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Fraud trial juror reports getting bag of $120,000 and promise of more if she'll acquit 06/03/2024 03:54pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� A juror was dismissed Monday after reporting that a woman dropped a bag of $120,000 in cash at her home and offered her more money if she would vote to acquit seven people charged with stealing more than $40 million from a program meant to feed children during the pandemic. ���T Mbapp�� not in France squad for Paris Olympics ahead of move to Real Madrid 06/03/2024 03:13pm • Kylian Mbapp�� was left out of France���s provisional squad for the Paris Olympics on Monday before his move to Real Madrid was finally confirmed. Coach Thierry Henry did not completely rule the World Cup winner out of the Games, saying there was still time to change his final selection. ���I didn Mired in disappointing season, Atlanta United fires coach Gonzalo Pineda 06/03/2024 02:21pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Atlanta United fired coach Gonzalo Pineda on Monday, less than 24 hours after another loss dropped the team farther from playoff contention in Major League Soccer. The team announced the change coming off a 3-2 home setback to Charlotte before more than 61,000 fans at Mercedes-Benz Idris Elba helps uncover the WWII soldiers of color who never got their due 06/03/2024 02:09pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� One of Idris Elba���s grandfathers fought in World War II, but he doesn't know what he endured. No pictures or stories survive. ���That part of my family���s history has been erased somewhat,��� says Elba. That helped fuel the actor's push to narrate and executive produce the four California firefighters make significant progress against wildfire east of San Francisco Bay 06/03/2024 01:52pm • California's largest wildfire so far this year was significantly surrounded Monday after blackening a swath of hilly grasslands between San Francisco Bay and the Central Valley. The Corral Fire was 75% contained after scorching more than 22 square miles (57 square kilometers) during the weekend, the FIFA ruling shows AFCON star Emilio Nsue was ineligible for entire career with Equatorial Guinea 06/03/2024 01:38pm • GENEVA (AP) ��� The top scorer at the African Cup of Nations five months ago, Emilio Nsue, never was eligible to play for Equatorial Guinea throughout his entire 11-year international career, FIFA judges ruled. FIFA has published a detailed verdict to explain why its disciplinary committee last mont Penn State found 'friction' between coach James Franklin, team doctor; could not determine violation 06/03/2024 01:24pm • An internal review by Penn State in 2019 found evidence of ���friction��� between football coach James Franklin and a now-former team doctor, but it could not determine whether Franklin violated NCAA bylaws or Big Ten standards by interfering with medical decisions. The 15-page document from Penn St 'SNL' lampooned men in artistic swimming. Bill May could be the sport's first male Olympian 06/03/2024 01:20pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Bill May chuckles at the mere mention of the words ���Saturday Night Live,��� knowing that the conversation is about to turn to the TV show's 1984 skit starring Martin Short as one of two brothers attempting to make it to the Olympics in what then was called synchronized swimming. Populist campaigner Nigel Farage makes an about-face and says he will run in the UK election 06/03/2024 12:59pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Pro-Brexit, anti-immigration campaigner Nigel Farage stepped back into front-line British politics on Monday, announcing he will take the helm of the right-wing party Reform U.K. and run for Parliament in the July 4 election. Farage said he'll run in the seaside town of Clacton-on-Se Iran's hard-line parliament speaker emerges as the theocracy's top figure in the presidential vote 06/03/2024 12:59pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� Iran's hard-line parliament speaker emerged on Monday as the most-prominent candidate from within the country's Shiite theocracy in the race for the June 28 presidential election to replace the late Ebrahim Raisi, killed in a helicopter crash last month. The ent University of the Arts abruptly announces June 7 closure, vows to help students transfer 06/03/2024 12:39pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� The University of the Arts, an institution with roots more than a century and a half old in Philadelphia, has abruptly announced it will close in a week, citing declining enrollment and revenues as well as increasing expenses. University president Kerry Walk and the chair of th As pharmacies shutter, some Western states, Black and Latino communities are left behind 06/03/2024 12:16pm • Opening stores used to mean everything to pharmacy chains. CVS Health once boasted of opening or buying more than 2,900 locations in a five-year period. Now it���s shuttering hundreds, while Walgreens, Rite Aid and independent drugstores also pull back. An industry that saw waves of store growth b Pakistan's Imran Khan is acquitted of leaking state secrets but remains in prison on other charges 06/03/2024 11:56am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� A Pakistani appeals court on Monday acquitted former Prime Minister Imran Khan of leaking state secrets, his lawyer said, though the popular opposition leader will remain behind bars as he serves several prison terms and awaits a slew of cases pending against him. Khan was convic Ohio's Republican governor signs measure ensuring Biden appears on the fall ballot 06/03/2024 11:38am • Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed a measure to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on the state ballot in November. DeWine, a Republican, signed the measure ��� which relaxes a state candidate filing deadline ��� Sunday along with a related bill that imposes a ban on foreign nationals contributing Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi concedes defeat in surprise primary upset by Jenniffer Gonz��lez 06/03/2024 10:20am • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� Puerto Rico congressional representative Jenniffer Gonz��lez defeated Gov. Pedro Pierluisi in a surprise upset during a primary election held Sunday by their pro-statehood party. The two ran on the same ticket four years ago under the New Progressive Party, but Gonz��l