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Carli Lloyd turns diplomat and takes a US message to kids in Greece 04/24/2024 10:41am • One of America's greatest soccer players is spending the week in Greece working with kids and reminding everyone that the most important moments in sports don't always end with a group of Champagne-soaked winners holding up a trophy. Retired Olympian and World Cup star Carli Lloyd is joining onetime China blasts US military aid to Taiwan, saying the island is entering a 'dangerous situation' 04/24/2024 05:17am • BEIJING (AP) — China on Wednesday blasted the latest package of U.S. military assistance to Taiwan on Wednesday, saying that such funding was pushing the self-governing island republic into a “dangerous situation.” The U.S. Senate late Tuesday passed $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine, Israel a Blinken begins key China visit as tensions rise over new US foreign aid bill 04/24/2024 05:05am • SHANGHAI (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has begun a critical trip to China armed with a strengthened diplomatic hand following Senate approval of a foreign aid package that will provide billions of dollars in assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan as well as force TikTok’s China Brian Tobin, former president of the International Tennis Federation, dies at age 93 04/23/2024 11:10pm • LONDON (AP) — Brian Tobin, the former president of the International Tennis Federation, has died, the sport's governing body said. The ITF said Tobin died on Monday at the age of 93. Former Tennis Australia president Geoff Pollard also confirmed Tobin's death in a message to the Oceania Tennis Fe Mint Is Shutting Down: Here Are the 5 Best Free Budgeting Apps to Use Instead 04/23/2024 08:00pm • Mint aficionados need not despair because Intuit shuttered the popular free money management app on March 23, 2024. Although users are being routed to the company's other tool, Credit Karma, there are many other personal finance apps that have functions similar to Mint. This may be the perfect time Montana minor league baseball team in dispute with National Park Service over arrowhead logo 04/23/2024 07:18pm • HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A minor league baseball team in Montana is calling out the U.S. Department of Interior for “unwarranted and relentless” trademark claims in a battle over the use of an arrowhead logo. The Glacier Range Riders in Kalispell, Montana — members of a Major League Baseball par Metro unveils plan to dampen impact of summer Red Line work that will shut down 5 stations 04/23/2024 06:20pm • Metro says free shuttle buses traveling in special bus-only lanes through parts of Montgomery County, Maryland, will help riders affected by the shutdown of five Red Line stations this summer. The Glenmont, Wheaton, Forest Glen and Silver Spring stations will be closed from June 1 through Aug. 31 GoFundMe expands into Mexico as part of for-profit crowdfunding platform's international growth 04/23/2024 05:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Mexican fundraisers can now solicit donations on GoFundMe, the company announced Tuesday, as the crowdfunding giant expands into what it hopes is the first of more untapped Latin American markets to follow. Mexico marks the 20th country serviced by GoFundMe. The for-profit platform Energy Strategy Series 2024: DOE leads effort to modernize power grid, make it resilient and adaptable 04/23/2024 05:15pm • The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act put the Energy Department in both an enviable and challenging position at the same time. Congress appropriated nearly $100 billion to invest in clean energy, grid reliability upgrades, renewable energy technology manufacturing facilit Artisan Partners: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 04/23/2024 05:08pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) — MILWAUKEE (AP) — Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc. (APAM) on Tuesday reported first-quarter net income of $59.5 million. The Milwaukee-based company said it had profit of 84 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time items, were 76 cents per share. The investment mana Millions more salaried workers will be eligible for overtime pay under final Biden administration rule 04/23/2024 03:19pm • (CNN) — Millions of salaried workers will soon qualify for overtime pay under a final rule released by the US Department of Labor on Tuesday.The new rule raises the salary threshold under which salaried employees are eligible for overtime in two stages. The threshold will increase to the equiv Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian makes belated Metropolitan Opera debut as Madame Butterfly 04/23/2024 01:24pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Asmik Grigorian laughs when she recalls that she had been singing professionally for more than a decade when the International Opera Awards proclaimed her the “best young female singer” of 2016. “So for 12 years I was nothing, and then I immediately became the best!” the Li A Russian strike on Kharkiv's TV tower is part of an intimidation campaign, Ukraine's Zelenskyy says 04/23/2024 11:52am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a Russian missile strike that smashed a prominent skyline television tower in Kharkiv was part of the Kremlin’s effort to intimidate Ukraine’s second-largest city, which in recent weeks has come under increasingly frequent attac America’s child care crisis is holding back moms without college degrees 04/23/2024 11:02am • AUBURN, Wash. (AP) — After a series of lower-paying jobs, Nicole Slemp finally landed one she loved. She was a secretary for Washington’s child services department, a job that came with her own cubicle, and she had a knack for working with families in difficult situations. Slemp expected to retu Elections board asks federal judge to dismiss lawsuit challenging Md.’s elections system 04/23/2024 10:37am • Attorneys representing the Maryland State Board of Elections are asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges voter roll irregularities and other election law violations in the state. Two groups — Maryland Election Integrity LLC and Missouri-based United Sovereign Americans — file