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Passenger arrested after flight from Australia to Malaysia returns to Sydney in 'emergency incident' 08/14/2023 01:58pm • SYDNEY (AP) — An airline flight from Australia to Malaysia returned on Monday to Sydney, where a disruptive passenger was arrested hours later in what police described as an emergency incident. The emergency caused dozens of domestic flight cancellations and delays at Australia's busiest airport. No. 2 Michigan aiming for its 1st national title since 1997 behind QB J.J. McCarthy, RB Blake Corum 08/14/2023 01:10pm • ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan might have its best team in nine years under Jim Harbaugh as the second-ranked Wolverines aim for their first national title since 1997. J.J. McCarthy returns as the staring quarterback along with All-America running back Blake Corum and perhaps one of the best off Flying taxi company Supernal opens sleek new DC headquarters 08/14/2023 12:20pm • Washington, D.C.-based Supernal, which is developing electric vertical takeoff and landing “flying taxis,” has moved from a temporary headquarters to a new location to help it facilitate the regulatory process. Supernal said it is, potentially, just a few years away from commercially launchin Ethiopian airstrike on a town square in the restive Amhara region kills 26, health official says 08/14/2023 11:40am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An airstrike on a crowded town square in Ethiopia’s restive Amhara region killed at least 26 people and wounded more than 55 others, a senior health official said Monday, days after authorities asserted that calm had been restored in the area. Local militia members have bee Book Review: Small-town politics and big family drama drive crime thriller 'Where the Dead Sleep' 08/14/2023 11:20am • “Where the Dead Sleep” by Joshua Moehling (Poisoned Pen Press) “Where the Dead Sleep” begins pleasantly enough: Detective Ben Packard is back, becoming more comfortable with Sandy Lake, making his rounds as acting sheriff at the small Minnesota town's Labor Day weekend celebration. But we c UK government rejects claims it was slow to evacuate asylum-seekers after bacteria detected on barge 08/14/2023 11:12am • LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government Monday rejected claims that it was slow to evacuate asylum-seekers from a barge moored off the south coast of England once traces of the bacteria that causes Legionnaire’s disease were found in the ship’s water system. In the latest critique of the governme 4 in 10 Gen Z remote workers have taken a 'hush trip' 08/14/2023 10:30am • A 'hush trip' has emerged as one of the employee abuses made possible by remote and hybrid work, and in a ResumeBuilder survey of Gen Z workers under age 27, a surprisingly large share admit to having done it. A hush trip is working from a vacation destination without telling their manager they a Federal student loan pause ends next month, some borrowers expect budgets to take a major hit 08/14/2023 09:40am • Interest on those federal student loans picks back up next month and payments will be due in October, marking the end of a more than three-year pause on payments. The unprecedented suspension provided relief for millions of borrowers faced with the financial fallout of the pandemic. Now, the tran We’re going to need a bigger drone: The technology keeping swimmers safe at one New York beach 08/14/2023 07:20am • New York (CNN) — Warmer and cleaner waters off the coast of Long Island, New York, in recent years have brought growing numbers of bait fish to the area — and with them, the bigger fish that eat them, including sharks. In some ways, it’s a good sign for the environment. But it’s a differ The investigation into the 2010 kidnapping and killing of a German banker's wife is closed 08/14/2023 06:13am • BERLIN (AP) — An investigation into the 2010 kidnapping and slaying of a German banker's wife has been closed after failing to find a perpetrator in more than a decade, authorities said Monday. Maria Boegerl, who was 54, was taken from her home in Heidenheim in southwestern Germany on May 12, 2010 Purdue Boilermakers hoping Hudson Card can be their next ace at the 'Cradle of Quarterbacks' 08/14/2023 06:10am • Hudson Card thinks he can become Purdue's new ace. Those inside the program are firm believers, too. First-year coach Ryan Walters raves about Card's mobility, receivers like Card's arm strength and accuracy, and now, after just a few months on campus, the Boilermakers are going all-in on the former Car Review: 2024 VW Atlas is a 3-row SUV with newfound style 08/14/2023 05:14am • By special WTOP contributor Brian Armstead In May, 2017, the first Volkswagen Atlas was sold in the U.S. as a 2018 model. Today, Atlas (including the five-seater Cross Sport that debuted in 2020) is the bestselling, most profitable nameplate in the VW lineup. Over 494,000 have been sold. For the 202 Hawaii churches offer prayers for the dead and the missing after devastating Maui wildfires 08/14/2023 04:26am • LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Parishioners mourned the dead and prayed for the missing Sunday in Hawaii churches as communities began looking ahead to a long recovery from last week's wildfire that demolished a historic Maui town and killed more than 90 people. Maria Lanakila Church in Lahaina was spared North Dakota teen survives nearly 100-foot fall at North Rim of Grand Canyon 08/14/2023 01:28am • GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — A 13-year-old North Dakota boy has survived a fall of nearly 100 feet at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon during a family trip. Authorities said it took emergency crews two hours to rescue Wyatt Kauffman after he slipped on a cliff Tuesday and plunged the Maui officials and scientists warn that after the flames flicker out, toxic particles will remain 08/14/2023 01:05am • LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — When flames swept through western Maui, engulfing the town of Lahaina, residents saw toxic fumes spewing into the air as burning homes, pipes and cars combusted, transforming rubber, metal and plastic into poisonous, particulate matter-filled smoke. Retired mailman and Vietn