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Editorial Roundup: United States 08/13/2024 03:42pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Aug. 7 The Washington Post on Biden's team and Guantanamo Bay The United States had an opportunity to close a chapter on a sad, decades-long saga when the government reached a plea deal with three men accused of plotting the Sept. 11, Loudoun Co. schools reviewing grading policies 08/13/2024 03:00pm • From vaping, the cost of school supplies to cellphone policies, the WTOP team is studying up on hot-button topics in education across the D.C. region. Follow on air and online in our series�����WTOP Goes Back to School�����this August and September. Loudoun County Public Schools is launching a re Kylian Mbapp�� ready to make Real Madrid debut in UEFA Super Cup against Atalanta 08/13/2024 02:49pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) ��� Kylian Mbapp�� appears ready to make his debut for Real Madrid in the UEFA Super Cup against Atalanta on Wednesday. Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said the France striker arrived in good shape following the European Championship and was adapting well to the team after a week of Cassette tapes are making a comeback with Gen Z. Do they know the pencil trick? 08/13/2024 02:06pm • For a generation that's grown up with streaming music, the act of holding a physical recording is something a lot of young music fans have never experienced. My teenage son asked for a turntable, to play what young people these days now call "vinyls." His almost-new turntable and the one LP h Florida counting on 6 key transfers, including WRs Badger and Dike, as Billy Napier begins Year 3 08/13/2024 01:25pm • GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) ��� Billy Napier needs some help. The Florida football coach is 11-14 in two seasons in Gainesville, including 0-2 against middling Kentucky and 1-7 against rivals Florida State, Georgia, LSU and Tennessee. No coach in school history has endured three consecutive losing season After 40 years at National Philharmonic, founding conductor to launch Capital Classical Concerts 08/13/2024 01:23pm • In 1984, he founded what would eventually become the National Philharmonic, which has become a Montgomery County staple of live orchestral performances at Strathmore in North Bethesda, Maryland since 2004. Now, after 40 years, Piotr Gajewski will no longer be conducting concerts for the organ The Premier League will have a different look when the season starts Friday. Here's what's changed 08/13/2024 01:18pm • The Premier League rarely stands still. For the 2024-25 season starting on Friday, there are five newly hired managers, around $1.6 billion worth of new players (and counting), new offside technology, updated financial regulations and a tweaked match schedule. COACHING CHANGES A quarter of the coach Conservationists try to protect ecologically rich Alabama delta from development, climate change 08/13/2024 11:46am • MOBILE-TENSAW DELTA, Ala. (AP) ��� Thousands of American lotuses carpet the water's surface, faces turned toward the morning sun. Bright yellow warblers flit among cypress trees along a creek bank. A paddlefish jumps as a motorboat rounds a bend. The Mobile-Tensaw Delta ��� a lush, vibrant and surpr Harris cautiously rolls out policy, aiming to outmaneuver Trump and address 2020 liabilities 08/13/2024 11:42am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to outmaneuver former President Donald Trump and address old vulnerabilities on her policy positions as she starts to fill in how she would govern if elected in November. Vice presidents rarely have policy portfolios of their own ��� and alm Takeaways from AP's story on Alabama's ecologically important Mobile-Tensaw Delta and its watershed 08/13/2024 11:14am • Alabama���s Mobile-Tensaw Delta is a more-than 400-square-mile (1,036-square-kilometer) expanse of cypress swamps, oxbow lakes, marshland, hardwood stands and rivers unusually rich in plant and animal diversity. It's also a critical conduit between the rest of Alabama and the Gulf of Mexico, drainin Self-loathing blends with love at Bayreuth 'Tristan und Isolde' by director Thorleifur ��rn Arnarsson 08/13/2024 11:00am • BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) ��� Thorleifur ��rn Arnarsson's phone rang in his Icelandic highlands cabin back in January 2022. Katharina Wagner, the Bayreuth festival director and great-granddaughter of composer Richard Wagner, wanted to get in touch. She invited Arnarsson to create a new production of �� Home Depot, sensing uneasy economic vibe from homeowners and contractors, trims outlook for 2024 08/13/2024 10:30am • Home Depot's second-quarter sales rose slightly as the nation's biggest home improvement retailer benefitted from an $18 billion acquisition this spring, but customers continued to rein in spending because of broadly higher costs and elevated interest rates. Sales edged up to $43.18 billion, from $ Sports on TV for Wednesday, Aug. 14 08/13/2024 10:10am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Wednesday, Aug. 14 GOLF 6 p.m. GOLF ��� USGA: U.S. Amateur, Round of 64, Hazeltine National Golf Club and Chaska Town Course, Chaska, Minn. HORSE RACING 1 p.m. FS2 ��� NYRA: Saratoga Live LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL 1 p.m. ESPN ��� Little Le Why seeding for the expanded College Football Playoff isn't as simple as counting from 1 to 12 08/13/2024 09:10am • The College Football Playoff expands from four to 12 teams this season, a massive change that will profoundly impact the sport and how success is defined. The system is also kind of quirky. The second-best team in the country by the selection committee's rankings could conceivably be the fifth seed. Dutch beach volleyball player convicted of rape says he considered quitting the Olympics 08/13/2024 09:05am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) ��� Dutch beach volleyball player Steven van de Velde, who was convicted of raping a 12-year-old British girl in 2016, said Tuesday that he considered quitting the Paris Olympics amid the controversy surrounding his participation. Van de Velde and his partner Matthew Imme