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L��on Marchand pulls off one of the most audacious doubles in swimming history at the Paris Olympics 08/01/2024 07:57am • NANTERRE, France (AP) ��� Turns out, those comparisons to Michael Phelps weren't far fetched at all when it comes to L��on Marchand. They certainly weren't a burden for the 22-year-old Frenchman. Marchand completed one of the most audacious doubles in swimming history Wednesday night, winning the 20 As conflicts far and wide shake the planet, can the Olympics unite the world? 08/01/2024 07:53am • PARIS (AP) ��� More than 100 conflicts fester around the world. The Middle East teeters on the brink of a regional war. In Ukraine, Russia advances slowly but steadily in the east, reducing towns to rubble. The ���Olympic Truce,��� clearly, is not being heeded. In the run-up to every Olympics over UK family doctors vote to limit services to patients in a dispute over funding 08/01/2024 07:14am • LONDON (AP) ��� Family doctors in England have voted to limit the number of patients they see and refuse extra work to protest a ���broken��� funding model, their union said Thursday. The British Medical Association said 98.3% of the 8,500 general practitioners who voted backed the work-to-rule acti L��on The Great: Marchand accomplishes a feat that was downright Phelps-like 08/01/2024 06:53am • NANTERRE, France (AP) ��� If there's anyone who can appreciate the magnitude of what L��on Marchand has done at the Paris Olympics, it's Bob Bowman. The longtime coach was on deck for Michael Phelps' entire career, which gave him a front-row seat for improbable feats such as breaking world record Dutch province warns parents against taking young children to forests following wolf encounters 08/01/2024 06:43am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) ��� A central Dutch province is urgently warning parents not to take young children to a popular forest area near the city of Utrecht following two recent close encounters with a wolf displaying ���atypical and worrying��� behavior. Utrecht province on Thursday was prepar Things to do in the DC area: Black Books Matter Fest, Mubadala Citi DC Open ��� and more! 08/01/2024 04:51am • 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. Since its establishment in 2021 in Prince George's County, Maryland, Black Extended drought parches Sicily, and farmers worry about being forced to sell off animals 08/01/2024 01:20am • CAMMARATA, Italy (AP) ��� On a scorching July afternoon, a municipal water truck rolls up in a cloud of dust on Liborio Mangiapane's farm in southern Sicily. Some of the precious liquid gets transferred to a smaller cistern on a tractor that Mangiapane's son will use to fill troughs for 250 cattle a Logan Webb pitches 2nd career shutout in the Giants' 1-0 victory over the Athletics 08/01/2024 12:39am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Logan Webb pitched his second career shutout, leading the San Francisco Giants to a 1-0 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday night in a speedy 1 hour, 55 minutes. Webb (8-8) struck out six, limiting the A���s to five singles and a walk in his first complete game of Today in History: August 1, America gets its MTV 08/01/2024 12:00am • Today is Thursday, Aug. 1, the 214th day of 2024. There are 152 days left in the year. Today in history: On August 1, 1981, MTV began its American broadcast; the first music video aired on the new cable TV network was ���Video Killed the Radio Star,��� by The Buggles. Also on this date: In 1876, 911 calls before Sonya Massey's shooting include 1 from her mother asking officers not to 'hurt her' 07/31/2024 10:21pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) ��� Two emergency response calls were made from the home of Sonya Massey, the Black woman who was shot in the face by an Illinois sheriff's deputy after she called 911 for help, in the days leading up to her death, according to records released Wednesday. In a third call, Mas West Virginia school ordered to remain open after effort to close it due to toxic groundwater fears 07/31/2024 10:02pm • PADEN CITY, W.Va. (AP) ��� A small West Virginia school will remain open after a judge sided with residents who fought a county superintendent's decision to relocate classes due to contaminated groundwater under the school being on a national cleanup priority list. Wetzel County Circuit Judge Richa Harris calls Trump's false claims about race 'the same old show' of divisiveness and disrespect 07/31/2024 09:50pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday that former President Donald Trump's false assertions about her race were the ���same old show" as she emphasized the need for Black women to organize for his defeat this November. Addressing the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc. ��� one Devers hits game-winning double in 10th and Red Sox beat Mariners 3-2 07/31/2024 09:03pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� Rafael Devers doubled home the winning run in the 10th inning for his third hit of the game, and the Boston Red Sox beat the Seattle Mariners 3-2 on Wednesday. Zack Kelly (4-1) pitched out of a major jam in a scoreless 10th for the win. Danny Jansen hit a tying single in the sixth an Attorney says parents of ex-student accused in Texas school shooting bear responsibility for attack 07/31/2024 08:56pm • GALVESTON, Texas (AP) ��� The parents of a former Texas high school student accused of killing 10 people during a 2018 shooting on his campus bear responsibility for what happened because they failed to help their son amid a mental health crisis or to limit his access to the family���s guns, an atto Severe storms roll through before oppressive heat makes comeback to DC region 07/31/2024 08:27pm • Listen live to WTOP for traffic and weather updates on the 8s. After the fourth hottest July on record comes to a close, the D.C. region will be entering its fifth heat wave of the year with the potential to last a week at or above 90 degrees. But not before severe storms began rolling through. H