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When should athletes with concussions get moving again? Virginia school system updates protocol 08/06/2024 04:30pm • From vaping, the cost of school supplies to cellphone policies, the WTOP team is studying up on hot-button topics in education across the D.C. region. Follow on air and online in our series�����WTOP Goes Back to School�����this August and September. Prince William County Public Schools has update How major US stock indexes fared Tuesday, 8/6/2024 08/06/2024 04:15pm • Stocks closed higher on Wall Street as calm returned to the market a day after its biggest pullback in almost two years. The S&P 500 rose 1% Tuesday, breaking a brutal three-day losing streak. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.8%, and the Nasdaq composite added 1%. Strong profit reports Quan Hongchan of China opens with perfect 10, then wins gold on the 10-meter platform 08/06/2024 03:15pm • SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) ��� Quan Hongchan of China not only won her second gold medal in diving at the Paris Olympics, she did it Tuesday with a perfect score of 10 on her first of five dives. The dive was a forward 3 1/2 somersaults, hardly making a ripple and setting off wild cheers from Chinese Coastal Carolina escapes Tropical Storm Debby, moves training camp to NC State 08/06/2024 03:14pm • CONWAY, S.C. (AP) ��� Tropical Storm Debby has chased Coastal Carolina's football team out of the state. The Chanticleers of the Sun Belt Conference have switched locations for training camp to North Carolina State about three hours away due to the storm. Debby is forecast to bring as much as 30 in A rebuilt bronze Jackie Robinson statue returns to Kansas 6 months after the original was stolen 08/06/2024 03:12pm • WICHITA, Kan. (AP) ��� With a rebuilt statue of Jackie Robinson in bronze back in Kansas, some of the late baseball icon's biggest fans are breathing a sigh of relief. The original sculpture depicting Robinson resting a bat on his shoulder was cut off at its ankles in January, leaving only Robinson� What investors should do when there is more volatility in the market 08/06/2024 02:43pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� U.S. stocks are bouncing back after the market experienced its worst day in two years on Monday, but the average investor may still be understandably spooked. Over a three day losing streak, the S&P 500 dipped more than 6% before rallying again Tuesday, up 1.6% in midday tradin Jets punter Thomas Morstead dedicates his season to ALS awareness in honor of Steve Gleason 08/06/2024 02:38pm • FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) ��� Thomas Morstead's punts will do more than just change field position for the New York Jets this season. The veteran punter announced Tuesday he's donating $1,000 for each kick he drops inside the opponent's 20-yard line as part of his Punt for ALS campaign in honor of for Russian disinformation slams Paris and amplifies Khelif debate to undermine the Olympics 08/06/2024 02:31pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The actor in the viral music video denouncing the 2024 Olympics looks a lot like French President Emmanuel Macron. The images of rats, trash and the sewage, however, were dreamed up by artificial intelligence. Portraying Paris as a crime-ridden cesspool, the video mocking the Gam Howard University's medical school to receive $175 million from Bloomberg Philanthropies 08/06/2024 01:10pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Michael Bloomberg's organization Bloomberg Philanthropies committed $600 million to the endowments of four historically Black medical schools to help secure their future economic stability. Speaking in New York at the annual convention of the National Medical Association, an org Parisians once scoffed at hosting the Olympics. Now, here come the conga lines 08/06/2024 12:39pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Like most self-respecting Parisians, Mathilde Joannard and Franck Tallieu had been training for the Olympic sport of Olympics-bashing. Of course the Olympics were going to be a mess, the couple had reasoned when they learned the Games were coming to town. Like so many Parisians, the h Michigan man pleads no contest to failing to store gun that killed 5-year-old grandson 08/06/2024 12:32pm • WHITE CLOUD, Mich. (AP) ��� A man blamed for the death of his 5-year-old grandson has pleaded no contest to violating Michigan's new gun storage law, one of the first significant convictions since the law kicked in earlier this year. Karl Robart faces a minimum prison sentence somewhere in a range o Financial markets around the world stabilize after recent rout. Here's what to know 08/06/2024 12:03pm • Markets on Wall Street and in Asia are stabilizing Tuesday following a mini-panic caused by an assortment of factors that stretched from late last week through Monday. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq each rose 1.3% in morning trading and were on track to break a brutal three-day losing streak. The S& Indonesia recovers body of New Zealand helicopter pilot killed in Papua attack 08/06/2024 11:33am • Indonesian security forces on Tuesday recovered the body of a New Zealand pilot who was killed in an alleged separatist attack in the restive Papua region, officials said. Glen Malcolm Conning, a helicopter pilot for Indonesian aviation company PT Intan Angkasa Air Service, was shot dead on Monday b NASCAR Cup Series, Truck Series fire back up after 2 weeks off, F1, Larson wins in Sprint Cars 08/06/2024 11:25am • All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES Cook Out 400. Site: Richmond, Virginia. Schedule: Saturday, practice, 4:30 p.m.; Saturday, qualifying, 5:35 p.m.; Sunday race, 6 p.m. (USA Network). Track: Richmond Raceway. Race distance: 400 laps, 300 miles. Last year: Chris Buescher pulled away on a restart Romanian PM to boycott Olympics' closing ceremony after 'scandalous situation' in gymnastics ruling 08/06/2024 11:24am • PARIS (AP) ��� Romania���s Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said Tuesday that he will boycott the Paris Olympics ��� closing ceremony due to a ���scandalous situation��� that cost a Romanian gymnast a bronze medal. Ana Barbosu had already begun celebrating her bronze for the floor event Monday when coa