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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 'Wicked' director Jon M. Chu on 'shooting the moon,' casting Ariana Grande and growing 9M tulips 09/07/2024 10:59am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� ���Musical��� has been a dirty word lately in Hollywood marketing, but ���Wicked��� director Jon M. Chu isn���t having it. Of course, there���s no running from the term when you���re bringing to the screen one of the most popular Broadway shows of the 21st century, or telling a sto Typhoon Yagi leaves at least 4 dead and scores injured in Vietnam 09/07/2024 10:36am • HANOI, Vietnam (AP) ��� Vietnamese authorities say Typhoon Yagi has killed at least four people and injured 78 others after making landfall Saturday afternoon in the north of the country. Yagi, described by Vietnamese meteorological officials as ���one of the most powerful typhoons in the region ov Sports on TV for Sunday, Sept. 8 09/07/2024 10:10am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Sunday, Sept. 8 AUTO RACING 7:30 a.m. TRUTV ��� FIM MotoGP: The San Marino Grand Prix, Misano Adriatico, Italy 2 p.m. CBSSN ��� FIM Motocross: The MX2, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey 3 p.m. CBSSN ��� FIM Motocross: The MXGP, Afyonkarahisar, Tur US higher education advocates welcome federal support for Hispanic-serving institutions 09/07/2024 10:02am • Higher education advocates in Latino communities say they are optimistic about a new federal effort to support hundreds of local colleges and universities. Hispanic-serving institutions, or HSIs, which are not-for-profit schools with a full-time equivalent undergraduate student enrollment that is a Takeaways from Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's response to violence after George Floyd's murder 09/07/2024 09:21am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� Kamala Harris' selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be the Democratic vice presidential candidate has revived the debate over how he handled the biggest crisis of his political career. Minneapolis and St. Paul erupted after a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Flo With father of suspect charged in Georgia shooting, will more parents be held responsible? 09/07/2024 09:03am • Murder charges filed against the father of a 14-year-old boy accused of a Georgia school shooting follow the successful prosecution of two parents in Michigan who were held responsible for a similar tragedy at a school north of Detroit. Is it a sign of a crackdown on parents accused of gross neglige Sharp divisions persist over Walz's response to the riots that followed the murder of George Floyd 09/07/2024 08:38am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� Gov. Tim Walz faced the biggest crisis of his political career when Minnesota���s two largest cities erupted in protests and riots after a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd. The Black man's murder in 2020 sparked a nationwide reckoning over racial discriminati Algeria votes for president this weekend but with inflation and boycott, few appear to care 09/07/2024 08:32am • ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) ��� Billboards are strikingly empty. There are few campaign posters. And aside from public television broadcasts showing candidates traveling the country, there are few signs of enthusiasm heading into Algeria���s presidential election this weekend. Prospective voters in the ga How the Balkans region grappled with the hottest summer in more than a century 09/07/2024 03:33am • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) ��� Jelena Popovic normally loves summer and all it brings along, including the hot weather. But this year it was just too much. ���This summer was too hot, you couldn't walk in the city. It was only pleasant when you swim," said Popovic, a resident of Belgrade, Serbia's capit Manny Machado homers twice vs the Giants to tie Nate Colbert atop the Padres' career list with 163 09/07/2024 01:18am • SAN DIEGO (AP) ��� Manny Machado homered twice to tie Nate Colbert for San Diego's career record with 163 and lead the Padres to a 5-1 win against the San Francisco Giants on Friday night. Machado had a solo shot in the first and then matched Colbert's record, which stood for 50 years, with an impre Gaza enters its 2nd school year without schooling. The cost could be heavy for kids' futures 09/07/2024 01:05am • KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� This week, when they would normally be going back to school, the Qudeh family���s children stumbled with armfuls of rubble they collected from a destroyed building to sell for use in building graves in the cemetery that is now their home in southern Gaza. ���Anyone o Frances Tiafoe ended up losing after he thought he was about to beat Taylor Fritz at the US Open 09/07/2024 01:01am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Frances Tiafoe figures he lost to Taylor Fritz at the U.S. Open because it suddenly occurred to him Friday night that he was close to winning and reaching his first Grand Slam final. ���In the past matches, before, I was only thinking about what it takes to win,��� Tiafoe said, Barkley scores 3 TDs as Eagles beat Packers 34-29 in Brazil. Packers' Love injured in final minute 09/07/2024 12:53am • SAO PAULO (AP) ��� Saquon Barkley has been practicing the art of positive thinking since switching teams for the first time in his career. Yet he probably couldn���t have imagined making such a spectacular debut for the Philadelphia Eagles. Barkley scored three touchdowns Friday night in the first N Missouri abortion-rights amendment could be axed from the ballot after ruling 09/07/2024 12:43am • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� A Missouri judge on Friday ruled that an abortion-rights campaign did not meet legal requirements to qualify for the November ballot, potentially thwarting a yearslong effort to undo the state's near-total abortion ban. But Cole County Circuit Judge Christopher Limbaugh