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How DC is planning to improve school transportation for students with disabilities 07/25/2024 05:40am • D.C. is planning to spend millions on private transportation as part of a plan to make sure students with disabilities get to school on time this fall, according to court documents. The plan is tied to a lawsuit accusing the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) of denying studen Macron aims to sidestep political concerns and regain prestige with the Paris Olympics 07/25/2024 05:26am • PARIS (AP) ��� Emmanuel Macron has pledged to make France shine during the Olympics. Weaker than ever at home after recent elections, the French president hopes the Paris Games also will help his own star glitter again. The Olympics are the best way to convince the world to "choose France,��� Macron UN cultural agency calls for Laos, Cambodia to invite monitoring teams to contentious UNESCO sites 07/25/2024 05:12am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� The United Nations' cultural agency recommended Thursday that Laos invite a monitoring mission to the historic city of Luang Prabang, a World Heritage Site where a nearby dam project on the Mekong River has raised concerns it could lose the coveted status. While the World Heritage Japanese automaker Nissan lowers its profit forecast amid incentive, inventory woes 07/25/2024 04:06am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Nissan lowered its full fiscal year outlook on Thursday, as the Japanese automaker reported a 73% decline in profit in the April-June quarter compared to the previous year. Chief Executive Makoto Uchida called the results ���very challenging,��� blaming sales incentives and marketing Stock market today: Asian shares dive after a wipeout on Wall Street as Big Tech skids 07/25/2024 02:18am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Asian shares dropped in Thursday morning trading, with Tokyo's benchmark losing more than 1,000 points at one point and closing down more than 3%, as pessimism set in over a nose-dive on Wall Street. U.S. stock indexes suffered their worst losses since 2022 after profit reports from Israel-Hamas war latest: Netanyahu addresses Congress and vows to achieve 'total victory' 07/25/2024 01:36am • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress in Washington on Wednesday as he sought to bolster the United States' support for his country���s fight against Hamas and other Iran-backed armed groups. Netanyahu has signaled that a cease-fire deal could be taking shape after nine month Ukraine's foreign minister seeking 'common ground' with China in talks on ending war with Russia 07/25/2024 12:53am • BEIJING (AP) ��� Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said he is seeking ���common ground��� in talks this week with his Chinese counterpart on ending his country's war with Russia. Kuleba met Wednesday with Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Guangzhou, a major commercial and manufacturing center i Church sues Colorado town to be able to shelter homeless in trailers, work 'mandated by God' 07/25/2024 12:25am • CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) ��� Behind a church surrounded by rolling prairie on the outskirts of this Colorado town sits a donated RV that Joe Ridenour called home for a year after he lost his job during the pandemic. Being able to live in the RV, he said, allowed him to avoid returning to his native K Democratic convention planners are working to pull off a dramatic Biden-Harris role reversal 07/25/2024 12:12am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� After nearly a near year of careful planning, organizers of the Democratic National Convention are in a mad dash to accommodate a new nominee, a re-crafted program and a highly compressed deadline to pull everything off as though this was the plan all along. With President Joe Bi Matthew Stafford happy to start training camp with Rams after contract adjustment 07/24/2024 11:11pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Matthew Stafford wrapped up the first day of training camp for the Los Angeles Rams on Wednesday by lofting a touchdown pass during a red-zone drill. Whether the throw would have happened without the financial adjustment the Super Bowl-winning quarterback hashed out with the tea Tropical Storm Bud forms in the Eastern Pacific, off the coast of Mexico 07/24/2024 10:46pm • MIAMI (AP) ��� Tropical Storm Bud has formed in the Eastern Pacific off the coast of Mexico. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Wednesday the system was centered about 435 miles (700 kilometers) south-southwest of the southern tip of Mexico���s Baja peninsula. Maximum sustained winds were a Biden delivers solemn call to defend democracy as he lays out his reasons for quitting race 07/24/2024 10:07pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden on Wednesday delivered a solemn call to voters to defend the country's democracy as he laid out in an Oval Office address his decision to drop his bid for reelection and throw his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris. Insisting that ���the defense of US files details of Boeing���s plea deal related to plane crashes. It's in the hands of a judge now 07/24/2024 10:06pm • The Justice Department submitted an agreement with Boeing on Wednesday in which the aerospace giant will plead guilty to a fraud charge for misleading U.S. regulators who approved the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed, killing 346 people. The detailed plea agreement was filed in fede Biden's speech: Warnings about Trump without naming him, a hefty to-do list, and a power handoff 07/24/2024 09:44pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden delivered a solemn Oval Office address Wednesday that laid out in the clearest terms yet why he abandoned his reelection campaign. He wanted to send an unmistakable warning about Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump while anointing Vice President Kama Wildfire smoke chokes parts of Canada and western US, with some areas under air quality alerts 07/24/2024 09:33pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Fires burning in California, Oregon, Arizona, Washington and other western states, as well as Canada, have filled the skies in regions of the western U.S. with smoke and haze, forcing some affected areas to declare air quality alerts or advisories. As of Wednesday morning, ther