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Crews clear roads after mudslide in the Italian Alps coats city streets in muck 08/14/2023 09:02am • ROME (AP) — Civil protection crews cleared mud-covered roads in an Italian Alpine city Monday after a mountain mudslide sent water, soil and debris pouring into town, bursting riverbanks. After searching homes and cars overnight, authorities said all residents were accounted for. Streets and cars Men alleging abuse at Japanese talent agency are interviewed by company investigators 08/14/2023 07:28am • TOKYO (AP) — Two men who say they were sexually abused as teenagers by a Japanese entertainment mogul were interviewed Monday by a special team set up by the talent agency to look into the allegations. Junya Hiramoto and Shimon Ishimaru, both former members of a boys’ dance-and-song group called Ways to save money on a tight budget 08/14/2023 05:57am • More than half of Americans are currently living paycheck to paycheck, and when funds are tight, it can be easy to get distraught and feel like the situation is permanent. But even in tough financial times, there are strategies you can employ every day to save money. You've probably heard the cli As Maui rescue continues, families and faith leaders cling to hope but tackle reality of loss 08/14/2023 05:34am • KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) — For scores of families in Hawaii still hoping to reunite with loved ones, it was not yet time to give up — even as the staggering death toll continued to grow, and even as authorities predicted that more remains would be found within the ashes left behind by a wildfire tha Car Review: 2024 VW Atlas is a 3-row SUV with newfound style 08/14/2023 05:14am • By special WTOP contributor Brian Armstead In May, 2017, the first Volkswagen Atlas was sold in the U.S. as a 2018 model. Today, Atlas (including the five-seater Cross Sport that debuted in 2020) is the bestselling, most profitable nameplate in the VW lineup. Over 494,000 have been sold. For the 202 Hawaii churches offer prayers for the dead and the missing after devastating Maui wildfires 08/14/2023 04:26am • LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Parishioners mourned the dead and prayed for the missing Sunday in Hawaii churches as communities began looking ahead to a long recovery from last week's wildfire that demolished a historic Maui town and killed more than 90 people. Maria Lanakila Church in Lahaina was spared North Dakota teen survives nearly 100-foot fall at North Rim of Grand Canyon 08/14/2023 01:28am • GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — A 13-year-old North Dakota boy has survived a fall of nearly 100 feet at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon during a family trip. Authorities said it took emergency crews two hours to rescue Wyatt Kauffman after he slipped on a cliff Tuesday and plunged the Maui officials and scientists warn that after the flames flicker out, toxic particles will remain 08/14/2023 01:05am • LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — When flames swept through western Maui, engulfing the town of Lahaina, residents saw toxic fumes spewing into the air as burning homes, pipes and cars combusted, transforming rubber, metal and plastic into poisonous, particulate matter-filled smoke. Retired mailman and Vietn Ecuador was calm and peaceful. Now hitmen, kidnappers and robbers walk the streets 08/14/2023 12:13am • GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — Belen Diaz was walking home from college one evening when a motorcycle carrying two men made a menacing U-turn. Terrified that she was about to be robbed for the eighth time in three years, the teaching student banged on a cab window until the driver drove her home. Diaz Woman shot, infant child found safe in car at Northern Virginia shopping center 08/13/2023 10:38pm • Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, said a woman is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries after being shot in a vehicle at a Hybla Valley shopping center with her infant child alongside her. Officers found the victim around 3:49 p.m. Saturday afternoon, when they responded to reports of NHRA Menards Nationals Pairings 08/13/2023 10:26pm • Sunday At Heartland Motorsports Park Topeka, Kan. Final Finish Order Top Fuel 1. Justin Ashley; 2. Brittany Force; 3. Antron Brown; 4. Clay Millican; 5. Steve Torrence; 6. Leah Pruett; 7. Scott Palmer; 8. Austin Prock; 9. Shawn Langdon; 10. Buddy Hull; 11. Lex Joon; 12. Tony Schumacher; 13. Doug Kal Tesla Competitors: 7 Rival EV Stocks to Buy 08/13/2023 08:00pm • Electric vehicles will account for about half of all global new car sales by 2035, according to Goldman Sachs. Tesla Inc. (ticker: TSLA) is the clear EV market leader, but it has been operating mostly free of competition until recently. EV startups and legacy automakers are now bringing new EV model Bailey's 2-run homer in 10th gives Giants 3-2 win over Rangers 08/13/2023 07:37pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Patrick Bailey hit a two-run homer in the 10th inning and the San Francisco Giants overcame a blown save by All-Star closer Camilo Doval to beat the Texas Rangers 3-2 on Sunday, stopping a four-game losing streak. The 24-year-old Bailey became the youngest Giants player to hit McDowell dominates Brickyard 200 for 2nd NASCAR crown jewel victory 08/13/2023 07:06pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Michael McDowell knelt down at Indianapolis Motor Speedway's yard of bricks and delivered the sweetest kisses of his racing career Sunday. The 38-year-old Arizona driver became a Brickyard champ — and a member of an elite club. McDowell inherited the lead on Lap 53 and never Makkabi Berlin becomes the first Jewish team to play in the German Cup in a loss to Wolfsburg 08/13/2023 05:40pm • BERLIN (AP) — Makkabi Berlin set a milestone in the German Cup on Sunday when it became the first Jewish team to compete in the competition that was first played under the Nazis in 1935. Makkabi, a fifth-tier side of office workers and other part-timers, was beaten 6-0 by Wolfsburg in their first-