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Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visits Beijing to highlight ties with key diplomatic partner 04/08/2024 12:17pm • BEIJING (AP) ��� Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Beijing Monday to display the strength of ties with close diplomatic partner China amid Moscow���s grinding war against Ukraine and an ongoing effort to align their foreign policies against the U.S. and its allies. The two continent Book Review: Hampton Sides revisits Captain James Cook, a divisive figure in the South Pacific 04/08/2024 11:53am • Captain James Cook���s voyages in the South Pacific in the late 1700s exemplify the law of unintended consequences. He set out to find a westward ocean passage from Europe to Asia but instead, with the maps he created and his reports, Cook revealed the Pacific islands and their people to the world. Virginia's public education accountability system overhaul 04/08/2024 11:46am • When something is not working, change it. The Virginia Board of Education is proposing that kind of transformative change for its new accountability framework, by splitting up the state���s accreditation system into two parts: an accreditation system, to assess whether schools are meeting all req Georgia's governing party tries again to pass widely criticized foreign-agent law 04/08/2024 11:04am • TBILISI, Georgia (AP) ��� The governing party in the country of Georgia on Monday submitted to parliament a draft law calling for media and non-commercial organizations to register as being under foreign influence if they receive more than 20% of their budget from abroad. The measure is nearly ident Mortality gap widens between urban and rural communities 04/08/2024 10:30am • ▶ Watch Video: Millions of women lack access to maternity care In Matthew Roach's two years as vital statistics manager for the Arizona Department of Health Services, and 10 years previously in its epidemiology program, he has witnessed a trend in mortality rates that has rural health Spirit to defer Airbus plane deliveries, furlough 260 pilots this year 04/08/2024 10:29am • Spirit Airlines is deferring all aircraft on order from Airbus that were scheduled to be delivered in the second quarter of 2025 through the end of 2026, the discount carrier said Monday. Spirit said it came to an agreement with the European plane manufacturer to delay delivery of the planes until 2 Biden could miss the deadline for the November ballot in Ohio, the state's election office says 04/08/2024 10:26am • TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) ��� President Joe Biden could be left off the ballot in Ohio this fall unless the state's Republican-dominated legislature creates an exception to the ballot deadline or the Democratic Party moves up its convention, according to the office that oversees the state's elections. Ohio Sports on TV for Tuesday, Apr. 9 04/08/2024 10:00am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Tuesday, Apr. 9 COLLEGE BASEBALL 7 p.m. ESPN2 ��� Florida at Florida St. SECN ��� Alabama St. at Auburn 8 p.m. PAC-12N ��� BYU at Utah COLLEGE SOFTBALL 6 p.m. BTN ��� Michigan at Michigan St. 7 p.m. ACCN ��� Liberty at Virginia ESPNU �� British, French troops march in historic joint parades in London and Paris in a show of solidarity 04/08/2024 09:22am • LONDON (AP) ��� French troops joined their British counterparts in the famous Changing of the Guard ceremony outside Buckingham Palace for the first time Monday, marching together in a display of solidarity between Britain and France amid the war in Ukraine. At a parallel ceremony in Paris, British As a Mississippi town reels from a devastating tornado, a displaced family finds its way home 04/08/2024 09:00am • ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) ��� As a deadly tornado barreled toward their home in the Mississippi Delta, Ida Cartlidge only had time to scoop up her 1-year-old son, Nolan, and hold him close. Cartlidge huddled with her husband and three sons on the living room floor of their Rolling Fork mobile home, i Insider Q&A: Nellie Borrero recounts 4 decades of addressing racism and bringing change to Accenture 04/08/2024 08:57am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� It didn't take long for Nellie Borrero to encounter racism in 1986 when she joined a major consulting firm that was the predecessor to Accenture. A secretary handed her a subway token and told her she was the ���token hire.��� At her first Christmas party, the partner who hired he Caitlin Clark set out to turn Iowa into a winner. She redefined women's college hoops along the way 04/08/2024 08:51am • CLEVELAND (AP) ��� Caitlin Clark doesn't want to think about it. Or doesn't want to talk about it. That will come later. Probably much later. Yes, the Iowa star sees the packed stands. Hears the pop in the crowd whenever she drops in another 3-pointer from the logo. Senses the throng of media around Tusk fails to win decisive victory in local elections, complicating his efforts to remake Poland 04/08/2024 08:29am • WARSAW, Poland (AP) ��� Poland's local and regional elections over the weekend failed to give Prime Minister Donald Tusk the sweeping victory he had hoped for in his efforts to reverse eight years of rule by a populist party that was accused by the European Union of eroding democratic norms. Exit p Dawn Staley and South Carolina in good place to keep dynasty rolling and repeat as champions 04/08/2024 07:49am • CLEVELAND (AP) ��� Dawn Staley and South Carolina have cemented their place as the next dynasty in women's basketball. With two NCAA titles in the past three seasons and 109 wins in the last 112 games, it's hard to argue with that. It doesn't look like it's going to end any time soon with most of th Will China flood the globe with EVs, green tech? What's behind latest US-China trade fight 04/08/2024 07:47am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� China's burgeoning production of electric cars and other green technologies has become a flashpoint in a new U.S.-China trade fight, highlighted by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen during her five-day visit to China and seized on by former President Donald Trump in incendiary rema