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New heat wave in Greece expected to last at least a week. North Macedonia also swelters 07/12/2024 08:06am • ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities on Friday warned of an impending weeklong heat wave during the summer tourist season, with a high risk of dangerous wildfires, as much of southern Europe sweltered under high temperatures. The ministry for civil protection and climate change said southwester Wildfire risk rises as Western states dry out amid protracted heat wave 07/12/2024 07:19am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities in Western states warned of the rising risk of wildfires amid a protracted heat wave that has dried out the landscape while setting temperature records and putting lives at risk. Forecasters, meanwhile, said Thursday that some relief was due by the weekend. Californi Desperately needed rain hits DC area. Weekend sees return of scorching temps 07/12/2024 06:22am • Listen live to WTOP for traffic and weather updates on the 8s. After a prolonged heat wave pushed feels-like temperatures into the triple digits throughout the D.C. area, things are cooling off on a rainy Friday. However, this weekend could bring a bit of a weather roller coaster, including sh Velocity training has pushed pitchers to their limits. Baseball is grappling with the injury risks 07/12/2024 06:00am • SEATTLE (AP) — Justin Verlander was a gangly teenager. His parents jokingly called him a “brontosaurus.” Long before he became a three-time Cy Young Award winner, he was a high schooler who couldn't consistently muster the arm strength needed to get drafted. So he went to college, took the ti Destination Paris: Tara Davis-Woodhall and husband Hunter focus on small stuff in chase for gold 07/12/2024 06:00am • FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Tara Davis-Woodhall preheats the oven, then heads to the back of the house while her husband, Hunter, pulls out the cutting board and methodically slices the sweet potatoes that will be the star of the show for this afternoon’s lunch. A minute later, Davis-Woodhall reap A second person has died in Vermont flooding from Hurricane Beryl’s remnants, officials say 07/12/2024 05:44am • PLAINFIELD, Vt. (AP) — A second person has died in Vermont in the flooding from Hurricane Beryl’s remnants, officials said Thursday. John Rice, 73, died when he drove his vehicle through a flooded street Thursday morning in Lyndonville, police Chief Jack Harris said. The floodwaters’ current s These Picassos prompted a gender war at an Australian gallery. Now the curator says she painted them 07/12/2024 05:25am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — They were billed as artworks by Pablo Picasso, paintings so valuable that an Australian art museum’s decision to display them in an exhibition restricted to women visitors provoked a gender discrimination lawsuit. The paintings again prompted international headline Half a million Houston-area homes and businesses still won't have power into next week 07/11/2024 11:13pm • HOUSTON (AP) — About half a million Houston-area homes and businesses will still be without electricity next week, the city's largest utility said Thursday, stoking the frustration of hot and weary residents and leading a top state official to call the pace of recovery from Hurricane Beryl “not The Latest | Israel will send cease-fire negotiators to Cairo for more talks, Netanyahu says 07/11/2024 11:09pm • Israel will send a delegation to Cairo for further talks with mediators on a proposed deal with Hamas for a cease-fire and hostage release, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Thursday. Israel has been pressing ahead with a fresh offensive across the north, south and center of the Gaz The Latest: Biden news conference is key event as he faces calls to step aside 07/11/2024 10:09pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden held a news conference Thursday evening, the key event in a monumental week for his campaign as he fends off calls for him to step aside as the party’s presumptive nominee. His big moment comes on the last day of the NATO summit. After a dismal debate perfor What Is Neurofeedback Therapy? 07/11/2024 08:00pm • When I was a child, my mother suffered from horrible migraine headaches. Sometimes they were so bad that she'd have to close herself up in her bedroom for days with the shades drawn. Traditional pain medications didn't work, so she began to search for alternative methods of relief. Eventually, she f 7 of the Best BlackRock Funds to Buy in Your IRA 07/11/2024 08:00pm • With an astounding $10.5 trillion in assets under management and a market cap of $120 billion, New York-based BlackRock Inc. (ticker: BLK) is the world's largest asset manager. The firm was founded in 1998 by Larry Fink, who gained renown on Wall Street and around the world in the 1980s for his cont 'We have nothing': Palestinians return to utter destruction in Gaza City after Israeli withdrawal 07/11/2024 06:24pm • SHIJAIYAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians returned to breathtaking scenes of destruction in the Gaza City district of Shijaiyah after Israeli troops withdrew, ending a two-week offensive there. Civil defense workers said Thursday that so far, they had found the bodies of 60 people in the rubble. F Dollar General agrees to pay $12 million fine to settle alleged workplace safety violations 07/11/2024 06:01pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Dollar General has agreed to pay a $12 million fine and improve conditions at its thousands of retail stores nationwide to make them safer for workers, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. The discount retailer and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration reached t Lawsuit filed in case of teen who died after eating spicy chip as part of online challenge 07/11/2024 05:57pm • BOSTON (AP) — A lawsuit was filed Thursday against Hershey, Walgreens and several others in the case of a Massachusetts teen who died after he participated in a spicy tortilla chip challenge that was widely promoted on social media. Harris Wolobah, a 10th grader from the city of Worcester, died Se