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Wildfires send about 25,000 fleeing from Canadian Rockies��� largest national park and nearby town 07/23/2024 06:08pm • EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) ��� Multiple wildfires in the Canadian Rockies' largest national park sent up to 25,000 visitors and residents fleeing west over the last open mountain road Tuesday, navigating through darkness and soot following a government alert during the area's busiest tourist time of the Man pleads guilty to bribing a Minnesota juror with a bag of cash in COVID-19-related fraud case 07/23/2024 05:48pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� One of five people charged with attempting to bribe a Minnesota juror with a bag of $120,000 in cash in exchange for an acquittal in a fraud case pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday. Abdimajid Mohamed Nur, 23, pleaded guilty to one count of bribery of a juror, admitting that Oscar Mayer Wienermobile flips onto its side after crash along suburban Chicago highway 07/23/2024 04:44pm • OAK BROOK, Ill. (AP) ��� An Oscar Mayer Wienermobile got into a pickle on a Chicago highway. The hot-dog shaped Wienermobile hit a car Monday morning along Interstate 294 and its driver lost control and overcorrected, causing it to roll onto its side near the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook, Illinois St Climate change imperils drought-stricken Morocco���s cereal farmers and its food supply 07/23/2024 03:10pm • KENITRA, Morocco (AP) ��� Golden fields of wheat no longer produce the bounty they once did in Morocco. A six-year drought has imperiled the country's entire agriculture sector, including farmers who grow cereals and grains used to feed humans and livestock. The North African nation projects this ye DP World Tour Schedule 07/23/2024 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 Darren Walker, president of Ford Foundation, will step down by the end of 2025 07/23/2024 02:37pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� If there are rock stars in philanthropy, Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation, is one of them. And he's about to exit the stage. Walker, 64, has been named one of Rolling Stone���s ���25 People Shaping the Future��� and Time���s ���100 Most Influential People��� as Commission says New York judge should be removed over profane rant at graduation party 07/23/2024 02:04pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A New York state judge who engaged in a prolonged, offensive rant after a melee erupted at a high school graduation party should be removed from office, a judicial watchdog panel ruled. State Supreme Court Justice Erin Gall, 53, invoked her authority as a judge to try to get uninvi Nashville grapples with lingering neo-Nazi presence in tourist-friendly city 07/23/2024 01:32pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Among the throngs of tourists in cowboy attire who flock to Nashville's famed downtown honky-tonks, a small but unsettling group has distracted locals and visitors from the neon lights lately with Nazi salutes and white supremacist rhetoric. For weeks, neo-Nazis have livest 'We were built for this moment': Black women rally around Kamala Harris 07/23/2024 01:24pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� Four years ago, a Zoom meeting to build support for Kamala Harris as the Democratic vice presidential nominee attracted just 90 participants. On Sunday night, an estimated 90,000 Black women and allies logged on at the same time to support her brand-new presidential campaign. Formula 1 in the spotlight with Belgian GP as NASCAR and IndyCar start Olympic break 07/23/2024 11:37am • All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES NASCAR begins a two-week Olympic break, a welcome respite for drivers in the middle of long, hot, challenging season. The series resumes at Richmond on Aug. 11. Last race: Hendrick Motorsports driver Kyle Larson held off Ryan Blaney and Tyler Reddick in overtime t Vikings open camp grieving the loss of Prince George's Co. native Khyree Jackson, and honoring rookie's life 07/23/2024 11:05am • EAGAN, Minn. (AP) ��� The dreaded early morning call for Minnesota Vikings coach Kevin O'Connell came during that rare time for vacation on the NFL calendar, a summer holiday weekend soured by the sudden death of rookie cornerback Khyree Jackson. The fourth-round pick out of Oregon was supposed t Police arrest teen after Iowa mall shooting that left 2 people hurt 07/23/2024 11:00am • DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) ��� Investigators arrested a teenager in connection with a shooting at an Iowa mall that left the teen and another person wounded and sent people running for safety, police said Tuesday. Police arrested a 16-year-old on several weapons charges after learning he had been taken by Police in St. Maarten detain suspect in shooting of politician whose wife was killed in the attack 07/23/2024 10:11am • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� Authorities in St. Maarten said they have detained a suspect linked to the recent shooting of a politician in an attack that killed his wife and shocked many in the normally peaceful Dutch Caribbean territory. Police and prosecutors said they would not release further In Washington state, Inslee's final months aimed at staving off repeal of landmark climate law 07/23/2024 01:56am • SILVERDALE, Wash. (AP) ��� Standing at a transit center near four new wireless bus charging stations in a small community west of Seattle, Gov. Jay Inslee told transit and city leaders where money to pay for them ��� more than $1 million ��� came from. ���It���s possible only because of the Climate Today in History: July 23, the 1967 Detroit riot begins 07/23/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Tuesday, July 23, the 205th day of 2024. There are 161 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On July 23, 1967, the first of five days of deadly rioting erupted in Detroit as an early morning police raid on an unlicensed bar resulted in a confrontation wit