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Wildfire forces Alaska's Denali National Park to temporarily close entrance 07/01/2024 02:53pm • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ��� A wildfire burning near the entrance of Denali National Park and Preserve forced the temporary closure Monday of one of Alaska���s most popular tourist destinations. Cars were turned around at the park���s only entrance, tour buses were canceled and public facilities, incl ThunderShirts, dance parties and anxiety meds can help ease dogs' July Fourth dread 07/01/2024 02:10pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� Rori Chang will be spending Fourth of July watching action movies from the comfort of her Glendale, Arizona, home, perhaps something from Marvel or a John Wick flick. But it's not for her. It's for her golden retriever, Ava. ���Playing movies with gunshots to cover up the fireworks Eritrea's Biniam Girmay becomes the first Black rider to win a Tour de France stage 07/01/2024 01:44pm • TURIN, Italy (AP) ��� Eritrea's Biniam Girmay became the first Black rider to win a Tour de France stage on Monday. Girmay said his sprint win in the mostly flat third leg was ���for all Africans.��� ���We must be proud now. We are really part of the big races,��� he said. ���Now it���s our moment. White Nebraska man shoots and wounds 7 Guatemalan immigrant neighbors 07/01/2024 01:18pm • CRETE, Neb. (AP) ��� A white Nebraska man described as reclusive and confrontational shot and wounded seven neighbors who are Guatemalan immigrants, and investigators said they are not ruling out racist motives. About 15 people were at the victims��� home, mostly in the yard, when Billy Booth, 74, o Officials repainting crosswalks in Ocean City with new safer design 07/01/2024 11:53am • For many of us, a getaway to a beach resort means parking the car and doing a lot of walking and biking. Ocean City, Maryland, and state highway officials are looking to make that safer. "It's no secret that in summer months, Ocean City really quickly becomes the second-largest city in the st Two Colorado residents die in crash of vintage biplane in northwestern Kansas 07/01/2024 11:28am • HOXIE, Kan. (AP) ��� Authorities are investigating the crash of a vintage biplane in northwest Kansas that killed two Colorado residents. The 1934 WACO YKC single-engine biplane crashed into a field around 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of Hoxie in Sheridan County around 6:10 p.m. Sunday, the Kansas Josef Newgarden dreams of trying the grueling double of the Indy 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 07/01/2024 10:55am • LEBANON, Tenn. (AP) ��� Back-to-back Indianapolis 500 champion Josef Newgarden has a driving dream he still harbors, even knowing that challenges with schedules and sponsors make it likely impossible to ever achieve. Newgarden not only wants to drive a stock car someday, he wants to do The Double. Y In a proud and troubled UK town, voters wonder whether their election choice will make a difference 07/01/2024 10:13am • HARTLEPOOL, England (AP) ��� A lot of politicians have promised change to voters in Hartlepool, a wind-whipped port town in northeast England. For decades, Labour Party representatives said they would fight for working people, even as well-paid industrial jobs disappeared. Later, Conservatives under Dangerous Hurricane Beryl restrengthens to Category 4 off Grenada 07/01/2024 09:16am • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� Beryl has restrengthened into an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said the storm was located about 70 miles (125 kilometers) east of Grenada on Monday morning and had maximum sustained winds of 130 mph (215 kph. THIS IS A Military horses bolt through London in scene reminiscent of runaway stampede in April 07/01/2024 09:01am • LONDON (AP) ��� Three runaway horses bolted through the streets of central London Monday after one was spooked by a bus and two others tossed their riders, the Army said. The Army said one horse Monday had minor injuries but didn���t require further treatment and neither soldier was injured. The sc Car Review: 2024 Genesis G70 is built with the car enthusiast in mind 07/01/2024 05:32am • Its unique quad LED lighting clusters combined with an interesting grill shape catches the eye immediately. (WTOP/Mike Parris) When Hyundai launched its luxury brand Genesis, it made sedans that offered the luxury experience for less than the competition. With this model and other releases, Genesis 2 Algerian journalists arrested for publishing video showing businesswomen protesting 07/01/2024 03:35am • ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) ��� Algerian authorities arrested two journalists for publishing a video showing businesswomen protesting how they were treated at a government-sponsored event. Journalists in Algeria have faced mounting repression since President Abdelmadjid Tebboune came to power four years North Korea test-launches 2 ballistic missiles, after end of new US-South Korea-Japan drill 07/01/2024 12:38am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� North Korea test-fired two ballistic missile Monday but one of them possibly flew abnormally, South Korea's military said, a day after the North vowed ���offensive and overwhelming��� responses to a new U.S. military drill with South Korea and Japan. The Joint Chiefs of NASCAR Cup Series Ally 400 Results 06/30/2024 11:49pm • Sunday At Nashville Superspeedway Lebanon, Tenn. Lap length: 1.33 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (26) Joey Logano, Ford, 331 laps, 40 points. 2. (36) Zane Smith, Chevrolet, 331, 35. 3. (6) Tyler Reddick, Toyota, 331, 51. 4. (22) Ryan Preece, Ford, 331, 33. 5. (9) Chris Buescher, Ford, 331, Joey Logano wins at Nashville in record 5th overtime for 1st NASCAR Cup Series victory of year 06/30/2024 10:55pm • LEBANON, Tenn. (AP) ��� Joey Logano felt he couldn't get to the finish line fast enough with his No. 22 Ford sputtering and nearly out of gas. First, he had to hold off the driver with the fastest car to win the rain-delayed race that seemingly wouldn't end Sunday night at Nashville Superspeedway i