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Judge rejects replacing counsel for man charged with shooting 3 Palestinian college students 08/02/2024 05:13pm • A Vermont judge on Friday denied a request to replace the public defenders for the man charged with shooting and wounding three college students of Palestinian descent in Burlington in November, saying it's premature. Judge Kevin Griffin also denied Jason Eaton's request to hold a private hearing o A North Carolina county is losing its 2 top election officials weeks before balloting begins 08/02/2024 05:11pm • ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina county will soon lose its top two election administrators mere weeks before the first general election ballots go out to voters. The elections board in Pasquotank County, along the Virginia border about 170 miles (274 kilometers) northeast of Raleigh, Florida flooding emergency declared as tropical threat draws near 08/02/2024 05:04pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A storm system brewing over Cuba on Friday will likely dump torrential rains over the Florida peninsula this weekend, a forecast that’s especially concerning for low-lying coastal and urban areas that were inundated by dangerous floods this year. The National Hurricane C US hiring fell sharply in July, an unexpected setback for the economy stoking recession fears 08/02/2024 04:52pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy suffered an unexpected setback in July as hiring fell sharply and the unemployment rate rose for the fourth straight month with raised interest rates taking a toll on businesses and households. Employers added just 114,000 jobs in July — 35% fewer than expected Giants defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence driven to be the best in the NFL 08/02/2024 04:36pm • EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — With the retirement of Aaron Donald after last season, there's not much to debate when it comes to who enters the season as the NFL's best defensive tackle. It's either Chris Jones of the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs or Dexter Lawrence of the New York Giants. Periodic flooding hurts Mississippi. But could mitigation there hurt downstream in Louisiana? 08/02/2024 04:29pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Flooding left squishy, stinky messes in hundreds of homes in Mississippi's capital city in 2020 — a recurring problem when heavy rains push the Pearl River over its banks. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it intends to make a final recommendation by the end of this yea Terence Crawford, boxing's pound-for-pound king, seeks another title against Israil Madrimov 08/02/2024 04:24pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Terence Crawford, the consensus best pound-for-pound boxer in the world, has added weight in hopes of claiming another title. Crawford will try to become a four-division champion when he faces Israil Madrimov for the WBA super welterweight belt at BMO Stadium on Saturday. It is For NFL kickers, new kickoff rules mean abandoning old habits, but also new opportunities 08/02/2024 04:10pm • IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — New Orleans Saints special teams coach Darren Rizzi said he felt like a real estate agent during the early days of training camp, urging kickers to scrap their long-held, deep-ball approach to kickoffs and focus instead on “location, location, location.” “You’ve got Chasing Olympic gold in the shot put becomes a family mission for Joe and Ashley Kovacs 08/02/2024 03:34pm • SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Nap time has turned into prime shot-put time around the Kovacs household. Joe and Ashley Kovacs built a ring on the side of their house in Dublin, Ohio, and take full advantage of their young twins' sleep schedule. Joe, a two-time Olympic silver medalist, and Ashley, his At the Paris Olympics, AIN hides the identity of the few Russian and Belarusian athletes 08/02/2024 03:14pm • PARIS (AP) — Exactly one week after thousands of athletes sailed through the opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics, a gold medal was finally won Friday by a member of the neutral collective of athletes. Ivan Litvinovich was barred from boarding a boat on the River Seine — just like all 32 athl The Olympics are giving breaking a global stage in Paris. Not everyone is celebrating 08/02/2024 03:03pm • PARIS (AP) — In the basement of a sports complex in Paris, dozens of breakers, or break dancers, gathered almost every weeknight in July to freestyle, practicing classic moves like the windmill, freezes and headspins to the soundtrack of steady breakbeats from a playlist called “100% Flow.” Th UK police brace for more far-right protests as government warns of tough response 08/02/2024 02:57pm • LONDON (AP) — Several suspects arrested in violent protests that erupted after the fatal stabbing of three children in northwest England made court appearances Friday as officials braced for more clashes that Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned and blamed on “far-right hatred.” Starmer vowe Trump election subversion case returned to trial judge following Supreme Court opinion 08/02/2024 02:53pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The criminal case charging former President Donald Trump with plotting to overturn the 2020 presidential election was returned Friday to the trial judge in Washington after a Supreme Court opinion last month that narrowed the scope of the prosecution. The case was formally sent b Data Doctors: Is it time to upgrade to a mesh network? 08/02/2024 02:22pm • Q: My current router is many years old and I’m moving to a larger home, so I’m trying to decide whether it’s time to upgrade to a mesh network. A: There are numerous considerations when it comes to changing wireless networking equipment, and moving to a larger home is certainly one of them. Attorneys for man charged with killing Georgia nursing student ask judge to move trial 08/02/2024 02:19pm • ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Attorneys for a man accused of killing a nursing student whose body was found on the University of Georgia campus have asked a judge to move the case to another county. Finding an impartial jury in Athens-Clarke County to consider the murder and other charges against Jose Ibarra