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Wisconsin election officials tell clerks best ways to operate absentee ballot drop boxes 07/11/2024 11:59am • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission on Thursday unanimously approved a set of best practices to ensure the security of unstaffed absentee ballot drop boxes that the state Supreme Court last week ruled could be installed for the fall elections. The use of drop boxes b New top US envoy to Taiwan pledges to help the island with self-defense as threats from China loom 07/10/2024 11:26pm • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The United States’ new top envoy to Taiwan promised Wednesday that Washington will help the self-ruled island defend itself as China ramps up its military threats. The weight of the message from Raymond Greene, who assumed his new role as director of the American Institute 10 ETFs to Build a Diversified Portfolio 07/10/2024 08:00pm • One of the key principles guiding portfolio managers today is that different asset classes have historically behaved in consistent ways depending on the economic cycle. For instance, stocks tend to do well during periods of economic expansion and low interest rates. On the other hand, during major r 7 Best Green Mutual Funds to Buy Now 07/10/2024 08:00pm • When investors are interested in sustainable investing, many gravitate toward boutique exchange-traded funds. After all, ETFs are more agile and cost-effective than mutual funds, and can offer up some interesting ways to invest -- including clean energy ETFs populated with leading companies fighting Australia heads to Paris with its highest-ever percentage of women on its Olympic team 07/09/2024 11:11pm • SYDNEY (AP) — The Australian Olympic team will head to the Paris Games with its highest-ever percentage of women — 55.6%. The Australian Olympic Committee on Wednesday said that when the Olympics were last held in Paris in 1924, no women were on the team. This time, there's 256 women on the 460 Sarcopenia: How to Stop Age-Related Muscle Loss 07/09/2024 08:00pm • Many people are familiar with osteopenia and osteoporosis, which are conditions characterized by moderate and severe bone density loss, respectively, that can occur as you age. However, sarcopenia, the age-related decline in muscle mass and function, is less commonly known. Sarcopenia has not been a 7 Healthy Smoothies: Recipes and Benefits 07/09/2024 08:00pm • Ingredients matterIt's easier than ever to grab a smoothie in the drive-thru, health club and even grocery store, like the viral $19.00 Hailey Bieber "skin glaze" smoothie at Erewhon in Los Angeles.But are smoothies really healthy? Is it good to have a smoothie every day?There is no need to curtail What Younger Men Should Know About Prostate Cancer 07/09/2024 08:00pm • Prostate cancer and younger menProstate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men, with 1 in 8 men receiving a diagnosis in their lifetime. While it's typically considered a disease of older men, studies indicate that prostate cancer (like colon cancer and other cancers) is on the rise among y Clean Keto vs. Dirty Keto: What's the Difference? 07/09/2024 08:00pm • In fitness and nutrition circles, the term "clean" has gained a specific meaning in recent years. No longer simply a statement about grime, "clean" now refers to all manner of food items and diets. The ketogenic diet, for instance, has descriptions of "clean" and "dirty." But what does it mean if yo Wisconsin elections officials to discuss absentee ballot drop box rules after ruling 07/09/2024 03:27pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin elections officials will meet this week to discuss how to implement a state Supreme Court ruling that once again allowed for unstaffed absentee ballot drop boxes to be used in the presidential battleground, the state elections administrator said Tuesday. The Wisconsi The Camino, a Catholic pilgrimage, increasingly draws the spiritual but not religious 07/09/2024 01:03pm • (RNS) — In her early 30s, Rachael Sanborn found herself in a bad relationship and dreaming of an escape to the Camino de Santiago in Spain, a pilgrimage her father had undertaken that had profoundly changed his life. Sanborn, a rebel and adventurer by nature (she dropped out of college to meditat Simone Biles has a shot at history at the Olympics while defending champion Russia stays home 07/09/2024 12:30pm • Simone Biles and the rest of the U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics team don’t need to be reminded of what happened in Tokyo three years ago. Mostly because nearly all of them lived it. Biles, reigning Olympic all-around champion Sunisa Lee, 2020 Olympic silver medalist Jordan Chiles and 2020 floor e As climate change alters lakes, tribes and conservationists fight for the future of spearfishing 07/09/2024 09:31am • HAYWARD, Wis. (AP) — Chilly nights on northern Wisconsin’s Chippewa Flowage don’t deter 15-year-old spearfisher Gabe Bisonette. He’s been learning the Ojibwe practice for so long now that when his headlamp illuminates the eye-shine of his quarry, he can communicate the sighting to his dad wi House keys carry symbolic weight for Gaza families repeatedly displaced by war 07/09/2024 05:01am • MUWASI, Gaza Strip (AP) — On his key chain, Hassan Nofal keeps the keys to two homes. One is to the house of his grandparents in what is now southern Israel, which his family was driven out of by Israeli forces in 1948 and to which they’ve never been able to return. The other is to Nofal’s hou AP PHOTOS: A 12-year-old in Mongolia finds joy in boxing and now dreams of the Olympics 07/09/2024 04:33am • ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — Twelve-year-old Gerelt-Od Kherlen could not contain his excitement after winning a bronze medal in the children’s national boxing championship in Mongolia. In September, his father heard about the opening of the Mongolian Boxing Academy close to their home in Dambada