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USPS' long-awaited new mail truck makes its debut to rave reviews from carriers 09/12/2024 11:19am • ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — The Postal Service’s new delivery vehicles aren’t going to win a beauty contest. They're tall and ungainly. The windshields are vast. Their hoods resemble a duck bill. Their bumpers are enormous. “You can tell that (the designers) didn’t have appearance in mind,” post The Amazon's Ashaninka tribe restored their territory. Now they aim to change the region 09/12/2024 11:11am • APIWTXA VILLAGE, Brazil (AP) — It was just before dawn when the Ashaninka people, wearing long, tunic-like dresses, began singing traditional songs while playing drums and other instruments. The music drifted through Apiwtxa village, which had welcomed guests from Indigenous communities in Brazil Bizarro Apple Cup arrives as Washington State and Washington meet in rivalry showdown 09/12/2024 10:55am • Washington State (1-0) vs. Washington (1-0) at Lumen Field in Seattle, Saturday, 3:30 p.m. ET (Peacock) BetMGM College Football Odds: Washington 4 1/2. Series record: Washington leads 76-33-6. WHAT'S AT STAKE? For the first time since 1961, the Apple Cup is a non-conference matchup – this time bet BYU heads to Wyoming looking for a 3-0 start before Big 12 play 09/12/2024 10:50am • BYU (2-0) at Wyoming (0-2), Saturday, 9 p.m. ET (CBS Sports Network) BetMGM College Football Odds: BYU by 10½. Series record: BYU leads 46-30-3. WHAT’S AT STAKE? BYU is quite familiar with former conference foe Wyoming. Outside of Utah and Utah State, the Cougars have squared off against the Cowb Share of foreign-born people in the US is at its highest rate in over a century, survey says 09/12/2024 10:48am • MIAMI (AP) — The percentage of U.S. residents who were foreign-born last year grew to its highest level in more than a century, according to figures released Thursday from the most comprehensive survey of American life. The share of people born outside the United States increased in 2023 to 14.3% Severe drought drops water level to historic low on the Paraguay River, a regional lifeline 09/12/2024 10:39am • ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay (AP) — A powerful drought in Brazil's Pantanal region led on Monday to the lowest water levels on the Paraguay River in more than a century, disrupting commerce on the major waterway, creating hazards for local transport and offering a grim warning for other parts of the world. Soccer great Boban says he's doesn't want UEFA presidency but aims barb at former boss Čeferin 09/12/2024 10:23am • GENEVA (AP) — Soccer great Zvonimir Boban says he does not want to succeed his former ally and boss Aleksander Čeferin as president of UEFA. The European soccer body needed “a real football man,” he suggested on Thursday, in a barb at technocrats who he claimed think they are bigger than the Life after Mbappé is proving better than expected for French leader PSG 09/12/2024 10:15am • PARIS (AP) — Kylian Mbappé's departure was expected to sidetrack Paris Saint-Germain this season. How would a team long viewed as over-reliant on the France superstar cope without him after his move to Real Madrid? Who could score so freely for PSG when Mbappé averaged more than 40 goals per se Today in Sports - Week Ahead, Sept. 13 - Sept. 19 09/12/2024 10:05am • Sept. 13 1930 — Tommy Armour beats Gene Sarazen 1 up to win the PGA Championship. 1964 — Roy Emerson beats fellow Australian Fred Stolle to win the men’s title in the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championships. Brazil’s Maria Bueno wins the women’s title. Emerson wins in straight sets 6-4, Today in Sports - Week Ahead, Sept. 13 - Sept. 19 09/12/2024 10:00am • Sept. 17 1897 — England’s Joe Lloyd beats Scotland’s Willie Anderson by one stroke to win the U.S. Open in Wheaton, Ill. 1917 — Honus Wagner, retires at 43, Pirates retire his #33. 1920 — The forerunner of the NFL, the American Professional Football Association, is founded in an automobile Everton holding 'positive' talks with Textor over American's potential purchase of club 09/12/2024 09:43am • LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Everton has engaged in “positive conversations” with John Textor in relation to the American businessman's potential purchase of the club, the English team said on Thursday. Textor, a 58-year-old digital media and entertainment entrepreneur, said last month he wanted Wholesale inflation mostly cooled last month in latest sign that price pressures are slowing 09/12/2024 09:19am • WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. wholesale price increases mostly slowed last month, the latest evidence that inflation pressures are cooling enough for the Federal Reserve to begin cutting interest rates next week. The Labor Department said Thursday that its producer price index — which tracks inflation UAW's rift with Stellantis raises fear that some US auto jobs could vanish 09/12/2024 09:10am • STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — To Ruth Breeden, whose job is to assemble Ram trucks in this Detroit suburb, a simmering dispute between the United Auto Workers union and Stellantis isn't merely about whether her employer will reopen a distant factory in Illinois. To her, the standoff is a danger s A trial begins for lawyers who once represented the Kremlin's late foe Alexei Navalny 09/12/2024 08:49am • PETUSHKI, Russia (AP) — Three lawyers who once represented the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny went on trial Thursday in Russia, part of the Kremlin's unrelenting crackdown on dissent that has reached levels unseen since Soviet times. Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei Liptser were arres Britain's state-funded health system must 'reform or die,' prime minister says 09/12/2024 08:14am • LONDON (AP) — Britain’s much-loved but overstretched health system is in critical condition and must “reform or die,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Thursday, claiming that years of neglect and botched restructuring had made the United Kingdom an increasingly unhealthy nation. Starmer prom