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Battle brews among grammar nerds – is ‘Harris’ pick’ correct or should it be ‘Harris’s pick’?

August 17, 2024, 6:04am Nation & World

Whatever possessed Vice President Kamala Harris to pick Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, it probably wasn’t a desire to inflame arguments about apostrophes. But it doesn’t take much to get grammar nerds fired up. Read story

Sister Mary Margaret Kean reads a commentary on the Gospel after Wednesday morning prayer at the Mount St. Scholastica Benedictine monastery in Atchison, Kan., July 17, 2024.

Nuns vex big companies with investment activism: Small Kansas group proposes resolutions based on its stocks

Sister Mary Margaret Kean reads a commentary on the Gospel after Wednesday morning prayer at the Mount St. Scholastica Benedictine monastery in Atchison, Kan., July 17, 2024.

August 17, 2024, 6:04am Business

Among corporate America’s most persistent shareholder activists are 80 nuns in a monastery outside Kansas City. Read story

December 16, 2021 Atlanta - Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and First Lady Marty Kemp react as they sit inside Rivian R1T electric truck during a press conference at Liberty Plaza across from the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on Dec 16, 2021.

Red state Republicans say they’ll defend Biden-era green jobs

December 16, 2021 Atlanta - Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and First Lady Marty Kemp react as they sit inside Rivian R1T electric truck during a press conference at Liberty Plaza across from the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on Dec 16, 2021.

August 17, 2024, 6:04am Business

In Georgia, the heart of the U.S. green manufacturing boom, a new electric vehicle gigafactory is nearing completion. Spanning 3,000 acres, the plant is expected to create 8,500 new jobs. Hyundai Motor Co. has tapped incentives from President Joe Biden’s signature climate law, the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, which together… Read story

FILE - The shadow of presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, founder of the ruling party, Morena, is cast on a screen as he gives his first victory speech at his campaign headquarters at the Hilton hotel in Mexico City, late July 1, 2018.

A gunshot, a murdered rival and a kidnapped drug lord: Mexico’s ruling party faces growing scandal

FILE - The shadow of presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, founder of the ruling party, Morena, is cast on a screen as he gives his first victory speech at his campaign headquarters at the Hilton hotel in Mexico City, late July 1, 2018.

August 17, 2024, 6:02am Nation & World

It was strange and surprising when Mexico’s most-wanted drug lord landed at an airfield near El Paso, Texas in July, but the story of how he got there is now growing into a scandal that threatens top figures in Mexico’s ruling party. Read story

Jurors deciding if student’s parents liable in 2018 school shooting in Texas

August 16, 2024, 7:41pm Nation & World

An attorney for the parents of a Texas student accused of killing 10 people in a 2018 school shooting near Houston told trial jurors Friday that they didn’t know their son would have a psychotic breakdown. Lawyers for the victims say Dimitrios Pagourtzis gave his parents many signs that he… Read story

Vast data breach may be worse than previously thought

August 16, 2024, 6:44pm Nation & World

The company whose data breach potentially exposed every American’s Social Security number to identity thieves finally has acknowledged the data theft — and said hackers obtained even more sensitive information than previously reported. Read story

California Gov. Gavin Newsom prepares to sign bills to combat retail crime during a press conference with state and local officials at Home Depot in San Jose, Calif., on Friday.

New California laws target smash-and-grab robberies

California Gov. Gavin Newsom prepares to sign bills to combat retail crime during a press conference with state and local officials at Home Depot in San Jose, Calif., on Friday.

August 16, 2024, 6:42pm Nation & World

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a bipartisan package of 10 bills that aims to crack down on smash-and-grab robberies and property crimes, making it easier to go after repeat shoplifters and auto thieves and increase penalties for those running professional reselling schemes. Read story

Woman arrested in plot to auction off Graceland

August 16, 2024, 5:41pm Nation & World

A Missouri woman has been arrested on charges she orchestrated a brazen scheme to defraud Elvis Presley’s family by trying to auction off his Graceland mansion and property before a judge halted the mysterious foreclosure sale, the Justice Department said Friday. Read story

A Ukrainian army armored personnel carrier drives past a gas metering station of the Russian energy giant Gazprom in Sudzha, in Russia&rsquo;s Kursk region, on Friday.

Ukrainians left path of ruin on their march into Russia

A Ukrainian army armored personnel carrier drives past a gas metering station of the Russian energy giant Gazprom in Sudzha, in Russia&rsquo;s Kursk region, on Friday.

August 16, 2024, 4:43pm Nation & World

A trail of destruction lies in the path that Ukrainian forces carved on their risky incursion into Russia, blasting through the border and eventually into the town of Sudzha, where Associated Press journalists traveled Friday on a Ukrainian government-organized trip. Read story

Woodland Park Zoo will move its 11/2-month-old gorilla boy to another zoo so he can be raised by a surrogate gorilla mom and socialized with a multigenerational family of gorillas. The baby, who has not yet been named, was born June 28 at Woodland Park Zoo to first-time mom Akenji and dad Kwame.

Woodland Park Zoo baby gorilla to move to a new home, new family

Woodland Park Zoo will move its 11/2-month-old gorilla boy to another zoo so he can be raised by a surrogate gorilla mom and socialized with a multigenerational family of gorillas. The baby, who has not yet been named, was born June 28 at Woodland Park Zoo to first-time mom Akenji and dad Kwame.

August 16, 2024, 3:41pm Nation & World

Woodland Park Zoo will move its baby gorilla to a different facility with a new family after he had difficulties bonding with his mother, the zoo announced. Read story