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Judge rules the FTC can proceed with antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, tosses out few state claims 10/07/2024 02:08pm • A federal judge said the Federal Trade Commission can proceed with its landmark antitrust lawsuit against Amazon. But, he also gave the company a small victory by tossing out a few claims made by states involved in the legal fight. The order, issued last week by Judge John H. Chun and unsealed on M Steelers have cooled after their hot start and coach Mike Tomlin faces a choice at QB 10/07/2024 02:03pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — Justin Fields paused, trying to think of the right words. When they didn't come, the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback shrugged his shoulders. “I don’t think we’re one of those teams looking for an identity,” Fields said following a 20-17 loss to Dallas that dropped the Ste Belarusian-American has his prison sentence extended amid continuous crackdown on dissent in Belarus 10/07/2024 02:00pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Belarusian-American has had his prison term extended to a total of 13 1/2 years in the latest move in a relentless crackdown on dissent by Belarus' repressive government, rights activists said Monday. Yuras Zyankovich, a lawyer who has dual Belarusian and U.S. citizenship Guardians replace injured Tyler Freeman with Ángel Martínez ahead of Game 2 against Tigers 10/07/2024 01:27pm • CLEVELAND (AP) — Guardians utilityman Tyler Freeman sustained an oblique injury during a simulated game Sunday and was dropped from the AL Division Series roster prior to Cleveland hosting Detroit in Game 2 on Monday. Freeman was replaced by versatile rookie Ángel Martínez, who played in 43 game Lebanese worldwide fear for their homeland and loved ones as violence escalates 10/07/2024 01:08pm • It was a year ago when Jomana Siddiqui visited Lebanon, where her father was born — and is now buried. She planned to return there soon; this time, she thought, she would take her two teenage daughters. Instead, Siddiqui, who lives in California, now worries about relatives there. As she watches f Supreme Court rejects appeal from Texas officer convicted in killing of woman through her window 10/07/2024 12:28pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from a former Texas police officer convicted in the death of a woman who was shot through a window of her home. The justices did not detail their reasoning, as is typical, and none publicly dissented. Aaron Dean was convicted of manslaughte Jury selection begins in murder trial of Minnesota man accused of killing his girlfriend 10/07/2024 12:24pm • MANKATO, Minn. (AP) — Jury selection begins Monday in the murder trial of the former boyfriend of a Minnesota woman whose body was found hidden in a rural area of the state in 2023. Adam Fravel, 30, has been charged with first-degree murder. He was arrested in June, 2023, days after deputies foun A Pakistani separatist group claims bombing that killed 2 Chinese near Karachi airport 10/07/2024 12:04pm • KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani separatist group claimed responsibility for a late-night bombing that targeted a convoy with Chinese nationals outside the country's largest airport, killing two workers from China and wounding eight people, officials and the insurgent group said Monday. The at Changes are coming to Aces after they fall short of three-peat 10/07/2024 11:44am • LAS VEGAS (AP) — Becky Hammon wasn't quite ready to look ahead, Sunday's 76-62 loss to the Liberty that ended the Aces' season in the WNBA semifinals still too fresh in her head. But she acknowledged if Las Vegas was to return to championship form, the organization couldn't sit still. “We've nev Book Review: Paula Hawkins returns with psychological thriller ’The Blue Hour' 10/07/2024 11:38am • Since bursting on the scene in 2015 with “The Girl on a Train,” Paula Hawkins has established herself as a reliable writer of psychological thrillers set in the U.K. “The Blue Hour” doesn’t plow any new ground on that front, but it’s a tight story with interesting characters that keeps y MOM’s Organic Market founder has a new home for his pinball machines, and you can play 10/07/2024 11:30am • MOM’s Organic Market founder Scott Nash has been playing pinball machines since he was a teenager. Back then, Nash and friends would bike to an arcade in Beltsville, Maryland. As an adult, he’s been buying and collecting pinball machines for more than a decade — 70 at last count — and he Will global soccer be reshaped after EU's top court issued a major ruling in Lassana Diarra case? 10/07/2024 11:23am • The global soccer transfer market, worth more than $10 billion each season, is facing a revolutionary overhaul or a nuanced evolution following last week's ruling by the European Court of Justice in the Lassana Diarra case. By ruling that some FIFA regulations on player transfers are contrary to EU Tossed balls from stands, apparently aimed at Profar, interrupt Padres' win in NLDS Game 2 10/07/2024 11:18am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tempers flared on the field and in the stands at Dodger Stadium, with rowdy fans tossing baseballs, apparently at San Diego left fielder Jurickson Profar, and then trash that caused a 12-minute wait between pitches during the seventh inning of the Padres' 10-2 win in NL Division Book Review: Deborah Levy's 'The Position of Spoons' may be just for the diehard fans 10/07/2024 10:58am • Deborah Levy is a celebrated novelist, memoirist and playwright whose latest book — “The Position of Spoons” — is a petite collection of essays spanning the last few decades of her career. Though Levy calls the entries in her book “intimacies,” at times that feels like the wrong word, gi A faith is on the edge of vanishing in Georgia after being exiled from Russia centuries ago 10/07/2024 10:42am • GORELOVKA, Georgia (AP) — A 10-year-old boy proudly stands beside his father and listens to the monotone chanting of elderly women clad in embroidered headscarves and long colorful skirts. It is Ilya's first time attending a night prayer meeting in Gorelovka, a tiny village in the South Caucasus n