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Searing heat draws visitors to California's Death Valley, where it's tough to communicate the risks 08/16/2025 09:03am • DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Ray Estrada's 11-year-old grandson is used to Las Vegas' scorching summers, but he'd always wanted to experience the heat in one of the Earth's hottest places. So Estrada recently drove him to Death Valley National Park, with an umbrella, extra water and e 'It makes a lot of people nervous': Anacostia residents react to federal police, National Guard on DC streets 08/16/2025 06:09am • Residents in some of the areas of D.C. with the highest amount of crime are saying they do see the extra patrols by federal police and the National Guard as a deterrent. But the reaction has been mixed. On one hand, some appreciate having the extra resources to fight crime; but on the other, some Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals Qualifying 08/15/2025 09:13pm • Friday At Brainerd International Raceway Brainerd, Minn. Qualifying after two rounds Top Fuel 1. Antron Brown, 3.742 seconds, 334.90 mph; 2. Clay Millican, 3.746, 330.96; 3. Shawn Langdon, 3.753, 334.82; 4. Doug Kalitta, 3.758, 329.75; 5. Brittany Force, 3.766, 332.10; 6. Tony Stewart, 3.799, 326.40 Man struck and killed on freeway after fleeing immigration agents, California official says 08/15/2025 07:48pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man fleeing immigration authorities outside a Home Depot store in Southern California was struck and killed by an SUV when he ran across a nearby freeway, officials said. Police in the city of Monrovia about 20 miles (32 kilometers) northeast of Los Angeles received a call Thu Thieves grab $2 million in jewelry in Seattle heist that took less than 2 minutes 08/15/2025 07:27pm • SEATTLE (AP) — Smash-and-grab thieves in Seattle made off with an estimated $2 million in diamonds, luxury watches, gold and other items in a daring midday jewelry store robbery that took just about 90 seconds, police said Friday. Video from the West Seattle store's surveillance cameras shows four MacIntyre posts a 64 and builds 5-shot lead over Scheffler at BMW Championship 08/15/2025 07:15pm • OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — One day it was the putter, another day it was the irons. No one had a lower score than Robert MacIntyre both of those rounds at the BMW Championship, and his reward for his 6-under 64 on Friday was a five-shot lead over Scottie Scheffler going into the weekend. MacIntyr Ryan Preece earns 2nd career pole position in hunt for NASCAR playoff spot at Richmond 08/15/2025 07:15pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Ryan Preece will start from the pole position Saturday night at Richmond Raceway while trying to lock in a spot for the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. Preece earned his second career pole in 212 Cup starts with a lap at 121.381 mph around the 0.75-mile oval in his No. 60 Ford. � Late goals, Jota tributes and Semenyo racially abused as Liverpool wins Premier League opener 08/15/2025 06:26pm • Defending champion Liverpool launched the Premier League with a dramatic 4-2 win over Bournemouth at Anfield on Friday in an emotionally charged match featuring tributes to Diogo Jota and a player reporting racial abuse. Federico Chiesa scored in the 88th minute and Mohamed Salah added another goal Photos of border patrol arresting a woman selling food and workers at an LA car wash 08/15/2025 05:43pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. border patrol agents made more arrests in Los Angeles and the surrounding area, arresting a woman selling food outside a Home Depot in Los Angeles and workers at a car wash in Montebello, California. The detentions come days after agents jumped out of the back of a truck a NCAA fines Michigan millions, adds game suspension for Moore over sign-stealing scandal 08/15/2025 05:39pm • ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The NCAA fined Michigan tens of millions of dollars Friday and suspended coach Sherrone Moore for a third game as punishment for a sprawling sign-stealing scandal that has loomed over college football’s winningest program for nearly two years, including its national champ Anfield full of emotion during tribute to Diogo Jota and his brother at Liverpool-Bournemouth match 08/15/2025 05:30pm • LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Liverpool players and fans paid an emotional tribute to Diogo Jota and his brother, Andre Silva, on Friday at the first competitive match at Anfield since their death last month. Ahead of kickoff in the 4-2 win over Bournemouth in the Premier League, Liverpool fans held u Wall Street finishes its latest winning week with a fade 08/15/2025 05:25pm • NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks edged back from their record levels on Friday in a quiet finish to another winning week. The S&P 500 slipped 0.3% from the all-time high it set the day before, as it closed its fourth winning week in the last five. The Dow Jones Industrial Average flirted with its With Cup playoffs at stake, controversial limits of rough driving could be tested again at Richmond 08/15/2025 05:00pm • NASCAR playoff desperation reached a controversial peak at Richmond Raceway last year. At the mercy of securing a victory to make the 16-driver field that competes for the Cup championship, Austin Dillon wrecked Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin in the final two corners of the last lap to claim his first Federal agents hid in back of rental truck at start of raid outside LA Home Depot 08/15/2025 04:18pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. Border Patrol agents jumped out of the back of a rented box truck and made arrests Wednesday at a Los Angeles Home Depot store during an immigration raid that an agency official called “Operation Trojan Horse.” The early morning raid near downtown LA came just days afte California man rescued after being trapped for 2 days behind waterfall 08/15/2025 02:20pm • California police used a helicopter to rescue a man who got trapped for two days behind a waterfall when the force of the water pushed him off his climbing lines, law enforcement official said. Ryan Wardwell, 46, of Long Beach, California, had planned to rappel down waterfalls known as the Seven Te