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Utah officials deny clemency for man set to be executed for 1998 killing of his girlfriend���s mother 07/26/2024 09:05pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ��� Utah officials denied clemency Friday to a man who is set to be executed for the stabbing death of his girlfriend���s mother in 1998. The decision regarding the fate of Taberon Dave Honie, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection Aug. 8, was announced in a one-paragraph no North Carolina regulators says nonprofit run by lieutenant governor's wife owes the state $132K 07/26/2024 08:04pm • RALEIGH. N.C. (AP) ��� North Carolina state regulators now declare a nonprofit run by the wife of North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson must repay over $132,000 for what they call disallowed expenses while carrying out a federally funded child care meal program. The state Department of Health and H 2024 Election Latest: Harris urges people to vote as campaign heats up, Trump meets with Netanyahu 07/26/2024 07:03pm • Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama have endorsed Kamala Harris in her White House bid, giving the vice president the expected but still crucial backing of the nation���s two most popular Democrats. The endorsement comes a day after Harris and President Joe Biden each Olympics opening ceremony latest: Celine Dion serenades Paris, and now the Games can begin 07/26/2024 05:49pm • PARIS (AP) ��� The 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony went off with only minor hitches after a rough start to the Summer Games. Following suspected acts of sabotage targeting France���s flagship high-speed rail network, a soggy but celebratory parade down the Seine River brought an official start US beach stars Kloth, Nuss didn't need the Golden State. They're going for gold at Olympics anyway 07/26/2024 03:33pm • PARIS (AP) ��� A South Dakota native, Taryn Kloth had never even played beach volleyball until after she graduated from Creighton as a star in the indoor version of the sport. In pursuit of a business degree, she landed at LSU without any beach skills at all. ���I actually got dismantled. I was horr Louisiana police officer killed during a SWAT operation, officials say 07/26/2024 03:18pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) ��� A Louisiana police officer was killed this week during a hostage and standoff situation, the Lafayette Police Department said Friday. In a statement on its Facebook page, the department identified the officer killed as Senior Cpl. Segus Jolivette, a SWAT negotiator. The hus A missing 12-year-old Georgia girl is found in Ohio after her community galvanized to locate her 07/26/2024 02:41pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� A 12-year-old girl whose disappearance galvanized a Georgia community has been found in Ohio. Hall County Sheriff Gerald Couch said Friday that Maria Gomez-Perez was found Thursday in Dover, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) south of Cleveland, in the company of a Guatemalan man who i Warner Bros. Discovery sues NBA for not accepting its matching offer 07/26/2024 02:30pm • Warner Bros. Discovery has sued the NBA after the league did not accept the company's matching offer for one of the packages in its upcoming 11-year media rights deal. The lawsuit was filed on Friday in New York state court in Manhattan. WBD, the parent company of TNT Sports, is seeking a judgement Indebted Indian laborer finds life-changing $100,000 diamond 07/26/2024 01:20pm • (CNN) ��� A debt-ridden laborer in central India said his family���s life has been ���changed forever��� after he unearthed a 19.22-carat diamond worth almost $100,000. Raju Gond normally makes about $4 a day��taking whatever work comes his way to provide for his large family, working in fields o A 3-year-old Minnesota boy attacked by pit bulls is not expected to survive 07/26/2024 09:35am • BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (AP) ��� A 3-year-old Minnesota boy who was attacked by two pit bulls last week is not expected to survive, his family said. The parents of Covil Allen are preparing their son to be an organ donor, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Friday. An online campaign is raising funds What's in a name? Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance has had many of them 07/26/2024 07:52am • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� When it comes to Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance's name, it's complicated. The senator from Ohio introduced himself to the world in 2016 when he published his bestselling memoir, ���Hillbilly Elegy,��� under the name J.D. Vance ��� ���like jay-dot-dee-dot,��� he Unbowed by Oct. 7 aftermath, Israeli, Palestinian teens come together for future of troubled region 07/26/2024 06:30am • GENEVA (AP) ��� They are teens from the U.S. and a torn Middle East: mostly Christians, Jews and Muslims, who have been taking part in a years-long program to become leaders and peace-builders. While a lot changed on Oct. 7, they persist in working for a better future for Israelis and Palestinians. Brazil apologizes for post-World War II persecution of Japanese immigrants 07/26/2024 04:45am • Sao Paulo (AP) ��� The Brazilian government on Thursday apologized for human rights violations in the persecution and incarceration of Japanese immigrants in the years after World War II. ���I want to apologize on behalf of the Brazilian state for the persecution your ancestors suffered, for all the Wounded in a strike that killed her family, a 2-year-old joins Gaza's ranks of thousands of orphans 07/26/2024 04:15am • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� The 2-year-old toddler lay on a foil blanket, her face covered with salve for her burns and her little body riddled with scars from shrapnel. She squirmed, her breath heaving, as doctors examined her and the tube in her chest. Siwar Abdel-Hadi is now an orphan. She Rebuilding Rome, the upstate New York city that is looking forward after a destructive tornado 07/26/2024 12:10am • ROME, N.Y. (AP) ��� A tornado that hit this small, upstate city tore off rooftops, leveled brick buildings and toppled the steeples of two historic churches. No one was killed, but the twister left a debris-strewn scar through downtown and nearby areas. More than 370 homes were damaged. Residents a