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Pennsylvania school boards up window openings that allowed views into its gender-neutral bathrooms 10/04/2024 01:52pm • A Pennsylvania school district has reversed course and boarded up window openings it recently installed that allowed people in a middle school hallway to peer into two gender-neutral-designated bathrooms, the superintendent said Friday. The two windows were installed in recent weeks following a vote The US could have seen shortages and higher retail prices if a dockworkers strike had dragged on 10/04/2024 01:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. ports from Maine to Texas shut down this week when the union representing about 45,000 dockworkers went on strike for the first time since 1977. The union representing the striking U.S. dockworkers, the International Longshoremen’s Association, reached a deal Thursday to sus EU fishing and farming deals with Morocco failed to include Western Sahara's consent, top court says 10/04/2024 01:20pm • BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top court ruled Friday that fisheries and agriculture agreements reached between the bloc and Morocco five years ago failed to include consultations with the people of Western Sahara. Western Sahara sits on the Atlantic coast and has a desert rich in phosphat Landmark ruling from top EU court says some FIFA rules on transfers are contrary to EU law 10/04/2024 01:18pm • Some FIFA rules on player transfers are contrary to European Union legislation relating to competition and freedom of movement, the EU’s top court said on Friday. The ruling will likely lead to a shakeup of the soccer market's global regulations and could change the sport's economy. The European C Amid Hurricane Helene's destruction, sports organizations launch relief efforts to aid storm victims 10/04/2024 01:07pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — N.C. State football player Davin Vann was on the move, tiptoeing his way between obstacles in the Wolfpack's indoor practice facility midway through a game week. And it had nothing to do with the upcoming visit from Wake Forest. Instead, he stepped carefully through and over b A Michigan man is charged with killing and dismembering a janitor he met on the Grindr dating app 10/04/2024 12:57pm • BAY CITY, Mich. (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a Michigan man with killing and dismembering a janitor he met on the dating app Grindr. Justie Stilwell, a 41-year-old janitor at T.L. Handy Middle School in Bay City, was reported missing on Sept. 18. A teenager spotted a foot in the Saginaw River t Ninth-inning collapse makes Brewers' latest playoff exit particularly painful 10/04/2024 11:37am • MILWAUKEE (AP) — Willy Adames had just finished playing perhaps his final game with the Milwaukee Brewers when he described the most devastating of this franchise’s growing collection of playoff defeats. “Losing that way, when you’re so close, it’s like when you’re a kid and they let you Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup changing formats for next year 10/04/2024 11:01am • LONDON (AP) — The Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup competitions are both changing their formats next year. The International Tennis Federation announced the changes Friday, with the Billie Jean King Cup Finals transitioning from 12 teams to an eight-team event to mirror the existing Davis Cup F Alonso's night turns around with season-saving homer for Mets in 9th inning 10/04/2024 10:49am • MILWAUKEE (AP) — Pete Alonso was having a rather disappointing evening in what could have been his final game for the New York Mets. Then everything changed with one swing of the bat. The slugger broke out of a prolonged slump by smashing a three-run homer off closer Devin Williams in the ninth in South Carolina sets Nov. 1 execution as state ramps up use of death chamber 10/04/2024 10:48am • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's high court on Friday set a date of Nov. 1 to put to death a man who killed a store clerk a quarter-century ago, the second of an expected six executions in about six months as the state ramps up its use of capital punishment after a 13-year pause. Richard Moo Indiana Fever hire Amber Cox as chief operating officer and general manager 10/04/2024 10:38am • The Indiana Fever have hired Amber Cox as the team's chief operating officer and general manager, the franchise announced Friday. Cox will succeed current GM Lin Dunn, who will move into a new position as a senior advisor for the team. “I have known Amber for over 20 years and have watched her suc Pete Alonso's playoff pumpkin spices up string of good-luck charms for Mets ahead of NLDS 10/04/2024 10:30am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pete Alonso and the Mets are taking a playoff pumpkin with them on their playoff run back to the Big Apple. These Cinderella Mets -- who appropriately use orange in their color scheme -- hope their carriage ride through the postseason won’t turn into a pumpkin at midnight any 11 DC-area billionaires on new Forbes 400 list (12 if you count Bezos) 10/04/2024 10:15am • The 2024 Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest individuals in the U.S. includes 11 D.C. area residents, though one no longer lives here and No. 2 on the list could technically count. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos ranks No. 2, behind Tesla founder Elon Musk. Bezos has a personal net worth of $197 billion Data Doctors: Going green with your gadgets 10/04/2024 09:43am • Q: What can I do to be more eco-friendly with my tech gadgets? A: Our insatiable appetite for new gadgets has many hidden environmental costs such as energy consumption and e-waste that we all need to think about. The energy required to manufacture the average desktop computer could run a refr Biden's student loan cancellation is put on hold again after day of legal whiplash 10/04/2024 09:27am • WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Missouri put a temporary hold on President Joe Biden's latest student loan cancellation plan on Thursday, slamming the door on hope it would move forward after another judge allowed a pause to expire. Just as it briefly appeared the Biden administration would h