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Brazil Indigenous group hails a sacred cloak's homecoming after centuries in Europe 09/13/2024 01:15am • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Indigenous chants and the rattle of maracas resounded Thursday in a Rio de Janeiro park, where Brazil's Tupinambá people gathered to celebrate the homecoming of a sacred cloak absent for some 380 years. Made of feathers from the scarlet ibis, the artifact from northeastern Francine weakens and moves inland after lashing Louisiana 09/13/2024 12:34am • MORGAN CITY, La. (AP) — Francine weakened Thursday after striking Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of utility customers, sent storm surge rushing into coastal communities and raised flooding fears in New Orleans and beyond. As the system moved inl Are Indonesia and Vietnam's multibillion-dollar clean energy deals stuck? Experts say not yet 09/12/2024 11:48pm • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia and Vietnam signed multibillion-dollar energy transition deals in 2022 that were heralded as drastic shifts in financing that would enable the coal-dependent countries to pivot to cleaner energy. The deals, known as Just Energy Transition Partnerships, were fund China's Xi Jinping to visit Russia next month for the BRICS summit 09/12/2024 11:41pm • MOSCOW (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping will visit Russia next month for a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi confirmed Thursday, a move that comes as Moscow and Beijing seek to counter the West’s global influence. Xi's visit to Russia will be his David Lipsky shoots 65 to take 1st-round lead at Silverado in FedEx Cup Fall opener 09/12/2024 11:08pm • NAPA, Calif. (AP) — David Lipsky shot a 7-under 65 on Thursday at Silverado Country Club to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Procore Championship. Winless in 104 events since joining the PGA Tour in 2022, Lipsky went out with the early groups and had eight birdies with one bogey Brandon Lowe homers, Tampa Bay's bullpen shuts down AL Central-leading Guardians for 5-2 win 09/12/2024 11:08pm • CLEVELAND (AP) — Brandon Lowe homered, Tampa Bay's bullpen held Cleveland to one hit over seven scoreless innings and the Rays snapped a three-game losing streak on a rugged trip with a 5-2 win over the AL Central-leading Guardians on Thursday night. Lowe connected for his 18th homer in the first Q&A: Lily Collins is ‘Emily in Paris,’ Rome and Barcelona 09/12/2024 10:50pm • ROME (AP) — First Paris, now Rome and next Barcelona — Lily Collins is taking on two more European cities. As the star and producer of “Emily in Paris,” she’s been playing the unlucky-in-love marketing executive, breaking hearts (including her own) in France for the past three seasons of t A scenic California mountain town walloped by a blizzard is now threatened by wildfire 09/12/2024 10:36pm • RUNNING SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — In the Southern California mountain town of Running Springs, residents live between two scenic lake resorts — a seemingly serene spot but one also caught between the swings of devastating winter snowstorms and menacing summer wildfires. Niko Rynard is currently eva Peru declares 3 days of national mourning for former President Alberto Fujimori 09/12/2024 10:36pm • LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s government on Thursday declared three days of national mourning over the death of former President Alberto Fujimori and granted him a state funeral despite his convictions for human rights abuses and corruption. Fujimori, who governed the South American country with an i As war rages in Gaza, Israel’s crackdown on West Bank insurgency is killing Palestinian youths 09/12/2024 10:28pm • JENIN, West Bank (AP) — In the web of battered, sunbaked streets winding up the hillside, bloodshed is as unrelenting as the heat. So it is not hard to see why, when raid sirens and gunfire erupted yet again on a morning in late May, 15-year-old Mahmoud Hamadneh turned his bike down an alley that Mexico will amend its constitution this weekend to require all judges to be elected 09/12/2024 10:10pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is poised to amend its constitution this weekend to require all judges to be elected as part of a judicial overhaul championed by the outgoing president but slammed by critics as a blow to the country’s rule of law. The amendment passed Mexico’s Congress on Wednesday, Senegal's president dissolves parliament to call a snap legislative election 09/12/2024 10:07pm • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye dissolved the opposition-led parliament on Thursday, paving the way for a snap legislative election six months after he was voted in on an anti-establishment platform. The new election will take place Nov. 17, Faye said in a televised Biden calls the landmark Violence Against Women Act his proudest legislative achievement 09/12/2024 10:03pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday joined scores of advocates and survivors of domestic abuse to mark the 30th anniversary of the landmark Violence Against Women Act, a law he wrote and championed as a U.S. senator because he wanted to “change the culture of America” around th How social media became a storefront for deadly fake pills 09/12/2024 09:10pm • Coco loved being the life of the party — cracking jokes, doing pranks and making people laugh, her mom, Julianna Arnold, recalled recently. “Her favorite pastime was fashion,” Arnold said. “She didn’t like looking at magazines or going to fancy stores, but preferred to make her own creatio Pac-12 to add Boise St., Fresno St., San Diego St., Colorado St. in 2026, poaching Mountain West 09/12/2024 08:27pm • After being poached almost into oblivion, the Pac-12 is fighting off extinction by plucking schools from the Mountain West. The Pac-12 announced Thursday that it in 2026 it will add Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State and San Diego State alongside Oregon State and Washington State in a rebuilt