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Etsy plans to test its first-ever loyalty program as it aims to boost sales 07/31/2024 08:05am • Etsy said Wednesday it will begin testing its first-ever loyalty program in September, a move designed to boost the e-commerce site's sluggish sales and draw in occasional shoppers. The New York-based company said select buyers will receive an invitation for the program, which will offer free shippi Bank of Japan raises its key interest rate, aiming to curb yen's slide against the dollar 07/31/2024 07:31am • TOKYO (AP) — The Bank of Japan raised its key interest rate Wednesday to about 0.25% from a range of zero to about 0.1%, acting to curb the yen’s slide against the U.S. dollar. The move was widely expected, and the yen gained sharply against the dollar ahead of and after Wednesday’s decision, AP PHOTOS: A hot, steamy day at the Paris Olympics. Here's a look at Day 4 07/31/2024 06:05am • PARIS (AP) — It was a hot, steamy day at the Paris Olympics. Indoors and outdoors, the Games kept going. Simone Biles and Team USA powered to Olympic gold in women’s gymnastics. Victor Wembanyama led France to a dramatic 94-90 win over Japan in men's basketball, and Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcar Inflation ticks up in Europe, complicating the European Central Bank's next move 07/31/2024 06:04am • FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation in the 20 countries that use the euro ticked up to 2.6% in July, stubbornly above the European Central Bank's target and complicating the ECB's next decision on whether to cut interest rates and boost growth as the economy struggles to stage a convincing recover Kari Lake wins GOP primary for closely watched Arizona Senate race, will face Gallego in November 07/31/2024 05:55am • PHOENIX (AP) — Kari Lake won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Arizona on Tuesday, setting up a fierce battle against Democratic U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego for a seat that could be crucial to deciding Senate control. In Maricopa County, which includes metro Phoenix and 60% of Arizona's Russian military begins 3rd round of drills to train troops in tactical nuclear weapons 07/31/2024 05:43am • MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian military on Wednesday began a third round of drills with tactical nuclear weapons, part of the Kremlin's messaging intended to force the West to limit its support for Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry said the drills will feature units of the central and southern mili Stubborn inflation ticks up to annual 2.6% in Europe as central bank weighs next interest rate move 07/31/2024 05:04am • FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Stubborn inflation ticks up to annual 2.6% in Europe as central bank weighs next interest rate move. Simone Biles and Team USA earn 'redemption' by powering to Olympic gold in women's gymnastics 07/31/2024 03:01am • PARIS (AP) — Simone Biles, Jordan Chiles and Sunisa Lee spent the night before perhaps the biggest gymnastics meet of their lives restless. There was a tension in the air. They'd all been in the Olympic spotlight before, experiences that left them with medals but also the kind of scars — be they She became a mother after Islamic State captivity. A decade on, Yazidi community shuns her children 07/31/2024 01:41am • DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — The day they came to take her children, the young mother bundled them up against the cold. She asked her nearly 6-year-old son to take care of his younger sister. “Don’t let anyone hit her,” she told the boy. “OK, Mama,” she remembers him replying. Much else was left u Eugenio Suárez hits 3 HRs, Diamondbacks tie team mark with 22 hits in 17-0 rout of Nationals 07/31/2024 01:27am • PHOENIX (AP) — Eugenio Suárez hit three homers and matched his career high with five RBIs, and the Arizona Diamondbacks tied a team record with 22 hits in a 17-0 victory over the Washington Nationals on Tuesday night. The Diamondbacks, who scored five runs in the ninth inning for a 9-8 victory Sears pitches 7 shutout innings, Athletics hit 4 homers in 5-2 win over Giants 07/31/2024 01:16am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — JP Sears pitched seven shutout innings and the Oakland Athletics hit four home runs in a 5-2 win over the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday night. The A’s have won eight of 11 since the All-Star break and can win their fifth straight series for the first time since 2021 with a Stock market today: Asian stocks are mostly higher as Bank of Japan raises benchmark rate 07/31/2024 12:40am • Asian stocks were mostly higher Wednesday following a decision by the Bank of Japan to raise its benchmark interest rate. Policy decisions were due later in the day from the Federal Reserve and Bank of England. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 edged 0.1% lower to 38,478.92 after the central bank's d Witt and Royals rally in 8th inning to hand White Sox their 16th straight defeat, 4-3 07/30/2024 11:32pm • CHICAGO (AP) — The staggering Chicago White Sox lost their 16th straight game, extending a franchise record, as Michael Massey homered and Michael Wacha pitched seven strong innings to lead the Kansas City Royals to a 4-3 victory Tuesday night. Bobby Witt Jr. ran his hitting streak to 12 games and Trade acquisition Morel homers in Tampa Bay debut, Rays rally to beat Marlins 9-3 07/30/2024 11:24pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Trade acquisition Christopher Morel homered in his Tampa Bay debut, helping the new-look Rays come from behind to beat the Miami Marlins 9-3 on Tuesday night. Ben Rortvedt and Yandy Diaz each contributed two-run singles off reliever Declan Cronin (2-3) during a five-run Surviving Rwanda: God, remembrance and reconciliation on the genocide’s 30th anniversary 07/30/2024 11:14pm • Thirty years ago, while he was hiding from the machetes that killed his father, two of his brothers and an estimated 800,000 other people during the genocide against Rwanda's Tutsi minority, Pascal Kanyemera made a deal with God. “Please, if I survive one more week, I will give you 100 Rwandan fra