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3 injured, illegal fireworks spread across roadway after Montgomery Co. car crash 07/04/2024 11:31am • A fiery early morning crash Wednesday on Interstate 270 in Montgomery County, Maryland, left at least three people injured and scattered illegal fireworks across the roadway, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue. Montgomery County officials said the crash happened around 4 a.m. on I-270 Going where they get a bang for their bucks: Marylanders cross border for holiday fireworks 07/04/2024 11:06am • It’s the evening before the Fourth of July, and the parking lot of the Phantom Fireworks store is crawling with SUVs and pick-up trucks trolling for a parking spot. Based on the number of Maryland flag and Chesapeake Bay license plates coming in and out of the parking lot, it might appear this Fires have become the most visible sign of the conflict heating up on the Lebanon-Israel border 07/04/2024 09:47am • CHEBAA, Lebanon (AP) — With cease-fire talks faltering in Gaza and no clear offramp for the conflict on the Lebanon-Israel border, the daily exchanges of strikes between Hezbollah and Israeli forces have sparked fires that are tearing through forests and farmland on both sides of the frontline. T Indian mother delivers baby on boat as her river island is inundated by floodwaters 07/04/2024 08:14am • MORIGAON, India (AP) — A blue tarp covered a mother and her newborn daughter from the incessant rain on their boat journey. Jahanara Khatoon, 25, had just given birth on the boat on their way to a healthcare center, surrounded by the raging floodwaters of the Brahmaputra River. “I am very happy, Wembanyama steals the show with 24 points for France in Olympic warmup rout of Turkey 07/04/2024 07:40am • PARIS (AP) — Victor Wembanyama stole the show with spectacular one-handed dunks as France opened preparations for its men’s basketball gold medal bid at the Paris Olympics. In a promising sign of things to come, the NBA's Rookie of the Year was all smiles after powerful dunks with both hands in Philippine military chief warns his forces will fight back if assaulted again in disputed sea 07/04/2024 06:15am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine forces will defend themselves with “the same level of force” if they come under assault again from China’s coast guard in the disputed South China Sea, where Chinese personnel armed with machetes and spears injured Filipino navy personnel and damaged two These oldest inhabited termite mounds have been active for 34,000 years 07/04/2024 01:25am • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Scientists in South Africa have been stunned to discover that termite mounds that are still inhabited in an arid region of the country are more than 30,000 years old, meaning they are the oldest known active termite hills. Some of the mounds near the Buffels River in Biden vows to keep running as signs point to rapidly eroding support for him on Capitol Hill 07/03/2024 11:24pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A defiant President Joe Biden vowed Wednesday to keep running for reelection, rejecting growing pressure from Democrats to withdraw after a disastrous debate performance raised questions about his readiness to keep campaigning, much less win in November. But increasingly omino California city cancels July Fourth fireworks as firefighters battle flames amid hot weather 07/03/2024 11:23pm • OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Officials in a Northern California community cancelled an annual Fourth of July fireworks celebration as an estimated 26,000 residents remained displaced by a growing wildfire, while hundreds of firefighters toiled under extreme heat to keep flames from reaching more homes. Hurricane Beryl roars by Jamaica after killing at least 7 people in the southeast Caribbean 07/03/2024 11:02pm • KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Hurricane Beryl was roaring by Jamaica Wednesday, bringing fierce winds and heavy rain after the powerful Category 4 storm earlier killed at least seven people and caused significant damage in the southeast Caribbean. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Beryl's eyewal Mexico evacuates even sea turtle eggs from beaches as Hurricane Beryl approaches 07/03/2024 10:53pm • CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — Stung by past failures to prepare for hurricanes, the Mexican government on Wednesday began evacuating even sea turtle eggs from beaches ahead of Hurricane Beryl. While Beryl remains far offshore in the Caribbean near Jamaica, it is expected to hit somewhere south of Cancun 'Seven Samurai' at 70: Kurosawa's epic still moves like nothing else 07/03/2024 09:24pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. But despite its age, the vitality and fleet-footed movement of Kurosawa’s epic is still breathtaking. To watch it again is to be swept along, all over again, by its flowing action and breadth of 2 injured, 1 missing after explosion at Arkansas defense weapons plant 07/03/2024 07:40pm • CAMDEN, Ark. (AP) — An explosion at a defense weapons plant in Arkansas injured at least two people Wednesday and left another missing, the facility's operators said. The explosion happened at the General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems' plant in Camden, about 86 miles (138 kilometers) sout Far-right National Rally candidates, including one who wore Nazi cap, scrutinized in French election 07/03/2024 05:58pm • PARIS (AP) — As it stands on the threshold of power in France, the far-right National Rally is facing scrutiny about some of the candidates it hopes will help it secure a ruling majority in legislative elections on Sunday, including a woman it has pulled from the high-stakes race over a photo of h Abortion measures could be on Arizona and Nebraska ballots after organizers submit signatures 07/03/2024 05:51pm • PHOENIX (AP) — Organizers in Arizona and Nebraska said Wednesday that they turned in far more signatures than required to get ballot measures on abortion rights before voters in November's election. In Nebraska, there could be two competing questions. One, like the Arizona proposal, would add a ri