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Trans teens file lawsuit challenging New Hampshire law banning them from girls' sports 08/16/2024 04:03pm • MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) ��� The families of two transgender teens in New Hampshire filed a lawsuit Friday challenging a new state law that bans them from playing on girls' sports teams at their public high schools. The issue of how to treat transgender athletes has been fiercely debated across the U.S. Michael Brown���s death transformed a nation and sparked a decade of American reckoning on race 08/16/2024 03:48pm • Kayla Reed was born in a predominantly African American section of St. Louis where, like her own kin, many Black families had been transplanted out of the Deep South. After the death of her grandmother, Reed moved with her father from the city to a St. Louis County town located within one mile of F The collapse of an iconic arch in Utah has some wondering if other famous arches are also at risk 08/16/2024 03:22pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ��� A common line of questions has emerged from visitors to Utah's Arches National Park in the week since an iconic rock arch at Lake Powell known as the ���Toilet Bowl��� collapsed. Are these arches also at risk of falling soon? What are you doing to prevent their collapse? The AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Florida's state primaries 08/16/2024 03:06pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Republican Rick Scott 's bid for renomination for a second Senate term tops the list of races that Florida voters will decide in Tuesday's primary. Scott is heavily favored against challengers John Columbus, an actor and former Walt Disney World performer, and Keith Gross, an att Netflix documentary 'Daughters' chronicles inspirational daddy-daughter dance at DC Jail 08/16/2024 01:24pm • It won the Audience Award for U.S. Documentary at this year's Sundance Film Festival. This week, "Daughters" premieres on Netflix chronicling an emotional daddy-daughter dance at the D.C. Jail. WTOP caught up with the film's co-directors Natalie Rae and Angela Patton, who created the dance Tennessee family's lawsuit says video long kept from them shows police force, not drugs, killed son 08/16/2024 12:50pm • A mother whose son was having a seizure in his Tennessee apartment said in a federal lawsuit that police and paramedics subjected the 23-year-old to ���inhumane acts of violence��� instead of treating him, then covered up their use of deadly force. The death of Austin Hunter Turner was one of more t Jack Russell, lead singer of band Great White who was onstage during horrific '03 concert fire, dies 08/16/2024 12:26pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Jack Russell, the lead singer of the bluesy '80s metal band Great White whose hits included ���Once Bitten Twice Shy��� and ���Rock Me��� and was fronting his band the night 100 people died in a 2003 nightclub fire in Rhode Island, has died. He was 63. ���Jack is loved and remember How Ferguson elevated the profile of the Justice Department's civil rights enforcers 08/16/2024 11:51am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� As the first images out of Ferguson, Missouri surfaced 10 years ago ��� the bloodied body of a man left for hours in the street beneath white sheets, protesters smashing car windows and looting stores ��� it didn���t take long for the federal government to see a role for itself. US consumer sentiment rises slightly on Democratic optimism over Harris' presidential prospects 08/16/2024 11:32am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A surge in optimism by Democrats over the prospects of Vice President Kamala Harris lifted U.S. consumer sentiment slightly this month. The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index edged up to 67.8 after coming in at 66.4 in July. Americans' expectations for the future r As college football evolves, so does the relationship between players and their CEO-like coaches 08/16/2024 11:29am • Ra'Shaad Samples was a reticent and newly appointed student-assistant, shagging balls at practice with a group of wide receivers who were recently his teammates, when he received one of his first important lessons about coaching. ���Ra'Shaad, you have to talk to coach," Samples recalls then-Houston Hettie Jones, publisher, educator and award-winning poet and former wife of Amiri Baraka, dies at 90 08/16/2024 11:23am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Hettie Jones, an award-winning author, publisher and educator who was the first wife and early muse of the author-poet-activist Amiri Baraka and one of the few women in the Beat literary community, has died at age 90. Jones died Tuesday, according to a statement released by her fam Mac Jones finds 'great joy in competition' as he vies for a backup role with his hometown Jaguars 08/16/2024 11:21am • JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) ��� It���s easy to spot Mac Jones on Jacksonville���s practice fields. He���s the one dancing between plays. Shimmying. Shaking. Strutting. Smiling. The 15th overall pick in the 2021 NFL draft is clearly enjoying his new role with his hometown team. After being the third Jagu What do marijuana, the death penalty and fracking have in common? Harris shifted positions on them 08/16/2024 11:03am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� As California���s attorney general, Kamala Harris successfully defended the death penalty in court, despite her past crusade against it. As a new senator, she proposed abolishing cash bail ��� a reversal from when she chided San Francisco judges for making it ���cheaper��� to com Germany's quarrelsome government clinches a deal on the 2025 budget 08/16/2024 10:53am • BERLIN (AP) ��� Germany's quarrelsome governing coalition reached an agreement Friday on details of the country's 2025 budget, weeks after Chancellor Olaf Scholz and top officials clinched an initial deal that then got bogged down in a new dispute, further damaging the unpopular government's image. The top UN court sets a December date for the start of hearings in a landmark climate change case 08/16/2024 10:51am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) ��� The top United Nations court announced Friday that public hearings will open Dec. 2 in a landmark case seeking a non-binding advisory opinion on ���the obligations of States in respect of climate change.��� The U.N. General Assembly sent the case to the International