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Cracking down on illegal, out-of-control parties in Montgomery County 07/05/2024 09:21am • Houses in our area are being rented out for rowdy, illegal parties. Now officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, are taking action. “Some of these houses have been repeat offenders. They know they’re violating, and those are the houses that obviously we’re focused a lot on moving forward,� German government averts crisis with budget agreement for Europe’s largest economy 07/05/2024 08:13am • BERLIN (AP) — The German government said Friday it has reached agreement on the budget for 2025 and a stimulus package for Europe’s largest economy, easing a monthslong squabble that threatened to upend Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left coalition. Scholz, a Social Democrat, and leaders of t Fireworks light up the skies across the US as Americans endure searing heat to celebrate July Fourth 07/05/2024 06:25am • Millions of people in the U.S. celebrated and suffered under heat warnings Thursday as they flocked to beaches and traveled in droves to toast their nation’s birth with July Fourth parades, cookouts and the always anticipated fiery splashes of color in the evening sky. In Washington, neon bursts Land routes across Africa are twice as deadly for migrants as Mediterranean voyages, UN estimates 07/05/2024 03:08am • GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations and partners say more migrants and refugees in Africa are heading northward toward the Mediterranean and Europe, crossing perilous routes in the Sahara where criminal gangs subject them to enslavement, organ removal, rape, kidnapping for ransom and other abuses. A 'We have to be wacky.' With suggestive poses and pets, election campaigning tests Tokyo's patience 07/05/2024 02:39am • TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo elects a new governor this weekend, but residents say personal publicity stunts have overtaken serious campaigning to a degree never seen before, with nearly nude women in suggestive poses, pets, an AI character and a man practicing his golf swing. It's impossible to ignore. Wit What to know about Venezuela's election as Maduro faces the toughest race of his decade in power 07/05/2024 01:08am • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's self-described socialist government is facing a serious electoral challenge in a presidential election for the first time in decades. President Nicolás Maduro, now in his 11th year in office, is being challenged by former diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia at Hurricane Beryl strengthens back into a Category 3 storm as it nears Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula 07/04/2024 11:14pm • TULUM, Mexico (AP) — After leaving a trail of destruction across the eastern Caribbean and at least nine people dead, Hurricane Beryl strengthened back into a Category 3 storm late Thursday as it chugged over open water toward Mexico's resort-studded Yucatan Peninsula. The U.S. National Hurricane New Zealand will radically ease zoning rules to try to relieve its stubborn housing shortage 07/04/2024 10:56pm • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand will drastically ease zoning restrictions in a bid to “flood the market” with land for homes and override the powers of local councils to curb development, the nation's housing minister said in announcing reforms to what he called one of the world’s Biden heads into a make-or-break stretch for his imperiled presidential campaign 07/04/2024 10:06pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday opened a critical stretch in his effort to salvage his imperiled reelection campaign, facing a growing sense that he may have just days to make a persuasive case that he is fit for office before Democratic support for him completely evaporates. In Vatican chief of staff testifies in UK finance trial, admits to false invoice and blames a deputy 07/04/2024 08:36pm • ROME (AP) — Pope Francis’ chief of staff became one of the highest-ranking Holy See officials to testify in a foreign court Thursday, telling a British tribunal about the negotiations at the heart of the Vatican’s so-called “trial of the century,” admitting he filed a false invoice and poi WTOP goes out on the water with DC police's harbor patrol 07/04/2024 08:21pm • D.C. police’s Harbor Patrol Unit calls July Fourth its Super Bowl on the water. The holiday comes during the specialized team's busy season. “Spring and summer is by far our busiest,” said Lt. Andrew Horos, with the harbor patrol. Ahead of fireworks on Independence Day, Horos said the te Parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue to buy Neiman Marcus for $2.65 billion 07/04/2024 04:34pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue has signed a deal to buy upscale rival Neiman Marcus Group, which owns Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman stores, for $2.65 billion, with online behemoth Amazon holding a minority stake. The new entity will be called Saks Global, creating a Israel approves plans for nearly 5,300 new homes in West Bank settlements 07/04/2024 04:32pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government has approved plans to build nearly 5,300 new homes in settlements in the occupied West Bank, a monitoring group said Thursday, the latest in a campaign to accelerate settlement expansion, aimed at cementing Israeli control over the territory and preventing t Verstappen's emerging F1 rivalry with Norris goes another round at the British GP 07/04/2024 03:59pm • SILVERSTONE, England (AP) — Max Verstappen's emerging rivalry with Lando Norris goes another round at the British Grand Prix this week and this time Norris has home fans behind him. Sunday's Formula 1 race follows their crash at last weekend's Austrian GP, the home race of Verstappen's Red Bull te A week after an alleged coup attempt in Bolivia, confusion and conspiracy theories reign 07/04/2024 02:16pm • LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A plan to stage a coup against Bolivia’s president was not what Gen. Tomás Peña y Lillo was expecting when he entered the military headquarters in La Paz last Wednesday. The leader of Bolivia’s retired service members said he was surprised to get a call that morning fr