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Arbitration hearing between Canadian railroads and union ends with no decision on back-to-work order 08/23/2024 09:06pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� A workers union on Friday threatened a strike at one of Canada���s two major freight railroads, only hours after the company���s trains restarted following a potentially devastating stoppage. A government-ordered arbitration hearing wrapped up without a decision, and Canadian Nation Tropical Storm Hone forecast to bring strong winds and heavy rain to Hawaii this weekend 08/23/2024 08:35pm • HONOLULU (AP) ��� Tropical Storm Hone was expected to deliver strong winds and heavy rain to Hawaii this weekend, particularly to the Big Island and Maui, as it passes south of the island chain. Forecasters believe it will strengthen to a Category 1 hurricane for part of the time it skirts past the Michael McDowell tops qualifying for Cup Series race at Daytona and earns 4th pole of the season 08/23/2024 08:33pm • DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) ��� It's a Front Row front row at Daytona International Speedway. Michael McDowell won the pole for Saturday night's 400-mile race at Daytona, edging Front Row Motorsports teammate Todd Gilliland in qualifying Friday. McDowell reached a top speed of 183.165 mph around the 2 Filly Caitlinhergrtness wins $1 million King's Plate in leg of the Canadian triple crown 08/23/2024 08:27pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� Caitlinhergrtness overtook My Boy Prince in the deep stretch and won the 165th running of the $1 million King���s Plate on Friday, one of the Canadian triple crown races. Caiitlinhergrtness, a 3-year-old filly ridden by Rafael Hernandez and sent off at 9-1 odds, won the 1 1/4-mile r The Latest: RFK Jr. suspends his campaign and backs Trump 08/23/2024 08:13pm • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced he is suspending, not ending, his campaign for president and will seek to remove his name from the ballot in battleground states because he believes his presence in the race would help Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris accepted her party���s The US is sending $125 million in new military aid to Ukraine 08/23/2024 06:10pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Biden administration is sending about $125 million in new military aid to Ukraine, the Defense Department said Friday, even as Washington works to get a better understanding of Kyiv's incursion into Russia and how it advances the broader battlefield goals more than two years Death of Connecticut man found in river may be related to flooding that killed 2 others, police say 08/23/2024 05:41pm • WESTPORT, Conn. (AP) ��� The death of a Connecticut man whose body was found in a river downstream from his submerged pickup truck may be related to the destructive flooding that killed two other people in the state, police said Friday. The body of Robert Macisaac, 59, was found in the Aspetuck Rive Palou doesn't expect to win IndyCar title in Portland. Rossi still seeks a ride 08/23/2024 05:32pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� Alex Palou has a 59-point lead in the IndyCar standings but insists a third championship in four seasons isn't a lock. Alexander Rossi remains confident he'll have a ride in the series next year; David Malukas clarified that Will Power did not make him cry after a crash last Prosecutor says ex-sheriff's deputy charged with manslaughter in shooting of an airman at his home 08/23/2024 04:40pm • FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) ��� A Florida sheriff���s deputy was charged with manslaughter with a firearm, launching a rarely seen criminal case against a Florida law officer after a Black U.S. Air Force senior airman was killed after answering his apartment door while holding a gun pointed toward Fire hits historic Southern California baseball field seen in Hollywood movies 08/23/2024 04:29pm • ONTARIO, Calif. (AP) ��� Fire has destroyed the wooden grandstands at a historic Southern California baseball field that appeared in ���A League of Their Own��� and other movies. Firefighters responded at 11:25 p.m. Thursday to a report of a fire at Jay Littleton Ball Park in the city of Ontario, ab Ukraine says it used US glide bombs in Russia's Kursk region and has retaken some land in Kharkiv 08/23/2024 03:24pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Ukraine���s military says it used high-precision U.S. glide bombs to strike Russia���s Kursk region, and that is has recaptured some territory in the eastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv that has been under a Russian offensive since spring. Ukraine���s Air Force Commander Lt. G Floridians balk at DeSantis administration plan to build golf courses at state parks 08/23/2024 01:54pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� The golf course is not a threatened species in the Sunshine State ��� but the Florida scrub-jay is. And advocates are warning that life for the small blue and gray birds and many other imperiled species could get much harder if Gov. Ron DeSantis��� administration follows t 2 freight trains collided in Colorado, damaging a bridge, spilling fuel and injuring 2 crew 08/23/2024 01:36pm • BOULDER, Colo. (AP) ��� Two freight trains collided and derailed in Boulder, Colorado, on Thursday night, damaging a bridge, spilling fuel and injuring two crew members, according to police. The Boulder Police Department said on the social platform X that the crash happened north of Boulder Communi Two freelance journalists reportedly killed with guerrillas in army raid on home in southern Myanmar 08/23/2024 01:01pm • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Two freelance journalists in the strife-torn nation of Myanmar were killed, one allegedly after being captured, when security forces raided the home of one of them in the southern state of Mon, colleagues and media reports said Friday. Win Htut Oo, 26, a freelancer working for DVB Van Aert takes second stage win at Spanish Vuelta and O'Connor keeps overall lead 08/23/2024 12:43pm • CORDOBA, Spain (AP) ��� Wout van Aert grabbed his second stage win at this edition of the Spanish Vuelta on Friday, while Ben O���Connor kept his commanding overall lead. Van Aert added to his win on Stage 3 with another dominant performance to take the seventh stage. The Belgian rider sprinted to c