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Bolivian voters are hungry for change — and disillusioned by the options ahead of election 08/15/2025 11:41pm • LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The campaign billboards adorning the streets of Bolivia for Sunday’s presidential election make grand promises: A solution to the dire economic crisis within 100 days, an end to fuel shortages and bread lines, unity for a divided nation. One vice presidential candidate ple Air Canada cancels hundreds of flights as potential strike by flight attendants looms 08/15/2025 11:01pm • TORONTO (AP) — More than 620 Air Canada flights, many of them international trips, have been canceled as the clock ticked closer Friday to a possible strike by flight attendants, leaving travelers stranded around the world and scrambling during the peak summer travel season. The bitter contract fi Judge denies Trump administration request to end a policy protecting immigrant children in custody 08/15/2025 10:33pm • McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge ruled Friday to deny the Trump administration's request to end a policy in place for nearly three decades that is meant to protect immigrant children in federal custody. U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee in Los Angeles issued her ruling a week after holding a hear Trump leaves Alaska summit with Putin empty-handed after failing to reach a deal to end Ukraine war 08/15/2025 10:32pm • JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AP) — President Donald Trump failed to secure an agreement from Vladimir Putin on Friday to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, falling short in his most significant move yet to stop the bloodshed, even after rolling out the red carpet for the man who started it The Standard Portland Classic Par Scores 08/15/2025 10:17pm • Friday At Columbia Edgewater Country Club Portland, Ore. Purse: $2 million Yardage: 6,497; Par: 72 Second Round Jeong Eun Lee5 65-67—132 -12 The Standard Portland Classic Scores 08/15/2025 10:16pm • Friday At Columbia Edgewater Country Club Portland, Ore. Purse: $2 million Yardage: 6,497; Par: 72 Second Round Jeong Eun Lee5 65-67—132 Gurleen Kaur Democrats release plan to boost party's California US House seats in fight for Congress 08/15/2025 10:15pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a display of cutthroat yet calculated politics, Democrats unveiled a proposal Friday that could give California’s dominant political party an additional five U.S. House seats in a bid to win the fight to control of Congress next year. The plan calls for an unusually timed r Failure of talks for plastic treaty turn focus back to reduce, reuse, recycle. How's that going? 08/15/2025 09:46pm • Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the millions of tons of plastic water bottles, food containers and packaging produced today. Though as many as 10 New Orleans mayor indicted over allegations of trying to hide relationship with bodyguard 08/15/2025 09:38pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell was indicted Friday in what prosecutors called a yearslong scheme to hide a romantic relationship with her bodyguard, who is accused of being paid as if he was working even when they met alone in apartments and traveled to vineyards for wine tas Air Canada travelers brace for impact: What to know if your flight is canceled 08/15/2025 07:33pm • Summer travelers are facing uncertainty as the clock winds down on a possible strike by Air Canada flight attendants, which the airline said would force it to cancel almost all of its scheduled flights as soon as Saturday. The Canadian carrier said it was suspending its schedule and trying to get p New Air Force policy denies transgender troops hearings before they're discharged 08/15/2025 07:32pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force says in a new memo that transgender airmen ousted under a recent Trump administration directive will no longer have the chance to argue before a board of their peers for the right to continue serving their country. The memo dated Tuesday says military separation boa BetMGM Bonus Code WTOP150: Claim $150 MLB, NFL Preseason, UFC Promo 08/15/2025 07:14pm • This article contains references to products from our advertisers and/or partners, and we may receive compensation when you click on links to products and services Sign up with BetMGM bonus code WTOP150 to secure a welcome bonus on this weekend's NFL preseason games. Start with a $150 bonus or a $1 The next steps in California Democrats' plan to counter Texas Republicans' redistricting push 08/15/2025 06:46pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is the first Democratic-led state to wade into a brewing national redistricting fight after President Donald Trump urged Texas Republicans to draw new maps to maintain the party's slim U.S. House majority after the 2026 midterm elections. The Texas plan was te Flash floods kill more than 280 people in India and Pakistan as thousands flee 08/15/2025 06:35pm • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed over 280 people in India and Pakistan and left scores of others missing, officials said Friday, as rescuers brought to safety some 1,600 people from two mountainous districts in the neighboring countries. Flooding beg Gas valve failure during routine maintenance work may have led to fatal explosion, US Steel says 08/15/2025 06:15pm • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Preparations for a routine maintenance task may have led to an explosion at a U.S. Steel coal-processing plant near Pittsburgh that left two dead and sent 10 to hospitals, the company said Friday. U.S. Steel said it developed the information, along with other investigators,