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In Wyoming, Bill Gates moves ahead with nuclear project aimed at revolutionizing power generation 08/15/2024 01:32pm • Bill Gates and his energy company are starting construction at their Wyoming site for a next-generation nuclear power plant he believes will ���revolutionize��� how power is generated. Gates was in the tiny community of Kemmerer Monday to break ground on the project. The co-founder of Microsoft is c US shoppers sharply boosted spending at retailers in July despite higher prices 08/15/2024 12:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Americans stepped up their spending at retailers last month by the most in a year and a half, easing concerns that the economy might be weakening under the pressure of higher prices and elevated interest rates. The Commerce Department reported Thursday that retail sales jumped 1 Injured Ferguson officer shows 'small but significant' signs of progress in Missouri 08/15/2024 12:34pm • FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) ��� A Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who was critically injured during a protest on the 10th anniversary of Michael Brown���s death is showing ���small but significant signs of progress��� from a severe brain injury, according to a post on a GoFundMe page set up to support the Conte back in Italy with Napoli and one of 14 coaching changes in Serie A 08/15/2024 12:00pm • MILAN (AP) ��� He���s back. Antonio Conte has returned to Serie A with the mission of helping Napoli recover from one of the worst title defences in Italian league history. Napoli ran away with the title in 2023 but had a torrid time last season and finished a woeful 10th. Instead it was one of Cont India says 'no' to hosting women's T20 Cricket World Cup in October 08/15/2024 10:44am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� India has turned down an offer from the International Cricket Council to replace Bangladesh as host of the Twenty20 World Cup for women in October. The ICC is contemplating a change of venue following political turmoil in Bangladesh. More than 300 have been killed during unrest th One Tech Tip: Don't want chatbots using your conversations for AI training? Some let you opt out 08/15/2024 10:25am • LONDON (AP) ��� Be careful what you tell a chatbot. Your conversation might be used to improve the artificial intelligence system that it's built on. If you ask ChatGPT for advice about your embarrassing medical condition, beware that anything you disclose could be used to tweak OpenAI's algorithms Ruling that bounced Kennedy from New York ballot could challenge him in other states 08/15/2024 10:04am • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ��� Robert F. Kennedy Jr.���s independent presidential campaign suffered a blow this week when a judge in New York invalidated his petition to put his name on the state ballot, a ruling that could potentially create problems for the candidate as he faces challenges elsewhere. Kenne Ukraine gambled on an incursion deep into Russian territory. The bold move changed the battlefield 08/15/2024 10:03am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Ukraine's stunning incursion into Russia���s Kursk border region was a bold gamble for the country's military commanders, who committed their limited resources to a risky assault on a nuclear-armed enemy with no assurance of success. After the first signs of progress, Ukrainia 'Worse and worse and worse:' Downtown Annapolis now seeing flooding about every 3 days 08/15/2024 09:40am • After the remnants of Tropical Storm Debby soaked the D.C. area, Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley signed a citywide state of emergency declaration. Last Friday, the floodwaters in downtown Annapolis surged to over 4 feet above normal levels at City Dock. The city estimates that the storm cost 19 Where to find new school zone speed cameras in Arlington County 08/15/2024 09:11am • From vaping, the cost of school supplies to cellphone policies, the WTOP team is studying up on hot-button topics in education across the D.C. region. Follow on air and online in our series�����WTOP Goes Back to School�����this August and September. When students return to school in Arlington Students who ousted Hasina are helping lead Bangladesh, from the streets to the ministries 08/15/2024 08:15am • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ��� Within a week of unseating Bangladesh���s longest-serving prime minister, the students who drove out Sheikh Hasina were directing Dhaka���s traffic. Decked out in neon vests, their university IDs slung around their necks, they clutch sticks and umbrellas to wave cars this India's Modi voices concern over unrest in neighboring Bangladesh and attacks on Hindus there 08/15/2024 08:15am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday expressed concern over the unrest that led to a change of government in neighboring Bangladesh and the attacks on Hindus and other minorities there. Modi addressed his nation from New Delhi���s 17th-century Mughal-era Red Fort on its How a small group of nuns in rural Kansas vex big companies with their investment activism 08/15/2024 08:06am • ATCHISON, Kansas (AP) ��� Among corporate America���s most persistent shareholder activists are 80 nuns in a monastery outside Kansas City. Nestled amid rolling farmland, the Benedictine sisters of Mount St. Scholastica have taken on the likes of Google, Target and Citigroup ��� calling on major com High interest rates have dimmed the solar sector. Will coming cuts put a shine on their stocks? 08/15/2024 08:00am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� More sunshine could be in the forecast for solar power companies like SolarEdge Technologies and Sunrun, whose stock prices have been dimmed by high interest rates. Wall Street is betting that those high rates could start coming down by September. The Fed's key rate is at a two-dec Democrats trust Harris slightly more than Biden on climate change, an AP-NORC poll finds 08/15/2024 07:19am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� As the Democratic National Convention approaches, a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that Democrats have slightly higher trust in Vice President Kamala Harris' ability to address the issue of climate change than President Joe Biden. The