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Washington's Top News - Monday, August 11, 2014 08/11/2014 03:17am • Here's a look at some of the day's top stories from WTOP: Kurds make advances U.S. military forces on Sunday launched a fourth round of airstrikes against militant vehicles and mortars firing on Irbil in Iraq, as part of efforts to blunt the militants' advance and protect American personnel in and Catchings helps Fever beat Liberty 90-76 08/10/2014 07:00pm • DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Tamika Catchings and the Indiana Fever played with a sense of urgency and blew past the New York Liberty.Catchings scored a season-high 29 points to lead Indiana to a 90-76 victory over the Liberty on Sunday, ending the Fever's three-game losing st NFL dynasties disappeared; could Seahawks be one? 08/10/2014 09:46am • HOWARD FENDRICH AP Pro Football Writer The NFL does what it can via the draft, salary cap, free agency and, coming soon, expanded playoffs to engineer a sense of parity, making each team and each fan base believe it has a chance to win on any given Sunday -- and to reach any season's Super Bowl.Thos Cowboys CB Carr in camp after death of mother 08/09/2014 09:30pm • OXNARD, Calif. (AP) -- Brandon Carr knows the pain of losing his mother will never go away completely.Football is the veteran Dallas cornerback's escape, and he was back on the field with the Cowboys on Saturday after missing the first two weeks of training camp to be with his mother in the final da Review: In 'Phoenix,' hooking up is hard to do 08/09/2014 10:34am • JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Should you happen to bring your mother along to see "Phoenix," Scott Organ's one-act dark comedy at the Cherry Lane Theatre, beware: She might stare you down and say, "I told you so."Because "Phoenix," despite its partly comic tone, is surely a remi Crisp Cassel, Vikings beat Raiders 10-6 08/09/2014 12:26am • DAVE CAMPBELL AP Pro Football Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Matt Cassel was crisp from the start, giving Teddy Bridgewater a model touchdown drive to watch.Bridgewater showed his age, aside from a few flashes of brilliance, and that's the early snapshot of the starting quarterback competition.Cassel we Distracted smartphone walking poses safety risks 08/08/2014 03:22pm • WASHINGTON -- Smartphone users are starting to fill up emergency rooms as distracted walking is to blame for everything from sprained ankles, broken bones and even deaths. "You see people in restaurants with their phones all on the table; you see people checking their phones walking on the stree Africans face long wait for unproven Ebola drug 08/08/2014 01:12pm • JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Africans seeking a drug to help contain the Ebola virus will have to wait months before a potentially life-saving experimental treatment used on two infected Americans is produced even in small amounts, officials said.And there are no g Review: Mother Nature deserves better lines 08/08/2014 09:06am • JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer "Into the Storm" is a movie that addresses the fearsome power of nature. Alas, it also addresses the fearsome power of a bad script to distract us from the fearsome power of nature.Add to that a set of cardboard characters, and what you have is a movie that should h Sen. John Walsh leaves race amid plagiarism probe 08/08/2014 12:17am • LISA BAUMANN Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Montana U.S. Sen. John Walsh dropped his election campaign Thursday amid allegations he plagiarized large portions of a 2007 research project, leaving fellow Democrats to scramble for a replacement with the election less than three months away.Nati Ethical issue: Who gets experimental Ebola drug? 08/07/2014 12:20pm • LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The use of an experimental drug to treat two Americans diagnosed with Ebola is raising ethical questions about who gets first access to unproven new therapies for the deadly disease. But some health experts fear debate over extremely limited dose UCI agrees to fast-track appeal on Kreuziger ban 08/05/2014 03:22pm • GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) -- The International Cycling Union has agreed to a fast-track appeal at sport's highest court for Roman Kreuziger, who wants his provisional ban for suspected doping lifted before the Spanish Vuelta.The Tinkoff-Saxo rider seeks a Court of Arbitration for Sp Pope speaks in German to 50,000 Catholic kids 08/05/2014 01:56pm • VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis brushed off his German on Tuesday to greet some 50,000 German-speaking young people on a pilgrimage to Rome.Francis followed the all-German program during the evening vigil service in St. Peter's Square and read from prepared German texts.Unlike his multilingual pre Jet-plane tech keeps car driver's eyes on road 08/05/2014 01:38pm • WASHINGTON -- Using a smartphone or tablet while driving isn't smart, and in many states is illegal. Fiddling with buttons and knobs while behind the wheel can cause deadly distractions. But a soon-to-be-released heads-up display, called Navdy, projects easier-to-digest information from a driver Governor makes Newtown response a campaign issue 08/05/2014 01:42am • SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is making a campaign issue of his handling of the 2012 mass school shooting in Newtown, using it as he seeks a second term to highlight his leadership during difficult times.Malloy's second television ad, released Monday, fea