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Dikembe Mutombo, a Hall of Fame player and tireless advocate, dies at 58 from brain cancer

By TIM REYNOLDS
Sep 30, 2024 10:27 am - Dikembe Mutombo, a Basketball Hall of Famer who was one of the best defensive players in NBA history and a longtime global ambassador for the game, died Monday after a battle with brain cancer, the league announced. He was 58.
Satellite service DirecTV buys rival Dish as it fights the onslaught of streaming services

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS
Sep 30, 2024 9:51 am - DirecTV is buying Dish and Sling, a deal it has sought to complete for years, as the company seeks to better compete against streaming services that have become domin...
FBI to pay $22M to settle claims of sexual discrimination at training academy

By JIM MUSTIAN
Sep 30, 2024 9:38 am - WASHINGTON — The FBI has agreed to pay more than $22 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging female recruits were singled out for dismissal in training and rout...
What to watch as JD Vance and Tim Walz meet for a vice presidential debate

By BILL BARROW
Sep 30, 2024 7:13 am - Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz will meet Tuesday in the lone vice presidential debate of the 2024 election, bringing together undercards who have spent two months going after each other and the opposing nominees who top the major-party tickets.
Israel launches small raids against Hezbollah across the Lebanese border, official says

By ABBY SEWELL and NATALIE MELZER
Sep 30, 2024 7:10 am - BEIRUT — Israel launched small ground raids against Hezbollah as it prepares for a larger ground operation in Lebanon, officials said Monday. A U.S. official said Israel ...
Supplies arrive by plane and mule to North Carolina as Helene death toll tops 100

By KATE PAYNE, JEFFREY COLLINS and PATRICK WHITTLE
Sep 30, 2024 7:07 am - A crisis unfolded in western North Carolina as officials rushed to get more water, food and other supplies to flood-stricken areas without power and cellular service Monday, three days after Hurricane Helene ripped across the U.S. Southeast. The death toll from the storm approached 100.
Kris Kristofferson, singer-songwriter and actor, dies at 88

Sep 29, 2024 5:43 pm - Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country music superstar and A-list Hollywood actor, has died.
‘Short corn’ could replace the towering cornfields steamrolled by a changing climate

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE
Sep 29, 2024 6:00 am - Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone, snaking between 12-foot-tall green, leafy walls that seem to block out nearly everything other than the sun and an occasional water tower.
Grocery chains are bigger than ever. Here’s a look at the market.

By Kevin Schaul, Jaclyn Peiser
Sep 29, 2024 6:00 am - Tom Thumb in Plano, Texas. Star Market in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Pavilions in Newport Beach, California. Jewel-Osco in Arlington Heights. What do these regional groce...
Medicare Advantage shopping season arrives with a dose of confusion and some political implications

Sep 28, 2024 10:36 pm - Thinner benefits and coverage changes await many older Americans shopping for health insurance this fall. That's if their plan is still available in 2025. More than a million people will likely have to find new coverage as major insurers cut costs and pull back from markets for Medicare Advantage plans, the privately run version of the federal government's coverage program mostly for people ages 65 and older.

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