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Top Olympic sponsor Panasonic is ending its contract with the IOC 09/10/2024 08:44am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Olympic sponsor Panasonic is terminating its contract with the IOC at the end of the year, the company said in a statement Tuesday. Panasonic is one of 15 companies that are so-called TOP sponsors for the International Olympic Committee. It's not known the value of the Panasonic spons Trash is dirty business. In Prince George's Co., some are stinking mad that it's not being picked up 09/10/2024 08:05am • Dozens of Prince George���s County, Maryland, residents dealing with the sights and smells of uncollected trash for a good chunk of the summer unwrapped their frustration at a public meeting Monday night. Angel Nelson, who lives in the Fairwood section of Prince George's County, said she's had pr F1 car design great Adrian Newey to join Aston Martin after leaving Red Bull 09/10/2024 07:48am • SILVERSTONE, England (AP) ��� Formula 1's most influential car designer, Adrian Newey, is joining Aston Martin in March 2025 after leaving Red Bull, ending months of speculation over a backroom figure who seemed more in-demand than any driver. Newey has spent nearly two decades with Red Bull and is Pollution of the potent warming gas methane soars and people are mostly to blame 09/10/2024 06:43am • The amount and proportion of the powerful heat-trapping gas methane that humans spew into the atmosphere is rising, helping to turbocharge climate change, a new study finds. Tuesday���s study finds that in 2020, the last year complete data is available, the world put 670 million tons (608 million me Israeli defense chief says a temporary truce with Hamas is possible. Ending the war is another story 09/10/2024 06:16am • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) ��� Israel���s defense minister says the window is closing on an opportunity to reach a temporary cease-fire deal with the Hamas militant group that he believes could also bring calm to the country���s volatile northern border with Lebanon. Speaking to reporters, Yoav Gallant s In diesel-dependent East Timor, renewable energy transition remains slow despite government pledges 09/10/2024 12:34am • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) ��� East Timor is at an energy development crossroads. While the small Southeast Asian nation ��� and one of the world's youngest countries ��� has made international and domestic pledges to reduce its carbon footprint through untapped solar and other renewable energy potent Harris and Trump offer worlds-apart contrasts on top issues in presidential race 09/10/2024 12:32am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� This year���s presidential race is a genuine contest of ideas between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump ��� with clear differences on taxes, abortion, immigration, global alliances, climate change and democracy itself. Since replacing President Joe Bi GM Chris Getz working on the future as the White Sox approach the end of a miserable season 09/09/2024 11:36pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� White Sox general manager Chris Getz is taking a closer look at the organization's international operations. He is working on hiring a manager. He is shining a light on some of the team's top prospects. As the White Sox near the end of one of baseball's worst seasons ever, the futur Ryan Seacrest debuts as new ���Wheel of Fortune��� host 09/09/2024 11:29pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� For the first time in almost 8,000 episodes, ���Wheel of Fortune��� did not open with a hello from longtime host Pat Sajak. Ryan Seacrest stepped into Sajak���s shoes after his 41-year tenure as host of the famed game show, joining co-host and letter turner Vanna White. Seacres Spring rains destroyed a harvest important to the Oneida people. Farmers are working to adapt 09/09/2024 10:13pm • This spring, a torrent of rain sent a river rushing over a field on the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin, destroying most of what was in its path, including the traditionally important crop of white corn. Families tried planting a second time, but it was too wet; many seeds dissolved in the water-soaked s The UN chief calls the death and destruction in Gaza the worst he's seen 09/09/2024 10:11pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� The U.N. chief said Monday that the United Nations has offered to monitor any cease-fire in Gaza and demanded an end to the worst death and destruction he has seen in his more than seven-year tenure. Secretary-General Ant��nio Guterres said in an interview with The Associated Thousands evacuate as wildfires rage outside Los Angeles and Reno, Nevada 09/09/2024 09:33pm • MOUNTAIN HOME VILLAGE, Calif. (AP) ��� As a raging wildfire continues to spread east of Los Angeles, driven by days of triple-digit temperatures, a teacher in an evacuation zone is planning to keep instructing online at his home in a Southern California mountain town. Stephen Richardson, whose 1930s Kate, the Princess of Wales, has finished chemotherapy and will return to limited public duties 09/09/2024 09:15pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Kate, the Princess of Wales, has completed chemotherapy and will make some public appearances in the coming months, bolstering Britain���s royal family after it was rocked by the twin cancer diagnoses of the princess and King Charles III. The 42-year-old wife of Prince William releas James Earl Jones, acclaimed actor and voice of Darth Vader, dies at 93 09/09/2024 09:03pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� James Earl Jones, who overcame racial prejudice and a severe stutter to become a celebrated icon of stage and screen ��� eventually lending his deep, commanding voice to CNN, ���The Lion King��� and Darth Vader ��� has died. He was 93. His agent, Barry McPherson, confirmed Jones Apple embraces the AI craze with its newly unleashed iPhone 16 lineup 09/09/2024 08:54pm • CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) ��� Apple on Monday charged into the artificial intelligence craze with a new iPhone lineup that marks the company���s latest attempt to latch onto a technology trend and transform it into a cultural phenomenon. The four different iPhone 16 models will all come equipped with s