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China targets Europe's farmers, and not its automakers, in response to EU tariffs on electric cars 06/18/2024 08:56am • BEIJING (AP) ��� The Chinese government is taking aim at European farmers instead of German automakers by launching an investigation into European Union pork imports, just days after the EU said it plans to impose provisional tariffs on China-made electric vehicles. The Commerce Ministry didn't ment Majority of Americans favor forgiving medical debt, AP-NORC poll finds 06/18/2024 08:19am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Janille Williams wants to buy a house someday ��� but first, he has to pay down tens of thousands of dollars in medical debt. ���I was hospitalized for a blood infection for three months more than ten years ago, and the bill was for more than $300,000,��� said Williams, 38, a Fair America's Car-Mart: Fiscal Q4 Earnings Snapshot 06/18/2024 07:56am • ROGERS, Ark. (AP) ��� ROGERS, Ark. (AP) ��� America's Car-Mart Inc. (CRMT) on Tuesday reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings of $426,000. On a per-share basis, the Rogers, Arkansas-based company said it had net income of 6 cents. The results matched Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of Biofuel groups envision ethanol-powered jets. But fueling the effort has not been easy 06/18/2024 01:02am • MENOKEN, N.D. (AP) ��� Some day, the passenger jets that soar 35,000 feet (10.6 kilometers) over Dan McLean���s North Dakota farm could be fueled by corn grown on his land and millions of other acres across the Midwest. It���s a vision the U.S. airline industry embraces and agricultural groups see a A gate is installed on a Mount Fuji trail to control crowds, but governor says more measures needed 06/18/2024 12:30am • TOKYO (AP) ��� A crowd-control gate was installed halfway up Japan's Mount Fuji on Monday ahead of the July 1 start of this year's climbing season, but the governor of Yamanashi, one of the two prefectures that are home to the mountain, said additional measures are needed to control overcrowding on DC ���Maserati shooter��� gets more than 30 years behind bars 06/17/2024 09:44pm • The Maryland man convicted on a slew of charges connected to a 2021 road rage incident where he got out of his car while in rush-hour traffic in D.C. and fired shots at a woman, children and bystanders has been sentenced to more than three decades in prison. Kenneth Miles Davis, Jr., 45, was sent Heatstroke can be 'sneaky.' Here is the 'major red flag' you need to pay attention to 06/17/2024 09:00pm • Listen live to WTOP for traffic and weather updates on the 8s. Hot weather is forecast this week with the heat index possibly breaking 100 degrees on some days. What's certain is that extreme heat can be dangerous to your health. "The first and foremost important thing to remember is that he Robo Advisor vs. Online Financial Advisor: What's the Difference? 06/17/2024 08:00pm • Robo advisors appeared on the financial advising scene roughly 15 years ago to offer fee-conscious individuals access to well-crafted investment portfolios. In U.S. News' ranking of the best robo advisors for 2024, the methodology relied on some of the factors that matter most to investors, such as Judge orders railway to pay Washington tribe nearly $400 million for trespassing with oil trains 06/17/2024 07:44pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� BNSF Railway must pay nearly $400 million to a Native American tribe in Washington state, a federal judge ordered Monday after finding that the company intentionally trespassed when it repeatedly ran 100-car trains carrying crude oil across the tribe's reservation. U.S. District Jud McIlroy to skip Travelers as part of 3-week break to recover from US Open collapse 06/17/2024 07:02pm • Rory McIlroy took to social media Monday afternoon to say his stunning collapse at the U.S. Open was probably the toughest day of his career, and that he would take off the next three weeks to ���build myself back up.��� That means he will skip the Travelers Championship, the final $20 million signa Analysis: Penske rebounds from IndyCar cheating scandal with a hot streak that stretches to NASCAR 06/17/2024 05:56pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� If you come for The Captain, you better not miss your shot. Under fire at a level perhaps never seen before in his 87 years, Roger Penske has rebounded with a truly remarkable display of strength and determination. His IndyCar team in April was found to have an illegal adva House GOP lawmakers try to put brakes on DC speed cameras 06/17/2024 05:25pm • For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill Correspondent Mitchell Miller at Today on the Hill. House Republicans are trying to prevent D.C. from using automated traffic enforcement, including speed cameras, and want to restrict District enforcement to prevent motori Tobacco-like warning label for social media sought by US surgeon general who asks Congress to act 06/17/2024 05:09pm • The U.S. surgeon general has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms and their effects on young people's lives, similar to those now mandatory on cigarette boxes. In a Monday opinion piece in the The New York Times, Dr. Vivek Murthy said that social media is a contribu The Latest | Netanyahu dissolves war Cabinet that directed Gaza conflict, Israeli officials say 06/17/2024 05:07pm • Israeli officials say Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the influential war Cabinet that was tasked with steering the war in Gaza. The three-person war Cabinet was dissolved a week after Benny Gantz, a popular opposition lawmaker and former military chief, quit Netanyahu's governing c Oilers fans get a Father's Day weekend gift they won't forget at the Stanley Cup Final 06/17/2024 04:22pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) ��� Father���s Day came early for Shawn Mullin and his 9-year-old daughter, Audrey. Despite the Oilers falling behind 3-0 in the Stanley Cup Final against the Florida Panthers, they decided to make the six-plus-hour drive to Edmonton from their home in Swift Current, Saska