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After fire struck Maui's Upcountry, residents of one town looked to themselves to prep for next one 08/12/2024 03:26pm • In the days after wildfire ripped through a rural neighborhood in the Maui mountain town of Kula, residents were determined to do what they could to prevent a repeat. With donated hoses and some impromptu training, some even learned how to open a standpipe to attack flames themselves if needed. It�� Turkey hosts another round of talks to ease tensions between Ethiopia and Somalia 08/12/2024 01:47pm • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ��� Turkey hosted a second round of talks on Monday between east African neighbors Ethiopia and Somalia to try and resolve a dispute over Ethiopia's deal with the breakaway region of Somaliland, officials said. Tensions between the two African countries have simmered since Ethio Subplots of the Paris Olympics became fodder for politicians, and that's not unusual in history 08/12/2024 11:24am • PARIS (AP) ��� Not long after the Algerian boxer at the center of a gender misconceptions controversy won a gold medal at the Paris Olympics, Donald Trump pounced on the achievement at a rally more than 7,000 miles away in Bozeman, Montana. The former president has used the saga surrounding Imane K Car Review: Want a midsize luxury SUV with a big V6? Better hurry, it's the last year to find it in the Infiniti QX60 08/12/2024 10:52am • The Infiniti QX60’s V6 power moves this big luxury SUV swiftly. (WTOP/Mike Parris) Infiniti has been making large luxury SUVs for some time now, and the QX60 has been the company���s big seller lately. The 2024 boasts the final year for V6 power. Starting with the 2025 model, a smaller four-cy Dutch rider Charlotte Kool wins on home soil to take first stage of Tour de France for women 08/12/2024 10:34am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) ��� Dutch rider Charlotte Kool won a mass sprint on home soil in the opening stage of the women's Tour de France on Monday. Kool, of the DSM-Firmenich PostNL team, will start Tuesday's second stage in the leader's yellow jersey after completing the 123 kilometers (76-mile Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 18-24 08/12/2024 09:36am • Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 18-24: Aug. 18: Actor Robert Redford is 88. Actor Henry G. Sanders (���Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman���) is 82. Drummer Dennis Elliott (Foreigner) is 74. Comedian Elayne Boosler is 72. Country singer Steve Wilkinson of The Wilkinsons is 69. Comedian-actor Denis L The DC Black Film Festival returns to Miracle Theatre 08/12/2024 04:03am • Filmmakers of color are getting a chance to shine this week on Barracks Row in Southeast D.C. The eighth annual D.C. Black Film Festival returns to the historic Miracle Theatre on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, followed by a virtual festival extension from Aug. 18 to Aug. 25. "It's just be Dillon spins Logano on final lap, prevails in overtime at Richmond for first victory in 2 years 08/12/2024 01:40am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� Desperate to win for the first time in nearly two years ��� and with the race suddenly slipping away ��� Austin Dillon sent two cars into the wall in rapid succession. The result was a season-changing victory, an avalanche of controversy and at least two veteran drivers who we Israel widens evacuation orders in southern Gaza. Hamas wants plans for a deal instead of more talks 08/12/2024 01:06am • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� The Israeli military ordered more evacuations in southern Gaza early Sunday, a day after a deadly airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in the north killed at least 80 Palestinians, according to local health authorities. The airstrike was one of the deadliest attack NWS confirms tornadoes in Stafford, Loudoun as Debby swept across Northern Virginia 08/12/2024 12:20am • The National Weather Service has confirmed��two tornadoes��touched down ��� in Stafford and Loudoun counties ��� as Tropical Storm Debby moved through Thursday night. Around 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 8, the NWS began issuing tornado warnings as the storm tore through Fredericksburg, Falmouth, Spotsylvani NASCAR Cup Series Cook Out 400 Results 08/11/2024 11:44pm • Sunday At Richmond Raceway Richmond, Va. Lap length: 0.75 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (6) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 408 laps, 50 points. 2. (1) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 408, 52. 3. (10) Tyler Reddick, Toyota, 408, 40. 4. (8) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 408, 42. 5. (22) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, House explosion in Maryland kills 2 and damages nearby homes 08/11/2024 08:03pm • BEL AIR, Md. (AP) ��� Two people were killed and 12 families displaced after a Maryland house exploded Sunday amid reports of a possible gas leak, fire officials said. Neighbors described feeling and hearing the early morning blast that damaged a number of surrounding houses in Bel Air, a town ab Families of Brazilian plane crash victims gather in Sao Paulo as French experts join investigation 08/11/2024 07:41pm • SAO PAULO (AP) ��� More than 40 families of victims of an airliner crash in Brazil gathered Sunday at a morgue and hotels in Sao Paulo as three French government investigators arrived in the country. Forensics experts worked to identify the remains of the 62 people killed. Sao Paulo state government Browns' plans for move to new dome stadium hits snag as county backs city's renovation proposal 08/11/2024 05:53pm • CLEVELAND (AP) ��� The Browns' proposal to leave the lakefront and play in a new domed stadium in Cleveland's suburbs has hit a major snag. In a letter sent to team owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam, Cuyahoga County officials said Sunday they're backing a proposed $1.2 billion renovation of the team's cur Ukraine's president acknowledges military incursion onto Russian soil 08/11/2024 05:24pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Days after Ukraine began a surprise military incursion into Russia���s Kursk border region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has broken the government���s silence on it by indirectly acknowledging the ongoing military actions to ���push the war out into the aggressor���s territor