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City council approves a new Tampa Bay Rays ballpark ��� and the existing site's transformation 07/18/2024 03:54pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) ��� The Tampa Bay Rays are on track to get a long-sought new ballpark following a city council vote Thursday on a major redevelopment project that also guarantees the team will stay where it is for at least 30 years. The ballpark is part of a broader $6.5 billion project th A Kenyan court suspends a police ban on protests in Nairobi 07/18/2024 01:28pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� A Kenyan court on Thursday suspended a police ban on protests in the capital, stating that citizens have a right to demonstrate peacefully. Before the high court's decision, police had barred protests in Nairobi indefinitely, saying they lacked leadership that would ensure pe China Communist Party policy meeting endorses leader Xi's high-tech vision for economy 07/18/2024 11:19am • BEIJING (AP) ��� China���s ruling Communist Party wrapped up a top-level meeting on Thursday by endorsing policies aimed at advancing the country���s technological power and fortifying its national security. A statement released when the four-day meeting ended provided only a broad-brush summary. M Today in Sports - The Summer Olympics open in Moscow without the U.S. and 64 boycotting countries 07/18/2024 10:10am • July 19 1877 ��� Spencer Gore beats William Marshall in 48 minutes (6-1, 6-2, 6-4) in the first men���s singles tennis championship at the All England Club, Wimbledon. 1909 ��� Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball pulls off the first unassisted triple play in modern major league history. 1910 ��� Cy Young Today in Sports - Week Ahead, July 12 - July 18 07/18/2024 10:05am • July 19 1877 ��� Spencer Gore beats William Marshall in 48 minutes (6-1, 6-2, 6-4) in the first men���s singles tennis championship at the All England Club, Wimbledon. 1909 ��� Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball pulls off the first unassisted triple play in modern major league history. 1910 ��� Cy Young Ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro, just released from prison, gets roaring applause at RNC 07/17/2024 08:24pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) ��� Former Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro took the stage at the Republican National Convention to enthusiastic cheers hours after being released from prison and pushed talk of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol to the center of an event that has largely avoided mentioning What Are Your Rights as a Co-Signer? 07/17/2024 08:00pm • If someone you're close to needs to borrow money to buy a home or start a business, you might want to help out by co-signing. Co-signing a loan can help the person you care about get ahead financially, but it's a significant commitment that you should enter into with your eyes wide open. You need to A Look at Gas Prices Around the World 07/17/2024 08:00pm • When filling up your tank with gas and watching the numbers tick up, you may think you have it worse than everybody else. Not so, according to data collected by Global Petrol Prices, an industry-wide fuel price tracker. Out of 170 countries analyzed, America has the 40th least expensive gasoline, pl Outside RNC, conservative group defends its Project 2025 guidebook as Democrats ramp up critiques 07/17/2024 06:20pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) ��� At the edge of the cordoned-off perimeter around the Republican National Convention on Monday, hundreds of conservatives filed into the ornate home of the Milwaukee Symphony to hear a parade of luminaries talk policy and Project 2025. Project 2025 is the term for the Heritage Foun Fights over DC budget delay launch of new sports betting apps 07/17/2024 06:00pm • A fight over D.C.'s budget continues after Mayor Muriel Bowser did not sign the city's annual spending plan into law. The move is now delaying two new sports betting apps from being launched. Bowser returned the $21 billion budget that was passed by the council Tuesday, stopping shy of a straight UK's new government announces legislation for 'national renewal' as Parliament opens with royal pomp 07/17/2024 02:12pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Britain���s new Labour Party government promised to calm the country���s febrile politics and ease its cost-of-living crisis as it set out its plans for ���national renewal��� at the grand State Opening of Parliament on Wednesday. Stabilizing the U.K.���s public finances and spurring Ample signatures collected for referendum to repeal private school funding law, organizers say 07/17/2024 02:07pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ��� Public school advocates say they have enough signatures to ask Nebraska voters in November to repeal a law that provides taxpayer money for private school tuition, marking the latest twist in a long-running fight with state lawmakers who have repeatedly opposed efforts to let vo Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis' wrapped at this Georgia hotel. Soon, it'll be open for business 07/17/2024 11:40am • PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. (AP) ��� Two years ago, Francis Ford Coppola stopped at Georgia Film Academy on the hunt for apprentices for his upcoming film, " Megalopolis." Jordan Holifield, then a 23-year-old student, did a double-take when he saw one of the application questions ��� did he know how to disa Can a lottery winner run an effective foundation? Meet Roy Cockrum 07/17/2024 09:05am • In the early 1980s, soon after graduating from college, Roy Cockrum was trying to make it as an actor in New York. He was hanging on by his fingernails, getting paid $40 a show for two supporting roles in the off-Broadway comedy ���Vampire Lesbians of Sodom.��� To cover his rent, Cockrum would pick 2024 Election Latest: RNC enters second day with focus shifting to immigration 07/16/2024 10:48pm • The Republican National Convention's second day is in full swing ��� now with Donald Trump officially as its presidential nominee and U.S. Sen. JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate. Trump energized the crowd Monday night by entering the arena with a bandage on his right ear after being injured durin