Search

With hot weather coming, DC gives residents more access to spray parks 06/15/2024 06:28am • The D.C. region is bracing for some extremely hot weather next week, with temperatures above 95 degrees expected multiple days in a row. Clint Osborn, acting director of the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, is reminding residents about places they may want to go to cool off Moore first to hit for cycle at CWS since 1956; Dreiling's hit in 9th gives Vols 12-11 walk-off win 06/15/2024 12:01am • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Dylan Dreiling's single into the left-center gap drove in the go-ahead run in the bottom of the ninth inning and Tennessee rallied to beat Florida State 12-11 on Friday, capping a night when Christian Moore became the first player in 68 years to hit for the cycle at the College No wrecking ball yet — but Arlington Co. begins boarding up vacant Key Bridge Marriott 06/14/2024 04:40pm • Several weeks after Arlington County declared the former Key Bridge Marriot "a public nuisance" due to its unsafe and unsanitary conditions, county public safety personnel began to board up and seal the multi-story building on Friday. Aaron Miller, deputy county manager for public safety, sai Her dying husband worried she'd have money troubles. Then she won the lottery 06/14/2024 04:24pm • FREEPORT, Pa. (AP) — In the weeks before his death, Karen Coffman's husband worried she might have money troubles after he was gone. But two weeks before he died in April of complications from a brain tumor, the Pennsylvania woman bought a scratch-off state lottery ticket that netted her $1 millio Myanmar's embattled military government cracks down on free flow of news by blocking VPNs 06/14/2024 03:58pm • BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government has launched a major effort to block free communication on the Internet, shutting off access to virtual private networks, or VPNs, which can be used to circumvent blockages of banned websites and services. The attempt to restrict access to information FAA investigating how titanium parts with falsified records wound up in Boeing and Airbus planes 06/14/2024 03:54pm • Federal regulators are investigating how parts made with titanium that was sold with falsified quality documentation wound up in Boeing and Airbus passenger jets that were built in recent years. Boeing and Airbus said Friday that planes containing the parts are safe to fly, but Boeing said it was re Trump once defied the NRA to ban bump stocks. He now says he 'did nothing' to restrict guns 06/14/2024 03:50pm • Less than six years ago, then-President Donald Trump took on the influential gun lobby after the deadliest massacre in modern U.S. history. He announced that he had told the National Rifle Association that “bump stocks are gone,” arguing they “turn legal weapons into illegal machine guns.” O Guardians first-year manager Stephen Vogt has taken young team to top of AL Central 06/14/2024 02:38pm • CLEVELAND (AP) — The fishing boat captain's chair that provided former Cleveland manager Terry Francona a comfortable vantage point during games the past few years was removed from the home dugout steps before the season. It's gone, just like the beloved Francona, aka “Tito” to everyone in bas 'Tis the season for swimming and bacteria alerts in lakes, rivers 06/14/2024 02:29pm • TUFTONBORO, N.H. (AP) — With summer about to start, many people flocking to their favorite swimming holes may also want to read up on bacteria warnings. During the busy Memorial Day weekend and shortly afterward, at least 20 people, most of them children, reported E. coli infections after they sw Humid conditions could turn into stormy weather Friday 06/14/2024 01:09pm • Friday's humid conditions could give way to strong storms in the evening throughout the D.C. region, bringing gusty winds, heavy rain and lightning. Here's what you need to know. 7News First Alert meteorologist Jordan Evans said after a mostly sunny day — with temperatures ranging between the u Rare twin elephants in Thailand receive monks' blessings a week after their tumultuous birth 06/14/2024 11:32am • BANGKOK (AP) — Buddhist monks in Thailand on Friday blessed twin baby elephants, one male and the other female, a week after their rare birth came close to being a tragedy. Their mother, Chamchuri, gave birth to the pair on the night of June 7 at a camp in Thailand’s ancient capital Ayutthaya, a Israel-Hamas war roils congressional race outside New York City, testing Democrats in pivotal clash 06/14/2024 11:24am • TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — The war between Israel and Hamas is roiling a congressional primary election between two Democrats in New York, reflecting a divide that has splintered the party nationally since the conflict began last year. U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman, one of several House liberals who have qu Florida A&M, a dubious donor and $237M: The transformative HBCU gift that wasn’t what it seemed 06/14/2024 10:43am • NEW YORK (AP) — It would have been the largest-ever private gift to a historically Black college or university: $237 million — far beyond the recipient’s endowment. The money was promised by a 30-year-old who had recounted his rise from a childhood in foster care to becoming, as he put it, Tex Japan has no plans to seek a suspension of Osprey flights despite restrictions in US 06/14/2024 07:29am • TOKYO (AP) — Japan's defense chief said Friday that Japanese and American V-22 Ospreys are being safely operated in his country, and that he has no plans to request a flight suspension despite restrictions in the U.S. where ongoing safety and performance assessments will continue until next year. Don't lose your cool ahead of the heat wave: basic care for your HVAC system 06/14/2024 04:43am • Homeowners who have waited for this heat wave before thinking it might be time for an HVAC tuneup could find themselves sweating before their technician can arrive. Warren Lupson, an adjunct professor at Montgomery College's heating, air conditioning and ventilation department, with 50 years of e