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Stock market today: Dow closes at a record even as losses for Big Tech pull S&P 500 and Nasdaq lower 08/26/2024 04:42pm • The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed to an all-time high, even as big tech companies weighed on the broader market, leading U.S. stock indexes to a mixed finish on Wall Street. The S&P 500 fell 0.3% Monday, remaining within 0.9% of its record set in July. The Nasdaq composite fell 0.9%, pull Death of woman on 1st day of Burning Man festival under investigation 08/26/2024 04:19pm • RENO, Nev. (AP) ��� Authorities said Monday that they are investigating the death of a woman at the counterculture festival known as Burning Man, which is held annually in the northern Nevada desert. The Pershing County Sheriff���s Office said emergency personnel responded to a call about a woman fo Former Prince George���s County Council member pleads guilty to felony theft scheme and perjury 08/26/2024 03:27pm • Former Prince George���s County Council member Mel Franklin faces up to a year in prison after pleading guilty Monday to charges of a felony theft scheme and perjury. Prosecutors said that from 2020 through at least October 2023, Franklin embezzled more than $124,000 from his campaign committee, DP World Tour Schedule 08/26/2024 03:01pm • Nov. 23-26 _ Joburg Open (Dean Burmester) Nov. 23-26 _ Fortinet Australian PGA Championship (Min Woo Lee) Nov. 30-Dec. 3 _ Investec South African Open Championship (Dean Burmester) Nov. 30-Dec. 3 _ ISPS Handa Australian Open (Joaquin Niemann) Dec. 7-10 _ Alfred Dunhill Championship (Louis Oosthuizen Bus lane tickets in DC are declining, but thousands are still getting caught 08/26/2024 02:12pm • Thousands of drivers are getting caught parking or standing in one of D.C.'s dedicated bus lanes or bus zones, but the number has started to decline, according to Sharon Kershbaum, acting director of D.C.'s Department of Transportation. In January, the agency started giving citations to a Analysis: It took 7 decades but the Wood Brothers finally have NASCAR win No. 100 08/26/2024 02:07pm • Speedy Thompson was the first driver to wheel the famed No. 21 Ford to victory lane for Wood Brothers Racing way back in 1960 with a win at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Ninety-eight wins followed over the next seven decades, all the way through Ryan Blaney's victory at Pocono Raceway in 2017. And then What���s behind the bloodiest recent attacks in Pakistan's Baluchistan province? 08/26/2024 11:09am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� Multiple attacks in Pakistan���s restive southwest have killed at least 38 people, the highest death toll in a 24-hour period blamed on separatists in Baluchistan province in recent years. Gunmen mowed down people after dragging them off buses, cars and trucks. Police and passersb Gunmen kill dozens in multiple attacks in one of the deadliest days in a Pakistani province 08/26/2024 11:06am • QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) ��� Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan killed at least 38 people in three separate attacks on Monday, officials said, while the military said security forces killed 21 insurgents, marking one of the deadliest days of violence in the restive Baluchistan province, with reports of ot It looked like Israel and Hezbollah had gone to war, but then they pulled back. Here's what to know 08/26/2024 10:05am • Israel and Lebanon���s Hezbollah pulled back after an exchange of heavy fire over the weekend that briefly raised fears of an all-out war. But their decades-long conflict is far from over, regional tensions linked to the war in Gaza are still high, and it���s probably only a matter of time before an Behind the rhetoric, a presidential campaign is a competition about how to tell the American story 08/26/2024 09:44am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic nomination ���on behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on Earth.��� America, Barack Obama thundered, ���is ready for a better story.��� JD Vance insisted that the Biden administration ���is not the end of o Will Power is thick in the IndyCar championship fight and not even considering retirement 08/26/2024 05:55am • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� Will Power, soaked in victory champagne and still buzzing from a win that kept him in the IndyCar championship fight, leaned in to do a microphone check in a most unusual way. The 43-year-old Australian sang a verse of ���Dead or Alive��� by Bon Jovi to test the sound level o Car Review: Evoque has look of a big Range Rover without the price and size 08/26/2024 01:07am • The 2025 Range Rover Evoque is a good cruiser, providing a quiet cabin on the highway. (WTOP/Mike Parris) Luxury SUVs are a staple for Range Rover, and now their smallest ride, the 2025 Evoque, was refreshed last year to better fit the Range Rover image. The new front-end styling is borrowed from th Temple Hills man dies after single-vehicle crash in Prince George's County 08/25/2024 11:50pm • A man from Temple Hills, Maryland, has died following a car crash in Lanham early Sunday morning. In a news release, Maryland State Police said officers responded to the area of westbound U.S. Route 50 near the Capital Beltway in Lanham around 2 a.m. for reports of a single car crash. At the s Pros, Cons of Applying Early Decision to Law School 08/25/2024 08:00pm • Because the law school admissions process is rolling, you should apply during the fall for your best odds of acceptance. However, timing doesn't make much difference unless you apply late. In contrast, applying either early decision or early action can give you a real advantage -- but not without a More officers, speed cameras added to Howard Co. back-to-school enforcement 08/25/2024 05:32pm • Drivers passing through school zones in Howard County, Maryland, this week will see some extra police cars, cameras and new lighted stop signs to help keep students safe as they head back to class. The extra enforcement is part of an annual plan called Helping Arriving Students Through Enforcemen