day Hurricane Beryl, the strongest July Atlantic Sports on TV for Sept. 9 - 15 09/06/2024 10:00am • Adv07 (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Monday, Sept. 9 COLLEGE GOLF 9:30 a.m. GOLF ��� The Folds of Honor Collegiate: First Round, American Dunes Golf Club, Grand Haven, Mich. 4:30 p.m. GOLF ��� The Folds of Honor Collegiate: First Round, American Dunes Golf Club, Gran Ruins of a long-sunken Greek village emerge as drought saps a vital reservoir 09/06/2024 09:39am • LAKE MORNOS, Greece (AP) ��� Like ghosts from the past, sunken villages at the bottom of water reservoirs are not meant to be seen. But the ruins of Kallio in the mountains of central Greece are becoming very much visible ��� and they have a warning to deliver. As an unprecedented drought induced by Pope arrives in Papua New Guinea for the second leg of his Southeast Asia and Oceania trip 09/06/2024 09:36am • PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) ��� Pope Francis arrived in Papua New Guinea on Friday for the second leg of his four-nation trip through Southeast Asia and Oceania, becoming the second pope to visit the poor, strategically important South Pacific nation. A cannon salute and marching band greete Bankrupt LL Flooring pivots from reorganization and will close stores, including all in DC area 09/06/2024 08:48am • Richmond, Virginia-based LL Flooring, the former Lumber Liquidators, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization last month has pivoted to full liquidation and will close all stores. That includes stores in Woodbridge, Chantilly, Manassas and Leesburg, Virginia, and stores in Beltsvi The director of the Paralympic closing ceremony wants to turn the Stade de France into a dance floor 09/06/2024 08:44am • PARIS (AP) ��� The final act of the Paralympics in Paris will be a giant dance party. That���s a promise from Thomas Jolly, the artistic director of the opening and closing ceremonies for this year's Olympics and Paralympics. Jolly says 24 DJs will perform thumping techno and dance music at the Stad Hottest summer on record could lead to the warmest year ever measured 09/06/2024 08:15am • Summer 2024 sweltered to Earth's hottest on record, making it even more likely that this year will end up as the warmest humanity has measured, European climate service Copernicus reported Friday. And if this sounds familiar, that's because the records the globe shattered were set just last year as Google is blasted by UK watchdog for what it calls anti-competitive behavior through digital ads 09/06/2024 08:02am • LONDON (AP) ��� Google was slammed Friday by U.K. regulators who say it's taking advantage of its dominance in digital advertising to thwart competition in Britain, ratcheting up pressure that the tech giant is facing on both sides of the Atlantic over its ���ad tech��� business practices. Britain' Sweden joins countries seeking to end screen time for children under 2 09/06/2024 07:55am • Sweden says children under the age of 2 should not be exposed to any digital screens. The recommendations, issued by the Scandinavian country���s public health agency earlier this month as a new school year begins, are the latest in a worldwide effort to limit screen time for young children. The cor AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Delaware's state primaries 09/06/2024 07:15am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Delaware���s most prominent elected official, President Joe Biden, may have upended the presidential race in July when he dropped his bid for a second term, but it���s the impending departures of two other prominent Democratic officeholders, Gov. John Carney and U.S. Sen. Tom Car AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Rhode Island's state primaries 09/06/2024 07:12am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� More than five months after weighing in on the presidential matchup, Rhode Island voters will choose which candidates will face off in this fall's U.S. Senate election. Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse faces a primary challenge from Mike Costa, a former Republican candidate for