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UPS strike looms in a world grown reliant on everything delivered everywhere all the time 06/05/2023 10:22am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Living in New York City, working full time and without a car, Jessica Ray and her husband have come to rely on deliveries of food and just about everything else for their home. It has meant more free time on weekends with their young son, rather than standing in line for toilet p Italian whole-hog cooking inspires herbaceous pork chops 06/05/2023 08:51am • At weekly markets across central Italy, ancient town squares fill with the aromas of spit-roasted pork slathered in rosemary, fennel pollen and garlic. The enchanting smell is porchetta, a delicious homage to whole-hog cooking that’s as revered as barbecue in the American South. The laborious roas Hong Kong police arrest woman accused of killing 3 young daughters 06/05/2023 07:00am • HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police arrested a woman accused of killing her three young daughters on Monday in a case that has shocked many in the city, where violent crime is rare. The three girls, aged 2, 4 and 5, were unresponsive when officers arrived at their apartment after receiving a call f Round House Theatre stages August Wilson's final play 'Radio Golf' 06/05/2023 04:27am • The late August Wilson's "Century Cycle" famously featured 10 plays that tackled 10 different decades of African American life in 20th century Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The collective works include "Gem of the Ocean" (1900s), "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" (1910s), "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (1920 Kyle Busch holds off Denny Hamlin for NASCAR Cup Series win outside St. Louis 06/04/2023 10:15pm • MADISON, Ill. (AP) — Kyle Busch had been in and out of his car through a lengthy weather delay. He had idled on the track through two red flags. He had kept his poise through 11 cautions, including five down the stretch as he tried to protect his lead. Must have seemed like Sunday's NASCAR Cup Ser China tightens access to Tiananmen Square, 32 detained in Hong Kong on anniversary of 1989 protests 06/04/2023 08:42pm • BEIJING (AP) — China tightened access to Tiananmen Square in central Beijing on Sunday, the anniversary of the military suppression of 1989 pro-democracy protests that left a still unknown number of people dead and discussions and commemorations forbidden within the country. In Hong Kong, which w The best places to retire overseas where English is spoken 06/04/2023 08:00pm • When you decide to launch a new life overseas, one of the most important choices you have to make is whether to learn a new language. Moving to a new country can be daunting, especially if you don't speak the local language. But there are countries throughout the world where grappling with a lang 8 Best High-Yield REITs to Buy 06/04/2023 08:00pm • One of the main reasons why income-oriented investors prefer real estate investments trusts, or REITs, is the potential for higher-than-average, consistently paid dividends. For investors, the REIT structure offers a unique blend of real estate exposure, liquidity and present income, along with the Slow start to New York's legal pot market leaves farmers holding the bag 06/04/2023 04:02pm • ARGYLE, N.Y. (AP) — Seth Jacobs has about 100 bins packed with marijuana flower sitting in storage at his upstate New York farm. And that’s a problem. There aren’t enough places to sell it. The 700 pounds (318 kilograms) of pungent flower was harvested last year as part of New York's first cr Las Vegas ballpark pitch revives debate over public funding for sports stadiums 06/04/2023 02:15pm • CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Gov. Joe Lombardo wants to help build Major League Baseball’s smallest ballpark — arguing that the worst team in baseball can boost Las Vegas, a city striving to call itself a sports mecca. Nationwide debate about public funding for private sports clubs has been revive Kroenke bought Nuggets, kept team in Denver, now hoping to deliver an NBA title 06/04/2023 11:46am • DENVER (AP) — Some might say Stan Kroenke and his family would be pulling off the impossible by bringing a long-awaited NBA title to Denver. Less discussed — at least these days — was their willingness, in 1999, to dive into a messy acquisition process for a largely irrelevant franchise that h Florida police arrest man, search for 2 others in Memorial Day beach shooting 06/03/2023 06:01pm • HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida arrested one man Saturday and announced arrest warrants for two others believed to be the gunmen who opened fire along a crowded beachside promenade on Memorial Day, wounding nine people. The Hollywood Police Department said authorities arrested Jordan Bur Corey LaJoie gets long-awaited Hendrick Motorsports shot in NASCAR Cup Series 06/03/2023 12:53pm • MADISON, Ill. (AP) — Corey LaJoie is finally getting a chance to drive for Hendrick Motorsports this week. He wanted so badly to drive for the team a few years ago, that when it became common knowledge Jimmie Johnson was retiring as a full-time NASCAR Cup Series driver, LaJoie used his best cursiv Inside Russia's penal colonies: A look at life for political prisoners caught in Putin's crackdowns 06/03/2023 09:12am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When Alexei Navalny turns 47 on Sunday, he'll wake up in a bare concrete cell with hardly any natural light. He won't be able to see or talk to any of his loved ones. Phone calls and visits are banned for those in “punishment isolation” cells, a 2-by-3-meter (6 1/2-by-1 Amid shrinking freedoms, Hong Kongers commemorate Tiananmen anniversary privately 06/02/2023 11:58pm • HONG KONG (AP) — As the 34th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown approaches Sunday, many in Hong Kong are trying to mark the day in private ways in the shadow of a law that prosecuted leading activists in the city’s pro-democracy movement. For decades, Hong Kong was the only pla