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Mexico's Congress puts National Guard under military command despite criticism. Why does it matter? 09/25/2024 12:55pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Senate on Wednesday approved putting the National Guard under the command of the military despite widespread criticism over deepening the country's militarization. It's the second constitutional change in two weeks, giving outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obr Residents of northern Israel's largest city face Hezbollah fire and brace for the worst 09/25/2024 12:44pm • HAIFA, Israel (AP) — The sandy beaches of Haifa, Israel’s third-largest city, are empty. Businesses are shutting early, and many restaurants are closed. The only places filling up, as the threat of a wider war with Hezbollah mounts, are public bomb shelters. Haifa, a seaside city of nearly 300,0 What to know as Hurricane Helene takes aim at Florida 09/25/2024 12:44pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Another storm system is taking aim at Florida, this time possibly at the Panhandle or Big Bend area, with storm effects expected all over the state due to its vast wind field. The fast-moving Hurricane Helene is intensifying quickly as it crosses from the Caribbean Sea New Jersey hits pause on an offshore wind farm that can't find turbine blades 09/25/2024 12:27pm • TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey hit the pause button Wednesday on an offshore wind energy project that is having a hard time finding someone to manufacture blades for its turbines. The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities granted Leading Light Wind a pause on its project through Dec. 20 while its Tennessee football's 10% talent fee opens discussion of how many schools and sports will follow 09/25/2024 12:22pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The quiet part about the evolving landscape of name, image and likeness compensation in college athletics was bound to be said out loud, and it wasn’t that shocking when Tennessee’s athletic department stepped forward, cleared its collective throat and stated the obvious The Athletics are the last major pro sports team still standing in Oakland after other departures 09/25/2024 11:49am • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A day Oakland sports fans have long dreaded has arrived — the last major professional franchise in the East Bay is leaving town. Fans are planning a wake for the Athletics in the downtown Jack London Square neighborhood following Thursday's home finale at the Coliseum agai Four Downs with the Commanders: Breaking out against the Bengals 09/25/2024 11:29am • When you've been as bad as the Burgundy and Gold have been the last 30 years, it's easy to be overoptimistic in September. A 2-1 start is the best Washington has dialed up since 2005 (the second year of Joe Gibbs' second coaching tenure) and we've seen previous lukewarm starts like this end anywh Movie Review: Native sports drama ‘Rez Ball’ follows formula but wins out with heart and poignancy 09/25/2024 11:25am • A scrappy young team of underdogs — in both sports and life — must find a way to unite and win that big championship. Can they do it? How many times have we seen that story, and who among us couldn’t write the ending right now? That may be just what you’re thinking as you settle into “Rez Young people in island nations face an existential question: Should they stay or should they go? 09/25/2024 11:03am • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — It's the uncomfortable talk that as a young woman, she knows she should have with her parents. They alluded to it, once, but couldn't quite address it directly. And Grace Malie was glad to avoid the subject with them, though she and her friends do discuss it. As her home, the Video game actors' union calls for strike against 'League of Legends' 09/25/2024 11:01am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — “League of Legends” is caught in the middle of a dispute between Hollywood’s actors union and an audio company that provides voiceover services for the blockbuster online multiplayer game. The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists called a Helene strengthens into a hurricane and is expected to intensify as it moves toward Florida, forecasters say 09/25/2024 10:59am • MIAMI (AP) — Helene strengthens into a hurricane and is expected to intensify as it moves toward Florida, forecasters say. Coca-Cola Spiced is getting canceled after 7 months on the market 09/25/2024 10:55am • Coca-Cola Co. is discontinuing its newest “permanent” flavor a little more than seven months after putting it on the market. The beverage giant said Wednesday that Coca-Cola Spiced and Coca-Cola Spiced Zero Sugar will be phased out and replaced with a new flavor that will be introduced next year India-controlled Kashmir votes in the second phase of polls to elect local government 09/25/2024 10:48am • SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Under elaborate security, residents in Indian-controlled Kashmir voted Wednesday in the second phase of a staggered election for a local government, which were not boycotted by separatists like last few elections. It's the first such vote since Indian Prime Minister Narendr Third house collapses in four days on North Carolina coast 09/25/2024 10:47am • (NEW YORK) -- A third house has collapsed in four days on the North Carolina coast as officials closed off the beach due to dangerous debris on the shore and in the water, officials said. Cape Hatteras National Seashore law enforcement rangers responded to a Dare County dispatch call at approxima China test-fires an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean 09/25/2024 10:44am • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, stirring security concerns in the region already tense over Beijing's territorial claims and rivalry with the U.S. The ICBM carried a dummy warhead and fell into a designated area of t