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California governor chooses labor leader and Democratic insider to fill Feinstein's Senate seat 10/02/2023 10:01pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� When California Gov. Gavin Newsom needed to fill the U.S. Senate seat of his late mentor Dianne Feinstein, he could have turned to a big-city mayor, a member of Congress or a powerful legislator. Instead, he chose Laphonza Butler, a former union leader and Democratic insider who Alok is among the most famous DJs in the world, and he wants to make it a better place 10/02/2023 09:05pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Alok is one of the biggest DJs on the planet, but at just 32 years old, he���s learned that fortune and fame don���t equal happiness. ���I was 24. I was the No. 1 DJ in Brazil. I had financial success, popularity. And I was feeling a huge emptiness because I said if this is the mea Business Highlights: Sam Bankman-Fried's trial set to begin, Fed chief hears about inflation woes 10/02/2023 05:48pm • ___ Sam Bankman-Fried must now convince a jury that the former crypto king was not a crook NEW YORK (AP) ��� For a while, Sam Bankman-Fried tried to convince politicians and the public that he was the next J.P. Morgan. Now, he has to convince a jury that he wasn���t, in reality, the next Bernie Mado House Republican duo calls for fraud probe into federal anti-poverty program 10/02/2023 05:25pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� The federal government should investigate potential fraud in one of its largest anti-poverty programs, two Republican members of Congress say. In a Sept. 20 letter to Comptroller General Gene Dodoro that was made public Monday by Mississippi's state auditor, U.S. Reps. Jason Vuitton transforms Paris with a playful spectacle of color, stars and history 10/02/2023 05:13pm • PARIS (AP) ��� It was more than just another fashion show in the City of Light. Louis Vuitton���s latest extravaganza on Paris��� most famous avenue, the Champs-Elys��es, transformed an iconic 19th-century art nouveau space into an evolving artwork. As guests entered, they encountered an ephemeral i Microsoft CEO says unfair practices by Google led to its dominance as a search engine 10/02/2023 05:01pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday that unfair tactics used by Google led to its dominance as a search engine, tactics that in turn have thwarted his company's rival program, Bing. Nadella testified in a packed Washington, D.C., courtroom as part of the government's landmark 'Team sport': A blind, deaf veteran and his guide set to conquer Marine Corps Marathon 10/02/2023 04:57pm • The marathon is often thought of as a solo endeavor, but that's not the case for two men who will run the 26.2 miles of the 48th Marine Corps Marathon in the D.C. area later in October. Aaron Hale, a Navy veteran who is blind and deaf, is running the race on Oct. 29 with his running guide Frank F Fed's Powell gets an earful about inflation and interest rates from small businesses 10/02/2023 04:21pm • YORK, Pa. (AP) ��� Federal Reserve officials typically gather many of their insights and observations about the economy from some of the top Ph.D. economists in Washington. On a visit Monday to York, Pennsylvania, Chair Jerome Powell got an earful from a group with a decidedly different perspective: California governor names Laphonza Butler, former Kamala Harris adviser, to Feinstein Senate seat 10/02/2023 01:38pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� California Gov. Gavin Newsom has selected Laphonza Butler, a Democratic strategist and adviser to Kamala Harris��� 2020 presidential campaign, to fill the U.S. Senate seat made vacant by the death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein. In choosing Butler on Sunday, Newsom fulfilled his pledg Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 10/02/2023 01:27pm • Here���s a look at how AP���s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP���s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov My Story: Asha Sedalia Bruot on the good that comes with being different 10/02/2023 01:22pm • Editor���s note: This column marks the end of the Business Journal���s ���My Story��� series, where business executives share personal and professional backgrounds and journeys that have made them who they are, in their own candid words, from the challenges of confronting stereotypes to the glory in Sam Bankman-Fried must now convince a jury that the former crypto king was not a crook 10/02/2023 12:09pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� For a while, Sam Bankman-Fried tried to convince politicians and the public that he was the next J.P. Morgan. Now, he has to convince a jury that he wasn't, in reality, the next Bernie Madoff. The trial of Bankman-Fried, the founder of the failed cryptocurrency brokerage FTX, will Parents in Pakistan could face prison time for not vaccinating their kids against polio 10/02/2023 11:47am • KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) ��� Authorities in one Pakistan province are turning to a controversial new tactic in the decades-long initiative to wipe out polio: prison. Last month, the government in Sindh introduced a bill that would imprison parents for up to one month if they fail to get their childre Book Review: Jo Nesb�� offers a fresh twist on a coming-of-age horror novel in ���The Night House' 10/02/2023 11:12am • Jo Nesb��, the Norwegian author best known for his 13-book crime series starring Harry Hole (���The Snowman��� was made into a 2017 movie with Michael Fassbender), is out with something completely different. ���The Night House��� begins like something from the mind of H.P. Lovecraft, as a young, bul Pakistan launches anti-polio vaccine drive targeting 44M children amid tight security 10/02/2023 06:30am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� Pakistan launched its second nationwide anti-polio campaign of the year Monday in an effort to inoculate 44 million children under the age of 5 amid signs the country was close to eradicating the disease. Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul-Haq-Kakar launched the five-day vaccinati