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These plants wait their whole lives to bloom once. It's usually spectacular 07/23/2024 07:35am • Flowering annuals generally bloom nonstop before dying at the end of the year or season. Perennials return every year, providing either season-long color, a burst of blossoms followed by sporadic blooming or a limited show that can last as little as two weeks. And biennials flower only in their seco Paris Olympics: What to know and who to watch during the men's soccer competition 07/23/2024 07:04am • A roadmap to follow for men's soccer during the Paris Olympics: Athletes to Watch ���Michael Olise, France: After scoring 10 goals for Crystal Palace in the Premier League last season, the thrilling forward was signed by German giant Bayern Munich. Born in London, he chose to represent France and is Christian McCaffrey picked as the top running back in the AP���s NFL Top 5 rankings 07/23/2024 07:00am • On a San Francisco offense filled with playmakers, Christian McCaffrey was the most productive by far last season when he became the 12th player ever to top 2,000 yards from scrimmage and 20 TDs in the same season. That performance has helped the 49ers star score the honor of being voted the top run Wembanyama returns home for Olympics. The basketball star will be one of Paris' biggest attractions 07/23/2024 06:39am • PARIS (AP) ��� Sports often are a secondary attraction in Paris, with athletes having a difficult time standing out in a cultural sphere driven largely by food, fashion and the arts. Victor Wembanyama may use the Paris Olympics to be the first homegrown sports star to dismantle that dynamic. The 7-f Aguirre returns as Mexico coach for a third time with Marquez assisting 07/23/2024 04:48am • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Javier Aguirre will coach Mexico for the third time. Rafael Marquez, who played in five World Cups for Mexico and was the coach of Barcelona's reserve team, will be groomed by Aguirre to become the national coach, the Mexican Football Association confirmed on Monday. ���(Aguirre Kids World returns to DC's Franklin Park for weekend of free fun 07/23/2024 04:35am • Are you looking for something fun to take the kids to this weekend in the nation's capital? Kids World returns to Franklin Park in Northwest D.C. this Saturday and Sunday from noon to 7 p.m. after last year's inaugural event drew over 7,000 people over three days. WTOP caught up with the D J.P. Crawford has hairline fracture in pinky after taking HBP in first inning 07/23/2024 01:53am • SEATTLE (AP) ��� Mariners SS J.P. Crawford is likely headed for a stint on the injured list after suffering a hairline fracture in his right pinky in Seattle���s 3-1 Monday night loss to the Los Angeles Angels. Crawford left the game after he was hit on the right hand by an 86-mile per hour changeup Internet is still down in Bangladesh despite apparent calm following deadly protests 07/23/2024 01:45am • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ��� Bangladesh remained without internet for a fifth day and the government declared a public holiday Monday, as authorities maintained tight control despite apparent calm following a court order that scaled back a controversial system for allocating government jobs that spark Tovar's single in 12th gives Rockies 9-8 win, extending Red Sox skid to 4 07/23/2024 01:32am • DENVER (AP) ��� Ezequiel Tovar singled home the winning run with the bases loaded and two outs in the 12th inning Monday night to give the Colorado Rockies a 9-8 victory over Boston, handing the Red Sox their fourth straight defeat since the All-Star break. ���A little Michael Jordan flu game for To Bobby Witt Jr. homers, triples and doubles in the Royals' 10-4 win over the Diamondbacks 07/23/2024 12:56am • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� Bobby Witt Jr. fell a single short of the cycle, Salvador Perez and Hunter Renfroe also homered, and the Kansas City Royals beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 10-4 on Monday night for their fourth straight victory. Witt tripled in the first inning, doubled in the third and drill 2024 Election Latest: Harris says she's looking forward to accepting Democratic Party's nomination 07/23/2024 12:26am • Vice President Kamala Harris had a busy 24 hours after being endorsed as the Democratic presidential candidate by President Joe Biden. She has secured enough delegates to earn the party���s nomination and raised more than $81 million, a record sum for the 2024 political cycle. Harris also spoke Mond Biden aims for more achievements despite the bane of lame-duck presidents: diminished relevance 07/23/2024 12:15am • REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) ��� President Joe Biden says he's ���determined to get as much done" as he possibly can in his final six months in the White House as he tries to beat back a defining force that his lame-duck predecessors struggled to vanquish: diminished relevance. Biden hopes to keep the Wyatt Langford hits game-ending single for Rangers in 4-3 win over White Sox in 10 innings 07/23/2024 12:05am • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ��� Texas rookie Wyatt Langford hit a game-ending RBI single in the 10th inning, after scoring the tying run in the ninth, as the Rangers rallied to beat the Chicago White Sox 4-3 on Monday night. Leody Taveras, who had earlier homered, opened the Texas 10th with a sacrifice b Ian Happ homers, 6 Cubs pitchers cobble together 3-1 win over Brewers 07/22/2024 11:54pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Ian Happ lined a solo homer, six Chicago pitchers cobbled together a five-hitter and the Cubs beat the Milwaukee Brewers 3-1 on Monday night. Michael Busch and Dansby Swanson each had two hits as the Cubs twice escaped based-loaded jams to end NL Central-leading Milwaukee's three-ga Biden continues to recover from COVID-19, stays out of public view after ending his 2024 campaign 07/22/2024 11:39pm • REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) ��� President Joe Biden���s ���symptoms have almost resolved completely��� from COVID-19, according to his physician, as the president on Monday remained out of public view for the fifth straight day. Biden called into the Wilmington, Delaware, headquarters of his former ca