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Man who encouraged torching hotels for asylum seekers in Britain gets 3 years in prison 08/09/2024 02:14pm • LONDON (AP) ��� A man who used social media to stoke racial hatred during the far-right violence that erupted in Britain last week and encouraged people to torch hotels housing asylum seekers was sentenced Friday to more than three years in prison. The term handed down to Tyler Kay, a 26-year-old fa Body camera footage shows local police anger at Secret Service after Trump assassination attempt 08/09/2024 01:18pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� In the chaotic aftermath of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally last month, a local police officer told a fellow officer he had warned the Secret Service days earlier that the building where the 20-year-old gunman opened fire needed to be secured. Debby cleanup: Tree topples into house in Montgomery Co.; heavy rain leads to major flooding in Annapolis 08/09/2024 12:30pm • Listen live to WTOP for traffic and weather updates on the 8s. The remnants of Debby have wound down and cleanup efforts are underway in the D.C. area, after the storm brought major flooding and several downed trees. Severe weather spurred by Debby knocked down trees, including one that sm Fugitive ex-Catalan leader said to be in Belgium as Spanish police try to explain how he escaped 08/09/2024 12:07pm • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ��� Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont was back in Belgium on Friday. his lawyer said, after he evaded arrest in Spain for the second time in seven years with a dramatic dash into a getaway car following a public appearance in Barcelona. Puigdemont made a much-anticipated Music Review: J Balvin's reggaet��n 'Rayo' is a familiar party ��� but fun nonetheless 08/09/2024 10:33am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The titanium sheen is a distraction. The cover of ���Rayo,��� Colombian singer-rapper J Balvin���s first album since 2021���s ���Jose,��� depicts a futuristic-looking vehicle wrapped in chrome. On closer inspection, it���s a Volkswagen Golf, a popular-the-world over, nondescript ci Paris is now more accessible for disabled people. Will it last after the Olympics and Paralympics? 08/09/2024 09:46am • PARIS (AP) ��� Since the start of the Olympics, Ndieme Lame has been commuting every day to the Stade de France where she works as a volunteer helping visitors find their way. The 57-year-old wheelchair user is in awe at how easy it's been to cross the city on public transit to reach the Olympic sta China auto sales fall in July, while exports jump about 20% as automakers expand across the globe 08/09/2024 09:39am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Auto sales in China faltered in July, falling 5% from a year earlier, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said Friday, although exports jumped about 20% as makers of electric vehicles expanded into global markets. Sales of passenger cars totaled about 2 million units, Liberty Media confirms Justice Department investigation over Formula 1 World Championship spat 08/09/2024 07:28am • Liberty Media, owner of Formula One Group, confirmed that it is under investigation by the Justice Department for denying Andretti Global entry into the Formula 1 World Championship. ���We intend to fully cooperate with that investigation, including any related request for information,��� Liberty Me Kelvin Kiptum was a gold-medal favorite. After his death, his memory lingers over Olympic marathon 08/09/2024 07:22am • PARIS (AP) ��� The memory of Kenya���s Kelvin Kiptum hovers over the men���s Olympic marathon. His competitors will wind through the streets of Paris on Saturday chasing a gold medal he would have been favored to win. They will stare down a world-record time that he once set. The 24-year-old maratho Residents of Serbia's lithium-rich region vow to block EU-backed mining 08/09/2024 05:43am • GORNJE NEDELJICE, Serbia (AP) ��� Zlatko Kokanovi�� does not want a lithium mine in his backyard and he will do anything he can to stop it from opening. ���All of us here, we are ready to lose our lives," the 48-year farmer told The Associated Press. "They can shoot. That is the only way they can o Like pit crews but in weightlifting. How loaders keep the Olympic sport going 08/09/2024 02:53am • PARIS (AP) ��� A hulking weightlifter raises a bar of more than 300 pounds (135 kilograms) and swiftly drops it the ground, followed by cheers cascading down from the crowd. Before another competitor can step up, a handful of people seated nearby scurry up the stairs and onto the stage to reset. The Nevada man accused of hate crime acknowledged in police interview that he referenced 'hanging tree' 08/09/2024 01:16am • RENO, Nevada (AP) ��� A Nevada man charged with a hate crime acknowledged he referenced a ���hanging tree��� during a verbal altercation with a Black man who was gathering signatures for a proposed ballot measure southeast of Reno, according to a criminal complaint made public Thursday. Gary Miller, Huge California wildfire chews through timber in very hot and dry weather 08/09/2024 01:06am • CHICO, Calif. (AP) ��� California's largest wildfire so far this year continued to grow Thursday as it chewed through timber in very hot and dry weather. The Park Fire has scorched more than 660 square miles (1,709 square kilometers) since erupting July 24 near the Sacramento Valley city of Chico an AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean 08/09/2024 12:18am • Aug. 2-8, 2024 Young gymnasts trained in the gym that Olympic medalist Rebeca Andrade practiced at as a child in Guarulhos, Brazil. Cars traversed snow-covered roads in Chile's capital. Venezuelan opposition leader Mar��a Corina Machado attended a rally following the country's disputed presidential Timeline of events in Ferguson, Missouri, after a police officer fatally shot Michael Brown 08/09/2024 12:13am • FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) ��� On Aug. 9, 2014, Michael Brown and a friend were walking in the middle of Canfield Drive, a two-lane street in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, when a police officer drove by and told them to use the sidewalk. After words were exchanged, the white officer confronted