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Fiery North Dakota derailment was latest crash to involve weak tank cars the NTSB wants replaced 08/01/2024 07:06pm • The fiery North Dakota derailment that burned for days early last month was the latest train crash to involve the flawed tank cars that the National Transportation Safety Board has been trying to get off the tracks for decades. The NTSB said in a preliminary report released Thursday that the July 5 Stock market today: Worries about the economy hit Wall Street, and the Dow drops nearly 500 points 08/01/2024 05:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Just a day after rallying on hopes that the Federal Reserve is about to cut interest rates, U.S. stocks tumbled Thursday after weak data raised worries the Fed may have missed its window to do so before undercutting the economy���s growth. The S&P 500 sank 1.4% after a report Meta Platforms, Shake Shack rise; Moderna, Goodyear fall, Thursday, 8/1/2024 08/01/2024 04:16pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Thursday: Meta Platforms Inc., up $22.91 to $497.74. The owner of Facebook and Instagram beat Wall Street's second-quarter earnings and revenue forecasts. Exact Sciences Corp., up $12.23 to $57.91. The molecular diagnos Alabama woman pleads guilty to defrauding pandemic relief fund out of $2 million 08/01/2024 02:39pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ��� An Alabama woman has pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud and money laundering charges for fraudulently claiming nearly $2 million in pandemic relief funds. Tametria Conner Dantzler, 39, entered the plea Wednesday. She could get up to 20 years in prison when she's sentenced Georgia coach Kirby Smart announces dismissal of wide receiver Rara Thomas following arrest 08/01/2024 02:37pm • ATHENS, Ga. (AP) ��� Georgia opened practice on Thursday without wide receiver Rara Thomas, who has been dismissed from the team following his arrest on charges of cruelty to children and battery. Coach Kirby Smart said before Thursday's practice he met with Thomas on Tuesday and informed the junior Biggest, most diverse fleet in Olympic sailing hits the water 08/01/2024 01:51pm • MARSEILLE, France (AP) ��� The biggest and most diverse fleet of the 2024 Olympics' sailing events, the one-person dinghy, hit the water Thursday in sweltering Marseille. The small, white-sailed boats ��� formerly known as lasers, now called ILCA 6 for women and ILCA 7 for men ��� go slower, sail de British prime minister announces policing plan to deal with violence after fatal stabbing of girls 08/01/2024 01:42pm • LONDON (AP) ��� British Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned the ���tiny mindless minority��� behind unrest that has plagued several cities after a horrific stabbing at a children���s dance class and vowed to put a stop to it as the 17-year-old suspect was named Thursday in part to counter misinfor Connecticut man bitten by rare rattlesnake he tried to help ends up in coma 08/01/2024 01:30pm • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) ��� When Joseph Ricciardella saw the snake in the road, he stopped his car and tried to help it avoid getting run over. The attempted good deed landed him in a Connecticut hospital in a medically induced coma after the timber rattlesnake, which is rare in the Northeast, bit his Hamas leader's assassination sheds light on a long history of alleged Israeli attacks in Iran 08/01/2024 01:12pm • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) ��� Explosions in secretive underground nuclear facilities. Cyber attacks. Top scientists poisoned. Natural gas pipelines sabotaged. All these and more have been blamed on Israel in its shadow war with Iran. And the latest accusation, that Israel is behind the assassination of Poland marks 80th anniversary of Warsaw Uprising, honoring heroes of doomed fight for freedom 08/01/2024 12:34pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) ��� The Polish capital came to a standstill Thursday on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, an ill-fated revolt against Nazi German forces during World War II. Sirens wailed, church bells rang and people stopped in their tracks, some stepping out of their F1 Arcade with race car simulators and caviar service is rolling into Union Market 08/01/2024 12:11pm • London-based F1 Arcade will open its second U.S. location at D.C.'s Union Market this fall, with 83 Formula 1 race car simulators, private rooms, a 42-foot bar and a high end menu that includes seafood towers, caviar service and Wagyu beef sliders. The first U.S. location for F1 Arcade opened in Olympics on her mind, Ukraine in her heart, world-record high jumper goes for a gold medal in Paris 08/01/2024 10:41am • SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) ��� The best high jumper in Ukraine, and maybe the world, hasn���t spent much time at home the last few years. Home for Yaroslava Mahuchikh is Dnipro, a city of nearly 1 million located only about 100 kilometers from the front lines of the war with Russia that shows no signs From bugs to trees, a Md. arborist���s tips for spotting invasive species in your backyard 08/01/2024 10:05am • Some bugs are OK, others are not, and the same goes for trees growing in the D.C. region. What should you be on the lookout for? During a walk-through at Patuxent River State Park, Davey Tree Expert Company arborist Lou Meyer points to an ailanthus tree, also known as the tree of heaven, and Today in Sports - Week Ahead, Aug. 2 - Aug. 8 08/01/2024 10:05am • Aug. 2 1864 ��� The first Travers Stakes at Saratoga is won by Kentucky, a horse that scores 20 consecutive victories. 1912 ��� John McDermott wins the U.S. Open golf championship for the second straight year with a 294 total. 1952 ��� Five American boxers win gold medals at the Olympics, marking th Today in Sports - Week Ahead, Aug. 2 - Aug. 8 08/01/2024 10:00am • Aug. 6 1958 ��� Glen Davis of Columbus, Ohio, sets a world record in the 400 hurdles with a time of 49.2 in Budapest, Hungary. 1966 ��� Muhammad Ali knocks out Brian London in the third round to retain his world heavyweight title. 1972 ��� South African Gary Player wins his second PGA golf champions