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Performance Picks for July 21-27: finding the silver linings in angst, from UMO’s “Resistance Cabaret” to “Cthulhu: The Musical” to the funeral-home musical “Fun Home.”

NEW YORK (AP) — Television networks will interrupt this presidency on Thursday to revisit an old obsession. ABC, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, HLN and ESPN will show O.J. Simpson’s parole hearing at a Nevada prison, as he seeks freedom after spending more than eight years locked up for armed robbery and assault. CBS […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday: Morgan Stanley, up $1.48 to $46.62 The investment bank had a solid second quarter and its trading desks did better than its competitors. McCormick & Co., down 56 cents to $164.85 Most Read StoriesWhat drivers can and cannot do under Washington state's new […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Credit card company American Express said its second-quarter profit fell 33 percent, largely due to the fact that it had a significant one-time gain last year tied to the winding down of its business relationship with Costco. The New York-based company earned $1.31 billion in three-month period ending June 30, or […]

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — As the clock ticked down on the Spurs’ season and Manu Ginobili was pulled from the game, a thunderous roar from the home crowd guided him to the bench. Ginobili wore an appreciative but quizzical look on his face as he put a warmup shirt back on and prepared to head […]

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts lawmakers have signed off on a compromise bill that makes changes in the voter-approved recreational marijuana law. The House voted 136-11 on Wednesday to accept the recommendations of a six-member conference committee that worked to resolve differences between the two chambers on issues including taxes and local control over pot shops. […]

A “Bridesmaids”-meets-“The Hangover” comedy, “Girls Trip” is a raunchy, good-hearted celebration of friendship.

The Bellevue telecom added 1.3 million customers during its second quarter, continuing its rapid growth as more consumers switch to its “Uncarrier” model.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX’s chief says the first launch of its big new rocket is risky and stands “a real good chance” of failure. Founder Elon Musk told a space station research conference Wednesday he wants to set realistic expectations for the flight later this year from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Falcon Heavy […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Police and protesters heralded the arrival of the body camera as a critical window into officers’ everyday activities after the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. But as the killing of an Australian woman by a Minneapolis officer over the weekend showed, the technology depends on officers turning on their devices. And often they […]

CLINTON, Tenn. (AP) — Jake Butcher, who helped bring the World’s Fair to Knoxville before his family’s East Tennessee banking network collapsed amid a federal investigation, died Wednesday. He was 81. Holley-Gamble Funeral Home Director Perry Dupree confirmed that Butcher died Wednesday morning. Butcher and his brother, C.H. Butcher Jr., built their father’s banking business […]

CLINTON, Tenn. (AP) — Jake Butcher, who helped bring the Word’s Fair to Knoxville before his family’s East Tennessee banking network collapsed amid a federal investigation, has died. He was 81. Holley-Gamble Funeral Home Director Perry Dupree confirmed that Butcher died Wednesday morning. Media report Butcher and his brother, C.H. Butcher Jr., built their father’s […]

CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois sheriff plans to provide an update on a yearslong effort to identify victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy. The Cook County Sheriff’s Department announced in a news release that Sheriff Tom Dart on Wednesday will discuss the investigation that he launched in 2011. His office exhumed the skeletal remains […]

ELMWOOD, Neb. (AP) — A plastic surgeon has determined that a mysterious head wound on a bald eagle found in southeast Nebraska was an electrical burn. Fishermen spotted the ailing, underweight bird on the ground south of Syracuse in late May. There were no feathers on its head — just a scab. The anglers reported […]

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An opera about the life of Apple founder Steve Jobs is having its world premiere at the Santa Fe Opera on Saturday night. The music for “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs” is by composer Mason Bates, combining traditional orchestration with synthesizer and other electronic effects. Mark Campbell’s libretto moves back […]

SAMSON, Ala. (AP) — Wild hogs aren’t unusual in rural south Alabama, but Wade Seago says he’d never seen anything like the 820-pound animal he shot and killed in his front yard. Seago tells al.com that he and his daughter spotted the massive hog in their yard in Samson after the family’s pet Schnauzer started […]

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — International Criminal Court appeals judges have ordered a new review into whether former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo should be released from detention while his long-running trial continues on crimes against humanity charges. Presiding Judge Piotr Hofmanski on Wednesday upheld an appeal by the 72-year-old former president against the refusal […]

LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — The Kwik Trip convenience store chain is acquiring a competing company also based in Wisconsin. Kwik Trip, of La Crosse, has signed an agreement to acquire PDQ, a Middleton company that operates 34 convenience stores in southeastern Wisconsin. No details about the cost of the acquisition have been released. Kwik […]

Follow our live coverage, analysis and commentary above as the Mariners (47-48) face the Astros (63-31) in the rubber game of the three-game series at Minute Made Park in Houston.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration says in a new report that Iran continues to be the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. The report also notes a drop in the number of terrorist attacks between 2015 and 2016. In its annual “Country Reports on Terrorism” released Wednesday, the State Department accused Iran of being […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press has named Wendy Benjaminson, a senior leader in its Washington bureau, to a role directing coverage of the cooperative’s national reporting teams. Benjaminson’s appointment to the position of national news editor for beats was announced Wednesday by Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Sally Buzbee. In her new […]

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — At least a dozen alleged members of the MS-13 street gang have been arrested on murder charges involving the massacre of four young men in a Long Island park last April, a law enforcement official said Wednesday. The official was not authorized to release the information and spoke to The […]

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portuguese lawmakers have agreed on new measures to help contain the fires that race through the country’s forests each summer, after one wildfire last month that killed 64 people. After weeks of discussion — and a marathon 15-hour meeting that ended at daybreak Wednesday — a parliamentary committee voted in favor […]

Seattle supercomputer company Cray is laying off 190 employees — about 15 percent of its staff — as it restructures.

The Cameroon native manages to overcome long odds to play Major League Soccer while adapting to a foreign country and foreign language.