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3 years after the NFL added a 17th game, the push for an 18th gets stronger 08/07/2024 03:42pm • SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The debate about whether the NFL will expand the regular season once again seems to have been resolved and now it's a matter of how soon the league adds an 18th game. Commissioner Roger Goodell has talked openly about it, union chief Lloyd Howell recently told the Washin Putin accuses Ukraine of a ‘large-scale provocation’ with its raid in southwestern Russia 08/07/2024 03:34pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday described a Ukrainian incursion into the country's southwestern Kursk region as a “large-scale provocation” as his officials asserted that they were fighting off cross-border raids for a second day. Ukrainian officials remained Drones warned New York City residents about storm flooding. The Spanish translation drew mockery 08/07/2024 03:20pm • NEW YORK (AP) — New York City emergency management officials have apologized for a hard-to-understand flood warning issued in Spanish by drones flying overhead in some neighborhoods. City officials had touted the high-tech message-delivery devices ahead of expected flash flooding Tuesday. But whe Picking a running mate: Inside the 16 days between Kamala Harris' launch and her choice of Tim Walz 08/07/2024 02:48pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Kamala Harris’ whirlwind process to select Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate can be summed up in a word: weird. With President Joe Biden and Harris, his vice president, seeking a second term together, Democrats weren’t supposed to have a veep search at all. But as s Project 2025's new leader Kevin Roberts postpones his own book launch until after the election 08/07/2024 01:51pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — As Project 2025 hits turmoil, the head of the influential, far-right Heritage Foundation is postponing the release of his potentially fiery new book until after the November presidential election. Kevin Roberts, who took over Project 2025 as part of a leadership shake-up amid blo New Yorkers are warned from the skies about impending danger from storms as city deploys drones 08/07/2024 12:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Gone is the bullhorn. Instead, New York City emergency management officials have turned high-tech, using drones to warn residents about potential threatening weather. With a buzzing sound in the background, a drone equipped with a loudspeaker flies over homes warning people who liv Tropical weather brings record rainfall. Experts share how to stay safe in floods. 08/07/2024 12:00pm • The extreme weather seen in places across the United States in recent weeks shows that it doesn't take a catastrophic hurricane to cause significant damage — the torrential rain from Tropical Storm Debby in parts of the Southeast is just one example. The slow-moving system lingering over Georgia Harris-Walz vs. Trump-Vance: It's now an expanded battle for both the Sun Belt and Rust Belt 08/07/2024 10:39am • ATLANTA (AP) — The most turbulent presidential campaign in generations is now set to play out as a 90-day sprint across two fronts: the Rust Belt and the Sun Belt. With her choice of a Midwestern governor as a running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris pushed to shore up “Blue Wall” states — Federal infrastructure funding is fueling a push to remove dams and restore river habitat 08/07/2024 09:06am • BOONE, N.C. (AP) — On the whooshing Watauga River, excavators claw at the remains of Shulls Mill Dam, pulling concrete apart piece by piece and gradually opening a waterway kept in check for nearly two centuries. Removal of this privately-owned hydropower dam in western North Carolina will be a bo Japan's SoftBank reduces its investment losses with gains in Alibaba and other holdings 08/07/2024 05:49am • TOKYO (AP) — Japanese technology investor SoftBank Group Corp. reported a smaller loss for the last quarter compared to a year earlier. Tokyo-based SoftBank’s losses totaled 174 billion yen ($1.2 billion) in the April-June quarter, the company said Wednesday. It racked up nearly 478 billion yen 4 hotel employees charged with being party to felony murder in connection with Black man’s death 08/07/2024 05:31am • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors charged four Milwaukee hotel employees Tuesday with being a party to felony murder in connection with D’Vontaye Mitchell’s death. Mitchell was Black. The incident has drawn comparisons to the murder of George Floyd, a Black man who died in 2020 after a white M Michigan will choose between Democrat Elissa Slotkin and Republican Mike Rogers for US Senate 08/07/2024 02:49am • LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers has secured the Republican nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Michigan and will face Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin in the November election. Slotkin and Rogers, long considered the front-runners for their respective party nominations, will now Picking a running mate: Inside the 16 days between Kamala Harris' launch and her choice of Tim Walz 08/07/2024 12:06am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Kamala Harris’ whirlwind process to select Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate can be summed up in a word: weird. With President Joe Biden and Harris, his vice president, seeking a second term together, Democrats weren’t supposed to have a veep search at all. But as s Today in History: August 7, Twin Tower tightrope walk 08/07/2024 12:00am • Today is Wednesday, Aug. 7, the 220th day of 2024. There are 146 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 7, 1974, French highwire artist Philippe Petit performed an unapproved tightrope walk between the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York, over 1,300 feet above the ground; th Kirk hits 3-run HR, Bassitt fans season-best 9 as Blue Jays beat Orioles 5-2 08/06/2024 10:50pm • TORONTO (AP) — Alejandro Kirk hit a three-run home run, Chris Bassitt struck out a season-high nine in seven innings to snap a three-start losing streak and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Baltimore Orioles 5-2 on Tuesday night. Addison Barger hit a two-run double in Toronto’s five-run sixth inni