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Strikes start at top hotel chains as housekeepers seek higher wages and daily room cleaning work 09/01/2024 07:53pm • With up to 17 rooms to clean each shift, Fatima Amahmoud's job at the Moxy hotel in downtown Boston sometimes feels impossible. There was the time she found three days worth of blond dog fur clinging to the curtains, the bedspread and the carpet. She knew she wouldn't finish in the 30 minutes she is DC officer sentenced to 2 years probation in 2019 sex abuse case 09/01/2024 08:28am • A D.C. police officer was sentenced Friday to two years probation for sexually assaulting a client who was receiving therapeutic services from him in Northwest D.C. in 2019. Pearce Then, of Adelphi, Maryland, plead guilty in June to one charge of attempted first-degree sexual abuse of a patient o 2024 race hits critical stretch as debate approaches and first ballots are set to go out 09/01/2024 12:00am • (CNN) — The 2024 presidential race is entering a critical stretch, with Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump set to debate and the first swing state ballots hitting mailboxes shortly after the Labor Day holiday weekend.As the calendar turns to September, both campaig Dual-threat QB Finn helps Baylor dominate Tarleton State in 45-3 win 08/31/2024 11:39pm • WACO, Texas (AP) — Dequan Finn threw for 192 yards and two touchdowns and ran for a 39-yard score to lift Baylor to a season-opening 45-3 win over FCS Tarleton State on Saturday. Finn made his mark immediately with a 39-yard touchdown run on the Bears’ first drive and added a 32-yard scoring pas How Kamala Harris’ new policy plan could impact housing in Virginia 08/31/2024 10:17pm • Virginia Democratic lawmakers praised Vice President Kamala Harris’ housing policy plans in a virtual call Wednesday afternoon. The gathering came on the heels of a new campaign ad highlighting Harris’ plan to build three million new homes and rental units if elected president. The plan is pa Skubal dominates Red Sox as Tigers honor 1984 World Series champs with 2-1 win 08/31/2024 09:25pm • DETROIT (AP) — Tarik Skubal allowed one run in eight innings and struck out eight to become the fourth Detroit left-hander with 200 strikeouts in a season as the Tigers celebrated the franchise's 1984 World Series championship with a 2-1 win over the Boston Red Sox on Saturday. Jack Morris threw t Cincinnati holds off tough Towson for 38-20 win in season-opener 08/31/2024 08:15pm • CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati Bearcats quarterback Brendan Sorsby had a strong first game in the Queen City on Saturday afternoon in the Bearcats 38-20 win over Towson. Sorsby threw for 383 yards and two touchdowns while adding two scores on the ground. ““I had a good amount of family show u Hudson Card throws for 4 touchdowns to guide Purdue past Indiana State 49-0 08/31/2024 04:44pm • WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Hudson Card connected on 24 of 25 passes, including his final 17 in a row, for 273 yards and four touchdowns in leading Purdue to a 49-0 romp over Indiana State in Saturday’s season opener for both teams. Card tied a FBS completion percentage with 96% on a minimum of Harris and Trump offer starkly different visions on climate change and energy 08/31/2024 11:42am • WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Earth sizzled through a summer with four of the hottest days ever measured, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have starkly different visions on how to address a changing climate while ensuring a reliable energy supply. But neither has provided Japan wants its hardworking citizens to try a 4-day workweek 08/31/2024 09:33am • TOKYO (AP) — Japan, a nation so hardworking its language has a term for literally working oneself to death, is trying to address a worrisome labor shortage by coaxing more people and companies to adopt four-day workweeks. The Japanese government first expressed support for a shorter working week Trump courts conservative male influencers to try to reach younger men 08/31/2024 12:01am • WASHINGTON (AP) — At first glance, there's little that a 78-year-old former president and a 23-year-old internet personality might have in common. Donald Trump admitted in a recent appearance on Adin Ross' show that he only “more or less” understood livestreaming, the publishing of live video Where do DC, Maryland and Virginia rank when it comes to the best place to work in the US? 08/30/2024 09:10pm • Oxfam America, a global organization dedicated to fighting inequality and ending poverty and injustice, has released its annual report called the Best States to Work Index (BSWI), detailing the best and worst states for workers in the United States. This year, D.C. topped the list. The report Election 2024 Latest: Trump to appear at Moms for Liberty event, Harris campaign launches bus tour 08/30/2024 07:55pm • Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is scheduled to appear Friday at the annual gathering of Moms for Liberty, a national nonprofit that has spearheaded efforts to get mentions of LGBTQ+ identity and structural racism out of K-12 classrooms. Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris ’ campa Trump says he'll vote to uphold Florida abortion ban after seeming to signal he'd support repeal 08/30/2024 07:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Friday said he will vote no on a Florida ballot measure that would repeal the state’s six-week abortion ban, a day after he seemed to indicate he would vote in favor of the measure. Trump has said he thinks Florida’s ban is a mistake and said in Haeran Ryu has bogey-free 62 and opens up a big lead at TPC Boston 08/30/2024 07:21pm • NORTON, Mass. (AP) — Haeran Ryu kept making birdies and wanted to post her lowest round on the LPGA Tour on Friday. She accomplished that with a 10-under 62 that gave her a six-shot lead in the FM Championship. Ryu had a run of four straight birdies on the front nine and the back nine at the TPC B