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Hikers and cyclists can now cross Vermont on New England's longest rail trail, a year after floods 07/17/2024 07:30am • HARDWICK, Vt. (AP) ��� A year after epic summer flooding delayed the official opening of New England���s longest rail trail, the 93-mile route across northern Vermont is finally delivering on the promise made years ago of a cross-state recreation trail. The Lamoille Valley Rail Trail is open to cycl North Korean land mines could float into South Korea, South warns 07/17/2024 05:58am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� North Korean land mines could be swept into South Korea by flooding, South Korea's military warned Wednesday, after the North has recently placed tens of thousands of additional deadly explosives along the rivals' heavily fortified border. North Korea's minelaying is part 'Hellishly hot' southern Europe bakes under temperatures topping 104 F 07/17/2024 01:32am • ROME (AP) ��� The Italian health ministry placed 12 cities under the most severe heat warning Tuesday as a wave of hot air from Africa baked southern Europe and the Balkans and sent temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), with the worst still to come. Croatia reported the high Ukraine faces twin challenges of fighting Russia and shifting political sands in the US 07/17/2024 01:04am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� After almost 30 months of war with Russia, Ukraine���s difficulties on the battlefield are mounting even as its vital support from the United States is increasingly at the mercy of changing political winds. A six-month delay in military assistance from the U.S., the biggest s Israeli strikes in southern, central Gaza kill more than 60 Palestinians, including in 'safe zone' 07/16/2024 11:33pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� Israeli airstrikes killed more than 60 Palestinians in southern and central Gaza overnight and into Tuesday, including one that struck an Israeli-declared ���safe zone��� crowded with thousands of displaced people. Airstrikes in recent days have brought a constant Philippine officials say suspect in the killings of 2 Australians and a Filipina has surrendered 07/16/2024 10:51pm • TAGAYTAY, Philippines (AP) ��� The suspect in the killings of two Australians and their Filipina companion at a hotel in a popular resort city south of Manila surrendered and claimed he wanted to retaliate against the hotel for firing him, Philippine officials said Wednesday. The suspect further sai 2024 Election Latest: RNC enters second day with focus shifting to immigration 07/16/2024 10:48pm • The Republican National Convention's second day is in full swing ��� now with Donald Trump officially as its presidential nominee and U.S. Sen. JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate. Trump energized the crowd Monday night by entering the arena with a bandage on his right ear after being injured durin Out-of-state officers shot and killed a man wielding two knives blocks away from the RNC, police say 07/16/2024 10:38pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) ��� Ohio police officers in Wisconsin for the Republican National Convention shot and killed a man who was wielding two knives near the convention, Milwaukee���s police chief said Tuesday. Five members of the Columbus, Ohio, police department fired on the man, who had a knife in each Capital One and Walmart Call It Quits: Which Card To Use at Walmart Now 07/16/2024 08:00pm • Capital One was the exclusive issuer of Walmart cards for nearly five years, offering the Capital One Walmart Rewards Card and Walmart Rewards card. But that partnership has since ended, with a federal court ruling in March 2024 that Walmart could terminate the agreement after the retailer cited cus US tells Russian minister Putin should release detained Americans including Gershkovich and Whelan 07/16/2024 07:32pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations told Russia���s foreign minister on Tuesday that President Vladimir Putin should release detained Americans, singling out journalist Evan Gershkovich and ex-Marine Paul Whelan, and accused the Russian leader of treating ���human being Power restored at overcrowded California prison after outage amid heat wave 07/16/2024 07:14pm • VACAVILLE, Calif. (AP) ��� Power was restored Tuesday at an overcrowded California men's prison that ran on emergency generator power for three days following a major electrical outage amid a heat wave. The problem was fixed shortly after 2 p.m. at California State Prison, Solano, according to the US government must return land it took and never developed to a Nebraska tribe under new law 07/16/2024 05:41pm • WINNEBAGO, Neb. (AP) ��� The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska will soon get back about 1,600 acres (647 hectares) of land the federal government took more than 50 years ago and never developed. A new law will require the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to return the roughly 2.5-square-mile (6.5-square-kilom Forest fire breaks out at major military gunnery range in New Jersey 07/16/2024 05:40pm • BARNEGAT, N.J. (AP) ��� A fast-moving forest fire broke out Tuesday at a major military gunnery range in southern New Jersey, but no injuries or property damage has been reported. The New Jersey Forest Fire Service responded around 2:15 p.m. to the Warren Grove Air to Ground Range in Ocean County, w Self-exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui convicted of defrauding followers after fleeing to US 07/16/2024 05:31pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Guo Wengui, a self-exiled Chinese business tycoon whose criticism of the Communist Party won him legions of online followers and powerful friends in the American conservative movement, was convicted by a U.S. jury Tuesday of engaging in a massive multiyear fraud that ripped off som Elon Musk says he's moving SpaceX, X headquarters from California to Texas 07/16/2024 05:19pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Billionaire Elon Musk says he's moving the headquarters of SpaceX and social media company X to Texas from California. Musk posted on X Tuesday that he plans on moving SpaceX from Hawthorne, California to the company's rocket launch site dubbed Starbase in Texas. X will move