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Car Review: Volvo means velocity. Yes, you read that right. 09/05/2025 03:59am • A closeup view of the Volvo EX30 Twin Motor Performance Ultra. (WTOP/John Aaron) Those speed freaks at Volvo are at it again. Seriously. The Swedish brand has actually been putting out some real hot rods lately. A few weeks ago, we drove a rip-roaring, plug-in hybrid version of Volvo’s midsize Australian friends claim world record for longest beach touch rugby game 09/05/2025 03:15am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� A band of leg-sore Australian friends are claiming a new world record for the longest nonstop game of beach touch rugby, accumulating around 1,500 points during a grueling 34 hours of play, one of the players said Friday. Neither side knows who won. Organizers of the Ta Suspect among 2 dead in mass stabbing in Canada, 8 injured 09/05/2025 03:10am • WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) ��� A man killed his sister and injured seven others in a mass stabbing at a First Nation reserve in Canada before dying in a collision with a police car, authorities said Thursday. The Mounties identified the attacker as 26-year-old Tyrone Simard and said he killed his 18-ye A passenger bus skids off a cliff in Sri Lanka, killing 15 and injuring 16 others 09/05/2025 02:47am • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) ��� A passenger bus veered off a road and plunged into a precipice in a mountainous region in Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and injuring 16 others, a police spokesman said Friday. The accident occurred near the town of Wellawaya, about 280 kilometers (174 miles) east of the ca Defending champion Eagles edge Cowboys 24-20 in wild, lightning-delayed NFL season opener 09/05/2025 02:13am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� Jalen Hurts shrugged on a TD celebration and did his best to be like Mike. Through spit and rain, a ceremony and a setback, Hurts and the Super Bowl champion Eagles weathered the storm and showed why they're again a favorite to hoist a second straight Lombardi Trophy. Hurts rus 102-year-old becomes oldest person to summit Mount Fuji 09/05/2025 01:26am • MAEBASHI, Japan (AP) ��� Kokichi Akuzawa almost gave up during his trek to became the oldest person to summit Mount Fuji at age 102, an achievement recognized by Guinness World Records after he reached the top in early August. ���I was really tempted to give up halfway through,��� Akuzawa told The A Lorena is downgraded to a tropical storm but still poses a flooding and mudslide threat to Mexico 09/04/2025 11:16pm • MIAMI (AP) ��� Hurricane Lorena weakened to a tropical storm Thursday but forecasters said a life-threatening risk of flash flooding and mudslides was still present for parts of Mexico's Baja California peninsula. Tropical Storm Lorena had maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (72 kph), the U.S. Nationa The worst drought in decades is threatening Syria's fragile recovery from years of civil war 09/04/2025 09:55pm • DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) ��� The worst drought in decades is gripping much of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, drying out rivers and lakes, shriveling crops and leading to dayslong tap water cutoffs in major cities. The situation is particularly dire in Syria, where experts say rainfall has be Sudanese authorities bury hundreds of victims of Darfur landslide 09/04/2025 09:39pm • CAIRO (AP) ��� Sudanese authorities said Thursday they recovered and buried the bodies of hundreds of people who died in a landslide over the weekend in Sudan���s western region of Darfur. Mujib al-Rahman al-Zubair, head of the Civil Authority in the Liberated Territories, said in a video address sh Jury convicts Florida matriarch in murder-for-hire killing of her former son-in-law 09/04/2025 08:44pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� The matriarch of a wealthy South Florida family was convicted Thursday of murder in the killing of her former son-in-law, a prominent law professor who was locked in a bitter custody battle with his ex-wife when he was gunned down in 2014. Jurors returned guilty verdicts i Kapalua golf course without irrigation for 7 days under worsening water restrictions 09/04/2025 08:43pm • The Hawaii golf course that hosts the PGA Tour's season opener was on its seventh day without irrigation water Thursday, a serious setback in its bid to save the Plantation course at Kapalua in time for the January tournament. The lack of irrigation stems from a dispute with Maui Land & Pineappl Body of missing man found in truck revealed by Lake Powell's low water level 09/04/2025 08:30pm • PAGE, Ariz. (AP) ��� Low water levels brought on by years of drought have revealed a submerged pickup truck containing human remains at Lake Powell near the Arizona-Utah border. Investigators say the truck belonged to a 54-year-old man who has been missing since December 2023. The identity of the re 10 Alaskans born in American Samoa plead not guilty in voting case highlighting citizenship issues 09/04/2025 08:10pm • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ��� Ten Alaska residents pleaded not guilty Thursday to voter misconduct or other charges in cases that have renewed attention on the complex citizenship status of people born in the U.S. territory of American Samoa. Those facing charges ��� most of them related to one another 5 Best Nuclear Energy Stocks and ETFs to Watch 09/04/2025 08:00pm • It's been said that timing is everything. That's especially true for investing in the stocks of companies in the nuclear power supply chain. Because of a run-up in share prices, wise investors may need to wait for significant dips to buy and then be willing to hold for a long time. Still, with a lon Joseph McNeil, who helped spark a protest movement at a North Carolina lunch counter, dies at 83 09/04/2025 07:10pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� Joseph McNeil, one of four North Carolina college students whose occupation of a racially segregated Woolworth���s lunch counter 65 years ago helped spark nonviolent civil rights sit-in protests across the South, died Thursday, his university said. He was 83. McNeil, who late