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As actors restart talks and writers return to work, here are key players in the Hollywood strikes 10/04/2023 12:05am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Hollywood actors have restarted talks with studios, opening up the possibility that their part in the industry's double strike could end with the same kind of deal the writers reached to end their pickets last week. Actors and their employers have been divided on issues of pay, Lahaina residents deliver petition asking Hawaii governor to delay tourism reopening 10/03/2023 10:49pm • HONOLULU (AP) ��� Residents from fire-stricken Lahaina on Tuesday delivered a petition asking Hawaii Gov. Josh Green to delay plans to reopen a portion of West Maui to tourism starting this weekend, saying the grieving community is not ready to welcome back visitors. The petition signed by 3,517 pe Court reviews gun-carry restrictions under health order in New Mexico, as states explore options 10/03/2023 09:29pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ��� An effort to suspend gun-carry rights in public parks, playgrounds and other recreational areas where children are often present went under the legal microscope Tuesday in a federal court in New Mexico, where the Democratic governor is testing the boundaries of her authori Artificial Intelligence Stocks: The 10 Best AI Companies 10/03/2023 08:00pm • Virtually every industry is being disrupted by artificial intelligence, automation and robotics in some way. The world got a firsthand look at remarkable advances in AI technology recently, including OpenAI's ChatGPT AI chatbot, Google's Bard AI chatbot and Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant. Whether What Is a Noncompete Contract? 10/03/2023 08:00pm • Within the U.S. workforce, researchers estimate that nearly 30 million workers are bound by noncompete contracts that prevent employees from holding jobs where they would compete against their former employers. Approximately 38% of Americans will have a "noncompete" (as they're referred to in legal Oklahoma's Republican governor wants to cut taxes. His GOP colleagues aren't sold on the idea. 10/03/2023 05:06pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ��� Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt renewed his pitch on Thursday for lawmakers to reduce the state's individual income tax rate, but not all of his Republican colleagues in the Legislature are sold on the idea. On the first day of a special session to consider Stitt's call for a tax cu Angels GM Perry Minasian says dismissed manager Phil Nevin not to blame for Halos' latest flop 10/03/2023 05:01pm • ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) ��� Manager Phil Nevin wasn't the reason for the Los Angeles Angels' massively disappointing season, general manager Perry Minasian says. Nevin was simply the face of their latest failure, and that was enough to compel the Angels to part ways with their fourth manager in six yea Azerbaijan arrests several former top separatist leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh 10/03/2023 04:37pm • Authorities in Azerbaijan arrested several former separatist leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday after reclaiming control of the Armenian-populated breakaway region in a lightning military operation last month, a top Azerbaijani news agency said. Arayik Harutyunyan, who led the region before step Editorial Roundup: United States 10/03/2023 03:18pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Oct. 2 The Washington Post on Donald Trump and the 14th Amendment If a constitutional provision disqualifying Donald Trump from the presidency sounds too good to be true, that���s because it probably is. A forthcoming law review articl South African cabinet minister and 3 other lawmakers cleared of corruption in parliamentary probe 10/03/2023 02:31pm • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) ��� A South African cabinet minister and three other lawmakers from the ruling African National Congress party were cleared of corruption Tuesday by a parliamentary ethics committee. Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi and lawmakers Cedric Frolick, Mosebenzi Zwan What does it take to be in the 1% in DC? 10/03/2023 12:55pm • What���s it take to be a 1-percenter in D.C.? It���s more than $1 million. When compared to states, the District now tops Connecticut for the household income required to join the 1% club. Using Bureau of Labor Statistics, financial website Smart Asset ranked states on the minimum household in Hunter Biden pleads not guilty to three federal gun charges filed after his plea deal collapsed 10/03/2023 11:42am • WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) ��� Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to three federal firearms charges filed after his earlier deal imploded, setting the case on a track toward a possible trial in 2024 while his father is campaigning for reelection. President Joe Biden���s son has been charged with Loudoun County leads Virginia for tourism spending (but it gets to count the airport) 10/03/2023 11:28am • Loudoun County, Virginia, accounted for 13.2% of tourism spending in the Commonwealth in 2022, the most of any Virginia county, largely from Dulles International Airport. Tourism spending includes the transportation category, so Loudoun County's tourism spending includes landing fees and other fe Millennial Money: 4 ways married couples can use tax breaks to build wealth 10/03/2023 10:09am • ���Two is better than one��� is an old adage that translates to finances, too. Two incomes can go much further than one, especially between married couples. People who say ���I do��� also have access to various tax breaks that can give them a financial edge when it comes to building wealth. For inst India police search journalists' homes and offices in the country's latest raids on media 10/03/2023 06:58am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� Indian police raided the offices of a news website that's under investigation for allegedly receiving funds from China, as well as the homes of several of its journalists, in what critics described as an attack on one of India's few remaining independent news outlets. The raids ca