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Voltaggio brothers Bryan and Michael on when to expect new Md. restaurant, menu changes at steakhouse 08/06/2024 08:20am • Growing up in Frederick and Prince George���s counties in Maryland, celebrity chefs Bryan Voltaggio and Michael Voltaggio ��� known together as the Voltaggio brothers ��� first got their start in the food industry at a Holiday Inn. In an interview with WTOP, Bryan joked that the hotel, which Do you know who Mary McLeod Bethune is? New exhibition explores her work and legacy 08/06/2024 07:35am • Mary McLeod Bethune was a civil rights activist and founder of the National Council of Negro Women, an educator who, against insurmountable odds, opened a school in 1904 for Black girls in Florida, and a member of a group of informal advisers to then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt��known as the "Bl Can Olympic swimming in LA's SoFi Stadium match the atmosphere in Paris' La Defense Arena? 08/06/2024 07:20am • NANTERRE, France (AP) ��� The French put on an incredible show at the Olympic swimming pool, packing the place with screaming, flag-waving fans waving larger-than-life cutout faces and wearing The Tricolore on their cheeks. Raucous and patriotic, the fans pushed beloved countryman L��on Marchand to What are carry trades and how did they contribute to this week's global market mayhem? 08/06/2024 06:55am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� The mayhem that swept across world markets this week was partly caused by a market strategy known as the ���carry trade.��� Japan���s benchmark Nikkei 225 plunged 12.4% on Monday and markets in Europe and North America suffered outsized losses as traders sold stocks to help cover r Cuba has dominated Olympic boxing for decades. The team is on the ropes at the Paris Games 08/06/2024 06:49am • PARIS (AP) ��� Erislandy ��lvarez didn't expect to carry the weight of a proud boxing nation on his shoulders when he takes the ring Wednesday night in an arena packed with fans rooting for his opponent. Yet that's where ��lvarez finds himself after a miserable Paris Olympic tournament for Cuba. The Saudi Arabia's Aramco reports lower half-year profits as economic worries dampen energy prices 08/06/2024 06:40am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� Saudi oil giant Aramco reported half-year profits Tuesday of $56.3 billion, down from the year before amid worries about a slowing global economy. Aramco, formally known as the Saudi Arabian Oil Co., said its overall revenue for the half-year was $220.7 billion, Team USA gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik's Paris Olympics success sparks interest at Prince William Co. gym 08/06/2024 06:16am • For years, Olympic men's gymnastics have sweat in the shadows of women's Olympic performances ��� but that may be changing. And it could all be thanks to a glasses-wearing, Rubik's Cube-solving gymnast who also rules the pommel horse. Helena Thorpe, one of the owners of the Youth Sports Gymnas Tropical Storm Debby is expected to send flooding to the Southeast. Here's how much rain could fall 08/06/2024 06:07am • Northern Florida, the coastal regions of Georgia and South Carolina and parts of North Carolina are bracing for severe rain and catastrophic flooding this week as the Debby storm system moves up and east. Debby made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on the Big Bend coast of Florida early Monday, fi Sierra Leone not long ago still chained mental health patients. A transformation is underway 08/06/2024 01:54am • FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) ��� Abdul Jalloh was the only practicing psychiatrist in Sierra Leone when he took over the country���s sole psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of the capital. Now six years later, the young doctor is leading a transformation of mental health services in the West Afric India has pushed hard for solar. But as its billions demand more power, coal always gets the call 08/06/2024 01:04am • BENGALURU, India (AP) ��� India Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in the midst of a monthslong reelection campaign this April when he took to social media to trumpet a ���remarkable feat!��� and a ���historic milestone��� for his country: crossing 1 billion metric tons of coal and lignite production. Pelosi warns in her new book that political threats and violence 'must stop' 08/06/2024 12:03am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Nancy Pelosi thought briefly she might have died on Jan. 6, 2021. Not quite two years later, the threat of political violence would come for her husband at their home. ���Where���s Nancy? Where���s Nancy?��� That was the chilling question the intruder posed to Paul Pelosi before Eugenio Su��rez's RBI single off Emmanuel Clase in 10th gives Diamondbacks 7-6 win over Guardians 08/05/2024 11:09pm • CLEVELAND (AP) ��� Eugenio Su��rez singled off All-Star closer Emmanuel Clase in the 10th inning to score automatic runner Corbin Carroll, lifting the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 7-6 victory over the Cleveland Guardians on Monday night. The Guardians had forced extra innings on Daniel Schneemann���s s Justice Clarence Thomas took undisclosed 2010 trip with GOP megadonor, Democratic senator finds 08/05/2024 11:05pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed to publicly disclose additional travel on GOP megadonor Harlan Crow's private jet, a top Democratic senator who is backing an election-year push to tighten the high court's ethics rules said Monday. Thomas and his wife, Virginia, took Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina resigns as widening unrest sees protesters storm her official residence 08/05/2024 09:58pm • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ��� Bangladesh���s prime minister resigned and fled the country Monday after weeks of protests against a quota system for government jobs descended into violence and grew into a broader challenge to her 15-year rule. Thousands of demonstrators stormed her official residence an Pope Francis' main adviser on clergy abuse, Cardinal Se��n O'Malley, retires as archbishop of Boston 08/05/2024 09:58pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Cardinal Se��n O���Malley as archbishop of Boston on Monday and named the bishop of Providence, Rhode Island, Richard Henning, to replace him as leader of one of the most important Catholic archdioceses in the United States. The Vatican announ