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Joe Flacco signs 1-year deal with Browns. QB can earn incentives with playoff run, Super Bowl win 12/14/2023 07:39pm • BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Joe Flacco's officially signed and sealed with Cleveland. He's already delivered. Flacco got a one-year, $4.05 million contract — loaded with incentives — on Thursday from the Browns, who brought in the veteran quarterback last month while in emergency mode after losing s 6 Best Mid-Cap Tech Stocks to Buy Right Now 12/14/2023 07:00pm • The appeal of mid-cap stock investing is obvious to smart investors. Mid-caps are not as widely followed by analysts or retail investors as their large-cap counterparts are. Company and product news travels a bit slower, and lower trading volumes mean less efficient market pricing mechanisms. The re Vikings and Bengals will try to stay in the playoff picture when the 7-6 teams face off Saturday 12/14/2023 06:36pm • CINCINNATI (AP) — The winner of Saturday’s game between the Vikings and Bengals will stay in the crowded playoff picture — at least for now. The loser could be in trouble. The matchup of the 7-6 teams — both relying on backup quarterbacks to get them to the playoffs — is as close to a must Amazon, Target and more will stop selling water beads marketed to kids due to rising safety concerns 12/14/2023 06:31pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Three major retailers — Amazon, Target and Walmart — say they're suspending sales of water-bead products marketed to young children due to growing safety concerns. Water beads are small, colorful balls made of superabsorbent polymers. They are often sold as toys, including in c EPA begins formal review of vinyl chloride, toxic chemical that burned in Ohio train derailment 12/14/2023 06:01pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has initiated a formal evaluation of risks posed by vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical that burned in a towering plume of toxic black smoke following a fiery train derailment earlier this year in eastern Ohio. The Environmental Protection Agen Israeli military veteran tapped as GOP candidate in special election to replace George Santos 12/14/2023 05:47pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Republicans have picked a little-known county lawmaker who once served in the Israeli military as their candidate in a special election to replace ousted New York congressman George Santos, party officials said Thursday. Nassau County legislator and former Israeli paratrooper South Carolina's 76-year-old governor McMaster to undergo procedure to fix minor irregular heartbeat 12/14/2023 05:32pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster plans to be put under anesthesia Friday to fix a minor irregular heartbeat, his office said. The 76-year-old governor is being treated for atrial fibrillation where some chambers of the heart beat out of sync with the others, his office said Ex-FBI counterintelligence official gets over 4 years in prison for aiding Russian oligarch 12/14/2023 05:28pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A former top FBI counterintelligence official was ordered Thursday to spend over four years in prison for violating sanctions on Russia by going to work for a Russian oligarch seeking dirt on a wealthy rival after he finished his government career. Charles McGonigal, 55, was sente US agency concludes chemical leak that killed 6 Georgia poultry workers was `completely preventable' 12/14/2023 05:02pm • A chemical leak that killed six workers at a Georgia poultry plant in 2021 resulted from a poorly designed freezer that spilled deadly liquid nitrogen as well as a failure by the plant's owner to install safety equipment and properly train employees for emergencies, a federal agency has concluded. â Ahead of meeting with US envoy, Israeli president says now isn't time to discuss 2-state solution 12/14/2023 04:25pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's president has joined the ranks of high-ranking Israeli officials to speak out against a two-state solution after the war in Gaza. In an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday, Isaac Herzog said it is not the time to be talking about establishing an independent Pa Hungry, thirsty and humiliated: Israel's mass arrest campaign sows fear in northern Gaza 12/14/2023 03:22pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military has rounded up hundreds of Palestinians across the northern Gaza Strip, separating families and forcing men to strip to their underwear before trucking some to a detention camp on the beach, where they spent hours, in some cases days, subjected Hungry, thirsty and humiliated: Israel's mass arrest campaign sows fear in northern Gaza 12/14/2023 03:17pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military has rounded up hundreds of Palestinians across the northern Gaza Strip, separating families and forcing men to strip to their underwear before trucking some to a detention camp on the beach, where they spent hours, in some cases days, subjected The Supreme Court refuses to block an Illinois law banning some high-power semiautomatic weapons 12/14/2023 02:55pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to put on hold a new Illinois law that would ban high-power semiautomatic weapons like the one used in the mass killing of seven people at a 2022 parade in a Chicago suburb. The justices did not comment in refusing an emergency appeal from a 49ers try to push their winning streak to 6 games when they travel to face Cards 12/14/2023 02:45pm • SAN FRANCISCO (10-3) at ARIZONA (3-10) Sunday, 4:05 p.m. EST, CBS OPENING LINE: 49ers by 12 1/2, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. AGAINST THE SPREAD: 49ers 7-6; Cardinals 7-6. SERIES RECORD: 49ers lead 35-29. LAST MEETING: 49ers won 35-16 on Oct. 1 in Santa Clara, California. LAST WEEK: 49ers beat S Dakar Rally winner Austin Jones has extensive resume after just 5 years of racing 12/14/2023 02:42pm • CONGRESS, Ariz. (AP) — The hands are in constant motion, yo-yoing the wheel left, right, left in small corrections and full turns. The feet dance in the cramped space above the floorboard, stabbing between clutch, gas and brake. The eyes dart back and forth across the desert landscape, detecting r