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Colorado clerk who became hero to election conspiracists wanted to preserve data, lawyer says 08/01/2024 09:37pm • DENVER (AP) ��� Former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters, a hero to election conspiracy theorists who is accused of orchestrating a breach of election security equipment, was trying to prevent voting information from being erased, her lawyer said at the start of her trial Wednesday. Under the laws i Election 2024 Latest: Trump on defense after race comments and Vance's rough launch 08/01/2024 09:29pm • Donald Trump falsely suggested Vice President Kamala Harris had misled voters about her race as he appeared before the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago. The Republican former president wrongly claimed Wednesday at the group's annual convention that Harris, the first Black woman Hong Kong young people struggle to rebuild their lives after being jailed under Beijing's crackdown 08/01/2024 08:56pm • HONG KONG (AP) ��� After spending five months in jail for publishing seditious Instagram posts, Joker Chan returned to a harsh reality. Chan, 30, was sentenced in 2022 for posts containing slogans like ���Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times,��� which were popularly chanted during massive ant Police fire gunshots and tear gas to quell mass protests over Nigeria's economy. At least 2 killed 08/01/2024 08:39pm • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) ��� Security forces fired gunshots and tear gas to quell mass protests across Nigeria on Thursday as thousands, mostly young people, poured onto the streets to rally against the country's worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation. At least two people were reported killed. The d Best Credit Cards for Book Lovers 08/01/2024 08:00pm • To all my fellow bookworms out there, Aug. 9 is Book Lovers Day. So obviously we need to add to our TBR piles this day with a new haul. And what better way than to earn rewards while doing it? It's good for the economy. Since so many of us drop upward of $100 each time we go book shopping (please do Financial Planning for LGBTQ+ Families 08/01/2024 08:00pm • Being part of the LGBTQ+ community comes with social, political and financial challenges. From finding affordable housing to paying for health care, queer individuals and families often struggle more than their cisgender, straight counterparts. When you factor in the costs of having children and oth Israel says it has confirmed that chief of Hamas' military wing was killed in a July strike in Gaza 08/01/2024 04:21pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� The Israeli military said Thursday that it has confirmed that the head of Hamas��� military wing, Mohammed Deif, was killed in an airstrike in Gaza in July. The announcement came a day after an apparent Israeli strike in the Iranian capital killed Hamas��� top political leader. Th What to know about the escalating conflict and Israel-Hamas cease-fire talks after 2 assassinations 08/01/2024 06:50am • A pair of assassinations of anti-Israel militant leaders hours apart is threatening to set off a regional clash and upend already fragile talks aimed at ending the war in Gaza. The deadly round of strikes, retaliation and negotiations escalated Wednesday when Hamas' political chief, Ismail Haniyeh Venezuela's Maduro asks top court to audit the presidential election, but observers cry foul 08/01/2024 12:08am • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ��� President Nicol��s Maduro on Wednesday asked Venezuela���s high court to conduct an audit of the presidential election after opposition leaders disputed his claim of victory, drawing criticism from foreign observers who said the court is too close to the government to pro Israel-Hamas war latest: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran, Iran says 07/31/2024 11:50pm • Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran, Iran���s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said early Wednesday. No one immediately claimed responsibility but suspicion quickly fell on Israel, which has vowed to kill Haniyeh and other Hamas leaders over the group���s Oct. 7 attack on Israel t Captain in 2019 scuba boat fire ordered to pay about $32K to families of 3 of 34 people killed 07/31/2024 09:30pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� A scuba dive boat captain was ordered Wednesday to pay about $32,000 in restitution to the families of three of the 34 people killed in a fire aboard the vessel in 2019. Jerry Boylan���s criminal negligence as captain of the Conception led to the deadliest maritime disaster in r Venezuelan migrants in Mexico worry for their loved ones as political unrest roils their homeland 07/31/2024 08:58pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Yenny Morales, 33, left her native Venezuela because she felt she had no other option. Her 9-year-old son has a mental health disability, and in a country where 80% of people live in poverty, she couldn't afford a specialist. ���I had to flee, because my son couldn't see a neuro People Power Has Felled Dictators Before. It Could Happen Again in Venezuela. 07/31/2024 08:00pm • If your attention is on the U.S. presidential campaign or the Paris Olympics, you're probably missing one of the most significant political dramas in the world right now. After years of oppressive authoritarianism and in the face of overwhelming obstacles, the Venezuelan people turned out in histori The 10 Biggest Regrets of Retirees 07/31/2024 08:00pm • Retirement is the ultimate goal for many workers: the day when you can clock out, head home and never look back again. However, the experience of retirement can differ from the expectation, and many retirees wish they had done things differently either before or after they left the workforce. Here a Frederick Richard thinks the U.S. men's gymnastics team's success at the Olympics is just the start 07/31/2024 04:31pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Frederick Richard understands it will take a lot for Americans to get involved in men's gymnastics. It's an uphill climb. A steep one at that. The 20-year-old who has made it his life's mission to have people care about his chosen sport knows this only too well. Yet there was a shift