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Secret swimming hole offers cool respite on a hot and humid day 07/28/2023 04:31pm • With temperatures in the 90s and soaking humidity in the D.C. area, finding a shady, cool and relaxing place outdoors can be a challenge — unless you know a secret swimming hole. I found one on Friday. I’ll share it with you, but you have to promise not to tell anyone. I’m clearly not 5-year-old girl rescued from hot car in Hyattsville 07/28/2023 04:00pm • A 5-year-old girl was rescued from a locked car in Hyattsville, Maryland, on Friday, as temperatures were poised to reach almost 100 degrees. Police said they got a call from a good Samaritan just before 8:40 a.m. about a child by herself inside a car in the 3800 block of Oliver Street. Upon arri Two taxi drivers arrested in Mexican resort of Cancun for assaulting van carrying foreign tourists 07/28/2023 03:35pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two taxi drivers have been arrested in the Mexican city of Cancun for assaulting a van carrying foreign tourists, prosecutors said Friday. The events in the Caribbean coast resort on Thursday were the latest in a months-long string of assaults on vehicles that medallion-cab driv US proposes 18% fuel economy increase for new vehicle fleet from 2027 through 2032 07/28/2023 03:20pm • DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government wants to raise the fuel economy of new vehicles 18% by the 2032 model year so the fleet would average about 43.5 miles per gallon in real world driving. The proposed numbers were released Friday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which eventua Leclerc starts on pole for Belgian GP after Verstappen gets grid penalty 07/28/2023 01:27pm • SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium (AP) — Runaway F1 championship leader Max Verstappen had the fastest time in qualifying for the rain-hit Belgian Grand Prix on Friday, but Charles Leclerc will start the race from pole position because of Verstappen's five-place grid penalty for a gearbox change. Verstap Taliban use stun guns, fire hoses and gunfire to break up Afghan women protesting beauty salon ban 07/28/2023 12:11pm • Dozens of Afghan women protested a beauty salon ban on Wednesday after the Taliban ordered their closure nationwide. Security forces used fire hoses, stun guns and shot their guns into the air to break up the protest. The Taliban said earlier this month they were giving all salons in Afghanistan one Salvage crews board a cargo ship burning off the Netherlands. The smoke and flames are easing 07/28/2023 11:47am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Salvage crews dealing with a cargo ship loaded with cars that has been burning for more than two days off the northern Dutch coast boarded the vessel for the first time Friday as heat, flames and smoke eased, the Netherlands’ coast guard said. “In the course of th ‘We were in the air.’ Mississippi family recounts surviving tornado that tore mobile home apart 07/28/2023 11:38am • ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — Streams of air whirled by Ida Cartlidge in every direction, but she couldn’t breathe. Between the thin walls and above the shaky foundation of a mobile home, Cartlidge, 32, miraculously survived a March tornado that carved a path of destruction through Rolling Fork, Mi A pollution tax on older cars can be extended to London's suburbs after a British court ruling 07/28/2023 09:40am • A British court ruled Friday against London suburbs that tried to block a pollution tax on older cars as green policies become a hot political issue in the U.K. amid increasingly dramatic impacts of global climate change. The High Court ruled that Mayor Sadiq Khan had the authority to expand the Ul Germany used to be the world's export powerhouse. Now, it's not growing. What happened? 07/28/2023 08:20am • FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The German economy is still failing to grow, figures showed Friday, as the country that should be the industrial powerhouse for all of Europe struggles with high energy prices, rising borrowing costs and a lagging rebound from key trading partner China. Economic output i Leclerc asks for patience from F1 drivers as rain threatens to hit Belgian GP at Spa 07/28/2023 06:02am • Charles Leclerc urged his rival Formula One drivers to put safety first if wet conditions affect racing at this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix. Rain is expected at Spa-Francorchamps and the Ferrari driver cautioned against others anxiously trying to get laps in on a wet track that has seen two fatalit India and Japan look to collaborate in building semiconductors and resilient supply chains 07/28/2023 04:29am • NEW DELHI (AP) — India and Japan explored collaborating in critical technologies, including semiconductors and resilient supply chains, as part of plans to reach a target of $35.9 billion Japanese investment in the country by 2027, officials said on Friday. Foreign Ministers of India and Japan, S. 6 killed in Damascus suburb bombing near Shiite Muslim shrine ahead of the holy day of Ashoura 07/28/2023 01:40am • BEIRUT (AP) — A motorcycle planted with explosives detonated in a Damascus suburb near a Shiite Muslim shrine Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding dozens a day before the solemn holy day of Ashoura, state media reported, citing the interior ministry. Syrian Health Minister Hassan al Arizona teen Alicia Navarro missing since 2019 shows up safe at Montana police station 07/28/2023 01:24am • HAVRE, Mont. (AP) — An Arizona teenager who disappeared days before her 15th birthday nearly four years ago is safe after walking into a small-town police station in Montana this week, authorities announced Wednesday. Police in Havre, Montana, said Alicia Navarro, now 18, showed up alone Sunday mo Florida woman who stole nearly $3 million from Holocaust survivor gets over 4 years in prison 07/28/2023 12:37am • NEW YORK (AP) — A Florida woman who drained an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor’s life savings by posing as a love interest and then lived lavishly off the $2.8 million she got was sentenced Thursday to over four years in prison. Peaches Stergo, 36, of Champions Gate, Florida, was described by U.S