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DC police say they need more officers to better patrol the streets — a new audit disagrees 09/13/2024 10:02am • D.C. police have enough patrol officers on the street to do the job. That’s the upshot of a new staffing audit, but there’s push back from the department. A new Office of the D.C. Auditor report says the District has enough officers on patrol but should deploy them differently to better handl Why Ukraine wants to use Western long-range missiles inside Russia 09/13/2024 10:01am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine is pushing for permission from its Western partners to use the long-range missiles they have provided to strike targets deep inside Russia, as Ukrainian forces struggle to hold back Russian advances in eastern Ukraine. Kyiv officials argue the weapons are vital to weak How this one climate fix means a school nurse sees fewer students sick from the heat 09/13/2024 09:47am • When students would come to the nurse's office at Johnson Senior High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, complaining of headaches and feeling too hot, Rebecca Randall was always ready. She would hand out water bottles, apply ice packs and ask the students to remove their hoodies and extra layers. Even t Germany sails two warships through Taiwan Strait for the first time in two decades 09/13/2024 09:19am • BANGKOK (AP) — Germany sailed two warships through the Taiwan Strait on Friday in its first transit of the disputed waters in more than two decades, as Berlin seeks to increase its defense engagement in the Asia-Pacific region. China claims the self-governing democratic island of Taiwan as its own Cambodia decries US sanctions against one of its top tycoons implicated in forced labor 09/13/2024 09:10am • PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia on Friday decried newly imposed U.S. sanctions on one of the country's top tycoons who has been implicated in allegations of forced labor, human trafficking and lucrative online scams. Cambodia’s foreign ministry expressed “deep regret over the unjust decis China is raising its retirement age, now among the youngest in the world's major economies 09/13/2024 07:58am • BEIJING (AP) — Starting next year, China will raise its retirement age for workers, which is now among the youngest in the world's major economies, in an effort to address its shrinking population and aging work force. The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, the country’s leg Presto's Picks: Maryland-Virginia reunite, while Virginia Tech meets an in-state nemesis 09/13/2024 06:36am • Forgive us if the college football calendar seems a bit off this week, but there are multiple games this weekend that used to be reserved for late November. Washington-Washington State and Oregon-Oregon State were the two long-standing rivalries devalued with the Big Ten's expansion, and while Hu Faked video targeting France and UAE likely Russian despite Moscow's links to Gulf Arab states 09/13/2024 03:15am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A fake video that ricocheted across the internet claiming tensions between France and the United Arab Emirates after Telegram CEO Pavel Durov's detention in Paris likely came from Russia, an analysis by The Associated Press shows, despite Moscow's efforts to main Boeing machinists vote to strike after rejecting pay increases of 25% over 4 years 09/13/2024 02:24am • SEATTLE (AP) — Machinists at Boeing voted Thursday to go on strike, another setback for the giant aircraft maker whose reputation and finances have been battered and now faces a shutdown in production of its best-selling airline planes. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Wor Lowe plates winning run during 3-run 8th and Rangers rally to beat Mariners 5-4 in Rocker's debut 09/13/2024 01:41am • SEATTLE (AP) — Nathaniel Lowe drove in the go-ahead run for Texas with an infield single during a three-run eighth inning and hit a homer in the seventh, as the Rangers erased a three-run deficit for a 5-4 win over the Seattle Mariners on Thursday night in top prospect Kumar Rocker’s major leagu Brazil Indigenous group hails a sacred cloak's homecoming after centuries in Europe 09/13/2024 01:15am • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Indigenous chants and the rattle of maracas resounded Thursday in a Rio de Janeiro park, where Brazil's Tupinambá people gathered to celebrate the homecoming of a sacred cloak absent for some 380 years. Made of feathers from the scarlet ibis, the artifact from northeastern Francine weakens and moves inland after lashing Louisiana 09/13/2024 12:34am • MORGAN CITY, La. (AP) — Francine weakened Thursday after striking Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of utility customers, sent storm surge rushing into coastal communities and raised flooding fears in New Orleans and beyond. As the system moved inl Are Indonesia and Vietnam's multibillion-dollar clean energy deals stuck? Experts say not yet 09/12/2024 11:48pm • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia and Vietnam signed multibillion-dollar energy transition deals in 2022 that were heralded as drastic shifts in financing that would enable the coal-dependent countries to pivot to cleaner energy. The deals, known as Just Energy Transition Partnerships, were fund China's Xi Jinping to visit Russia next month for the BRICS summit 09/12/2024 11:41pm • MOSCOW (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping will visit Russia next month for a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi confirmed Thursday, a move that comes as Moscow and Beijing seek to counter the West’s global influence. Xi's visit to Russia will be his David Lipsky shoots 65 to take 1st-round lead at Silverado in FedEx Cup Fall opener 09/12/2024 11:08pm • NAPA, Calif. (AP) — David Lipsky shot a 7-under 65 on Thursday at Silverado Country Club to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Procore Championship. Winless in 104 events since joining the PGA Tour in 2022, Lipsky went out with the early groups and had eight birdies with one bogey