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New reality TV show 'Playground' puts dance studio dramas center stage 07/25/2024 12:57pm • London (AP) — The reality of a dance career is that it’s tough. New Hulu reality series “Playground" doesn't shy away from that. The show is set at the Playground dance studio in Los Angeles, home to famous hip-hop choreographers and teachers, and documents the ups and downs of dancers who wa Man accused of mass shooting attempt at Virginia church ruled competent to stand trial 07/25/2024 12:29pm • A judge has ruled that a northern Virginia man is competent to stand trial after he was arrested last year on suspicion that he was about to embark on a mass shooting at a megachurch. U.S. District Judge Rossie Alston set an Oct. 21 trial date for Rui Jiang of Falls Church after holding a compete The Olympics are coming to the capital of fashion. Expect uniforms befitting a Paris runway 07/25/2024 12:19pm • PARIS (AP) — Sure, they call it the City of Light. But Paris is also the City of Fashion, one of most influential fashion capitals of the world for decades, no, centuries (remember Louis XIV?) So it’s no surprise that fashion designers across the globe are busy getting their national team unifor Maine attorney general files complaint against couple for racist harassment of neighbors 07/25/2024 12:16pm • BATH, Maine (AP) — Maine's attorney general has filed a civil rights complaint against a couple he said targeted their Black immigrant neighbors for months with a campaign of racist harassment. Attorney General Aaron Frey is using the complaint to ask a court to bar the Bath residents from having Average rate on a 30-year mortgage inches up to 6.78%, first uptick in three weeks 07/25/2024 12:10pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mortgage rates inched higher this week, keeping the average rate on a 30-year mortgage essentially flat and near the 7% range it's been in most of this year. The rate rose to 6.78% from 6.77% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, the rate averaged 6.81 I tried Speedo's Olympic swimsuit. It's fast in the pool, but takes forever to put on 07/25/2024 12:08pm • PARIS (AP) — It's usually not a good sign when a swimsuit needs instructions for how to put it on. More concerning? When you learn that even Olympians need about 10 minutes to get into Speedo's new Fastskin LZR Intent and LZR Valor suits. Determined to squeeze into the latest skin-tight polyureth 2 years after Ukrainian POW deaths, survivors and leaked UN analysis point to Russia as the culprit 07/25/2024 11:41am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The former prisoners of war still puzzle over the strange events leading up to the night now seared into their memories, when an explosion ripped through the Russian-controlled Olenivka prison barracks and killed so many comrades two years ago. Among the survivors: Kyrylo Masa Data shows hurricanes and earthquakes grab headlines but inland counties top disaster list 07/25/2024 11:25am • Floyd County keeps flooding and the federal government keeps coming to the rescue. In July 2022, at least 40 people died and 300 homes were damaged in flooding across eastern Kentucky. It was the 13th time in 12 years that Floyd County was declared a federal disaster. These are disasters so costly t Wind farms' benefits to communities can be slow or complex, leading to opposition and misinformation 07/25/2024 11:04am • After NextEra proposed a wind farm in Greeley County, Nebraska two years ago, Robert Bernt, a dairy farm owner in the area, helped to mobilize community members against the idea. His group held town hall meetings and ran ads on the radio, arguing the wind farm would “fragment” the community, by China issues rare praise to Philippine president for his ban on Chinese online gambling operators 07/25/2024 10:57am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) — China issued a rare compliment to the administration of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Thursday for his order banning widespread and Chinese-run online gaming operations. Marcos accused some of venturing into crimes including financial scams, human trafficking Wind power can be a major source of tax revenue, but officials struggle to get communities on board 07/25/2024 10:25am • PIPER CITY, Ill. (AP) — In Scott Saffer's science classroom, kids bake cookies in a decked-out kitchen, care for fish, turtles and a snake, and have access to a workshop full of tools. As the gifted enrichment coordinator at Tri-Point School District, Saffer is living his teaching dream, one he kn Forced to emigrate, Venezuelans living abroad hope for change — and to eventually return home 07/25/2024 10:17am • The prolonged economic and political instability in Venezuela has forced millions of Venezuelans to leave over the past decade, quashing many of their dreams and leaving many wondering if they'll ever return to what was once South America's most prosperous country. The refugee agency UNHCR estimates Meta's Oversight Board says deepfake policies need update and response to explicit image fell short 07/25/2024 09:35am • LONDON (AP) — Meta's policies on non-consensual deepfake images need updating, including wording that’s “not sufficiently clear," the company's oversight panel said Thursday in a decision on cases involving AI-generated explicit depictions of two famous women. The quasi-independent Oversight It's a college football player's paradise, where dreams and reality meet in new EA Sports video game 07/25/2024 09:24am • GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Freshman quarterback DJ Lagway grabbed a controller, settled comfortably into a leather stool and immediately started to adjust Florida’s roster. There was only one move to make, really: Lagway benched Graham Mertz and inserted himself into the starting lineup for a quic Major funders bet big on rural America and ‘everyday democracy’ 07/25/2024 09:12am • Someone may need to tell Carlton Turner that he’s working to save democracy. Turner is co-director of the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production in the town of Utica, population 600, where his family has lived for eight generations. The organization, better known as Sipp Culture, is helping br