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At the Trump rally, it was evening sun, songs and blue sky. Then came bullets, screams and blood 07/15/2024 10:43pm • On a sweltering weekend evening, beneath a clear blue sky, Donald Trump supporters in red “Make America Great Again” hats packed the fairgrounds in Butler, Pennsylvania. It was a friendly and festive venue for the once and maybe future president's final rally before the Republican National Conve Gambia upholds its ban on female genital cutting. Reversing it would have been a global first 07/15/2024 07:10pm • BANJUL, Gambia (AP) — Lawmakers in the West African nation of Gambia on Monday rejected a bill that would have overturned a ban on female genital cutting. The attempt to become the first country in the world to reverse such a ban had been closely followed by activists abroad. The vote followed mon Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun has died at age 86 07/15/2024 06:39pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, has died. He was 86. Buxtun died May 18 of Alzheimer's disease in Rocklin, California, accor Thunderstorms soak parts of DC area as heat wave holds its grip 07/15/2024 04:58pm • Listen live to WTOP for traffic and weather updates on the 8s. Severe Thunderstorms passed though parts of the D.C. region Monday as residents faced yet another day of sweltering temperatures amid a record-breaking heat wave. Here's what you need to know. If you're on a commute, or just travel Olympic cycling medalists Neff and Reusser of Switzerland withdraw from Paris Games due to illnesses 07/15/2024 01:04pm • Olympic mountain bike champion Jolanda Neff and Marlen Reusser, the reigning Olympic time trial silver medalist, withdrew from the Paris Games on Monday in a double blow to the hopes of the Swiss cycling team. The Swiss Cycling Federation announced the two riders have been dealing with illnesses and Celebrities are getting $2,000 MRI scans to learn about their health. Should you? 07/15/2024 11:16am • WASHINGTON (AP) — What if there was a way to peer into your body and spot early signs of cancer and other life-threatening ailments before they became serious? That’s the pitch from a new cluster of companies selling high-tech scans to healthy people interested in learning more about their welln AP PHOTOS: In documenting violence in Haiti, you find bodies, but also ways people keep on living 07/15/2024 12:01am • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Violence permeates every fiber of Haitian society. It used to linger on the outskirts of the capital, targeting the poorest, but now everyone — from street vendors to doctors to schoolchildren — are in its grip. Yet, people find ways to keep living. For the first h Shannen Doherty, ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ star, dies at 53 07/14/2024 08:48pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shannen Doherty, the “Beverly Hills, 90210” star whose life and career were roiled by illness and tabloid stories, has died at 53. After years with breast cancer, Doherty died Saturday, according to a statement from her publicist, Leslie Sloane. “The devoted daughter, sist King Charles III to visit Australia and Samoa as he recovers from cancer 07/14/2024 08:26pm • LONDON (AP) — King Charles III is preparing to visit Australia and Samoa in October, an itinerary that will span 12 time zones and test the monarch’s stamina as he recovers from cancer treatment. The trip, announced on Sunday by Buckingham Palace, marks a watershed moment for the 75-year-old kin 8 Health Problems That Can Mimic Dementia 07/14/2024 08:00pm • Alan Baker of Spokane, Washington, began to have serious problems with memory, confusion and movement when he was about 72 years old. When his wife, Mary, began to observe his decline and difficulty handling everyday tasks, a five-year journey of misdiagnosis began. In the first six months, he made Exercising Safely After Having a Blood Clot 07/14/2024 08:00pm • If you've ever fallen and scraped your knee, you know that any bleeding eventually stops, thanks to blood clots. Clotting is nature's way of helping stanch the blood flow from a cut or wound. More specifically, after getting a superficial scrape, the damage to small blood vessels causes bleeding. Th A look at the history of presidential assassination attempts in America 07/14/2024 04:18pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Before Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, there have been multiple instances of political violence targeting U.S. presidents, former presidents and major party presidential candidates. A look at some of the assassinations and attempted assassin Reagan survived an assassination attempt and his response changed the trajectory of his presidency 07/14/2024 10:37am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The would-be assassin got off six shots in 1.7 seconds, nearly taking the life of a president and changing the trajectory of a presidency. It happened on a dreary March afternoon in 1981. President Ronald Reagan was leaving the Washington Hilton hotel after giving a speech to Doctors pushing to expand access to telemedicine visits for mental health patients 07/14/2024 05:05am • As in-person doctor's visits return to pre-pandemic levels, some virtual medical visits are not dwindling. In fact, some research shows mental health patients prefer visiting health care providers from the comforts of their own homes. More than half those visits, 55% nationwide, are remote, accor Eyewitnesses describe scene at Trump rally shooting: ‘It’s pure insanity’ 07/13/2024 09:00pm • Butler, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Eyewitnesses who spoke to CNN on Saturday described an awful scene following a shooting at former President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in which one person was killed and two others injured in what’s being investigated as a possible assassination