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Are you cooling your car off the wrong way? Probably, according to AAA 08/02/2024 01:02pm • On scorching hot days, we're all thankful to have cars with air condition. The problem is, if your car has been outside all day, it's even hotter on the inside. And with our penchant for bigger cars these days, if you think the inside feels hotter than you remember it in your older, smaller v US Olympic basketball team seeks No. 1 seed going into Paris Games quarterfinals 08/02/2024 11:10am • VILLENEUVE-D���ASCQ, France (AP) ��� The U.S. Olympic men's basketball team had a 23-point lead over Serbia with seven seconds remaining in its opening contest at the Paris Games earlier this week. Had this been the Golden State Warriors with such a lead in the final moments, Stephen Curry would hav Juan Pablo Montoya to make 1st NASCAR start since 2014 when he races for 23XI at Watkins Glen 08/02/2024 10:28am • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� Juan Pablo Montoya will return to NASCAR for the first time since 2014 when he races for 23XI Racing at Watkins Glen International next month. 23XI, the team owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin, said Friday that Montoya would drive the No. 50 Toyota in support of Mobil 2 police officers shoot child sexual assault suspect inside Frederick hotel 08/02/2024 10:28am • Two police officers, including a Frederick County, Maryland, deputy, shot a man believed to be wanted for child sexual assault and abuse. The shooting took place just before 1 a.m. Friday at a Super 8 hotel on Monocacy Boulevard. The Frederick County Sheriff's Office told WTOP it received info Police dog dies in hot car in Missouri after air conditioner malfunctioned 08/02/2024 09:43am • ARNOLD, Mo. (AP) ��� A Missouri police dog died when the air conditioner failed in the patrol vehicle he had been left in, police said. Vader, a 4-year-old K-9 for the Arnold Police Department in suburban St. Louis, died Wednesday. Temperatures this week have been in the 90s, with high humidity. A F Maryland couple first in US to use electric Ford truck to power their home 08/02/2024 09:30am • A Howard County, Maryland, couple is the first in the nation to use their Ford electric truck to power their home on a set schedule. One of the reasons that Brian Foreman and his wife bought a Ford F-150 Lightning truck was so they could use it as a backup energy source if their home was experien US safety agency moves probe of Dodge Journey fire and door lock failure a step closer to a recall 08/02/2024 08:39am • DETROIT (AP) ��� U.S. auto safety regulators are a step closer to seeking a recall of nearly a million Dodge Journey SUVs after a woman was trapped and died when her vehicle caught fire in 2022. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration upgraded an investigation opened last year to an engin No 'tangible' terror threat detected since the start of the Paris Olympics, interior minister says 08/02/2024 06:53am • PARIS (AP) ��� French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Friday that authorities have not detected any ���tangible" terror threats during the first week of the Olympic Games, during which about 200 people have been arrested by security forces for various crimes. Darmanin released the first of In Mexico City, women water harvesters help make up for drought and dicey public water system 08/02/2024 01:42am • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Gliding above her neighborhood in a cable car on a recent morning, Sonia Estefan��a Palacios D��az scanned a sea of blue and black water tanks, tubes and cables looking for rain harvesting systems. ���There���s one!��� she said, pointing out a black tank hooked up to a smaller b Pakistan's cultural capital sees record rainfall, flooding streets and affecting daily life 08/02/2024 12:59am • LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) ��� Pakistan���s cultural city of Lahore saw record-high rainfall early Thursday, leaving at least three people dead, while flooding streets, disrupting traffic and affecting daily life, officials said, as the death toll from rain-related incidents over the past month surpassed Israel-Hamas war latest: A cease-fire is key to ending the region's cycle of violence, Blinken says 08/02/2024 12:55am • U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken appealed for ���all parties��� in the Middle East to avoid escalatory actions that could plunge the region into further conflict, and said Thursday that a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas was the only way to begin to break the cycle of violence and suffering Today in History: August 2, verdict in ���Black Sox��� trial 08/02/2024 12:00am • Today is Friday, Aug. 2, the 215th day of 2024. There are 151 days left in the year. Today in history: On August 2, 1921, a jury in Chicago acquitted several former members of the Chicago White Sox baseball team and two others of conspiring to defraud the public in the notorious ���Black Sox��� sc 2 New York City police sergeants shot in struggle with armed robbery suspect, both expected to live 08/01/2024 08:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Two New York City police sergeants were shot Thursday as they struggled with a man suspected of sticking up a Manhattan mahjong parlor and stealing women's purses, police said. One sergeant was hit in the groin and will be kept at a hospital overnight for observation, NYPD Chief of Financial Planning for LGBTQ+ Families 08/01/2024 08:00pm • Being part of the LGBTQ+ community comes with social, political and financial challenges. From finding affordable housing to paying for health care, queer individuals and families often struggle more than their cisgender, straight counterparts. When you factor in the costs of having children and oth Vermont gets respite from flood warnings as US senator pushes for disaster aid package 08/01/2024 07:06pm • MORGAN, Vt. (AP) ��� Vermonters started removing debris and silt from their houses and yards and pulled out damaged goods from homes on Thursday as crews began the process of repairing roads from the latest bout of violent flooding that came just weeks after more widespread flooding in the state. I