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High-water rescue crews save people flooded in Kentucky as death toll rises in northeast US 07/19/2023 11:52am • MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — High-water rescue crews pulled people from flooded homes and vehicles Wednesday in Kentucky, where waves of thunderstorms prompted flash flood warnings and watches. A search continued for two children swept away after torrential rains in the northeastern United States. The Nat AUTO RACING: Truex back on top in NASCAR's Cup Series; Verstappen seeks 7th straight F1 win 07/19/2023 11:42am • All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES HighPoint.com 400 Site: Long Pond, Pennsylvania. Schedule: Saturday, practice, 2:35 p.m., and qualifying, 3:20 p.m.; Sunday, race, 2:30 p.m. (USA). Track: Pocono Raceway. Race distance: 160 laps, 400 miles. Last year: Chase Elliott won after starting third whe 6 years running: Arlington is the fittest city, with DC on its heels 07/19/2023 10:57am • The American College of Sports Medicine has ranked Arlington, Virginia, the nation's "fittest city" for the sixth consecutive year. The District ranks No. 2. The ACSM's fitness index uses 34 indicators of fitness, including health outcomes, environment, recreational facilities and policies and India's Tata will build a $5-billion new electric car battery factory in the UK 07/19/2023 09:56am • LONDON (AP) — India's Tata Sons plans to build a 4-billion-pound ($5.2 billion) electric car battery factory in the U.K., the conglomerate said Wednesday. The plant is expected to become one of Europe's largest battery cell manufacturing sites when it begins production in 2026. Britain's governme Two dead in an accident at a coal mine in Mexico that was operating illegally 07/19/2023 09:39am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two miners were killed when a cable snapped on the bucket used to lower them into a small, primitive coal mine that was operating illegally in northern Mexico. The failure of the cable sent the bucket plunging down the mine shaft, killing the miners, the Labor Department said l Montgomery Co. forces the removal of a little library that resembles a speed camera 07/19/2023 08:20am • Little libraries — through which people can share books in their neighborhood — are a common sight in the D.C. region, but one that was set up in Kensington, Maryland, had drivers hitting their brakes. This little library on McComas Avenue in Kensington didn’t look like a little wooden What is the best electric car to take on a road trip? 07/19/2023 06:00am • Summer is a great time for a road trip. But if your ride is an electric vehicle, it will take some careful planning. Whether you're driving a Tesla Model 3 or a Nissan Leaf, John Vincent, senior automotive correspondent at U.S. News and World Report, said the road trip requires preplanning chargi India sets sights on home-mined minerals to boost its clean energy plans 07/19/2023 05:11am • KALIAPANI, India (AP) — In the dusty mountains of eastern India, workers at the country's largest chromium deposit have mined for the essential ore, rain or shine, for around 60 years. The industry is fruitful in some ways — hundreds of trucks stacked with mineral-rich soil journey back and for 36 years later, London's Met Police apologizes to family of murdered private investigator 07/19/2023 04:49am • LONDON (AP) — London's Metropolitan Police apologized Wednesday to the family of private investigator Daniel Morgan, who was killed with an ax in a pub car park 36 years ago, for the force's failure to bring those responsible to justice. The Met, which has been embroiled in a series of scandals ov Teen killed, 4 other people injured in Fairfax County crash 07/19/2023 04:22am • A teenager is dead, and four other people are in the hospital, after a deadly crash in Burke, Virginia, on Tuesday. The crash happened outside the Burke Centre Shopping Center just after 9 p.m. Tuesday, according to Fairfax County police. Officers said four teenagers in a Kia sedan were exiting t Baltimore squeegee worker on trial for murder acted in self-defense in motorist's death, lawyer says 07/18/2023 09:55pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore teenager acted in self-defense when he allegedly shot and killed a baseball bat-wielding driver who approached youths washing windshields at a busy downtown intersection last summer, attorneys for the teen argued as his murder trial got underway Tuesday. The high-profi A car-sized object that washed ashore in western Australia is thought to be space junk 07/18/2023 09:10pm • CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Authorities were investigating on Tuesday whether a cylindrical object about the size of a small car that washed up on a remote Australian beach is space junk from a foreign rocket. Police had cordoned off the barnacle-encrusted object after it was discovered at Green He DC bill aims to crack down on fake temporary vehicle tags 07/18/2023 07:10pm • D.C. Council members are looking to crack down on fake temporary vehicle tags, proposing new legislation that allows city workers to immediately tow and impound vehicles in the District that display counterfeits. The Fraudulent Vehicle Tag Enforcement Amendment Act of 2023, introduced by Council Big-ticket dreams spurred by $1B Powerball jackpot, but expert warns: Take it slow 07/18/2023 06:56pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — With the Powerball jackpot topping $1 billion for this week's drawing, millions of people across the country will be lining up at convenience stores, grocery and gas station counters hoping to hit it big. HOW DOES THIS LATEST POWERBALL JACKPOT STACK UP? The new jackpot for Wedne Coroner identifies two victims killed by man who later died in police shootout in Louisiana 07/18/2023 06:45pm • HARVEY, La. (AP) — Louisiana authorities have identified the former shipyard worker who was killed in a shootout with sheriff’s deputies Monday, and the two ex-coworkers the man had gunned down hours before he was killed. The suspect killed Monday afternoon at an apartment complex in suburban Ne