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Jacksonville Jaguars sue imprisoned ex-employee over multimillion-dollar theft from team 07/19/2024 05:03pm • JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jacksonville Jaguars have filed a lawsuit against a former employee who is serving prison time after pleading guilty to stealing $22 million from the NFL team's virtual credit card program. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Duval County Circuit Court, seeks more than $66 Russia convicts US journalist of spying in a trial widely seen as politically motivated 07/19/2024 12:14pm • YEKATERINBURG, Russia (AP) — Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was convicted Friday of espionage and sentenced to 16 years in a maximum-security prison on charges that his employer and the U.S. government have rejected as fabricated. The swift conclusion of the secretive trial in Russi Tunisian presidential candidate Lotfi Mraihi barred from contesting elections for life 07/19/2024 11:39am • TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A Tunisian court on Friday sentenced a presidential candidate Lotfi Mraihi to eight months in prison and banned him from contesting elections for life, in the latest move to stifle opponents of President Kais Saied in the upcoming October election which critics call a sham. T Italian judge orders a journalist to pay 5,000 euros in damages for making fun of Meloni's height 07/19/2024 11:20am • ROME (AP) — A judge in Milan has ordered an Italian journalist to pay 5,000 euros (nearly $5,500) in damages to Premier Giorgia Meloni for making fun of her height in social media posts. The judge ruled on Wednesday that two social media posts by journalist Giulia Cortese, who was also handed a su Forex Trading for Beginners: How to Trade Currency and Avoid Forex Scams 07/17/2024 08:00pm • Foreign exchange trading, or forex, is full of both opportunity and danger for investors. Due to significant geopolitical uncertainty, this could be a very opportune time to trade currencies. However, as the promise of forex trading grows, so, too, does the volume of scams designed to steal money fr How to prevent porch pirates from running off with your Amazon Prime day booty 07/17/2024 04:03pm • Ordering a new TV, iPad or Dyson vacuum on the final day of Amazon's Prime Day sales event? If you're not careful, it may end up in the hands of a thief before it ever gets to you. D.C.'s police department is offering tips on how to keep your packages safe. "When you get an increased amount of pa Editorial Roundup: United States 07/17/2024 03:15pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: July 12 The Washington Post on young people in America and national service Polls suggest young Americans are less enchanted with their country than previous generations. Yet even those who want to serve their country, conducting some Can a lottery winner run an effective foundation? Meet Roy Cockrum 07/17/2024 09:05am • In the early 1980s, soon after graduating from college, Roy Cockrum was trying to make it as an actor in New York. He was hanging on by his fingernails, getting paid $40 a show for two supporting roles in the off-Broadway comedy “Vampire Lesbians of Sodom.” To cover his rent, Cockrum would pick Patriots receiver won't face prosecution over online gambling while at LSU 07/16/2024 10:04pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New England Patriots wide receiver Kayshon Boutte will not be prosecuted on charges related to illegal online gaming that police said took place while he was underage and still a player at Louisiana State University, a Baton Rouge prosecutor said Tuesday. First Assistant Distric Ex-TV host Carlos Watson convicted in trial over collapse of startup Ozy Media 07/16/2024 08:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Former TV personality Carlos Watson was convicted Tuesday in a federal financial conspiracy case about Ozy Media, an ambitious startup that collapsed after another executive impersonated a YouTube executive to hype the company’s success. Watson, 53, had been free on bail but was Amazon Prime Day is a big event for scammers, experts warn 07/16/2024 08:26pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon Prime Day is here, and experts are reminding consumers to be wary of scams. Deceptions such as phony emails from people impersonating online retailers like Amazon are nothing new. But phishing attempts increase amid the heavy spending seen during significant sales events, wh They fled from their home countries. Now, they'll compete in Paris for the Refugee Olympic Team 07/16/2024 12:37pm • They compete under the same flag but speak different languages and come from different parts of the world. After fleeing war and persecution at home, 37 athletes from 11 countries will compete in the Paris Games as part of the Refugee Olympic Team. The team was created for the Rio Olympics in 2016 a ‘Despicable Me 4’ reigns at box office, while ‘Longlegs’ gets impressive start 07/14/2024 02:13pm • Gru and the minions celebrated a second week in first place at the North American box office this weekend, while a small horror movie called “Longlegs” upset the starry $100 million "Fly Me to the Moon." The supremacy of “ Despicable Me 4 ” was hardly a surprise, as the Universal and Illu Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic will meet in the Wimbledon men's final again 07/12/2024 04:27pm • LONDON (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz is only a couple of months past his 21th birthday, and yet this whole Grand Slam success thing is already a bit been-there, done-that for him. Moving a step closer to a second consecutive Wimbledon trophy and fourth major championship overall, Alcaraz overcame a sha These Picassos prompted a gender war at an Australian gallery. Now the curator says she painted them 07/12/2024 05:25am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — They were billed as artworks by Pablo Picasso, paintings so valuable that an Australian art museum’s decision to display them in an exhibition restricted to women visitors provoked a gender discrimination lawsuit. The paintings again prompted international headline