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Euro 2024 in Germany is UEFA's 1st step to raise pandemic-hit cash reserves above $550 million 06/08/2024 04:02am • GENEVA (AP) — UEFA’s two-step financial plan to refill its pandemic-hit cash reserves starts with a men’s 2024 European Championship held in the home of the continent’s largest economy. Revenue of about 2.5 billion euros ($2.7 billion) is expected from broadcast and sponsor deals, and sales Carjacking charge remains for DC woman accused of stealing running SUV with passenger inside 06/08/2024 04:00am • There’s probable cause for an unarmed carjacking charge against a D.C. woman accused of stealing an SUV with an ill patient in the passenger seat earlier this week, a D.C. Superior Court judge ruled Friday. During the hourslong preliminary hearing, Judge Renee Raymond ordered that 22-year-old K Iran helicopter crash shows Tehran's reliance on an aging fleet as well as its challenges at home 06/08/2024 01:09am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — By the time Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi boarded his window seat on a helicopter ferrying him, the foreign minister and six others, thick clouds already had begun forming around the mountaintops along the Azerbaijan-Iran border. Despite the worsening weather, Prince William is usher at wedding of aristocrat the Duke of Westminster 06/07/2024 10:39pm • LONDON (AP) — Prince William took a day out from royal duties on Friday to serve as an usher at the wedding of his friend Hugh Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster, an event briefly disrupted by environmental protesters. The wedding of 33-year-old Grosvenor, one of Britain's wealthiest landowners Marlins pitcher Ryan Weathers leaves start because of finger soreness 06/07/2024 08:58pm • MIAMI (AP) — Miami Marlins left-hander Ryan Weathers exited his start against the Cleveland Guardians in the third inning Friday because of soreness in his left index finger. Weathers’ final pitch ended up in the left-field seats when Guardians rookie Brayan Rocchio hit his first career home run How long was the path of the tornado that struck central Montgomery County? 06/07/2024 08:47pm • Wednesday's storms produced seven tornadoes across Montgomery County, Maryland, that damaged many homes and trees and injured at least five people. The National Weather Service issued 22 tornado warnings that day, 7News First Alert Meteorologist Brian van de Graaff said, which is the fourth most Judge orders temporary halt to UC academic workers' strike over war in Gaza 06/07/2024 08:45pm • SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Thousands of academic workers on strike at the University of California were ordered by a state judge Friday to temporarily cease their weekslong strike over the war in Gaza. Orange County Superior Court Judge Randall J. Sherman issued the emergency restraining order after 3 Americans implicated in a coup attempt in Congo go on trial before a military court 06/07/2024 08:07pm • KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Three Americans accused of being involved in last month's coup attempt in Congo appeared in a military court in the country's capital, Kinshasa, on Friday, along with dozens of other defendants who were lined up on plastic chairs before the judge on the first day of the hear Alexander Zverev reaches the French Open final on the day his court case is resolved in Germany 06/07/2024 05:47pm • PARIS (AP) — Alexander Zverev's day began with the announcement of an out-of-court settlement that brought an end to a domestic violence case in his native Germany. On Friday evening, he moved a win away from his first Grand Slam title with a 2-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 victory over Casper Ruud in the Fren Takeaways from AP analysis of Gaza Health Ministry's death toll data 06/07/2024 05:43pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israel-Hamas war appears to have become much less deadly for Palestinian women and children, according to an AP analysis of Gaza Health Ministry data. The shift is significant because the death rate for women and children is the best available proxy for civilian casualties in Irish and Czech voters go to the polls on Day 2 of EU elections as the far right seeks more power 06/07/2024 05:09pm • BRUSSELS (AP) — Voters in Ireland and the Czech Republic, two countries where immigration was a key issue on the campaign trail, took to the polls on Friday, the second day of the balloting for the European Parliament. A surge of the far-right across the 27-nation bloc was likely to emerge from th The Latest | Israel bombs another UN-run school in Gaza, a day after strike on school killed 33 06/07/2024 04:58pm • An Israeli airstrike hit a U.N.-run school compound in northern Gaza on Friday, killing three people according to Palestinian emergency officials, a day after a similar strike on a school in Gaza's center killed at least 33 people. In both airstrikes, the Israeli army said Hamas militants were opera Chiefs' BJ Thompson is alert and responsive a day after having a seizure, going into cardiac arrest 06/07/2024 02:48pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chiefs defensive lineman B.J. Thompson remained hospitalized but was awake and responsive on Friday, one day after the second-year pro experienced a seizure during a team meeting and went into cardiac arrest at the Kansas City practice facility. Chiefs trainer Rick Burkhold DC Pride parade and festival this weekend: Road closures you need to know 06/07/2024 02:17pm • The biggest weekend in all of D.C. Pride Month brings a few traffic closures throughout Saturday and Sunday, as celebrations take over downtown D.C. and the Dupont Circle neighborhood. The Capital Pride Alliance is putting on festivities throughout the entire month to celebrate Pride and this yea Blinken to push cease-fire proposal in eighth urgent Mideast trip since war in Gaza erupted 06/07/2024 01:59pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will push for a breakthrough on President Joe Biden's cease-fire proposal when he returns to the Middle East next week on his eighth diplomatic mission to the region since the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza began in October, the State Department said F