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IMF says Sri Lanka needs to boost reforms and collect more taxes for its bailout funding package 09/27/2023 01:10pm • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka has so far failed to make enough progress in boosting tax collection and other economic reforms for the International Monetary Fund to release a second tranche of $330 million in the country's $2.9 billion bailout from bankruptcy, the IMF said. An IMF team led b Trump rivals try to make headway and other things to watch during the GOP presidential debate 09/27/2023 10:26am • SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — A growing sense of urgency hangs over Wednesday's Republican presidential debate as seven candidates fight for momentum on a stage that will not feature the race's front-runner. Former President Donald Trump says he’s so far ahead that it would only help his competito Congress says it wants to avoid a shutdown. But the House and Senate are moving even further apart. 09/27/2023 07:46am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Congress is starkly divided over very different paths to preventing a federal shutdown — the Senate charging ahead with a bipartisan package to temporarily fund the government but the House slogging through a longshot effort with no real chance of finishing by Saturday's de Carbonara burgers and a 'Spritz Bar' truck highlight the Ryder Cup food court menu in Italy 09/27/2023 07:42am • GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — Beyond the fancy hospitality tents, the Ryder Cup’s food scene is decidedly local at the Marco Simone club outside Rome. There’s an “APECESARE” food truck named after Julius Caesar selling “Street Food Romano,” where the menu highlight is a carbonara b Oceans Calling Festival returns to rock the boardwalk a year after rain delay 09/27/2023 12:01am • It was supposed to premiere last fall but was canceled due to unsafe weather from Hurricane Ian. Now, the Oceans Calling Festival is finally happening this weekend in Ocean City, Maryland. “I think the excitement from the last concert is still fresh in everyone’s mind,” city manager Patriots place defensive tackle Daniel Ekuale on injured reserve 09/26/2023 06:58pm • FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The New England Patriots placed defensive tackle Daniel Ekuale on injured reserve on Tuesday. The 29-year-old left in the first half of last week’s 15-10 win over the Jets with an elbow injury and did not return. Ekuale has played in each of New England's three games t Sean McManus will retire in April after 27 years leading CBS Sports; David Berson named successor 09/26/2023 06:14pm • CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus has known for over a year when he planned to retire and who would be his successor. On Tuesday, it was made official. McManus will retire in April after 27 years in charge. His successor will be David Berson, who has been president of CBS Sports for over 10 years. � Colston Loveland thrives at Michigan, confident the Big Ten is the place to be for tight ends 09/26/2023 05:00pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Colston Loveland was a small-town star in southern Idaho, honing his pass-catching far from the empires of major college football, when he experienced the defining moment halfway through his prep career. “I was a little bit too big for receiver,” Loveland said, “so my juni Cintas, United Natural Foods fall; Ferguson rises, Tuesday, 9/26/2023 09/26/2023 04:22pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Tuesday: Ferguson Plc., up $7.14 to $158.25. The plumbing and heating products supplier reported strong fiscal fourth-quarter financial results. Sirius XM Holdings Inc., down 13 cents to $3.88. Liberty Media proposed a Cassidy Hutchinson's new book says Mark Meadows' suits smelled 'like a bonfire' from burning papers 09/26/2023 01:50pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A former aide in Donald Trump’s White House says chief of staff Mark Meadows burned papers so often after the 2020 election that it left his office smoky and even prompted his wife to complain that his suits smelled “like a bonfire.” Cassidy Hutchinson, who was a prominent co More money pledged from Michigan for a $3.5 billion electric vehicle battery plant after Ford pauses 09/26/2023 12:51pm • DETROIT (AP) — More money is being pledged in Michigan for the development of a $3.5 billion electric vehicle battery plant after Ford Motor Co. said it would pause construction until it's sure it can run the factory competitively. Ford announced the delay Monday and is in the midst of national co DC to settle suit for not providing special education in jail during pandemic 09/26/2023 08:35am • High school students with disabilities in the D.C. jail reached a settlement with the District on Monday, after a lawsuit claimed they were denied an education while incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. When the pandemic hit, D.C. Public Schools stopped providing in-person education to stud UPS plans to hire more than 100,000 holiday workers this year, on par with last year 09/26/2023 08:19am • NEW YORK (AP) — UPS plans to hire more than 100,000 workers — at higher pay than a year ago — to help with the holiday rush this season, in line with hiring the previous three years. As part of a tentative five-year contract agreement with the Teamsters union approved last month that included South Korea's Constitutional Court strikes down law banning anti-Pyongyang leafleting 09/26/2023 06:46am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday struck down a 2020 law that criminalized the sending of anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets to North Korea, calling it an excessive restriction on free speech. The ruling came in response to a complaint filed by North Korean Six young activists devote years to climate fight with 32 governments. Now comes their day in court 09/25/2023 11:31pm • COSTA DA CAPARICA, Portugal (AP) — Sofia Oliveira was 12 years old when catastrophic wildfires in central Portugal killed more than 100 people in 2017. She “felt it was now or never to raise our voices” as her country appeared to be in the grip of deadly human-caused climate change. Now a univ