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Mexico will build passenger train lines to US border in an expansion of its debt-laden rail projects 07/10/2024 08:35pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s massive, debt-fueled passenger rail building program is not going to end with the administration of outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but will instead double, he said Wednesday. López Obrador said his successor, President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, is p Kansas QB Jalon Daniels ready to play after missing most of '23 with back injury 07/10/2024 08:06pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — Kansas quarterback Jalon Daniels said he would be ready to play a game now. Coach Lance Leipold and the Jayhawks just need him to be ready for the season. Daniels missed most of last season because of a back injury, playing in only three games before the end of September. “I try Up to two new offshore wind projects are proposed for New Jersey. A third seeks to re-bid its terms 07/10/2024 07:08pm • ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Up to two additional offshore wind projects were proposed for the New Jersey coast Wednesday, and the developers of a third project that already has preliminary approval sought to re-bid its terms. The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities received three bids by Wednesday Loss of Baltimore's Key Bridge leads to more traffic problems 07/10/2024 05:25pm • For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill Correspondent Mitchell Miller at Today on the Hill. Maryland's two U.S. senators urged fellow lawmakers on Wednesday to move more quickly to pass legislation for a new Key Bridge in Baltimore, while the state's top transpor Joe Lee, founder of a popular DC-area record store, dies at 76 07/10/2024 04:53pm • Joe Lee, whose Montgomery County shop, Joe's Record Paradise, was a popular gathering spot for D.C.-area music fans, died July 4 at the age of 76. His son Johnson told WTOP Lee had been battling throat cancer and died at a hospice center in Rockville, Maryland. Joe Lee (left) and Zev Feld MS-13 leader pleads guilty in case involving 8 murders, including deaths of 2 girls on Long Island 07/10/2024 04:29pm • CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A leader of an MS-13 gang clique in New York pleaded guilty Wednesday to racketeering in a case involving eight murders, including the 2016 killings of two high school girls who were hacked and beaten as they strolled through their leafy, suburban neighborhood on Long Is Ex-senator, Illinois governor candidate McCann gets 3 1/2 years for fraud and money laundering 07/10/2024 03:53pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A former Illinois state senator and candidate for governor was sentenced Wednesday in federal court to 3 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to fraudulent use of campaign funds, money laundering and tax evasion. U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Lawless, who also or In swing-state Pennsylvania, a Latino-majority city embraces a chance to sway the 2024 election 07/10/2024 03:34pm • READING, Pa. (AP) — Religion and politics frequently overlap in Reading, an old industrial city in one of the most pivotal swing states of this year’s presidential election. In Pennsylvania, there is early precedent for this kind of thing. The state began as a haven for Quakers and other Europea Philadelphia won't seek death penalty in Temple U. officer's death. Colleagues and family are upset 07/10/2024 01:53pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia's top prosecutor won't seek the death penalty for a teenager charged with fatally shooting a Temple University officer, a decision that angered the victim's colleagues and relatives. District Attorney Larry Krasner, a former civil rights lawyer, has long been a vo West Virginia police chief responsible for hiring of officer who killed Tamir Rice steps down 07/10/2024 01:33pm • WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia police chief responsible for the hiring of a former Cleveland officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014 has stepped down. White Sulphur Springs Police Chief D.S. Teubert returned to his former job as a patrolman, WVVA-TV reported. M Armed bandits interrupt a rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean off Libya, an aid group says 07/10/2024 12:37pm • ROME (AP) — An aid group that rescues migrants in the Mediterranean says one of its missions was interrupted by armed bandits who boarded the overloaded smugglers’ boat and sped away with it after the migrants threw themselves into the sea. SOS Mediterranee filmed the incident Tuesday. The group Emotional Vingegaard beats Pogacar in sprint to win Tour de France Stage 11 in Massif Central 07/10/2024 12:22pm • LE LIORAN, France (AP) — Just three months ago, Jonas Vingegaard was lying in a hospital bed with broken ribs and a collapsed lung. On Wednesday, he beat his rival Tadej Pogacar in a two-man sprint after a brutal day in the mountains. Pogacar, the Tour leader, kept the yellow jersey but it was the Tour de France Results 07/10/2024 11:25am • Wednesday, July 10 In France 11th Stage A 131-mile race from Evaux-les-Bains to Le Lioran. 1. Jonas Vingegaard, Denmark, Team Visma/Lease a Bike, 4:58:00s. 2. Tadej Pogacar, Slovenia, UAE Team Emirates, same time. 3. Remco Evenepoel, Belgium, Soudal Quick-Step/Bel, :25s behind. 4. Primoz Roglic 5 boaters found clinging to a cooler in Lake Erie are rescued by a Coast Guard helicopter crew 07/10/2024 11:22am • ASHTABULA, Ohio (AP) — The Coast Guard came to the rescue of five people who were clinging to a cooler in Lake Erie after their boat was swamped by a wave far off the Ohio coast, authorities said. The 22-foot boat was about 10 miles off the coast of Ashtabula on Saturday when it was hit, a Coast G More Indigenous youth are learning to spearfish, a connection to ancestors and the land 07/10/2024 09:30am • HAYWARD, Wis. (AP) — Ganebik Johnson started learning traditional Ojibwe songs when he was about 2 years old. He'd hang around listening to his uncle sing, or observe elders, or even pull up music on YouTube. Spearfishing came shortly after, at around age 7, when his grandfather took him out on a