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20 notable DC-area rooftops for outdoor dining and sipping 07/22/2024 09:47am • Summer is here, and with that comes the opportunity to enjoy rooftop restaurants and bars at all price points. For some of the best high-up dining and sipping, WTOP has you covered with the following list. For the ritzy and the stylish: Top of the Gate at the Watergate is a rooftop lounge with so EPA awards $4.3 billion to fund projects in 30 states to reduce climate pollution 07/22/2024 09:44am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $4.3 billion in grants to fund projects in 30 states to reduce climate pollution. The money will go to 25 projects targeting greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, electric power, commercial and residential buildings, industr Harris gets a chance to press reset on the 2024 race against Trump 07/22/2024 08:19am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� For the past year, the presidential campaign seemed destined to be a monotonous slog featuring two candidates, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, who voters didn���t really want. But that all changed on a quiet Sunday afternoon just 107 days before the electio Biden's decision to drop out leaves Democrats across the country relieved and looking toward future 07/22/2024 07:53am • HARPER WOODS, Mich. (AP) ��� After weeks of uncertainty about who would be at the top of the Democratic Party���s ticket in November, many voters expressed relief over the news that President Joe Biden would drop his reelection bid and began to think about who might replace him in a dramatically alt Competing and parenting: Some athletes are doing double duty at the Olympics 07/22/2024 07:37am • From training and competing to preparing bottles for feedings and changing diapers, some of the Olympians at the Paris Games will be balancing their roles of athletes and parents. There is the British rower who raised more than $4,000 through GoFundMe to go to Paris ���as a full-time mom.��� The Ame Biden's legacy: Far-reaching accomplishments that didn't translate into political support 07/22/2024 06:33am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Sitting in the Oval Office behind the iconic Resolute desk in 2022, an animated President Joe Biden described the challenge of leading a psychologically traumatized nation. The United States had endured a life-altering pandemic. There was a jarring burst of inflation and now glob Maryland woman, dual organ donor advocates for bill to give tax break to donors 07/22/2024 05:58am • A Maryland woman is advocating for a bill aimed at increasing the number of live organ donors. Lindsay Gutierrez, originally from Oklahoma, served in security forces for the U.S. Air Force from 2010 to 2016. After tours alongside her husband in both England and Georgia, she was transferred to Mar After Soto's departure, San Diego's record looks similar to last year 07/22/2024 05:55am • Juan Soto has come and gone, and the San Diego Padres don't seem to have changed much. The Padres were 12 games over .500 in August 2022 when they acquired Soto in a blockbuster deal with the Washington Nationals. They finished that year a distant second to the Dodgers in the NL West, but then they Rescuers search for dozens missing after flooding and a bridge collapse in China kill at least 25 07/22/2024 02:00am • BEIJING (AP) ��� Rescuers on Monday were searching for dozens missing after heavy rains caused flash flooding and a bridge collapse in different parts of China, killing at least 25 people. Flash flooding tore through a village in southwestern Sichuan province in the middle of the night Saturday, and Takeaways from a day that fundamentally changed the presidential race 07/22/2024 12:18am • President Joe Biden���s abrupt decision to bow out of the presidential race and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic candidate against former President Donald Trump caused a political earthquake on Sunday. It also changes the contours of a presidential race ��� which most voters Democrats are rallying around Harris as she vows to 'earn and win' party nomination for president 07/21/2024 11:26pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Democrats quickly rallied around Vice President Kamala Harris as their likely presidential nominee Sunday after President Joe Biden 's ground-shaking decision to bow out of the 2024 race, a volatile fast-moving political situation just months before the November election. Shortl The biggest of stories came to the small city of Butler. Here's how its newspaper met the moment 07/21/2024 11:25pm • BUTLER, Pa. (AP) ��� When gunshots echoed at the Trump rally where she was working, Butler Eagle reporter Irina Bucur dropped to the ground just like everyone else. She was terrified. She hardly froze, though. Bucur tried to text her assignment editor, through spotty cell service, to tell him what w Biden drops out of 2024 race after disastrous debate inflamed age concerns. VP Harris gets his nod 07/21/2024 10:49pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House on Sunday, ending his bid for reelection after a disastrous debate with Donald Trump that raised doubts about the incumbent's fitness for office. The unprecedented announcement, delivered less than four months b Delta Air Lines says cancellations continue as it tries to restore operations after tech outage 07/21/2024 10:44pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Airlines, including Delta Air Lines, continued to struggle to restore operations two days after a faulty software update caused technological havoc worldwide and resulted in several carriers grounding flights. Total cancellations within, into or out of the U.S. on Sunday clocked in 2024 Election Latest: Biden ends reelection bid, endorses VP Harris for Democratic nomination 07/21/2024 10:28pm • President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he is dropping his reelection bid against Donald Trump, in a social media post that sent political shockwaves around the country and threw an element of turmoil into the election just months before voters go to the polls. Biden's decision came on the heels o