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Bodies pile up without burials in Sudan's capital, marooned by a relentless conflict 08/11/2023 01:25am • KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) ��� It was a funeral no one had envisaged: Sadig Abbas��� lifeless body was lowered hastily into a shallow unmarked grave in Sudan���s capital, Khartoum, not long after dawn. Even the few family members and neighbors who could attend were distracted, scouring the cemetery���s su Two rival robotaxi services win approval to operate throughout San Francisco despite safety concerns 08/10/2023 10:32pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� California regulators on Thursday approved an expansion that will allow two rival robotaxi services to operate throughout San Francisco at all hours, despite safety worries spurred by recurring problems with unexpected stops and other erratic behavior that resulted in unmanned 'Road Shark' campaign in Fairfax Co. bites nearly 25,000 drivers for unsafe driving 08/10/2023 03:20am • In March, Fairfax County police and Virginia State Police teamed up to put a focus on catching motorists driving dangerously in the county. It was called the 2023 "Road Shark" campaign and in four waves, 25,000 warnings and citations went out. 🚓🦈The results are in! Road Shark has Florida Gov. DeSantis suspends another Democratic prosecutor as he seeks GOP presidential nomination 08/09/2023 07:03pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday suspended the top prosecutor in Orlando, again wielding his executive power over local government in taking on a contentious issue in the 2024 presidential race. It's the second time DeSantis, a Republican, has removed a Democratic st Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann wins heated GOP primary as statewide candidates square off 08/09/2023 02:34am • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann defeated state Sen. Chris McDaniel in the state���s bitter Republican primary for lieutenant governor Tuesday, staving off a primary challenge for one of the most powerful positions in Mississippi government. The results are the culmination of a con Oregon State, Washington State ponder next moves after getting left out of college reshuffling 08/08/2023 09:16pm • CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) ��� Inside one of the new premium areas at Oregon State���s renovated football stadium reads a lyric from the school���s fight song. ���Beavers Beavers Fighters Through and Through.��� Oregon State is fighting right now. For relevance in a rapidly morphing college sports landsca In Mexico, accusations of 'communism' and 'fascism' mark school textbook debate 08/08/2023 02:27pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� There are few places where the debate over school textbooks has gone so ballistic in such a short time as in Mexico, where opponents are hurling cries of ���communist��� and "fascist��� at each other. The series of about three dozen government-written, free textbooks will be req Republicans are talking up the possibility of impeaching Biden. Is it what voters want to hear? 08/08/2023 12:11am • SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) ��� Bill Mehlem recalls a time when his politics generally aligned with conservatives, enthusiastically backing Republicans such as John McCain during his 2008 presidential campaign. But the stay-at-home dad has grown dismayed with the tempestuous GOP molded by former Pres How to handle homesickness in college 08/07/2023 11:30am • Starting college can stir up a mix of emotions, including excitement and nervousness about what's to come. As students grapple with living independently and away from familiar people and places -- often for the first time -- homesickness is common. These feelings are not just experienced by first Book Review: A private eye���s death sets a Chicago cop on a hairy investigation in 'Dead and Gone' 08/07/2023 10:27am • ���Dead and Gone,��� by Joanna Schaffhausen (Minotaur) A private eye named Sam Tran is dead, hanged from a tree in a local cemetery, and Chicago P.D. Detective Annalisa Vega catches the case. Tran was once on the job himself, but as it turns out, that���s not the only reason the case is fraught. Veg DeSantis steps up dire warning to GOP about distraction from Biden, amid Trump's latest indictment 08/05/2023 10:18pm • VINTON, Iowa (AP) ��� Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is increasingly urging Republicans to avoid the temptation to refight the 2020 election next year, even as former President Donald Trump remains the dominant favorite for the 2024 GOP nomination on a message of vindicating his defeat. Though DeSanti Recalling a wild ride with a robotaxi named Peaches as regulators mull San Francisco expansion plan 08/05/2023 12:21pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� I won���t forget the first time I took a ride in a car without anyone sitting in the driver���s seat. It happened one night last September when a Chevy Bolt named Peaches picked me up outside a San Francisco bar. Our ensuing half-hour ride together produced, at first, a titill Olympic gymnastics champion Suni Lee began pointing to 2024 long ago. It could be a difficult road. 08/04/2023 06:06pm • HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (AP) ��� The anxiety hit Sunisa Lee unexpectedly. The 2021 Olympic gymnastics champion was preparing for her return to elite gymnastics at Saturday's U.S. Classic when the fear of having who she is measured against who she was during her somewhat unexpected victory in Tokyo two Pence seizes on Trump's latest indictment as he looks to break through in crowded GOP field 08/04/2023 01:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� As Donald Trump was being arraigned in Washington on yet another round of criminal charges, his running mate-turned-rival Mike Pence hurried to capitalize on the news. Pence's campaign unveiled new T-shirts and baseball caps for sale featuring the phrase ���Too Honest" in big red l Play it again, Joe. Biden bets that repeating himself is smart politics 08/04/2023 10:44am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden has his zingers (���This is not your father���s Republican Party���). He���s got patriotism (���This is the United States of America, dammit���). He���s got a geometry-based explanation on how to grow the economy (���from the middle out and the bottom up���).