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Stores lure back-to-school shoppers with deals and 'buy now, pay later' plans 07/30/2024 08:04am • NEW YORK (AP) — Mass market retailers in the U.S. are plying shoppers with offers for computers, clothes and other back-to-school essentials at affordable prices. To seal the deal, they are marketing “buy now, pay later” services as a way for customers to spread out the cost of going back to c Maduro's last dance? Venezuela's ultimate political survivor faces toughest challenge yet 07/28/2024 10:07am • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Nicolás Maduro struts across the stage, flapping his arms to a trap merengue beat as a high-pitch rooster crow blasting from a wall of speakers energizes throngs of diehards gathered to support the Venezuelan president’s re-election bid. Campaign jingles are never an a Wisconsin Republicans ask voters to take away governor's power to spend federal money 07/28/2024 01:03am • Wisconsin Republicans are asking voters to take away the governor's power to unilaterally spend federal money, a reaction to the billions of dollars that flowed into the state during the COVID-19 pandemic. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers was free to spend most of that money as he pleased, directing most California date palm ranches reap not only fruit, but a permit to host weddings and quinceañeras 07/27/2024 08:11pm • COACHELLA, Calif. (AP) — Claudia Lua Alvarado has staked her future on the rows of towering date palms behind the home where she lives with her husband and two children in a desert community east of Los Angeles. It’s not solely due to the fleshy, sweet fruit they give each year. Their ample shad Celine Dion makes musical comeback at Paris Olympics with Eiffel Tower serenade 07/26/2024 06:17pm • PARIS (AP) — Celine Dion made a triumphant return Friday with a very public performance: closing out the Paris Olympics' opening ceremony from the Eiffel Tower. Nearly two years after revealing her stiff person syndrome diagnosis, Dion belted Edith Piaf's “Hymne à l’amour” (“Hymn to Love� Barack and Michelle Obama endorse Kamala Harris, giving her expected but crucial support 07/26/2024 12:22pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama have endorsed Kamala Harris in her White House bid, giving the vice president the expected but still crucial backing of the nation’s two most popular Democrats. The endorsement, announced Friday in a video showing Sri Lanka will hold presidential election on Sept. 21, its first since declaring bankruptcy in 2022 07/26/2024 03:10am • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka will hold a presidential election on Sept. 21 that will likely be a test of confidence in President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s efforts to resolve the country’s worst economic crisis. The date was announced by the independent elections commission Friday, which s Southwest Airlines plans to start assigning seats, breaking with a 50-year tradition 07/25/2024 06:29pm • DALLAS (AP) — Goodbye, cattle call. Southwest Airlines said Thursday that it plans to drop the open-boarding system it has used for more than 50 years and will start assigning passengers to seats, just like all the other big airlines. The airline said it has been studying seating options, running Automakers hit 'significant storm,' as buyers reject lofty prices at time of huge capital outlays 07/25/2024 04:14pm • DETROIT (AP) — Investors are punishing automakers' stocks this week after second-quarter earnings reports exposed industrywide issues of slowing sales and high prices, just as the companies are having to spend huge sums to make new electric and gas vehicles. Each auto company has unique problems, US viewers' Olympic interest is down, poll finds, except for Simone Biles 07/25/2024 03:48pm • PARIS (AP) — On the heels of low ratings for the coronavirus pandemic-marred Tokyo and Beijing Olympics, Paris may not do much better among U.S. viewers, a poll from Gallup released Thursday found. Simone Biles and women's gymnastics are poised to be a bright spot, with those surveyed selecting it Anthony Fauci tells WTOP about 'painful' conflict with Trump during COVID pandemic 07/25/2024 10:30am • Former Chief Medical Advisor to the President Anthony Fauci joined WTOP on Wednesday to discuss his public health career, including what he says it was like to head up the COVID-19 pandemic response during former President Donald Trump's administration. Fauci led the National Institutes of Allerg With big goals and gambles, Paris aims to reset the Olympics with audacious Games and a wow opening 07/25/2024 03:13am • PARIS (AP) — Paris has long been a city of dreamers: Just look at the Eiffel Tower, for decades the world's loftiest structure. Audacity also underpins the French capital's plans for its first Olympic Games in a century, which open Friday with an opening ceremony for the ages. The most sprawling Americans are on a roll again in the major championships 07/23/2024 10:42am • TROON, Scotland (AP) — Europeans first took over Augusta National when Sandy Lyle of Scotland won the Masters in 1988, the start of seven European winners in a span of nine years. Padraig Harrington kicked off Irish golf's big run of winning majors in five of six years. He won the British Open in Democrats plan to push ahead with virtual roll call ahead of their convention, with Harris favored 07/22/2024 10:02pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic Party plans to push forward with a virtual roll call in which delegates to its convention can choose a presidential nominee before they gather next month in Chicago — despite Vice President Kamala Harris being overwhelmingly favored to replace President Joe Biden The first 2 of 14 new F-16 fighter jets from the US land in Slovakia 07/22/2024 07:02pm • BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia received on Monday the first two of the 14 new F-16 military jets from the United States whose delivery was pushed back two years due to the coronavirus pandemic and a lack of chips. President Peter Pellegrini hailed the arrival of the F-16s at the Kuchyna air