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After coach's life was likely saved backstage, Uzbekistan dominates Olympic boxing tournament 08/10/2024 06:56pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Uzbekistan's beloved head boxing coach was revived from apparent cardiac arrest Thursday by two members of Britain's training staff after celebrating his team's first gold medal of the Paris Olympics, his fighters confirmed Saturday night. The Uzbek team went on to win five golds ��� Meet America's newest giant pandas, Yun Chuan and Xin Bao 08/08/2024 09:59pm • SAN DIEGO (AP) ��� California���s governor flew in for the young bears��� debut. Throngs of media gathered inside the zoo, while the city of San Diego warned of traffic jams ahead of the much-anticipated event Thursday. The San Diego Zoo rolled out the red carpet for the first public showing of its Debby downgraded to tropical depression as DC region sees damaging winds, heavy rain, isolated flooding 08/08/2024 07:44pm • Listen live to WTOP for traffic and weather updates on the 8s. Tropical Storm Debby was downgraded to a tropical depression Thursday afternoon and it's expected to continue weakening as it moves north this week ��� but not before it rolls through the D.C. area bringing the risk of flooding and th Former Milwaukee hotel workers charged with murder after video shows them holding down Black man 08/07/2024 06:37pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� Prosecutors in Milwaukee have charged four hotel workers in connection with D'Vontaye Mitchell's death after scouring video showing them piling on top of the Black man during an incident that Mitchell's family says is disturbingly similar to George Floyd's death. Mitchell's fa 4 hotel employees charged with being party to felony murder in connection with Black man���s death 08/07/2024 05:31am • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� Prosecutors charged four Milwaukee hotel employees Tuesday with being a party to felony murder in connection with D���Vontaye Mitchell���s death. Mitchell was Black. The incident has drawn comparisons to the murder of George Floyd, a Black man who died in 2020 after a white M Howard University's medical school to receive $175 million from Bloomberg Philanthropies 08/06/2024 01:10pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Michael Bloomberg's organization Bloomberg Philanthropies committed $600 million to the endowments of four historically Black medical schools to help secure their future economic stability. Speaking in New York at the annual convention of the National Medical Association, an org Snoop Dogg has exploded on the Olympics' global stage. He's just being himself 08/05/2024 11:01am • PARIS (AP) ��� Snoop Dogg steps out of a sleek black SUV, his entourage in tow, as a Parisian crowd erupts into chants of ���Snoop, Snoop, Snoop!��� outside the NBC set. Decked out in a custom-made, Noah Lyles-themed USA sweatsuit, the ultra-smooth entertainer glides past the adoring fans with flash One church, two astronauts. How a Texas congregation is supporting its members on the space station 08/04/2024 08:33am • About 10 miles from Johnson Space Center, a Houston-area church takes a moment during Wednesday Bible studies and Sunday evening services to pray for two members who cannot be there. In fact, there���s no way on Earth for NASA astronauts Barry ���Butch��� Wilmore and Tracy Dyson to show up at Provi Election 2024 Latest: DNC chair says Harris secured enough delegate votes to become party nominee 08/02/2024 08:00pm • Vice President Kamala Harris had secured enough votes from Democratic delegates to become the party���s nominee for president, Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison said Friday. The online voting process doesn���t end until Monday, but Harris' campaign marked the moment when she crossed Former Honduras national police chief gets 19 years in US prison for cocaine distribution 08/01/2024 09:17pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The former chief of the Honduran National Police was sentenced Thursday to 19 years in prison after he pleaded guilty in a conspiracy to protect shipments of cocaine destined for the United States. Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, 64, better known as ���El Tigre��� or ���The Tiger,� Alabama, civic groups spar over law restricting assistance with absentee ballot applications 07/31/2024 06:21pm • BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) ��� The Alabama attorney general���s office on Wednesday described a new ban on providing voters with absentee ballot application assistance as ���commonsense ballot integrity,��� while lawyers challenging the restrictions said they have halted important civic work in the commu She became a mother after Islamic State captivity. A decade on, Yazidi community shuns her children 07/31/2024 01:41am • DOHUK, Iraq (AP) ��� The day they came to take her children, the young mother bundled them up against the cold. She asked her nearly 6-year-old son to take care of his younger sister. ���Don���t let anyone hit her,��� she told the boy. ���OK, Mama,��� she remembers him replying. Much else was left u Editorial Roundup: United States 07/30/2024 07:44pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: July 26 The Washington Post on Biden's SCOTUS reform plan In an Oval Office speech on Wednesday, President Biden announced that he supports reforming the Supreme Court, ���because this is critical to our democracy.��� But how? There ar Hall of Famer Julius Peppers drew motivation from working hot summers in North Carolina 07/29/2024 12:43pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� Julius Peppers remembers the long, grueling dawn-until-dusk summer days he spent working in the cotton and cucumbers fields of North Carolina���s Nash County and dealing with the heat. It wasn���t easy at the time, spending every summer from when he was 9 years old until he Unintended consequences: How NIL in college sports has raised questions about nonprofits 07/29/2024 10:31am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Three years into the new age of college sports, where athletes are allowed to profit from their successes through name, image and likeness deals, everyone is still trying to find out what the new normal will be. Greg Sankey, commissioner of the Southeastern Conference, called it ��