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Republicans move at Trump's behest to change how they will oppose abortion 07/08/2024 06:09pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) ��� The Republican National Committee moved Monday to adopt a party platform that reflects former President Donald Trump���s position opposing a federal abortion ban and ceding limits to states, omitting the explicit basis for a national ban for the first time in 40 years. Trump impos Free water sports clinic in Fairfax Co. this weekend for children with disabilities 07/08/2024 04:35pm • At a free event in Fairfax County, Virginia, this weekend, children with physical or developmental disabilities will get to go water skiing, kayaking, tubing, paddle boarding, canoeing and more. ���They get to be seen, they get to be heard," said Kierra Johnson, a programs analyst with D.C. nonpr Morphic Holding, Boeing rise; Paramount, Devon Energy fall, Monday, 7/8/2024 07/08/2024 04:13pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Monday. Morphic Holding Inc., up $23.90 to $55.74. Eli Lilly is buying the biopharmaceutical company for $3.2 billion. Boeing Co., up $1.01 to $185.84. The airplane maker will plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge st Champions League runner-up Dortmund signs Germany defender Waldemar Anton from Stuttgart 07/08/2024 03:24pm • DORTMUND, Germany (AP) ��� Champions League runner-up Borussia Dortmund made Germany defender Waldemar Anton its first signing of the offseason on Monday, leaving Stuttgart needing a new captain for its return to top-level European competition next season. Anton played all but one Bundesliga game fo Deschamps: If France is boring you, go watch something else 07/08/2024 03:22pm • MUNICH (AP) ��� A boring France team? Coach Didier Deschamps doesn���t care. Tuesday���s European Championship semifinal between Spain and France is a matchup of very different styles. One team is playing some of the most exciting soccer at Euro 2024, and the other is playing arguably the dullest. A Alex Bowman quiets Hendrick speculation with his Cup win on a rainy Chicago street course 07/08/2024 03:21pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Alex Bowman spent his 30th birthday in an Iowa hospital after breaking his back in a short-track accident. Feeling as if he had let everyone down, it was a tough moment. That was just last year, and it seemed like a long time ago Sunday night. Bowman is a NASCAR Cup Series winner on Elina Svitolina is in a fog at Wimbledon because of the missile attacks on Ukraine 07/08/2024 03:08pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Elina Svitolina spoke haltingly, pausing occasionally to sigh, as she discussed the deadly Russian missile attack on her home country of Ukraine, an event that weighed on her and mattered far more than the straight-set victory Monday that meant a return to the Wimbledon quarterfinals Robinson, Zimmerman and Mihailovic on US men's Olympic soccer roster 07/08/2024 02:52pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Tim Weah's red card against Uruguay and the United States' first-round exit from the Copa America should be a lesson for players as they head to the Olympics, according to likely captain Walker Zimmerman. ���It's a great example of how one moment can kind of change your entire outl German referee once linked to match-fixing will oversee England's Euro 2024 semifinal 07/08/2024 02:47pm • DORTMUND, Germany (AP) ��� The referee for England's semifinal against the Netherlands at the European Championship will be Felix Zwayer, who once had ties to a match-fixing scandal in Germany. Wednesday's game will be Zwayer's fourth of Euro 2024 and his second with the Netherlands after refereeing Book Review: 'Loving Sylvia Plath' attends to polarizing writer's circumstances more than her work 07/08/2024 02:44pm • A popular form of writing nowadays is one that involves reexamining the lives of people, often members of marginalized groups, who have otherwise been flattened or short-changed by history. How has society���s assumptions or prejudices informed how a person is remembered, many authors are asking, an New parents in Baltimore could get a $1,000 'baby bonus' under a proposal to fight child poverty 07/08/2024 02:36pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� New parents in Baltimore could receive a $1,000 ���baby bonus��� if voters approve a proposal that aims to help reduce childhood poverty from birth with a modest one-time cash payment. A group of Baltimore teachers is behind the effort. Organizers recently secured the necessary 10 Thanks to a $1 billion gift, most Johns Hopkins medical students will no longer pay tuition 07/08/2024 02:28pm • Most medical students at Johns Hopkins University will no longer pay tuition thanks to a $1 billion gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies announced Monday. Starting in the fall, the donation will cover full tuition for medical students from families earning less than $300,000. Living expenses and fees Elections in Europe, Iran show authoritarian march may have slowed, not halted 07/08/2024 02:16pm • LONDON (AP) ��� At first glance, elections in France and Britain were a triumph for leftists and reformers over authoritarians and the right. Even Iran ��� where Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has the final say on all matters of state ��� elected Masoud Pezeshkian, a lawmaker long associated Boeing accepts a plea deal to avoid a criminal trial over 737 Max crashes, Justice Department says 07/08/2024 02:15pm • Boeing will plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge stemming from two crashes of 737 Max jetliners that killed 346 people, the Justice Department said late Sunday, after the government determined the company violated an agreement that had protected it from prosecution for more than three years. Fed U.S. to expand control of land sales to foreigners near 56 additional military sites 07/08/2024 01:30pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The U.S. wants to expand a Treasury committee's jurisdiction to review land sales near U.S. military sites where foreigners are the buyers. New Treasury rulemaking would expand the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States' powers to review land sales near 56 addi