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What happened this week in the UK election campaign, from more betting slips to the last debate 06/28/2024 09:47am • LONDON (AP) ��� The U.K. general election on July 4 is just days away now, no doubt to the relief of the party leaders who have crisscrossed the country in a grueling month of campaigning. This campaign doesn't seem to have shifted the political dial much, if at all, with the left-of-center Labour P Severe weather wreaks havoc across the US ��� from Midwest flooding to deadly Northeast storms 06/28/2024 09:26am • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ��� Severe weather over days has caused havoc and destruction across the U.S. That includes torrential rains and flooding in the Upper Midwest and powerful storms in the Northeast that left a least two people dead from falling trees. The deadly storms that raked parts of the Northe Days after heatwave, intense rain causes roof collapse at New Delhi airport, killing 1 person 06/28/2024 06:57am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� A portion of a canopy at a departure terminal at New Delhi���s Indira Gandhi International Airport collapsed Friday as monsoon rains lashed the Indian capital, killing one person and injuring six others, officials said. All flight departures from Terminal 1 were temporarily suspen Celebrating local Pride heroes: A DC man brings health resources to Black LGBTQ communities nationwide 06/28/2024 06:32am • Every week, WTOP is celebrating a Pride Hero who has made a difference in��the LGBTQ+ community in the D.C. area��as part of our Pride Month coverage. Check back all throughout June as we share these stories on air and online. While administering HIV tests in New York City, Kenya Hutton heard FACT FOCUS: Here's a look at some of the false claims made during Biden and Trump's first debate 06/28/2024 06:28am • President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump traded barbs and a variety of false and misleading information as they faced off in their first debate of the 2024 election. Trump falsely represented the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as a relatively small number of people who were ushered Review of Va. African American studies course 'eliminates the notion of racism,' oversight group says 06/28/2024 06:06am • Virginia education staffers who reviewed the state's African American studies elective course have proposed a series of recommended changes, including in some cases switching references from "racism" to "discriminatory practices" and removing mentions of white supremacy. The review was obtained b USA's Casey Kaufhold, the world's No. 1-ranked women's archer, seeks gold in Paris 06/28/2024 06:00am • It didn't take long for Brady Ellison to see that Casey Kaufhold was heading toward greatness. Ellison is a former world No. 1 men���s archer who is heading to his fifth Olympics this year. He said when he first started teaming up with Kaufhold in 2019, the 15-year-old sometimes would beat him when School's out and NYC migrant families face a summer of uncertainty 06/28/2024 05:56am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� When Damien Carchipulla started his first school year in New York City in September, the first grader's family was living in a Manhattan hotel for migrant families. In the 10 months since, the family of four from Ecuador has moved shelters three times under a policy Mayor Eric Adam As political fervor for New Zealand's M��ori resurgence wanes, a new Indigenous holiday comes of age 06/28/2024 05:50am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) ��� When Ngarauru Mako told her family she was calling off Christmas festivities in favor of celebrating Matariki, the M��ori new year holiday that's experiencing a renaissance in New Zealand, her children didn���t believe her. ���We grew up with Christmas because it was UK's landmark postwar elections: When Labour won big against war hero Churchill in 1945 06/28/2024 04:35am • LONDON (AP) ��� Britain's upcoming general election is widely expected to lead to a change of government for the first time in 14 years. Many analysts believe it will be one of the country's most consequential elections since the end of World War II. Ahead of the July 4 vote, The Associated Press ta What to know about Mongolia as it holds a democratic election in the shadow of authoritarian giants 06/28/2024 03:41am • ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) ��� Mongolia, where parliamentary elections were being held Friday, is a sparsely populated and landlocked Asian nation known for its bitter winter cold and independent spirit. As a democracy of just 3.4 million people in the shadow of two much larger authoritarian states, Trump and Biden mix it up over policy and each other in a debate that turns deeply personal 06/28/2024 01:34am • PHOENIX (AP) ��� They passed on a handshake at the start, and from there President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump went right to mixing it up on policy ��� and each other ��� in their first 2024 presidential debate on Thursday night. Personal animosity between the two men was palpable a Davis Daniel twirls a gem in his 1st MLB start as the Angels beat the Tigers 5-0 06/28/2024 01:04am • ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) ��� Davis Daniel pitched four-hit ball over eight innings and struck out eight in his first major league start, and the Los Angeles Angels defeated the Detroit Tigers 5-0 on Thursday night for their fourth consecutive victory. ���I told my wife this morning I didn���t sleep grea Ultra-Orthodox Jews block highway to protest Israel's new mandatory military service ruling 06/28/2024 12:52am • BNEI BRAK, Israel (AP) ��� Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men blocked a major highway in central Israel for two hours on Thursday to protest a recent Supreme Court decision ordering young religious men to enlist for military service. Military service is compulsory for most Jewish men and women in Uruguay routs Bolivia 5-0 at Copa America as N����ez scores in 7th straight game 06/28/2024 12:27am • EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) ��� Darwin N����ez and his Uruguayan teammates romped through Bolivia's defense as if it were a training game. N����ez scored in his seventh straight international match, a 5-0 rout on Thursday night that moved Uruguay a to the verge of a Copa America quarterfinal. ���Ther