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Hospital in central Gaza empties out as Israeli forces draw near 08/26/2024 04:57pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� One of Gaza's last functioning hospitals has been emptying out in recent days as Israel has ordered the evacuation of nearby areas and signaled a possible ground operation in a town that has been largely spared throughout the war, officials said Monday. The Al-Aqsa A dam collapses in eastern Sudan after heavy rainfall and local media report dozens missing 08/26/2024 04:56pm • CAIRO (AP) ��� A dam in Sudan���s eastern Red Sea state collapsed and sent water flooding over nearby homes, killing at least four people, the country's health ministry said. Media reports said scores of people were missing. In a statement late Sunday, the ministry said that the Arbaat dam had coll Ashton Lambie is pursuing the America's Cup while his wife Chris Birch aims for outer space 08/26/2024 04:46pm • SAN DIEGO (AP) ��� Pushing boundaries and going fast was always in the sporting DNAs of cyclists Ashton Lambie and Chris Birch, whether it was speeding around velodromes or across the gravel backroads of the Great Plains. Ultimately, they had hoped to compete in the Tokyo Olympics three years ago. W Viva La M��xico: NASCAR to take Cup Series international for 1st points race of modern era 08/26/2024 04:39pm • NASCAR will take its elite Cup Series international for the first points-paying race outside the United States with a June stop in Mexico City. The Cup Series will race at storied Aut��dromo Hermanos Rodr��guez, where NASCAR and track officials have a Tuesday morning news conference to announce the Death of woman on 1st day of Burning Man festival under investigation 08/26/2024 04:19pm • RENO, Nev. (AP) ��� Authorities said Monday that they are investigating the death of a woman at the counterculture festival known as Burning Man, which is held annually in the northern Nevada desert. The Pershing County Sheriff���s Office said emergency personnel responded to a call about a woman fo At least 100 people killed in central Burkina Faso in latest jihadi attack 08/26/2024 04:01pm • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) ��� At least 100 villagers and soldiers were killed in central Burkina Faso during a weekend attack on a village by al-Qaida-linked jihadis, according to videos of the violence analyzed by a regional specialist, who described the assault as one of the deadliest this year in the c Police in Iceland call off search at ice cave collapse that killed 1 man, saying no one is missing 08/26/2024 01:30pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Icelandic police on Monday called off the search for anyone trapped in the previous day's collapse of an ice cave that killed one person and injured another, saying that all members of the tourist expedition had been accounted for. Authorities had initially mounted a large-scale resc How women of color with Christian and progressive values are keeping the faith ��� outside churches 08/26/2024 12:42pm • Brandi Brown has yet to find a Black church near her Southern California home that feels right for her. So when she wants to talk about God, she relies on someone over a thousand miles (1,600 kilometers) away. Like her, Ellen Lo Hoffman, who lives just outside Seattle and is Chinese American, is a p 9 men have died after a pile of gravel collapsed on them in a quarry in Zambia, police say 08/26/2024 12:14pm • LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) ��� Nine men died when a large pile of gravel collapsed on them while they were working in a quarry in Zambia, police said Monday. The men were operating illegally in the quarry and were loading gravel onto a truck, police spokesperson Rae Hamoonga said. The driver of the truck s Sheriff: A 16-year-old boy is arrested after 4 people are found dead in a park in northwest Georgia 08/26/2024 11:40am • DALTON, Ga. (AP) ��� A 16-year-old has been arrested on murder charges after three men and a 17-year-old boy were found dead in a park near the north edge of Dalton, Georgia, authorities said. The teenager, from Rome, Georgia, faces four counts of felony murder, Whitfield County Sheriff Scott Chitwo What���s behind the bloodiest recent attacks in Pakistan's Baluchistan province? 08/26/2024 11:09am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� Multiple attacks in Pakistan���s restive southwest have killed at least 38 people, the highest death toll in a 24-hour period blamed on separatists in Baluchistan province in recent years. Gunmen mowed down people after dragging them off buses, cars and trucks. Police and passersb Hone weakens to tropical storm and sweeps past Hawaii, dumping enough rain to ease wildfire fears 08/26/2024 08:31am • HONOLULU (AP) ��� Hone passed south of Hawaii and weakened from a hurricane to a tropical storm on Sunday, dumping so much rain that the National Weather Service called off its red flag warnings that strong winds could lead to wildfires on the drier sides of the islands. Meanwhile, the eastern Pacif Realignment shifts some of the top powers in women's college volleyball as popularity surges 08/26/2024 06:10am • Perhaps no sport will be impacted more by the most recent round of conference realignment than women���s volleyball. Five of the last nine schools to win national championships switched conferences during the offseason. Those five schools (Texas, Stanford, UCLA, Washington and Southern California) h Will Power is thick in the IndyCar championship fight and not even considering retirement 08/26/2024 05:55am • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� Will Power, soaked in victory champagne and still buzzing from a win that kept him in the IndyCar championship fight, leaned in to do a microphone check in a most unusual way. The 43-year-old Australian sang a verse of ���Dead or Alive��� by Bon Jovi to test the sound level o Car Review: Evoque has look of a big Range Rover without the price and size 08/26/2024 01:07am • The 2025 Range Rover Evoque is a good cruiser, providing a quiet cabin on the highway. (WTOP/Mike Parris) Luxury SUVs are a staple for Range Rover, and now their smallest ride, the 2025 Evoque, was refreshed last year to better fit the Range Rover image. The new front-end styling is borrowed from th