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Is Usha Vance's Hindu identity an asset or a liability to the Trump-Vance campaign? 09/02/2024 09:32am • Usha Chilukuri Vance loves her ���meat and potatoes��� husband, JD Vance. She explained to a rapt Republican National Convention audience how their vice-presidential candidate adapted to her vegetarian diet and even learned to cook Indian food from her immigrant mother. That image of her white, Chri US rights watchdog cites "a climate of fear" in Uganda oil development project 09/02/2024 07:19am • KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) ��� Oil activities on the shores of Uganda���s Lake Albert have triggered widespread suffering among locals facing forced displacement and other violent abuses, a U.S. climate watchdog said Monday. The report by Climate Rights International says banks and insurers should withhol There's no honeymoon for new UK leader Keir Starmer after a summer of unrest 09/02/2024 04:34am • LONDON (AP) ��� There was no summer honeymoon for Keir Starmer. Britain���s new prime minister, elected in a landslide less than two months ago, had to cancel a planned vacation after anti-immigrant unrest erupted across the country. He has spent his first weeks in office dealing with the aftermath, Federal workers around nation's capital worry over Trump's plans to send some of them elsewhere 09/02/2024 12:12am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Worries of being uprooted from their jobs have returned for Laura Dodson and other federal workers, who have long been the economic backbone of the nation's capital and its suburbs. During former President Donald Trump 's administration, her office under the U.S. Department of Ag Grichuk hits 3-run homer, Diamondbacks jump on Dodgers early in 14-3 win 09/01/2024 08:17pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� Randal Grichuk hit a three-run homer in Arizona���s eight-run second inning, Brandon Pfaadt struck out 10 and the Diamondbacks routed the Los Angeles Dodgers 14-3 on Sunday. The Dodgers won the series��� first two games by jumping on Arizona early. The Diamondbacks returned the favo 2024 race hits critical stretch as debate approaches and first ballots are set to go out 09/01/2024 12:00am • (CNN) — The 2024 presidential race is entering a critical stretch, with Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump set to debate and the first swing state ballots hitting mailboxes shortly after the Labor Day holiday��weekend.As the calendar turns to September, both campaig How Kamala Harris��� new policy plan could impact housing in Virginia 08/31/2024 10:17pm • Virginia Democratic lawmakers praised Vice President Kamala Harris��� housing policy plans in a virtual call Wednesday afternoon. The gathering came on the heels of a new campaign ad highlighting Harris��� plan to build three million new homes and rental units if elected president. The plan is pa Harris and Trump offer starkly different visions on climate change and energy 08/31/2024 11:42am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� As the Earth sizzled through a summer with four of the hottest days ever measured, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have starkly different visions on how to address a changing climate while ensuring a reliable energy supply. But neither has provided Orioles' Jackson Holliday returns to Coors Field, where he learned at the feet of his father 08/30/2024 11:48pm • DENVER (AP) ��� Baltimore Orioles rookie second baseman Jackson Holliday returned Friday to Coors Field, the ballpark where he learned some of his earliest baseball lessons as a toddler at the feet of his father, former Colorado Rockies star Matt Holliday. ���It���s very special,��� Holliday said Oregon law rolling back drug decriminalization set to take effect and make possession a crime again 08/30/2024 06:51pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� Oregon���s first-in-the-nation experiment with drug decriminalization is coming to an end Sunday, when possessing small amounts of hard drugs will once again become a crime. The Democratic-controlled Legislature passed the recriminalization law in March, overhauling a measure A measure to repeal a private school tuition funding law in Nebraska will make the November ballot 08/30/2024 06:00pm • Public school advocates have collected enough signatures to ask voters to repeal a new law that uses taxpayer money to fund private school tuition., according to Nebraska���s top election official. Organizers of Support Our Schools announced in July that they had gathered more than 86,000 signatures Judge allows smoking to continue in Atlantic City casinos, dealing blow to workers 08/30/2024 05:35pm • ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) ��� A judge on Friday allowed smoking to continue in Atlantic City���s casinos, giving some measure of relief to the city's struggling casino industry while rebuffing workers who have long sought to be able to breathe clean air on the casino floor. The ruling by Superior Cou Ex-election workers want Rudy Giuliani's apartment, Yankees rings in push to collect $148M judgment 08/30/2024 05:16pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against Rudy Giuliani asked a court Friday to award them the cash-strapped former New York City mayor���s apartment and other property as they ramp up efforts to collect on the staggering debt. Lawyers f Memphis City Council sues to reinstate gun control measures on November ballot 08/30/2024 04:11pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ��� The Memphis City Council on Friday sued the commission that oversees the Tennessee city's elections for removing three gun control questions from the November ballot after top Republican state leaders threatened to withhold tens of millions of dollars in state funding. Counc Former California employee to get $350K to settle sexual harassment claims against state treasurer 08/30/2024 03:52pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� The state of California has agreed to pay a former employee $350,000 to settle her claims that Democratic state Treasurer Fiona Ma sexually harassed her. The agreement filed Friday in Sacramento County Superior Court stems from a 2021 lawsuit filed by a former employee o