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Harrell leads North Carolina past Charlotte 38-20 in new role 09/07/2024 08:14pm • CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) ��� North Carolina quarterback Conner Harrell threw for two touchdowns and ran for a score after moving into the starting role as the Tar Heels beat Charlotte 38-20 on Saturday. Harrell was 16-for-25 passing for 219 yards with an interception. The third-year sophomore was in h Boston College follows up victory over Florida State by thrashing FCS Duquesne 56-0 09/07/2024 07:37pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� Thomas Castellanos threw for 234 yards and four touchdowns in the first half before new Boston College coach Bill O���Brien went to his bench on Saturday as the Eagles followed up their upset of then-No. 10 Florida State by thrashing FCS Duquesne 56-0. ���I���ll be honest with you: I NASCAR-Xfinity Focused Health 250 Results 09/07/2024 07:35pm • Saturday At Atlanta Motor Speedway Hampton, Ga. Lap length: 1.54 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (4) Austin Hill, Chevrolet, 163 laps, 50 points. 2. (16) Parker Kligerman, Chevrolet, 163, 35. 3. (6) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 163, 44. 4. (8) Chandler Smith, Toyota, 163, 38. 5. (21) Corey H Former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory dead after car crash in New Mexico 09/07/2024 06:48pm • LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) ��� A former top official in U.S. nuclear weapons research at Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos national laboratories has died from injuries after an automobile crash in New Mexico, authorities said. He was 69. Charles McMillan, an experimental physicist, spent nearly 23 years Monangai runs for a career-high 208 yards and 3 TDs to lead Rutgers over Akron 49-17 09/07/2024 06:13pm • PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) ��� Kyle Monangai came into the season as the Big Ten Conference's defending rushing champion, and two games into this season he has people talking about not only breaking Rutgers' single-season mark but throwing him into the Heisman Trophy picture. Monangai carried 27 times fo US and UK spy chiefs praise Ukraine's 'audacious' Russia incursion and call for a Gaza cease-fire 09/07/2024 05:30pm • LONDON (AP) ��� The heads of the British and American foreign intelligence agencies said Saturday that Ukraine���s surprise incursion into Russia is a significant achievement that could change the narrative of the grinding 2 1/2-year war, as they urged Kyiv's allies not to be held back by Russian th Just how rare is a rare-colored lobster? Scientists say answer could be under the shell 09/07/2024 05:18pm • BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) ��� Orange, blue, calico, two-toned and ... cotton-candy colored? Those are all the hues of lobsters that have showed up in fishers' traps, supermarket seafood tanks and scientists' laboratories over the last year. The funky-colored crustaceans inspire headlines that trumpet th Democrats go to new heights to spotlight Project 2025, flying banners over college football stadiums 09/07/2024 03:32pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Democrats have denounced it in hundreds of ads and billboards, printed it in oversize book form as a convention prop, and mentioned it in seemingly every speech and press statement. On Saturday, they took their campaign against the conservative Project 2025 blueprint, written by Suarez returns to the site of the closest finish in NASCAR history looking for a playoff payoff 09/07/2024 03:15pm • HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) ��� The best year of Daniel Suarez���s life began in February when he won the NASCAR Mexico race at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, an event essentially staged with Suarez as the star. Later that month came the closest finish in NASCAR history, a photo-finish victory at Atlanta As US colleges raise the stakes for protests, activists are weighing new strategies 09/07/2024 02:59pm • University of Southern California law student Elizabeth Howell-Egan isn���t allowed on campus because of her role in last spring���s anti-war protests, but she is keeping up her activism. She and like-minded students are holding online sessions on the Israel-Hamas war and passing out fliers outside Taylor Fritz can end a Grand Slam drought for American men by beating Jannik Sinner at the US Open 09/07/2024 02:47pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Taylor Fritz got choked up when it hit him that he had reached the U.S. Open final. His explanation: ���I cry at happy endings of movies and not at sad stuff. That���s kind of just how I am.��� Imagine what the 26-year-old Californian's reaction would be if he actually were to take Officials say a troubled and delayed Baltic high-speed rail project still set for completion by 2030 09/07/2024 01:52pm • HELSINKI (AP) ��� Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said Saturday they are committed to completing by the end of the decade a financially troubled and badly delayed high-speed rail project integrating the three Baltic countries with the continental European rail network. Set to link the Baltic capitals Environment solution: New metals refinery for nickel and cobalt opens in Ohio 09/07/2024 01:50pm • In a step forward for efforts to acquire the metals crucial to addressing climate change, on Monday a new plant that can extract nickel and cobalt from scrap material opens in Fairfield, Ohio. The resulting metals will be used in new batteries and other clean energy markets. Extracting metals out of Pope urges church in Papua New Guinea to be close to women after hearing of sorcery 'superstitions' 09/07/2024 11:56am • PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) ��� Pope Francis called Saturday for the Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea to be particularly close to women who have been abused and marginalized, speaking out in a country where violence against women is reported to be more than twice the global average. Franc Tight race for control of Congress could be decided by just a handful of campaigns 09/07/2024 11:28am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The race for control of Congress is as close as ever, with barely two dozen House seats and a handful in the Senate likely to determine the majority this November and whether a single party sweeps to power with the White House. Lawmakers are returning to Washington for a three-we