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Apply safety rules to more trains carrying flammable cargo, lawmakers urge 08/22/2025 01:21pm • When a BNSF freight train carrying six cars of liquefied petroleum gas derailed near Manuelito, New Mexico, in 2024, the resulting fire shut down more than 100 miles of an interstate highway. The train carried enough flammable material to send a column of fire and black smoke high into the thin, dry ‘Keep our names out of your mouth’: Moore defends Baltimore against Trump at Pimlico event 08/22/2025 10:22am • An excavator tore open the walls of the Pimlico clubhouse Thursday as the governor and other dignitaries looked on — the official kick-off for a demolition already underway at the historic track in northwest Baltimore’s Park Heights. The Maryland Board of Public Works signed off on the demoli As AI becomes part of everyday life, it brings a hidden climate cost 08/22/2025 09:01am • Marissa Loewen first started using artificial intelligence in 2014 as a project management tool. She has autism and ADHD and said it helped immensely with organizing her thoughts. “We try to use it conscientiously though because we do realize that there is an impact on the environment,” she said Gunmen kill 5 police officers in southeastern Iran 08/22/2025 08:09am • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Gunmen on Friday killed five police officers in Iran's southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan, state media reported. The officers were patrolling in two police cars when they were attacked on the road near the city of Iranshahr, some 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) south Ghanaian singer Shatta Wale questioned in US luxury car probe 08/22/2025 05:19am • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Ghanaian singer Shatta Wale was taken into custody in connection with a U.S. fraud investigation tied to his luxury vehicle, authorities said Thursday. Ghana's Economic and Organized Crime Office, EOCO, said Wale voluntarily appeared for questioning Wednesday as part of a U.S Car bomb and attack on a helicopter in Colombia kill at least 17, including police officers 08/22/2025 12:22am • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A car bomb and a separate attack on a police helicopter in Colombia killed at least 17 people Thursday, according to authorities. President Gustavo Petro attributed both attacks to dissidents of the defunct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, commonly known as FARC. At Russian attack on western Ukraine hits an American factory during the US-led push for peace 08/21/2025 09:15pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a rare drone and missile attack on western Ukraine overnight, officials said Thursday, striking targets including an American-owned electronics plant and injecting further uncertainty into the U.S.-led efforts to end the 3-year-old war. The aerial assault on a Maryland, Virginia, Delaware brace for Hurricane Erin 08/21/2025 09:04pm • Hurricane Erin, now a Category 2 storm, is passing by Virginia, Maryland and Delaware as the work week closes out. Although it won’t likely make landfall, the storm is causing dangerous conditions along coastal areas. The greatest impacts from the hurricane will be along the beaches with d Trump's crackdown in DC leaves residents on edge as federal agents set up checkpoints 08/21/2025 08:56pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal authorities have set up checkpoints around the nation's capital, sometimes asking people for their immigration status and detaining them, as President Donald Trump's crackdown ensnares more residents each day. Trump claimed that a crime crisis required his Republican adm National Guard member ticketed for running red light in D.C. crash 08/21/2025 07:59pm • ▶ Watch Video: Vance visits National Guard troops in D.C. amid debate over crime statistics A National Guard member whose military transport vehicle collided with a car this week was given a traffic ticket for running a red light in Washington, D.C. &mdash AP investigation shows chaos of deadly Texas floods through emergency recordings and videos 08/21/2025 07:35pm • Cries for help came from the pitch-black woods, from rooftops and from attics that shifted unsteadily as the water rose. Firefighters and police raced to help, having little guidance on where or how. Top emergency leaders were asleep or out of town. Using recordings of first responder communications Prince George's Co. police cadets learn to navigate traffic stops with people with autism 08/21/2025 06:14pm • The lights were real and so were the sirens, and there were tons of cops around. But those driving the squad cars were cadets, and it was all happening in an Upper Marlboro parking lot where the "road" was lined with orange cones. On Thursday morning, the class of cadets on their way to becom Walmart helps pull Wall Street to its 5th straight loss 08/21/2025 05:08pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street fell to a fifth straight loss on Thursday, hurt by a drop for Walmart and dampened hopes for coming cuts to interest rates. The S&P 500 slipped 0.4%. All its losses have been relatively modest, but it has not risen since setting an all-time high last Thursday. The Jaylen Brown's father arrested in Las Vegas in parking lot stabbing incident 08/21/2025 04:29pm • BOSTON (AP) — The father of Boston Celtics All-Star Jaylen Brown was arrested in Las Vegas and charged with attempted murder after reportedly stabbing another man in a parking lot. According to TMZ, Quenton Marselles Brown admitted dinging the victim’s car with his door when he got out of his Li Tesla is slow in reporting crashes and the feds have launched an investigation to find out why 08/21/2025 03:19pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Federal auto safety regulators are investigating why Tesla has repeatedly broken rules requiring it to quickly tell them about crashes involving its self-driving technology, a potentially significant development given the company's plans to put hundreds of thousands of driverless c