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Harris visits New Hampshire to tout her small business tax plan 09/05/2024 09:38am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Vice President Kamala Harris used a campaign stop in New Hampshire on Wednesday to propose an expansion of tax incentives for small businesses, a pro-entrepreneur plan that may soften her previous calls for wealthy Americans and large corporations to pay higher taxes. Describing Want to lower utility bills? Try an energy audit 09/05/2024 09:25am • As the seasons change and temperatures cool down, homeowners are encouraged to try an "energy audit��� to help reduce the cost of utility bills. Homeowners can do it themselves or they can call a professional for a more comprehensive assessment. It involves looking closely at a household's ene You aren't likely to lose a job in the US but may find it harder to land one 09/05/2024 09:15am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Laid off by the music streaming service Spotify last year, Joovay Arias figured he���d land another job as a software engineer fairly soon. His previous job search, in 2019, had been a breeze. ���Back then," he said, ���I had tons of recruiters reaching out to me ��� to the point McDonald���s is giving its McFlurry a makeover 09/05/2024 09:00am • New York (CNN) ��� Nearly a year after McDonald���s ditched the hollow plastic spoon, more changes are coming for the McFlurry. Beginning September 10, the chain is eliminating the plastic, dome-shaped lid and serving the ice cream treat in a new cardboard cup that has four flaps to cover the top Behind the nonprofit helping a diverse new generation of culinary professionals heat up New York 09/05/2024 08:08am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A side of beef bigger than a classroom desktop sat before high school students huddled around a kitchen on New York's Lower East Side. ���Anyone wanna jump in?��� asked the butcher teaching the Tuesday afternoon class. One student dared, grabbing a sawblade about as long as his arm Athletes who have competed in multiple Paralympics say reaching equality will take more work 09/05/2024 07:59am • PARIS (AP) ��� Before 2012, Matt Stutzman couldn���t get a job. Then, he became a Paralympian. It changed his life for the better, as it has for other veterans of the Games. But he, like other athletes who have experienced the growth of the Paralympics, still think it will take years more of promoti Salman Rushdie's memoir of his attack is among 12 books up for a top nonfiction prize 09/05/2024 07:38am • LONDON (AP) ��� Salman Rushdie���s account of a stabbing attack that blinded him in one eye is among contenders announced Thursday for a prestigious nonfiction book prize. Rushdie���s memoir ��� Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder ��� is among 12 books on the long list for the 50,000 pound Pope and imam of Southeast Asia's largest mosque make joint call to fight violence, protect planet 09/05/2024 07:34am • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) ��� Pope Francis and the grand imam of Southeast Asia���s largest mosque vowed Thursday to fight religiously inspired violence and protect the environment, issuing a joint call for interfaith friendship and common cause at the heart of Francis��� visit to Indonesia. A second Japan and Australia agree to increase joint military training 09/05/2024 06:50am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� Japan and Australia agreed on Thursday to increase joint military training exercises as their government ministers shared concerns over China���s recent incursions into Japanese airspace and territorial waters. Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and Japanese Defens A Chiefs' three-peat? Here's the company they keep 09/05/2024 06:27am • As the 2024 NFL season kicks off, Kansas City has a chance to make history. The Chiefs are pursuing a third straight NFL championship, something that has never happened in the Super Bowl era. And yes, we know Green Bay has won three straight NFL titles twice, but there was no championship game wh Cyclones visit No. 21 Hawkeyes for CyHawk game. Ferentz says rivalry 'underappreciated' outside Iowa 09/05/2024 06:10am • From the Missouri River to the Mississippi River and the 310 miles in between in Iowa, Saturday is a red-letter day for college football fans. Iowa State visits No. 21 Iowa for the next iteration of the CyHawk Series, one of the rare rivalry games played early each season. Hawkeyes coach Kirk Ferent No. 25 Clemson looks to move past critics, get in win column against tricky foe Appalachian State 09/05/2024 06:10am • CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) ��� Amid the upset and angst, the critical voices and demands for change, Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said he focuses on one thing ��� getting the 25th-ranked Tigers to rise to their potential. That starts this week against Appalachian State on Saturday night. It has been an uncom Still 'Highway Stars': Deep Purple rocks Jiffy Lube Live to celebrate 50 years of 'Smoke on the Water' 09/05/2024 04:29am • Forget the political red and blue of our heated campaign season, this weekend, Virginia will be Deep Purple. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band rocks Jiffy Lube Live on Saturday as the "Highway Stars" round the Capitol Beltway for their "Smoke on the Water" 50th anniversary tour with fire Imane Khelif's Olympic gold inspires Algerian girls to take up boxing 09/05/2024 03:59am • AIN TAYA, Algeria (AP) ��� In the weeks since Algeria's Imane Khelif won an Olympic gold medal in women's boxing, athletes and coaches in the North African nation say national enthusiasm is inspiring newfound interest in the sport, particularly among women. Khelif's image is practically everywhere, A M��ori king who urged racial unity in New Zealand is laid to rest and a new queen rises 09/05/2024 01:55am • NG��RUAW��HIA, New Zealand (AP) ��� They came in their thousands in the freezing dawn, parking cars far away and winding down rural roads on foot, children riding on their shoulders. They arrived in mourning black with crowns of ferns and kawakawa leaves, bone carvings or wedges of deep green pounam