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Senate in Massachusetts passes bill curtailing use of plastics including bags, straws 06/22/2024 12:20pm • BOSTON (AP) — The state Senate in Massachusetts has passed a wide-ranging bill curtailing the use of plastics, including barring the purchase of single-use plastic bottles by state agencies. The bill, approved Thursday, also bans carry-out plastic bags at retailers statewide and require stores to DC-based financial planner shares tips for building generational wealth 06/22/2024 11:48am • D.C.-based financial planner Jacqueline Schadeck didn't grow up with much, and when her mother finally came into some money, she lost it all within a matter of years. Schadeck's ancestors moved to California during the 1849 gold rush and bought property. But she said that it was sold out from und Laporte blasts criticism of his Spain call-up and says he's in good shape after year in Saudi Arabia 06/22/2024 10:33am • DONAUESCHINGEN, Germany (AP) — Spain defender Aymeric Laporte has hit out at those criticizing his selection for the European Championship because he plays his club soccer in Saudi Arabia. Laporte left English champion Manchester City in the offseason of 2023 to join Al-Nassr, where Cristiano Rona LGBTQ+ librarians grapple with attacks on books - and on themselves 06/22/2024 09:05am • Idaho librarian June Meissner was closing up for the day at the downtown Boise Public Library when a man approached her asking for help. As an information services librarian, answering patrons' questions is part of Meissner’s day-to-day work, and serving the community is one of her favorite parts Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, criticized for saying West provoked Putin to invade Ukraine 06/22/2024 08:35am • LONDON (AP) — Nigel Farage, leader of the right-wing Reform U.K party, is facing wide-ranging criticism across the political spectrum over his claim that the West provoked Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine, including of being an appeaser. In a BBC television interview broadcast Fr South Africa's new government brings Black and white together. It's also reviving racial tensions 06/22/2024 01:21am • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — In a country where racial segregation was once brutally enforced, South Africa's new coalition government has brought a Black president and a white opposition leader together in an image of unity. Yet the power-sharing agreement sealed a week ago between President Cy Nick Cousins returns for the Florida Panthers in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final 06/22/2024 01:11am • EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Nick Cousins played every game of the Florida Panthers' 2023 run to the Stanley Cup Final and 69 more during this past season. He was in the lineup in Game 6 Friday night against the Edmonton Oilers, a 5-1 Panthers loss that sends the series back across North America. And UN envoy defends failure to include Afghan women in upcoming meeting with the Taliban in Qatar 06/22/2024 12:42am • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations' top official in Afghanistan defended the failure to include Afghan women in the upcoming first meeting between the Taliban and envoys from 22 countries, insisting that demands for women’s rights are certain to be raised. U.N. special envoy Roza Otunbayev Today in History: June 22, Hitler and the Nazis invade the Soviet Union 06/22/2024 12:10am • Today in History Today is Saturday, June 22, the 174th day of 2024. There are 192 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, a massive and ultimately ill-fated invasion of the Soviet Union that would prove pivotal to the Al Biden and allied Republicans are trying to rally GOP women in swing-state suburbs away from Trump 06/22/2024 12:05am • DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Thirty miles north of Philadelphia, upscale subdivisions such as Colonial Commons interrupt dairy farms, centuries-old roadside stone houses and the winding Neshaminy Creek that flows between Doylestown and Newtown. Both cities were once rural outposts that have morphed into Josh Lowe homers twice as Rays breeze past the Pirates 10-3 06/21/2024 10:23pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — Josh Lowe homered twice, including a three-run blast in the sixth that broke open a close game, and the Tampa Bay Rays breezed past the Pittsburgh Pirates 10-3 on Friday night. Lowe hit a solo shot to right off Luis Ortiz in the third inning and went deep again with two aboard in Climate change makes India's monsoons erratic. Can farmers still find a way to prosper? 06/21/2024 10:20pm • BENGALURU, India (AP) — Each year from June to September, a heavy band of rain makes its way from India's southwest coast to its northeastern borders, quenching farmers' thirsty fields. India's monsoon season is arguably the single most important weather phenomenon for the country, and a good mon Hawaii settles lawsuit from youths over climate change. Here's what to know about the historic deal 06/21/2024 10:11pm • HONOLULU (AP) — About two years after 13 children and teens sued Hawaii over the threat posed by climate change, both sides reached a settlement that includes an ambitious requirement to decarbonize the state's transportation system over the next 21 years. It's another example of a younger genera Alertan por posible formación de ciclón en el golfo de México 06/21/2024 09:29pm • (CNN Español) -- El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN) de México alertó este viernes por la posible formación de un ciclón tropical en el golfo de México para este fin de semana, así como la presencia de lluvias torrenciales para el sureste, oriente y noreste de México del país.La coor Lockheed Martin subsidiaries reach $70 million settlement for claims they overcharged Navy for parts 06/21/2024 08:56pm • STRATFORD, Conn. (AP) — Two Lockheed Martin subsidiaries have agreed to pay the federal government $70 million for overcharging the Navy for aircraft parts, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday. The federal agency says Sikorsky Support Services, based in Stratford, Connecticut, and Derc