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Denny Hamlin begins his bid for a sweep at Richmond by winning the pole in qualifying 08/10/2024 08:38pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Denny Hamlin’s bid for a sweep at Richmond is off to a good start. Hamlin won the pole for Sunday night’s NASCAR Cup Series race, topping qualifying Saturday in his No. 11 Toyota. It was Hamlin's third pole of the year, although he went on to finish out of the top 10 after Thousands protest lithium mining in Serbia. Officials say it's a plot against populist president 08/10/2024 04:04pm • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesters rallied on Saturday against lithium mining in Serbia, despite officials' warnings of their alleged plot to topple populist President Aleksandar Vučić and his government. Vučić said earlier he had been tipped off by Russian intelligence se No-car Games: Los Angeles Olympic venues will only be accessible by public transportation 08/10/2024 10:33am • PARIS (AP) — Traffic. What will you do about notorious gridlocked Los Angeles traffic? That's the one burning question repeatedly posed to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass as she prepares to receive the Olympic flag ahead of the 2028 Summer Games. “A no-car Games,” Bass said Saturday. Huh? Bass an Record-breaking wildfires scorch more than 1.4 million acres in Oregon, authorities say 08/09/2024 11:40pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Wildfires in Oregon have burned more acres of land in 2024 than in any year since reliable records began, authorities said Friday, with the mid-August peak of fire season still on the horizon. Blazes have scorched more than 1.4 million acres, or nearly 2,200 square miles (5,7 Flooding from the remnants of Debby leads to high water rescues in New York, Pennsylvania 08/09/2024 09:25pm • First responders launched high-water and helicopter rescues of people trapped in cars and homes in rural New York and Pennsylvania as heavy rain from the remnants of Debby slammed the Northeast with intense floods. The worst of the flash flooding so far in New York was occurring in villages and haml Illinois sheriff retiring after deputy he hired was charged with murder for shooting Sonya Massey 08/09/2024 08:24pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois sheriff who hired the deputy charged in the death of Sonya Massey announced Friday that he will retire, five weeks after the 36-year-old Black woman was fatally shot in her home. Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell, who won the office in 2018, said politics Murder case dismissed against man charged in death of Detroit synagogue leader 08/09/2024 08:14pm • DETROIT (AP) — The case against a man accused of killing of a Detroit synagogue leader collapsed Friday as a judge dismissed a remaining murder charge, three weeks after a jury cleared him of a similar but separate charge. Judge Margaret Van Houten said putting Michael Jackson-Bolanos on trial aga Michael Brown's death 10 years ago sparked change in Ferguson 08/09/2024 06:30pm • FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Michael Brown once told his father the “world is going to know my name,” words Michael Brown Sr. still takes to heart. Friday marks 10 years since the 18-year-old was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, turning the St. Louis suburb into the focal point of the Israel-Hamas war latest: Palestinians flee parts of south Gaza as Israel launches a new assault 08/09/2024 05:43pm • Palestinians are fleeing large areas around Khan Younis in southern Gaza where the Israeli military began a new assault after ordering another mass evacuation. Gaza’s second-largest city, Khan Younis, suffered widespread destruction during air and ground operations earlier in the year. The enclav Israeli troops launch a new assault into Gaza's Khan Younis as mediators push for cease-fire talks 08/09/2024 05:36pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops launched a new assault Friday into the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, targeting Hamas fighters who the military claims still operate there despite repeated offensives, as American, Qatari and Egyptian mediators renewed their push for Israel and H Rev It Up: MLB to hold Braves-Reds game at Bristol Motor Speedway next August 08/09/2024 04:49pm • Fasten your seat belts, Major League Baseball is coming to Bristol Motor Speedway. Officials from MLB and the track known as the “Thunder Valley" that holds more than 146,000 fans for NASCAR races announced Friday that the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds will play in the Speedway Classic there Vikings trade Andrew Booth Jr. to Cowboys for Nahshon Wright in low-level swap of cornerbacks 08/09/2024 04:48pm • OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings traded Andrew Booth Jr. to the Dallas Cowboys for Nahshon Wright on Friday in a low-level swap of cornerbacks who might be at risk of getting cut by the end of training camp. Booth was a second-round pick by the Vikings out of Clemson in 2022 but had min Review: Affleck & Damon banter like Butch & Sundance in Apple's heist comedy 'The Instigators' 08/09/2024 04:41pm • "Affleck & Damon" has been a Hollywood brand since their Oscar-winning script for "Good Will Hunting" (1997). That was back when Matt Damon first showed main-character energy and Casey Affleck was still breaking in his baseball glove in a supporting role. While older brother Ben Affleck got How this Howard U. alum's nonprofit is making transitions into college smoother for students in need 08/09/2024 02:57pm • It’s the time of year where kids are going off to college, and in most cases, those new students will have a parent to help them move in, make sure they have what they need in their dorms, and then send a few other things to help them get by as the school year begins. But what if you grew up bo Man who encouraged torching hotels for asylum seekers in Britain gets 3 years in prison 08/09/2024 02:14pm • LONDON (AP) — A man who used social media to stoke racial hatred during the far-right violence that erupted in Britain last week and encouraged people to torch hotels housing asylum seekers was sentenced Friday to more than three years in prison. The term handed down to Tyler Kay, a 26-year-old fa