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61-year-old says long course at PGA reminds him of when he was a kid hitting 3-wood into every green 05/16/2024 07:09pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� Tracy Phillips hit what he thought was a pretty good drive on the par-4 17th hole at Valhalla. It traveled 240 yards and didn't make it to the start of the fairway. Such is life when you are 61 and playing in the PGA Championship. This unexpected trip to the majors brings ba Kids were missing school because their clothes were dirty. A DC group stepped in to help 05/16/2024 06:50pm • While working as a community liaison with the group Communities in Schools of the Nation's Capital at Kelly Miller Middle School in Northeast D.C., Jovan Johnson noticed some students didn't come to school because they lacked clean clothes. They'd get teased because of it, and, as a result, it de Murder charge against Chad Daybell will stand despite wrong date of child's death, judge says 05/16/2024 06:38pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) ��� A typo in the triple murder indictment of an Idaho man accused of killing his wife and his girlfriend's two children doesn't mean that he should be acquitted of one of the deaths, a judge said Thursday. Prosecutors had been carefully detailing the case against Chad Daybell to j Things to do in the DC area: Cirque du Soleil's 'Corteo', Bike to Work Day ... and more! 05/16/2024 06:06pm • There���s so much to do in the D.C. area in the coming days, and WTOP has you covered with our weekly roundup of area events worth anticipating. Check back every Thursday for a roundup of��Things to do in the D.C. area. Cirque du Soleil is back in town, this time in Fairfax, Virginia's Eag Buffalo Bandits star Dhane Smith shifts focus to winning lacrosse championships over setting records 05/16/2024 05:07pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) ��� Dhane Smith chuckles while recounting the fool-proof plan he thought he devised to get out of playing on the Buffalo Bandits' defensive unit to instead focus on offense during his first two National Lacrosse League seasons. By tanking on defense, an impatient Smith figured it A cricket World Cup is coming to NYC���s suburbs, where the sport thrives among immigrant communities 05/16/2024 02:18pm • EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (AP) ��� A towering stadium boasting 34,000 seats and a precisely trimmed field of soft Kentucky bluegrass is rising in a suburban New York park that will host one of the world's top cricket tournaments next month. But on a recent Saturday morning, on the other side of Long Island� Facebook and Instagram face fresh EU digital scrutiny over child safety measures 05/16/2024 12:00pm • LONDON (AP) ��� The European Union opened fresh investigations Thursday into Facebook and Instagram over suspicions that they're failing to protect children online, in violation of the bloc's strict digital regulations for social media platforms. It's the latest round of scrutiny for parent company Movie Review: ���Babes��� is a giddy, raunchy, moving and (very) gooey look at childbirth and friendship 05/16/2024 11:47am • You know what? It���s true. They never do tell you about the placenta. Let us explain. But first, let���s also point out that if you���re already queasy at the mention of ���placenta,��� well, ���Babes��� ��� director Pamela Adlon���s brash, chaotic, hilarious and occasionally overly gooey (in so ma EA Sports College Football 25 comes out on July 19. Edwards, Ewers, Hunter are on standard cover 05/16/2024 11:17am • EA Sports revealed a release date of the College Football 25 video game on Thursday and a cover image that features Michigan running back Donovan Edwards, Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers and Colorado two-way player Travis Hunter. The game will launch July 19 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X'S. The All eyes are on Coppola in Cannes. Sound familiar? 05/16/2024 08:10am • CANNES, France (AP) ��� Francis Ford Coppola on Thursday will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival a film on which he has risked everything, one that's arriving clouded by rumors of production turmoil. Sound familiar? On Thursday, Coppola's self-financed opus ���Megalopolis��� will make its much-awa Top tennis players say they're playing too much because the tournaments are too long 05/16/2024 07:49am • ROME (AP) ��� More competition days, more tickets sold, more TV time, more money. For tennis organizers, the long-sought upgrade of tournaments in Madrid and Rome ��� expanding them from eight days to nearly two weeks ��� has been a bonanza. For the players? Well, they haven���t been nearly as Topeka was at the center of Brown v. Board. Decades later, segregation of another sort lingers 05/16/2024 12:11am • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ��� The lesson on diversity started slowly in a first-grade classroom in Topeka, where schools were at the center of a case that struck down segregated education. ���I like broccoli. Do you like broccoli?��� Marie Carter, a Black school library worker, asked broccoli-hating librari Topeka was at the center of Brown v. Board. Decades later, segregation of another sort lingers 05/16/2024 12:08am • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ��� The lesson on diversity started slowly in a first-grade classroom in Topeka, where schools were at the center of the case that struck down segregated education. ���I like broccoli. Do you like broccoli?��� Marie Carter, a Black school library worker, asked broccoli-hating libra Palestinians recount painful history with war in Gaza as a reminder 05/15/2024 09:31pm • Dawud Assad still has nightmares of the day Jewish militias attacked his village of Deir Yassin outside Jerusalem 76 years ago. Assad, then 16, peered out his front window to see his village ablaze. As his uncles shot back at the militias firing upon them, Assad escaped. But more than 100 Palestinia Latina Creators Who are Building Generational Wealth -- And What You Can Learn From Them 05/15/2024 08:00pm • Wanting to provide financial resources to family members is a universal human desire. However, not everyone starts out on the same economic starting line. Demographic inequities persist. According to a 2023 Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis report, Hispanic families owned only about 23 cents for eve