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August's supermoon kicks off four months of lunar spectacles. Here's how to watch 08/15/2024 01:40pm • CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ��� The first of four supermoons this year rises next week, providing tantalizing views of Earth���s constant companion. Stargazers can catch the first act Monday as the full moon inches a little closer than usual, making it appear slightly bigger and brighter in the night Facts about the Russian town of Sudza claimed by Ukraine as part of its incursion 08/15/2024 01:21pm • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that the country���s military has taken full control of the town of Sudzha in Russia's Kursk region near the border with Ukraine. Here is a glance at Sudzha: How big is Sudzha and where is it located? The town, which had a population of about 5,0 Wisconsin man convicted in killings of 3 men near a quarry 08/15/2024 12:13pm • LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) ��� A man has been convicted in the fatal 2021 shootings of three men whose bodies were found outside a Wisconsin quarry. A La Crosse County jury found Nya Thao, 37, of Onalaska guilty Tuesday of three counts of intentional first-degree homicide and one count of felon in possess Conte back in Italy with Napoli and one of 14 coaching changes in Serie A 08/15/2024 12:00pm • MILAN (AP) ��� He���s back. Antonio Conte has returned to Serie A with the mission of helping Napoli recover from one of the worst title defences in Italian league history. Napoli ran away with the title in 2023 but had a torrid time last season and finished a woeful 10th. Instead it was one of Cont Today in Sports - Week Ahead, Aug. 16 - Aug. 22 08/15/2024 10:05am • Aug. 16 1920 ��� Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman is hit in the head with a pitch by New York���s Carl Mays. Chapman suffers a fractured skull and dies the next day. It���s the only field fatality in major league history. 1924 ��� Helen Wills Moody beats Molla Bjurstedt Mallory again, 6-1, 6-3, to wi Ukraine gambled on an incursion deep into Russian territory. The bold move changed the battlefield 08/15/2024 10:03am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Ukraine's stunning incursion into Russia���s Kursk border region was a bold gamble for the country's military commanders, who committed their limited resources to a risky assault on a nuclear-armed enemy with no assurance of success. After the first signs of progress, Ukrainia Today in Sports - Week Ahead, Aug. 16 - Aug. 22 08/15/2024 10:00am • Aug. 20 1921 ��� Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats Mary Browne, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 to win the U.S. women���s national tennis title at the Germantown Cricket Club in Philadelphia. 1931 ��� Helen Wills Moody beats Eileen Bennett Whitingstall 6-4, 6-1 to capture the women���s title in the U.S. Lawn Tennis Assoc Where to find new school zone speed cameras in Arlington County 08/15/2024 09:11am • From vaping, the cost of school supplies to cellphone policies, the WTOP team is studying up on hot-button topics in education across the D.C. region. Follow on air and online in our series�����WTOP Goes Back to School�����this August and September. When students return to school in Arlington Japan ends 'megaquake' special caution week after finding no immediate risk 08/15/2024 08:47am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Japan���s government Thursday ended a weeklong information campaign urging caution and preparedness for a possible ���megaquake��� ��� an earthquake of magnitude 8 strength or higher ��� striking the Pacific coast. The announcement came after no abnormal seismic activity was detected As Gaza death toll passes 40,000, corpses are buried in yards, streets, tiered graves 08/15/2024 07:22am • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� Tiers of graves are stacked deep underground in a bloated Gaza cemetery, where Sa���di Baraka spends his days hacking at the earth, making room for more dead. ���Sometimes we make graves on top of graves,��� he said. Baraka and his solemn corps of volunteer gravedi Wes Schweitzer is the Jets' 325-pound offensive lineman whose passion is rock climbing 08/15/2024 06:00am • FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) ��� The brief but terrifying feeling of helplessness still gets Wes Schweitzer every time. The New York Jets offensive lineman is scaling a rock ��� hand over hand, foot over foot ��� when he suddenly loses his grip, slips off the wall and plummets a few feet before landing. Hurricane Ernesto drops torrential rain on Puerto Rico as it strengthens heading toward Bermuda 08/15/2024 04:22am • TOA BAJA, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� Hurricane Ernesto dropped torrential rain on Puerto Rico and knocked out power for nearly half of all customers in the U.S. territory Wednesday as it threatened to strengthen into a major hurricane en route to Bermuda. The storm was over open water about 675 miles ( Wildfire that gutted scores of homes near Athens burned an area nearly twice the size of Manhattan 08/14/2024 11:45pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� A European Union satellite mapping agency says 104 square kilometers (40 square miles) of land was burned northeast of Athens this week during a deadly wildfire that gutted scores of homes and prompted multiple countries to send assistance. The Copernicus Emergency Managemen Japan's first-ever megaquake advisory brings worry and confusion. What does it mean? 08/14/2024 11:33pm • TOKYO (AP) ��� Japan, one of the most earthquake-prone nations on earth, issued its first-ever ���megaquake advisory��� last week after a powerful quake struck off the southeastern coast of the southern main island of Kyushu. The magnitude 7.1 quake caused no deaths or severe damage, but the advisor Ukraine says it has taken more ground and prisoners during its advance into Russia border region 08/14/2024 11:20pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Ukrainian forces pushed on with their major cross-border advance into Russia���s Kursk region for a second week Wednesday, claiming that they took more ground, captured more Russian prisoners and destroyed a bomber in attacks on military airfields. Assault troops advanced 1 to