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Jerry West, a 3-time Hall of Fame selection and the NBA logo, dies at 86

By TIM REYNOLDS
Jun 12, 2024 9:08 am - Jerry West, who was selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a storied career as a player and executive and whose silhouette is considered to be the basis of the NBA logo, died Wednesday morning, the Los Angeles Clippers announced.
Thefts of charging cables pose yet another obstacle to appeal of electric vehicles

By TOM KRISHER
Jun 12, 2024 8:02 am - DETROIT — Just before 2 a.m. on a chilly April night in Seattle, a Chevrolet Silverado pickup stopped at an electric vehicle charging station on the edge of a shopping ce...
U.S. inflation cooled in May in sign that price pressures may be easing

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
Jun 12, 2024 7:54 am - WASHINGTON — Inflation in the United States eased last month in a hopeful sign that a pickup in prices that occurred early this year may have passed. The trend, if it hol...
Blinken says some of Hamas’ proposed changes to a cease-fire plan in Gaza are workable and some not

By BASSEM MROUE and JACK JEFFERY
Jun 12, 2024 7:51 am - BEIRUT — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that the war in Gaza would go on after Hamas proposed “numerous” changes to a U.S.-backed cease-fire plan, ...
More than 1.5 million foreign pilgrims arrive in Mecca for annual Hajj pilgrimage

By SAMY MAGDY
Jun 12, 2024 7:35 am - MECCA, Saudi Arabia — Muslim pilgrims have been streaming into Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca ahead of the start of the Hajj later this week, as the annual pilgrimage ...
French President Macron urges moderate politicians to regroup to defeat the far right in elections

By SYLVIE CORBET and BARBARA SURK
Jun 12, 2024 7:06 am - PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron urged Wednesday moderate politicians from the left and the right to regroup to defeat the far right in the upcoming national legi...
Russia fires more missiles and drones at Ukraine ahead of diplomatic efforts to stop the war

By HANNA ARHIROVA
Jun 12, 2024 7:04 am - KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces fired missiles and drones at the Kyiv region and five other areas of Ukraine in a nighttime attack, officials said Wednesday, ahead of seve...
Supreme Court has a lot of work to do and little time to do it with a sizable case backlog

By MARK SHERMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Jun 12, 2024 7:03 am - The Supreme Court is headed into its final few weeks with nearly half of the cases heard this year still undecided, including ones that could reshape the law on everything from guns to abortion to social media.
Federal Reserve sees some progress on inflation but envisions just one rate cut this year

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
Jun 12, 2024 6:59 am - WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve officials said Wednesday that inflation has fallen further toward their target in recent months but signaled that they expect to cut their be...
U.N. says Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups may have committed war crimes in a deadly raid

By JAMEY KEATEN
Jun 11, 2024 12:12 pm - GENEVA — The U.N. human rights office is citing possible war crimes by Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups in connection with a deadly raid by Israeli forces that...

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