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Ex-Catalan leader Puigdemont, a fugitive since 2017, returns to Spain. But then he vanishes again 08/08/2024 03:32pm • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ��� Police launched a manhunt in Barcelona on Thursday for fugitive Carles Puigdemont, a celebrated campaigner for Catalan independence who made a sensational return to Spain and an equally sensational getaway from a speech in the city with the alleged help of local police offi Boeing's new CEO visits factory that makes the 737 Max, including jet that lost door plug in flight 08/08/2024 03:10pm • A new chief executive took over at Boeing on Thursday, and he began by walking the floor of the factory near Seattle that has become the heart of the aerospace giant's troubles. Robert ���Kelly��� Ortberg takes the helm of a money-losing company that has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commi Morocco wins its first Olympic soccer medal with a 6-0 rout of Egypt for men's bronze 08/08/2024 02:11pm • NANTES, France (AP) ��� Soufiane Rahimi scored two goals and Morocco won the bronze medal with a 6-0 rout of Egypt on Thursday for the team's first-ever podium finish at the Olympics. Abde Ezzalzouli, Bilal El Khannouss, Akram Nakach and Achraf Hakimi also scored for Morocco, which went into halftim Wings poised for return of Sabally and Siegrist but might have trouble keeping key fill-in Sims 08/08/2024 01:23pm • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ��� The Dallas Wings are expecting the return of Satou Sabally and Maddy Siegrist soon after the Olympic break but might have trouble keeping Odyssey Sims, who has been the second-leading scorer filling in for the injury-plagued team. Sabally, a 2023 All-Star who missed all 25 Olympic champion gymnasts Jade Carey and Jordan Chiles to return to school 08/08/2024 01:15pm • Gold-medal-winning Olympic gymnasts Jordan Chiles and Jade Carey are heading back to school. Chiles and Carey ��� part of the ���Golden Girls��� squad led by Simone Biles that soared to gold in Paris last week ��� have both announced they are returning to college, Chiles at UCLA, Carey at Oregon Sta Two-time taekwondo champion Jade Jones says she made a mistake by failing to provide a doping sample 08/08/2024 12:32pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Two-time Olympic champion Jade Jones of Britain admitted Thursday she ���made a mistake��� when she failed to submit herself to an out-of-competition doping test last year. The taekwondo athlete was cleared by the British anti-doping agency and was allowed to compete at the Paris Olym Israel's Western allies slam Israeli minister's remark that Gaza starvation may be justified 08/08/2024 11:15am • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Israel's Western allies have condemned remarks by the country's far-right finance minister who suggested that the starvation of Gaza's population of more than 2 million Palestinians ���might be just and moral��� until hostages captured in Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel ar A powerful quake hits off Japan's coast, causing minor injuries but prompting new concerns 08/08/2024 10:21am • TOKYO (AP) ��� A powerful earthquake struck off southern Japan on Thursday, causing mostly minor injuries but raising the level of concern over possible major quakes stemming from an undersea trough east of the coast. Officials said nine people were injured on Japan's southern main island of Kyushu, Things to do in the DC area: A Bayard Rustin graphic novel exhibit, Punk Fest ��� and more! 08/08/2024 10:05am • There���s so much to do in the D.C. area in the coming days, and WTOP has you covered with our weekly roundup of area events worth anticipating. Check back every Thursday for a roundup of��Things to do in the D.C. area. The Africa World Art Gallery in Washington is hosting an exhibition Today in Sports - Week Ahead, Aug. 9 - Aug. 15 08/08/2024 10:00am • Aug. 13 1919 ��� Upset scores a win against Man o��� War in the Sanford Memorial Stakes at Saratoga. The defeat is Big Red���s only loss in 21 starts. 1933 ��� Gene Sarazen wins the PGA Championship by defeating Willie Goggin 5 and 4 in the final round. 1935 ��� The first roller derby begins in Chic The leader of the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement reflects on a year since the Lahaina fire 08/08/2024 09:07am • KAHULUI, Hawaii (AP) ��� On a Monday morning in July, 11 months after the devastating Lahaina fires, the Kako���o Maui Resource Center was still busy. Sunlight poured through big windows. A young man with a white flower tucked behind his ear sat behind a desk near the door, smiling as he greeted vis Those Samsung smartphones given to Olympic athletes? They may violate sanctions on North Korea 08/08/2024 08:22am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� South Korean officials on Thursday said providing Samsung smartphones to North Korean athletes at the Paris Olympics would violate U.N. Security Council sanctions against the country over its nuclear and missile program. The South Korean technology giant is a major Olympi Russia's war threatens Ukraine's Olympic future, not just the present. A young gymnast offers hope 08/08/2024 07:32am • CHORNOMORSK, Ukraine (AP) ��� When Oleksandra Paskal first took to the mat as a 4-year-old, her rhythmic gymnastics coach saw nothing but potential in a sport where the Olympics is the ultimate goal. Then a Russian missile crushed her summer house in the southern Odesa region, burying her beneath th Majority of US adults say democracy is on the ballot but they differ on the threat: AP-NORC poll 08/08/2024 07:17am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Roughly 3 in 4 American adults believe the upcoming presidential election is vital to the future of U.S. democracy, although which candidate they think poses the greater threat depends on their political leanings, according to a poll. The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Ce Russian prosecutors seek 15-year sentence for US-Russian woman in treason trial 08/08/2024 07:01am • MOSCOW (AP) ��� Russian prosecutors on Thursday asked for a 15-year sentence in the treason trial of a Russian-American woman, who has pleaded guilty, Russian news agencies reported. Ksenia Khavana, whom Russian authorities identify by her maiden name of Karelina, was arrested in Yekaterinburg in Fe