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Arsonists attack French high-speed rail system hours before opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics 07/26/2024 12:47pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Arsonists attacked France's high-speed rail network early Friday, setting fires that paralyzed train travel to Paris for some 800,000 people across Europe, including athletes heading to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. Targeting remote locations far from the capital, the app Alpine principal Bruno Famin to step down. F1 team may drop homemade Renault engine in 2026 07/26/2024 12:38pm • SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium (AP) ��� Struggling Formula 1 team Alpine is switching team principals midseason and may also ditch its homemade Renault engines in 2026. Alpine team principal Bruno Famin will be out of his post ���by the end of August,��� with his replacement announced ���in due course," New York's Public Theater to celebrate reopening of Central Park stage with all-star cast 07/26/2024 12:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A starry group of veteran Public Theater actors ��� including Lupita Nyong���o, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Sandra Oh ��� will help reopen the newly revitalized Delacorte Theater in Central Park in a free production of ���Twelfth Night.��� ���To say that we are reopeni Veterans lobbied for psychedelic therapy, but it may not be enough to save MDMA drug application 07/26/2024 11:54am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� It was a landmark moment for the psychedelic movement: The Department of Veteran Affairs��� top doctor stood on stage, praising advocates who have spent decades promoting the healing potential of mind-altering drugs. In an unannounced appearance at a New York psychedelic conference Joyce DiDonato stars in `Eden in Olympia' coinciding with Paris Games, a call to climate action 07/26/2024 11:17am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� While much of the globe is focused on the Paris Olympics, a movie filmed from ancient Olympia starring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato premiered this week that uses music to spark contemplation of creation and carnage. ���Eden in Olympia��� opens by posing a pair of questions as day b Chinese-Chilean table tennis player makes Olympics debut at age 58 in the Paris Games 07/26/2024 11:07am • SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) ��� Table tennis player Zeng Zhiying left China in 1989, the same year of the Tiananmen Square massacre, to teach the sport in northern Chile. Fast-forward 35 years, she will debut in the Olympic Games at age 58 under the name she adopted in the South American nation: Tania. Tan Black bear and cub destroy car in Connecticut after getting trapped inside 07/26/2024 10:56am • WINSTED, Conn. (AP) ��� Trapped inside a car, the adult black bear and cub thrashed about. The horn was blaring and the radio blasting. Outside the car, a second cub ran around in apparent distress by the Connecticut home. State environmental conservation police were called by the startled vehicle o How might Netanyahu's visit to the US affect cease-fire efforts? 07/26/2024 10:35am • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the United States comes as negotiations to end the Israel-Hamas war and recover hostages held in Gaza inch forward ��� with no immediate deal in sight. Egypt, Qatar and the United States continue to push Israel and Hamas toward Fed's preferred inflation gauge cools, adding to likelihood of a September rate cut 07/26/2024 10:22am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Federal Reserve's favored inflation measure remained low last month, bolstering evidence that price pressures are steadily cooling and setting the stage for the Fed to begin cutting interest rates in September. Prices rose just 0.1% from May to June, the Commerce Department Russia's Central Bank hikes interest rate as inflation soars 07/26/2024 08:46am • MOSCOW (AP) ��� Russia���s Central Bank on Friday raised its key lending rate to its highest level in more than two years to stem soaring inflation in an overheated economy hit by Western sanctions in response to Moscow's military action in Ukraine. The bank raised the rate by 200 basis points to 18 Megan Thee Stallion headlines Broccoli City music fest this weekend as event moves to DC's Audi Field 07/26/2024 06:51am • Broccoli City Fest returns to the nation's capital this weekend for two huge days of music. This year marks the very first time the festival will be held at Audi Field in Southwest D.C. "It's really exciting to be at this new venue," festival co-founder Jermon Williams told WTOP. "You thin Dominant US basketball, soccer teams driving high betting interest on Olympics 07/26/2024 06:00am • ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) ��� Sports books say they expect strong betting interest in this year���s Olympics, driven by dominant U.S. basketball and soccer teams. But that very dominance is making it hard to make some bets on those teams without risking far more than you might win on them. ���We expe Lightning and a burning car pushed into a gully are blamed for wildfires scorching the West 07/26/2024 05:33am • A burning car pushed into a gully sparked California���s largest wildfire of the year, authorities said Thursday as they announced the arrest of a suspect. Meanwhile other blazes scorched the Pacific Northwest. Flames from the fire the man is accused of starting exploded into what is now the Park Fi Wounded in a strike that killed her family, a 2-year-old joins Gaza's ranks of thousands of orphans 07/26/2024 04:15am • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� The 2-year-old toddler lay on a foil blanket, her face covered with salve for her burns and her little body riddled with scars from shrapnel. She squirmed, her breath heaving, as doctors examined her and the tube in her chest. Siwar Abdel-Hadi is now an orphan. She Naomi Osaka is in a better place as she returns to the Olympics and Roland Garros at Paris Games 07/26/2024 03:47am • PARIS (AP) ��� Naomi Osaka is back at Roland Garros, a place that marked such a significant moment in her life ��� a moment of vulnerability, yes, and, in a way, of triumph, even if not in a traditional, "What was the score?" sense. Osaka spent time away from tennis in recent years, first for mental