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Nonprofits making progress in tackling homelessness among veterans, but challenges remain 11/11/2023 04:27pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Along a busy Atlanta residential road, a 68-year-old Vietnam War-era Army veteran has found what he calls a "match made in heaven.” Harold Tilson Jr. found himself homeless earlier this year but for the past few months has been living in transitional housing run by the nonprofit Hollywood actors union board approves strike-ending deal as leaders tout money gains and AI rights 11/10/2023 10:59pm • Board members from Hollywood's actors union voted Friday to approve the deal with studios that ended their strike after nearly four months, with the union's leadership touting the gains made in weeks of methodical negotiations. Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Tel Megan Rapinoe and Ali Krieger wrapping up careers facing each other for NWSL title 11/10/2023 06:17pm • The National Women’s Soccer League couldn’t have scripted a better championship game matchup. OL Reign’s Megan Rapinoe and Gotham FC’s Ali Krieger will face off in the final professional match for both of the veteran stars on Saturday night in San Diego. The two-time World Cup winners are Fights in bread lines, despair in shelters: War threatens to unravel Gaza's close-knit society 11/10/2023 03:10pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Fistfights break out in bread lines. Residents wait hours for a gallon of brackish water that makes them sick. Scabies, diarrhea and respiratory infections rip through overcrowded shelters. And some families have to choose who eats. “My kids are crying because they are hungry an New Speaker Mike Johnson grasps for a funding plan with a government shutdown rapidly approaching 11/10/2023 01:30pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — With just a week left to avert a government shutdown, new House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing his first big test as he tries to win House Republican support for a short-term funding plan — a task that looks increasingly difficult amid stubborn divisions in the party over feder Mitch McConnell, standing apart in a changing GOP, digs in on his decades-long push against Russia 11/10/2023 01:02pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitch McConnell often tells the story of a letter that his father, a foot soldier in World War II, wrote to his mother while he was stationed in Eastern Europe in 1945, as the United States was liberating the region from Nazi rule. “I think the Russians are going to be a big pr World figure skating champion Shoma Uno takes control in Cup of China 11/10/2023 10:05am • CHONGQING, China (AP) — Two-time world champion Shoma Uno of Japan showed no signs of rust on his return to competitive figure skating on Friday, dominating the men’s short program at the Cup of China. In his first Grand Prix of Figure Skating event this year, Uno landed a quad flip, a quadruple Hungary's Orbán says negotiations on Ukraine's future EU membership should not move forward 11/10/2023 08:07am • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary's prime minister said Friday he does not support moving forward on negotiations on Ukraine's future membership in the European Union, signaling again that his country could pose a major roadblock to Kyiv's ambitions to join the bloc. EU leaders are to decide in mi National Women’s Soccer League announces new media deal with CBS, ESPN, Prime Video and Scripps' ION 11/09/2023 05:22pm • The National Women's Soccer League on Thursday announced a new media rights deal that will feature the league's matches on ESPN, CBS Sports, Amazon Prime Video and Scripps Sports. “These partners believe in our future. They believe in our players, they believe in what we can be,” NWSL Commissio Virginia Daybook 11/09/2023 04:33pm • Associated Press Virginia Daybook for Thursday, Nov. 09. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. To see your Daybooks and events for Virginia and other St Biden's team says progress on big public works projects may hinge on the outcome of the 2024 vote 11/09/2023 03:19pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has started 40,000 construction projects since the passage of major infrastructure legislation two years ago and is seeking to make the case that continued progress could depend on keeping Joe Biden in the White House after 2024. Biden has long emphasize Tentative deals with MGM and Caesars narrowly avert Las Vegas hotel workers strike 11/09/2023 03:07pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — MGM Resorts International, the largest employer on the Las Vegas Strip, has joined rival Caesars Entertainment in reaching a tentative deal with the Las Vegas hotel workers union to narrowly avert a sweeping strike. Taken together, the pending agreements cover more than 30,000 ho Presto's Picks: Big Ten, bigger TV, biggest bucks 11/09/2023 09:53am • College football in the 21st century is all about consolidation. Even though bigger is not always better, it's the way things are going to trend for the time being. As the Power Five becomes the Power Four (plus whatever is going on out west), there is a new arms race with three of the leagues regar Veterans Day 2023: What's open, what's closed 11/09/2023 07:50am • Weekends are broadly celebrated for a reason, but this upcoming weekend is extra special. It's Veterans Day. Veterans Day is held every Nov. 11 on the anniversary of World War I's formal end, which was originally called Armistice Day. A 1954 act rededicated it for veterans of all conflicts. Th WestRock: Fiscal Q4 Earnings Snapshot 11/09/2023 07:00am • ATLANTA (AP) — ATLANTA (AP) — WestRock Co. (WRK) on Thursday reported fiscal fourth-quarter profit of $109.8 million. On a per-share basis, the Atlanta-based company said it had profit of 43 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 81 cents per share. The results exceeded