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Get out your top hat and cape, it’s a weekend full of magic in DC 08/30/2024 07:25pm • The D.C. Festival of Magic returns this weekend to the Capital Hilton. The three-day festival includes performances from professional magicians from around the country, including top slight-of-hand artist Eric DeCamps and magician Chris Capehart, who got his start as a street performer in New Yor Jewish students at Columbia faced hostile environment during pro-Palestinian protests, report finds 08/30/2024 06:54pm • Jews and Israelis at Columbia University were ostracized from student groups, humiliated in classrooms and subjected to verbal abuse as pro-Palestinian demonstrations shook the campus last year, and their complaints were often downplayed or ignored by school officials and faculty, the university's t Playoff-contending Royals lose 1B Vinnie Pasquantino for rest of regular season to broken thumb 08/30/2024 06:27pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Royals first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino will miss the rest of the regular season after breaking his right thumb while trying to make a play at first base in the eighth inning of Kansas City's loss to Houston, the team said Friday. “No one person is going to carry the weig As Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter shine, Colorado remains work in progress on defense and line 08/30/2024 06:05pm • BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — This latest, transfer portal-infused version of the Colorado Buffaloes looks an awful lot like the last one. The run game still sputtered, just like a year ago. The revamped offensive line, albeit improved, still allowed pressure and the defense still has some tightening up t Police search park for evidence in disappearance of Manassas Park mother 08/30/2024 06:04pm • Police are searching a Northern Virginia park for evidence related to a missing Manassas Park mother. Detectives developed information that led them to Signal Hill Park in their search for Mamta Kafle Bhatt, who was last seen July 31. "Item(s) that have been collected are being processed to de Cardinals designate OF Tommy Pham for assignment, recall Jordan Walker 08/30/2024 05:41pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The St. Louis Cardinals designated Tommy Pham for assignment on Friday, ending the outfielder’s second stint with the team after one month, and recalled outfielder Jordan Walker, who had a strong rookie season in 2023 before struggling this year. Pham was acquired along with star US defender John Brooks returns to Hertha Berlin 08/30/2024 05:37pm • BERLIN (AP) — United States defender John Brooks has returned to Hertha Berlin on a two-year contract with his former club in Germany's second division. The 31-year-old center back came up through Hertha's youth system and played five seasons with the Berlin club after turning professional. Brooks Alex Palou and Will Power take IndyCar championship fight into Milwaukee Mile doubleheader 08/30/2024 05:36pm • WEST ALLIS, Wisc. (AP) — IndyCar returns to the Milwaukee Mile after an eight-year absence with a championship on the line between a pair of drivers each seeking a third series championship. In one corner stands points leader Alex Palou, a calculating Chip Ganassi Racing driver seeking his second Game week begins for the Ravens as they prepare for the NFL's season opener at Kansas City 08/30/2024 05:34pm • OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Game week has arrived for John Harbaugh and the Baltimore Ravens. The Ravens returned to practice Friday after three days off, and the focus can now turn to next Thursday's season opener at Kansas City. The Chiefs earned the right to play in that game as the defending S Trump wants to make the GOP a 'leader' on IVF. Republicans' actions make that a tough sell 08/30/2024 05:12pm • CHICAGO (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's vow to promote in vitro fertilization by forcing health insurance companies or the federal government to pay for the treatments is at odds with the actions of much of his own party. Yet his surprising announcement Thursday reveals the f UNC loses QB Johnson for season after surgery for broken right leg suffered in Minnesota win 08/30/2024 04:44pm • North Carolina quarterback Max Johnson will miss the rest of the season after having surgery for a broken right leg, coming after he was carted off in the season-opening win at Minnesota and taken to the hospital. The school announced Johnson's status on Friday, saying he had surgery in Minneapolis Contract security officers leave jail in Atlanta after nonpayment of contract 08/30/2024 04:40pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Some security officers at a jail in Atlanta that is under federal investigation walked off the job after the Fulton County sheriff's office failed to pay money owed to the third-party contractor that employs them. The Fulton County Sheriff's Office said in a news release that it is Pitt RB Rodney Hammond Jr., the Panthers' leading returning rusher, declared ineligible for season 08/30/2024 04:21pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pitt running back Rodney Hammond Jr. has been declared ineligible and will miss the 2024 season, the school announced Friday. No reason was provided, but Hammond remains a member of the team and can practice, the school said. Hammond, in his fourth year, led the Panthers in rushi Review: No. 1 movie on Netflix is new raunchy teen comedy 'Incoming' about freshman looking to party 08/30/2024 04:13pm • August means back to school, so are you looking for a wild teen party flick for Labor Day weekend? You might try the raunchy teen comedy "Incoming," which is currently the No. 1 movie on Netflix. It's nothing we haven't seen before in "Mean Girls" (2004) or "Superbad" (2007), but it's not Court stops Pennsylvania counties from throwing out mail-in votes over incorrect envelope dates 08/30/2024 04:00pm • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A state court Friday halted enforcement of a requirement that voters include accurate, handwritten dates on envelopes used to submit mail-in ballots, a ruling likely to keep several thousand Pennsylvania votes from being thrown out in the November election. In a decision han