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Brazil to allow miles of selective logging in effort to preserve the Amazon 07/23/2024 09:45pm • BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) ��� To combat ongoing destruction in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil announced a plan Tuesday to dramatically expand selective logging to an area the size of Costa Rica over the next two years. In Brazil, vast forest lands are designated as public yet have no special protection o Records show deputy charged in Sonya Massey's fatal shooting worked for 6 agencies in 4 years 07/23/2024 09:30pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) ��� The former sheriff's deputy charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman killed inside her Illinois home, had been employed by a half-dozen police agencies since 2020, according to state law enforcement records. Sean Grayson's career Clashes arise over the economic effects of Louisiana's $3 billion-dollar coastal restoration project 07/23/2024 09:23pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� Proponents of a nearly $3 billion project to restore part of southeast Louisiana's rapidly vanishing coastline released a study Tuesday touting the expected economic benefits of its construction, even as the project faces pushback and litigation from communities who fear the env Surprise blast of rock, water and steam in Yellowstone sends dozens running for safety 07/23/2024 08:51pm • CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) ��� A surprise eruption in Yellowstone National Park shot steam, water and dark-colored rock and dirt high into the sky Tuesday and sent sightseers running for safety. The hydrothermal explosion happened around 10 a.m. in Biscuit Basin, a collection of hot springs a couple miles A group of 2,000 migrants advance through southern Mexico in hopes of reaching the US 07/23/2024 08:45pm • TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) ��� A group of 2,000 migrants from dozens of countries set out on foot Tuesday through southern Mexico as they attempt to reach the U.S., although recent similar attempts have failed, with groups disbanding after a few days without leaving the region. Several members of the gr At least 6 people are dead and 7 are missing after a fishing vessel sinks in the South Atlantic 07/23/2024 08:31pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ��� A fishing boat carrying 27 people sank nearly 200 miles (320 kilometers) off the Falkland Islands, leaving at least six people dead and seven missing, British and Spanish officials said Tuesday. Fourteen people made it onto a life raft and were rescued by two other f These U.S. Cities and States Pay You to Move There 07/23/2024 08:00pm • If you're looking for a Midwest move or a Southern fresh start, dozens of states and cities across the United States are offering cash incentives, grants and other free benefits to encourage remote workers and families to relocate. If you're a music lover, maybe you want to move to the Shoals region Tesla's 2Q profit falls 45% to $1.48 billion as sales drop despite price cuts and low-interest loans 07/23/2024 07:53pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� Tesla's second-quarter net income fell 45% compared with a year ago as the company's global electric vehicle sales tumbled despite price cuts and low-interest financing. The Austin, Texas, company said Tuesday that it made $1.48 billion from April through June, less than the $2.7 bi Judge approves referendum sought by slave descendants to challenge rezoning of island community 07/23/2024 07:25pm • SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) ��� A judge on Tuesday approved a referendum sought by residents of one of the South's last remaining Gullah-Geechee communities of slave descendants, ordering an Oct. 1 special election on whether to overturn zoning changes that Black residents see as a threat to an island enclav Agreement halts Cowboys owner Jerry Jones' countersuit trial against woman who says he's her father 07/23/2024 07:01pm • TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) ��� The trial in a countersuit brought by Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones against a woman who says she's his daughter and her mother abruptly ended Tuesday afternoon as Jones agreed to drop the countersuit if the women dismissed pending lawsuits against him, including one wher Stanford, Cal ready for cross-country flights this football season in their new ACC home 07/23/2024 06:44pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� California���s Fernando Mendoza and Stanford���s Ashton Daniels are quarterbacks for rival football programs in the Golden State, part of the long history of a rivalry known as simply as the ���Big Game.��� Last summer, they were united in their dismay at watching the Pac-12 Wildfires send about 25,000 fleeing from Canadian Rockies��� largest national park and nearby town 07/23/2024 06:08pm • EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) ��� Multiple wildfires in the Canadian Rockies' largest national park sent up to 25,000 visitors and residents fleeing west over the last open mountain road Tuesday, navigating through darkness and soot following a government alert during the area's busiest tourist time of the Iowa law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy to take effect Monday 07/23/2024 05:25pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ��� An Iowa judge has ruled the state's strict abortion law will take effect Monday, preventing most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant. The law passed last year, but a judge had blocked it from being enforced. The Iowa Suprem McMillon still leans on wrestling experience in roaming the secondary for Pittsburgh 07/23/2024 04:09pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� Donovan McMillon roams Pittsburgh���s secondary thinking about angles to take on a ballcarrier and the eagerness to take him down in a 1-on-1 shot. The safety said his time on a very different stage ��� the wrestling mat ��� still influences how he manages those split-second Israel-Hamas war latest: Netanyahu signals cease-fire deal could be shaping up as deaths top 39,000 07/23/2024 04:06pm • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signaled that a cease-fire deal that would free dozens of hostages in Gaza could be taking shape. Netanyahu is in Washington, where he is to address Congress. The Israeli military has ordered the evacuation of part of a crowded area in the Gaza Strip it