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Safeguarding the heartbeat: Native Americans in Upper Midwest protect their drumming tradition 07/23/2024 11:34am • HINCKLEY, Minn. (AP) — At summertime social powwows and spiritual ceremonies throughout the Upper Midwest, Native Americans are gathering around singers seated at big, resonant drums to dance, celebrate and connect with their ancestral culture. “I grew up singing my entire life, and I was alway They made one-of-a-kind quilts that captured the public's imagination. Then Target came along 07/23/2024 11:18am • Over the past two decades, Gee’s Bend quilts have captured the public’s imagination with their kaleidoscopic colors and their daring geometric patterns. The groundbreaking art practice was cultivated by direct descendants of slaves in rural Alabama who have faced oppression, geographic isolation Kamala Harris is preparing to lead Democrats in 2024. There are lessons from her 2020 bid 07/23/2024 11:09am • ATLANTA (AP) — Kamala Harris was greeted by a massive, cheering crowd during the first rally of her newly announced presidential campaign in 2019. Speaking on a January day outside city hall in her hometown of Oakland, California, she framed her bid as part of something bigger than winning an elec Kamala Harris is preparing to lead Democrats in 2024. There are lessons from her 2020 bid 07/23/2024 11:05am • ATLANTA (AP) — Kamala Harris was greeted by a massive, cheering crowd during the first rally of her newly announced presidential campaign in 2019. Speaking on a late January day outside city hall in her hometown of Oakland, California, she framed her bid as part of something bigger than simply win Google makes abrupt U-turn by dropping plan to remove ad-tracking cookies on Chrome browser 07/23/2024 10:26am • LONDON (AP) — Google is dropping plans to eliminate cookies from its Chrome web browser, making a sudden U-turn on four years of work to phase out a technology that helps businesses tracks users online. The company had been working on retiring third-party cookies, which are snippets of code that How will Biden not seeking reelection impact down-ticket races in Virginia? 07/23/2024 10:19am • Visit WTOP’s Election 2024 page for our comprehensive coverage. Listen live to 103.5 FM for the latest.  President Joe Biden's decision to no longer seek reelection may have a big impact at the polls this fall in Virginia. Karen Hult, professor of political science at Virginia Tech, said Colombian bullfighters decry new ban on the centuries-old tradition and vow to keep it alive 07/23/2024 10:19am • CHOACHI, Colombia (AP) — Sebastián Caqueza says a new law to ban bullfighting in Colombia by mid-2027 will not dampen his passion for the sport that he has been practicing since has was a small boy. Caqueza became a professional matador five years ago by taunting a fully grown bull for about 20 m Police in St. Maarten detain suspect in shooting of politician whose wife was killed in the attack 07/23/2024 10:11am • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in St. Maarten said they have detained a suspect linked to the recent shooting of a politician in an attack that killed his wife and shocked many in the normally peaceful Dutch Caribbean territory. Police and prosecutors said they would not release further Sports on TV for Wednesday, July 24 07/23/2024 10:00am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Wednesday, July 24 HORSE RACING 1 p.m. FS2 — NYRA: Saratoga Live MLB BASEBALL Noon MLBN — Regional Coverage: Cincinnati at Atlanta (12:20 p.m.) OR St. Louis at Pittsburgh (12:35 p.m.) 3:30 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: L.A. Angel Co-founder of Fairfax T-shirt and swag maker Custom Ink steps down as CEO 07/23/2024 09:51am • Fairfax, Virginia-based Custom Ink, one of the fastest-growing D.C.-area companies but one that was hit hard by the pandemic, has named a new CEO to succeed its co-founder after nearly 25 years. David Doctorow, former CEO of Realtor.com's parent company Move, Inc., will assume the chief executive Violence against women at 'epidemic' levels and is a threat on par with terrorism, UK police warn 07/23/2024 09:28am • LONDON (AP) — Violence against women and girls has reached epidemic levels and police are treating it as a threat on the same scale as terrorism, Britain's police chiefs said Tuesday. More than 1 million violent crimes against women and girls were recorded by U.K. police in 2022 to 2023, accounti Aer Lingus pilots vote to accept a pay raise. It ends a dispute that canceled hundreds of flights 07/23/2024 08:39am • LONDON (AP) — Pilots at Ireland’s national airline, Aer Lingus, have voted to accept a pay increase and end a labor dispute that led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights, the two sides said Tuesday. Members of the Irish Air Line Pilots’ Association backed the 17.75% raise recommended by German government, mainstream opposition move to protect highest court against extremist forces 07/23/2024 08:02am • BERLIN (AP) — Germany's governing coalition and the conservative opposition on Tuesday presented a plan to protect the country's highest court against possible future manipulation or obstruction by extremist or authoritarian politicians. Justice Minister Marco Buschmann cited experiences in Poland Horses take to the air with passports and carryons ahead of equestrian eventing at Paris Olympics 07/23/2024 06:28am • PARIS (AP) — Welcome aboard, hope you are standing comfortably. For the horses on the U.S. eventing team, the journey to France for the Paris Olympics was — quite literally — a four-legged journey. Their trek began on a farm in Pennsylvania. They were driven to JFK airport last Wednesday to bo Tarzan at the Olympics: Johnny Weissmuller won 3 gold medals at the 1924 Paris Games 07/23/2024 06:16am • Before there was Michael Phelps or Mark Spitz winning Olympic gold medals for the United States — there was Tarzan. Yes Tarzan, the fictional literary and film character who was raised by apes in the African jungle. This of course was Johnny Weissmuller, who played Tarzan in the films but was als