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People often miscalculate climate choices, a study says. One surprise is owning a dog 08/13/2025 01:33pm • It turns out many Americans aren't great at identifying which personal decisions contribute most to climate change. A study recently published by the National Academy of Sciences found that when asked to rank actions, such as swapping a car that uses gasoline for an electric one, carpooling or reduc 3 people were killed, including a child, when a tree fell on their car amid heavy rain in Tennessee, official says 08/13/2025 09:22am • EAST RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) ��� 3 people were killed, including a child, when a tree fell on their car amid heavy rain in Tennessee, official says. Japanese pop idol Kenshin Kamimura convicted of indecent assault but avoids jail in Hong Kong 08/13/2025 06:11am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Japanese pop idol Kenshin Kamimura was found guilty of a charge of indecent assault on a female interpreter in a Hong Kong court Wednesday before some emotional fans. Kamimura, a former member of a Japanese boy group named ONE N��� ONLY, was arrested in the southern Chinese city Montgomery Co. braces for possible homelessness rise after Trump crackdown on DC encampments 08/13/2025 04:43am • Montgomery County, Maryland, leaders are bracing for a possible increase in homeless residents, as President Donald Trump orders law enforcement agencies to crack down on homeless encampments across D.C. During a weekly news briefing, County Executive Marc Elrich said while it's unclear exactly h Trump's takeover of Washington law enforcement begins as National Guard troops arrive 08/12/2025 09:13pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The new picture of law enforcement in the nation���s capital began taking shape Tuesday as some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by the Trump administration began arriving. The city���s police and federal officials, projecting cooperation, took the first steps in an une 35 Union Pacific train cars derail near Texas town, no injuries reported 08/12/2025 08:36pm • GORDON, Texas (AP) ��� Thirty-five cars of a Union Pacific train derailed Tuesday afternoon near a small Texas town, officials said. No injuries were reported and no evacuations have been ordered following the afternoon derailment, Union Pacific spokeswoman Robynn Tysver said. News footage showed m 5 Best Robotics Stocks to Buy Right Now 08/12/2025 08:00pm • Previous generations thought of robots as pure science fiction. Today, robots are a ubiquitous reality, and robotics is a thriving and fast-growing industry. Modern robots are not necessarily the humanoid machines that baby boomers saw on TV and at the movies -- although Boston Scientific Corp. (tic Netanyahu hints that Gaza ceasefire talks now focus on the release of all hostages at once 08/12/2025 07:24pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday hinted that ceasefire efforts in Gaza are now focused on a comprehensive deal that would release the remaining hostages all at once, rather than in phases. Arab officials told The Associated Press last week that mediators Egypt Sonya Massey shooting prompts Illinois law requiring disclosure of police recruits' backgrounds 08/12/2025 07:08pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) ��� Illinois law now requires that prospective police officers approve the release of personal background records in response to last summer's shooting of Sonya Massey, an unarmed Black woman, in her home by a sheriff's deputy who had responded to her call for help. Gov. JB Pr Texas shooter who killed 3 outside Target, including a child, randomly chose his victims, police say 08/12/2025 06:45pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� A random shooting outside a Target store in Texas began when a gunman killed an employee collecting shopping carts then a man and his 4-year-old granddaughter, sparking a chaotic hour of stolen cars and crashes that ended with him arrested naked holding a Bible, police said Tu Danielle Spencer, who played little sister Dee on 'What's Happening!!,' dies at 60 08/12/2025 05:17pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Danielle Spencer, who played the wisecracking and tattling little sister Dee Thomas on the 1970s sitcom ���What's Happening!!��� has died at 60. Spencer, who became a veterinarian later in life, died Monday at a hospital in Richmond, Virginia, after a yearslong battle with canc Gervonta 'Tank' Davis' domestic violence charge dropped in South Florida 08/12/2025 05:11pm • MIAMI (AP) ��� A misdemeanor battery case in South Florida against professional boxer Gervonta ���Tank��� Davis was dropped Tuesday, a month after his arrest on the domestic violence charge. The online docket for Miami-Dade County's clerk of court showed that the charge was dropped and the case clos US stocks rally to records on hopes for cuts to interest rates 08/12/2025 05:07pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The U.S. stock market rallied to records on Tuesday after data suggested inflation across the country was a touch better last month than economists expected. The S&P 500 rose 1.1% to top its all-time high set two weeks ago. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 483 points, US inflation held steady as mild tariff hit offset by cheaper gas, food 08/12/2025 05:06pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� U.S. inflation was unchanged in July as rising prices for some imported goods were balanced by falling gas and grocery prices, leaving overall prices modestly higher than a year ago. Consumer prices rose 2.7% in July from a year earlier, the Labor Department said Tuesday, the US national debt reaches a record $37 trillion, the Treasury Department reports 08/12/2025 04:29pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The U.S. government���s gross national debt has surpassed $37 trillion, a record number that highlights the accelerating debt on America���s balance sheet and increased cost pressures on taxpayers. The $37 trillion update is found in the latest Treasury Department report issued