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Putin warns that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets 06/06/2024 03:49am • ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) ��� President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets in response to NATO allies allowing Ukraine to use their arms to attack Russian territory. Putin also reaffirmed Moscow���s readiness to use nucl New South Wales becomes last Australian state to apologize for laws criminalizing homosexuality 06/06/2024 02:18am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) ��� The leader of Australia's most populous state apologized Thursday for the ���unforgivable pain��� caused by previous laws criminalizing homosexuality, 40 years after gay sex was decriminalized in New South Wales. ���We are here to apologize for every life that was da India, Australia open with dominant victories; Uganda gets its 1st win at cricket's T20 World Cup 06/06/2024 01:31am • WESTBURY, New York (AP) ��� Jasprit Bumrah and India's pace attack did most of the damage before Rohit Sharma scored a 37-ball half-century to steer the team to an eight-wicket win over Ireland on Wednesday at the Twenty20 World Cup. Sharma plundered four boundaries and three sixes before retiring Joey Estes takes perfect game into 7th, Athletics beat Mariners 2-1 06/06/2024 12:58am • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ��� Joey Estes took a perfect game into the seventh inning, Mason Miller had a five-out save and the Oakland Athletics beat the Seattle Mariners 2-1 on Wednesday night. The A���s, who have dropped three straight series, can snap the skid with a victory Thursday. The Mariners ha India���s opposition, written off as too weak, makes a stunning comeback to slow Modi's juggernaut 06/06/2024 12:57am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� India���s bruised and battered opposition was largely written off in the lead-up to the national election as too weak and fragmented to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his powerful Hindu nationalist governing party. It scored a stunning comeback, slowing the Modi juggerna Israeli settlers in the West Bank were hit with international sanctions. It only emboldened them 06/06/2024 12:49am • SOUTH HEBRON HILLS, West Bank (AP) ��� For weeks after being sanctioned by the United States, Yinon Levi struggled to pay the bills, living at his farming outpost atop a hill in the occupied West Bank. But the Israeli settler's problems didn���t last. When the banks froze his accounts, his communit Carlos Rod��n wins 6th straight start for Yankees, putting miserable first season in New York behind 06/06/2024 12:20am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Carlos Rod��n has put his miserable first season with the Yankees behind, pitching like the All-Star expected by New York when it lavished a $162 million, eight-year contract on the left-hander. Rod��n retired his first 16 batters and won a career-best sixth straight start Wednesda Remembering D-Day: Key facts and figures about the invasion that changed the course of World War II 06/06/2024 12:05am • OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) ��� The June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France was unprecedented in scale and audacity, using the largest-ever armada of ships, troops, planes and vehicles to punch a hole in Adolf Hitler's defenses in western Europe and change the course of World War II. With South Africa questions its very being. Yet a difficult change has reinforced its young democracy 06/06/2024 12:04am • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) ��� South Africa is in a moment of deep soul-searching after an election that brought a jarring split from the African National Congress, the very party that gave it freedom and democracy 30 years ago. In the days after rejecting what was once the country���s most belove A realistic way to protect kids from social media? Find a middle ground 06/06/2024 12:01am • Ahmed Othman isn't on TikTok and doesn't want to be. He and his younger sister got iPhones when they were in eighth and seventh grade respectively, but with no social media, just iMessage. Their parents, who are both computer scientists, spent the next year teaching them about social media, bombardi Tornado rips through Montgomery Co., hurling debris in the air and collapsing homes, injuring 5 06/06/2024 12:01am • Listen live to WTOP for traffic and weather updates on the 8s. A sprawling, rotating supercell swept over the D.C. region Wednesday, producing a possible tornado that tore through parts of Montgomery County in Maryland. The twister sent debris flying into the air, knocked down trees, damaged Skenes, Chapman throw gas at Ohtani and the Dodgers as the Pirates hold on for 10-6 victory 06/05/2024 10:57pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) ��� Paul Skenes struck out eight over five innings, Aroldis Chapman threw the fastest pitch in the majors this season and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Dodgers 10-6 on Wednesday night. Skenes (3-0) allowed three runs on six hits, including a two-run sh Phoenix using ice immersion to treat heatstroke victims as Southwest bakes with highs well over 100 06/05/2024 10:53pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� The season's first heat wave is already baking the Southwest with triple-digit temperatures as firefighters in Phoenix ��� America's hottest big city ��� employ new tactics in hopes of saving more lives in a county that saw 645 heat-related deaths last year. Starting this season, th Montgomery Co. schools eyeing layoffs and class size increases 06/05/2024 10:00pm • School principals, teachers, staff and families of Montgomery County students are contemplating the impacts of budget cuts that will result in growing class sizes in the fall. In an email to families on Tuesday, Montgomery County Public Schools Interim Superintendent Monique Felder said class siz The Latest: Court adjourns for the day in Hunter Biden's gun trial 06/05/2024 09:29pm • WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) ��� The Latest on the trial of Hunter Biden (all times local): Court adjourned for the day in Hunter Biden's gun trial, with testimony expected to resume Thursday morning. After the jurors were dismissed, Derek Hines told the judge the prosecution has six more witnesses after g