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2 workers killed, more than 50 trapped when a building under construction collapses in South Africa 05/06/2024 04:22pm • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) ��� A multi-story apartment building under construction collapsed Monday in a coastal city in South Africa, killing two construction workers and leaving 53 trapped under the rubble, authorities said. An additional 20 workers were pulled from the mangled wreckage of the b Analysis: Lando Norris win shows McLaren is ready to return to global motorsports prominence 05/06/2024 04:01pm • MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) ��� Lando Norris says the online trolling never really bothered him as he went winless through his first five Formula 1 seasons, even when it got worse as one of the breakout stars for fans introduced to the sport through Netflix. It was a long wait as Team McLaren got its p From Skylawn to Swimming Pool: Behind-the-scenes tour of renovations at Merriweather Post Pavilion 05/06/2024 03:50pm • This year marks the 20th anniversary of I.M.P. Concerts taking over the operation of Merriweather Post Pavilion. WTOP got a behind-the-scenes tour of new renovations to the iconic amphitheater in Columbia, Maryland. "Twenty years ago, we got the opportunity to operate this gem," I.M.P. Communi One natural gas transport plan killed in New Jersey as another forges ahead 05/06/2024 03:48pm • KEYPORT, N.J. (AP) ��� A major pipeline that would have moved natural gas through New Jersey and under two bays to New York has been killed, but another plan to transport liquefied gas from Pennsylvania by tanker truck is moving forward. Environmentalists who had fought both projects reacted Monday 2 killed when a small plane headed to South Carolina crashes in Virginia, police say 05/06/2024 02:50pm • Two people were killed when a small plane headed for South Carolina crashed in Virginia, authorities said. The Fluvanna County Sheriff���s Office received reports of a low-flying plane and an explosion around 9 a.m. Sunday in Palmyra and an aircraft was found on fire in a densely wooded area, Vir Today in History: May 6, the Hindenburg crashes in flames in New Jersey, killing 36 05/06/2024 02:48pm • Today in History Today is Monday, May 6, the 127th day of 2024. There are 239 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On May 6, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German airship Hindenburg caught fire and crashed while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey; 35 of the 97 people on board NASCAR Cup Series AdventHealth 400 Results 05/06/2024 02:40pm • Sunday At Kansas Speedway Kansas City, Kan. Lap length: 1.50 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (4) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 268 laps, 57 points. 2. (12) Chris Buescher, Ford, 268, 51. 3. (9) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 268, 35. 4. (13) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 268, 43. 5. (14) Denny Hamlin, Toyo Russia warns Britain and plans nuclear drills over the West's possible deepening role in Ukraine 05/06/2024 02:28pm • Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine. After summoning the Britis Powerful ethnic armed group in western Myanmar claims to capture base and hundreds of soldiers 05/06/2024 12:55pm • BANGKOK (AP) ��� A powerful ethnic minority armed group battling Myanmar's army in the country's west claimed Monday to have taken hundreds of government soldiers prisoner when it captured a major command post. The Arakan Army, the well-trained and well-armed military wing of the Rakhine ethnic mino Merlier wins Giro Stage 3 after Pogacar fires up finale and stays in the lead 05/06/2024 12:46pm • FOSSANO, Italy (AP) ��� Belgian rider Tim Merlier won the third stage of the Giro d'Italia after race leader Tadej Pogacar almost caught the sprinters by surprise in a breathtaking finale on Monday. Merlier claimed his second career stage win at the Italian grand tour ahead of Jonathan Milan and Bi As China and Iran hunt for dissidents in the US, the FBI is racing to counter the threat 05/06/2024 12:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� After a student leader of the historic Tiananmen Square protests entered a 2022 congressional race in New York, a Chinese intelligence operative wasted little time enlisting a private investigator to hunt for any mistresses or tax problems that could upend the candidate's bid, pr Civil rights leader Daisy Bates and singer Johnny Cash to replace Arkansas statues at the US Capitol 05/06/2024 12:03pm • LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) ��� When Arkansas lawmakers decided five years ago to replace the statues representing the state at the U.S. Capitol, there was little objection to getting rid of the existing sculptures. The statues that had stood there for more than 100 years were obscure figures in the stat New Liberia forest boss plans to increase exports, denies working with war criminal Charles Taylor 05/06/2024 09:55am • Liberia, West Africa���s most forested country, has a long history of illegal logging, which the country's regulator, the Forestry Development Authority, has repeatedly struggled to confront. So it raised eyebrows when Rudolph Merab, whose companies were twice found to have engaged in illegal loggi Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 12-18 05/06/2024 09:48am • Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 12-18: May 12: Actor Millie Perkins (���Knots Landing���) is 88. Singer Jayotis Washington of The Persuasions is 83. Country singer Billy Swan is 82. Actor Linda Dano (���Another World���) is 81. Singer Steve Winwood is 76. Actor Lindsay Crouse is 76. Actor Br What are tactical nuclear weapons and why did Russia order drills? 05/06/2024 08:59am • Russia's Defense Ministry said Monday that the military would hold drills involving tactical nuclear weapons ��� the first time such an exercise has been publicly announced by Moscow. A look at tactical nuclear weapons and the part they play in the Kremlin's political messaging. WHAT ARE TACTICAL NU