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Colombia launches talks with rebel group led by fighters who returned to arms after 2016 peace deal 06/24/2024 04:56pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia launched peace talks with the Second Marquetalia rebel group on Monday as the administration of leftist President Gustavo Petro tries to pacify rural areas of the country that have seen rising violence despite efforts to broker ceasefires with various armed groups. Canada to start 30-day consultation to impose surtax on Chinese electric vehicles 06/24/2024 04:54pm • TORONTO (AP) — Canada's government is investigating whether to impose a surtax on imports of Chinese-made electric vehicles. A 30-day consultation on the issue will begin on July 2 to counter what Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Monday is a clear effort by Chinese companies to generat Enerpac: Fiscal Q3 Earnings Snapshot 06/24/2024 04:41pm • MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. (AP) — MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. (AP) — Enerpac Tool Group Corp. (EPAC) on Monday reported earnings of $25.8 million in its fiscal third quarter. The Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin-based company said it had profit of 47 cents per share. The industrial products company posted revenu Why are the Texas Rangers the only MLB team without a Pride Night? 06/24/2024 04:20pm • All but one of the 30 of the Major League Baseball teams are hosting Pride Nights this season, most during Pride Month, which celebrates and supports LGBTQ+ culture and rights. The Texas Rangers are the only team without a Pride Night. They say they are committed to making everyone feel welcome at Ed Policy to take over as Packers president and CEO after Mark Murphy's retirement next summer 06/24/2024 04:15pm • GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers chief operating officer and general counsel Ed Policy will take over as the team’s president and CEO next year following the retirement of Mark Murphy. Policy, the son of former San Francisco 49ers and Cleveland Browns president Carmen Policy, will assume Yellen announces efforts to boost the housing supply as high prices create a crunch 06/24/2024 03:56pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration announced new steps to increase access to affordable housing as still-high prices on groceries and other necessities and high interest rates have dramatically pushed up the cost of living in the post-pandemic years. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen promote Music record labels sue AI song-generators Suno and Udio for copyright infringement 06/24/2024 03:45pm • BOSTON (AP) — Big record companies are suing artificial intelligence song-generators Suno and Udio for copyright infringement, alleging that the AI music startups are exploiting the recorded works of artists from Chuck Berry to Mariah Carey. The Recording Industry Association of America announced Graceland steward Jack Soden and soul man Wilson Pickett among 9 named to Memphis Music Hall of Fame 06/24/2024 03:20pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Memphis Music Hall of Fame inducted its inaugural class of 25 luminaries at a rousing ceremony 12 years ago, honoring legends spanning generations and genres, from Elvis Presley to ZZ Top to Three 6 Mafia. In later years, dozens of other musicians who recorded, taught and DC launches drone program, new police helicopter 06/24/2024 02:59pm • D.C.’s mayor and police chief believe a key to “driving down crime” involves new airborne technology, which was unveiled Monday morning. The District’s new $6.2 million Airbus H-125 helicopter took a test flight from the D.C. police heliport, a few hundred yards from Audi Field, in So The last-place San Jose Earthquakes fire coach Luchi Gonzalez 06/24/2024 02:57pm • SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The San Jose Earthquakes have fired coach Luchi Gonzalez after the team won only three of its first 19 games this season. Assistant coach Ian Russell was promoted to interim head coach on Monday, with assistants Steve Ralston, Luciano Fusco and Adin Brown remaining in their With another setback for cease-fire talks, worries of full-scale war for Israel and Lebanon escalate 06/24/2024 02:17pm • BEIRUT (AP) — The prospect of a full-scale war between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group terrifies people on both sides of the border, but some see it as an inevitable fallout from Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza, particularly as cease-fire negotiations have faltered. Su Supreme Court rejects challenge to Connecticut law that eliminated religious vaccination exemption 06/24/2024 02:17pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to a 2021 Connecticut law that eliminated the state’s longstanding religious exemption from childhood immunization requirements for schools, colleges and day care facilities. The justices did not comment in leaving in place a fed Wisconsin AG argues letting disabled people vote electronically at home would create confusion 06/24/2024 02:17pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's Democratic attorney general pushed back Monday against a request to let people with disabilities vote electronically from home this fall. Attorney General Josh Kaul's attorneys told Dane County Circuit Judge Everett Mitchell during a hearing that the move would cre Robinhood CEO discusses the brokerage's evolution leading up to another ride on the meme stock wave 06/24/2024 12:23pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Meme stocks like GameStop are hot again, reviving memories of early 2021 when they turned into a craze that ended up burning many investors along with Robinhood Markets. The online brokerage was especially popular among younger generations helped propel the meme stock boom unt Aldi entering the Springfield game of musical grocery stores, filling multiple former tenant spaces 06/24/2024 11:46am • What may be the final stage of the yearslong game of musical grocery stores playing out in Springfield has begun with a new entrant: Aldi. General contractor L.F. Jennings is seeking subcontractors for a multistage project at the Rappaport-managed West Springfield Shopping Center on Rolling Road, t