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Production of baby formula has resumed at the Abbott Nutrition factory in Michigan whose February shutdown over contamination contributed to a national shortage, a company spokesman said. Damage from severe thunderstorms including flooding had forced the Sturgis plant to halt operations in mid-June just two weeks after restarting production with additional sanitizing and safety protocols.

NEW YORK (AP) — Los Angeles Angels sensation Shohei Ohtani repeated as a two-way All-Star when he was picked for the AL pitching staff, two days after he was elected to start at designated hitter. Pitchers Clay Holmes, Gerrit Cole, and Nestor Cortes made the AL team from the Yankees along with catcher Jose Trevino, giving New York six All-Stars for the first time since 2011. Defending World Series champion Atlanta and AL champion Houston have five each.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s opposition parties met Sunday to agree on a new government a day after the president and prime minister offered to resign following the most dramatic day of monthslong turmoil, with protesters storming the leaders’ homes in rage over an economic crisis.

ZHURIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Oleksandr Chubuk’s warehouse should be empty, awaiting the new harvest, with his supply of winter wheat already shipped abroad. Instead, his storage bins in central Ukraine are piled high with grain he cannot ship out because of the war with Russia.

CHASIV YAR, Ukraine (AP) — Dozens of Ukrainian emergency workers labored Sunday to pull people out of the rubble after a Russian rocket attack smashed into apartment buildings in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 15 people. More than 20 people were believed still trapped.

The third bull run of Pamplona’s San Fermín Festival has ended with the event's first goring of the year. A Pamplona hospital spokesperson said a bull horn injured two men in the leg. They were …

Ronald Acuña Jr. and Matt Olson homered off Erick Fedde, rookie Michael Harris II went 4 for 4, and the Atlanta Braves beat the Washington Nationals 12-2. William Contreras also connected off Fedde …

Elon Musk announced Friday that he will abandon his tumultuous $44 billion offer to buy Twitter after the company failed to provide enough information about the number of fake accounts. Twitter immediately fired back, saying it would sue the Tesla CEO to uphold the deal.

WASHINGTON (AP) —  President Joe Biden drew sharp criticism from pro-life forces on Friday when he signed an executive order attempting to push back on efforts to limit abortion. "President Biden has once again caved to the extreme abortion lobby, determined to put the full weight of the federal government behind promoting abortion," said Marjorie Dannefelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America who condemned the executive order.

ATLANTA  – The Georgia Department of Public Safety released a preliminary report Friday indicating there were 21 traffic fatalities across the state over the 78-hour Independence Day holiday travel period.

NASHVILLE (BP) – A renewed effort to include women in the military draft is making its way through the Senate with conservatives voicing their opposition. When a provision to the National Defense Authorization Act was introduced in June 2016 for women to become eligible for the draft, Southern Baptists responded at that year’s annual meeting in St. Louis by adopting a resolution opposing the step.

SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. (BP) – Ryan Schneider serves as pastor of Saranac Lake Baptist Church in upstate New York near Lake Placid, home to the Olympic Training Center where elite athletes come to train as they pursue their Olympic dreams. When he prepares for an event, whether it’s training in the summer or an actual competition in the winter, he searches for different ways to share the love of Christ with the many athletes who will arrive from all over the world.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior defense official says the U.S. will send another $400 million in military equipment to Ukraine, including four more advanced rocket systems. It's an effort to bolster Ukrainian efforts to strike deeper behind Russian frontlines in the eastern Donbas region.

WAWONA, Calif. (AP) — Officials say part of Yosemite National Park has been closed as a wildfire rages near a grove of California’s famed giant sequoia trees. The fire quintupled in size from Thursday night to Friday and forced park officials to close Mariposa Grove. It has the largest sequoia grove in Yosemite and features more than 500 mature giant sequoias.

When the waters of Rock Creek began to surge across its banks into homes and businesses in Red Lodge, Montana, the members of the Church of the Rockies began to respond.  At first, it was neighbors helping neighbors, checking on one another, and offering aid. 

KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — A woman in eastern Ukraine had gone out to feed the cats when the shelling began in a residential neighborhood. Natalia Kolesnik had learned to live with the risks. Then, in a grassy courtyard on a hot and sweaty Thursday, the shelling caught her. Her body was one of three found on the littered ground.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A year has passed since President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated at his private home. Not only have authorities failed to identify all those who masterminded and financed the killing, but Haiti has gone into freefall as violence soars and the economy tumbles. Many have fled Haiti in the past year, making potentially deadly voyages aboard rickety boats.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The busy George Washington Bridge connecting New Jersey and New York City is moving to cashless tolls, and in the process removing a reminder of a notorious piece of history. Beginning in July, drivers paying cash tolls will have their license plates scanned and will be billed by mail.

LONDON (AP) — Conservative party candidates are beginning to declare their intentions to replace departing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. That is coming even as some Conservative Party lawmakers pushed Friday to get the scandal-tarnished leader out of office before his replacement is elected over the summer.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Three ex-Disney employees are suing the company, claiming they were fired after refusing to wear face masks and get the COVID-19 vaccine. The lawsuit filed in Florida last month says the trio had sought religious exemptions to Disney's mandates for the vaccine and facial coverings. They had worked for the company between seven and 20 years.

The Pac-12 can make a case as the most successful conference in collegiate athletics, amassing more than 500 NCAA championships while leading the nation in titles 56 of the past 62 years. But when it comes to the biggest moneymakers, football and men’s basketball, the conference has come up short for years.

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — The names and faces of the star players at Wimbledon didn’t matter to Elena Rybakina when she was a child. But the majesty of the tournament made pretty a big impression. Rybakina says when she watched Wimbledon as a kid “it was always traditional white. I remember this well.” Rybakina will face Ons Jabeur on Saturday in the women's final.

ATLANTA – Georgia closed out fiscal 2022 last month with a bulging budget surplus fueled by a significant increase in tax revenue. The state Department of Revenue collected $2.85 billion in taxes in June, up 14.2% over June of last year, Gov. Brian Kemp’s office reported Friday.

ATLANTA (AP) — Dylan Carlson hit a tiebreaking single in the top of the 11th inning, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Atlanta Braves 3-2 to snap their four-game losing streak. Nolan Gorman singled to begin the 11th and advance placement runner Nolan Arenado to third. Carlson’s single glanced off the glove of second baseman Phil Gosselin, and the Cardinals led 3-2.

The proposed merger between Spirit Airlines and Frontier just can't get off the runway. Spirit announced late Thursday it would again postpone a vote on the deal, a sign that it lacks shareholder support for the merger in the face of a rival bid by JetBlue Airways. Spirit delayed the vote by a week, until July 15.

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