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How a shrunken piece of bread explains Bolivia's economic catastrophe ahead of elections 08/11/2025 10:37am • LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) ��� Juan de Dios Castillo, covered in flour and sweat, pulled a crisp roll from the cooling rack and weighed it on an old metal scale: 60 grams (2 ounces). That's barely half what it would have been two years ago. Unlike American or European shoppers scrutinizing suspiciously ca Why more women are switching to reusable menstrual products 08/11/2025 09:33am • It was six months ago that Selin Celikoyar bought her last tampon and switched to a reusable menstrual disc. "I had already been wary of tampons from an environmental perspective and also from a biological perspective. I felt that they were very wasteful and expensive to consistently keep buying," s Artist drowns sculpture in plastic waste in front of the UN during plastic pollution treaty talks 08/11/2025 08:03am • GENEVA (AP) ��� As nations began a second week of negotiations Monday for a global accord to end plastic pollution, an artist heaped piles of plastic waste onto a large sculpture in front of the United Nations office. Delegates to the treaty talks pass by the sculpture daily in a reminder of their r Bosnia's mountain resorts pivot to summer tourism as climate changes 08/11/2025 07:34am • SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) ��� A short drive from the Mediterranean coast, mid-altitude mountain resorts near Sarajevo ��� traditionally dependent on snow sports ��� are slowly but steadily pivoting to attract summertime tourists. Despite Bosnia���s notoriously poor record-keeping, tourism of Ski jumping's suit trouble is back ahead of Olympics as numerous athletes disqualified 08/11/2025 06:37am • The right suit can help send a ski jumper soaring to gold. The wrong suit will get you grounded. Ski jumping faces more controversy with six months to go until the Winter Olympics after the first high-level competition of the new season saw numerous athletes disqualified over ill-fitting suits. The Netanyahu defends new military offensive in Gaza and says it will be wider than announced 08/11/2025 05:31am • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday defended a new military offensive in Gaza that's more sweeping than previously announced, declaring in the face of growing condemnation at home and abroad that Israel ���has no choice but to finish the job and complete the defeat What's changing in DC-area school districts this fall? 08/11/2025 04:54am • From saving on school supplies to the impact of federal cuts, 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. The end of the summer is almost here, and soon, Massive mudslide kills 7 volunteers repairing flood damage in northern Pakistan 08/11/2025 04:32am • GILGIT, Pakistan (AP) ��� A massive mudslide early Monday killed seven volunteers as they repaired a drainage channel damaged by flash floods in northern Pakistan, officials said, leaving three others injured. Rescuers recovered the bodies after the mudslide hit the town of Danyor in Gilgit-Baltista PHOTO ESSAY: Migrants returning to Venezuela face debt and harsh living conditions 08/11/2025 12:17am • MARACAIBO, Venezuela (AP) ��� The hands of Yosbelin P��rez have made tens of thousands of the aluminum round gridles that Venezuelan families heat every day to cook arepas. She takes deep pride in making the revered ���budare,��� the common denominator among rural tin-roofed homes and city apartment Migrants returning to Venezuela face debt and harsh living conditions 08/11/2025 12:10am • MARACAIBO, Venezuela (AP) ��� The hands of Yosbelin P��rez have made tens of thousands of the aluminum round gridles that Venezuelan families heat every day to cook arepas. She takes deep pride in making the revered ���budare,��� the common denominator among rural tin-roofed homes and city apartment Home title theft: How to prevent it 08/10/2025 08:00pm • Homeowners need to be aware of house title theft, a type of fraud that threatens an individual's ownership of their home. Property fraud in general is a costly problem. The FBI reports that in 2024, it received 9,359 complaints of real estate crime, a category that includes home title theft. 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