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Conservationists try to protect ecologically rich Alabama delta from development, climate change 08/13/2024 11:46am • MOBILE-TENSAW DELTA, Ala. (AP) — Thousands of American lotuses carpet the water's surface, faces turned toward the morning sun. Bright yellow warblers flit among cypress trees along a creek bank. A paddlefish jumps as a motorboat rounds a bend. The Mobile-Tensaw Delta — a lush, vibrant and surpr Harris cautiously rolls out policy, aiming to outmaneuver Trump and address 2020 liabilities 08/13/2024 11:42am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to outmaneuver former President Donald Trump and address old vulnerabilities on her policy positions as she starts to fill in how she would govern if elected in November. Vice presidents rarely have policy portfolios of their own — and alm Blues issue offer sheets to Oilers' Broberg and Holloway, leaving Edmonton 7 days to match 08/13/2024 11:25am • The St. Louis Blues looked to salary cap-strapped Edmonton to upgrade their roster, issuing offer sheets to Oilers defenseman Philip Broberg and forward Dylan Holloway, the team announced Tuesday. The rarely used move leaves the Oilers seven days to match the Blues’ contract offers to the restrict Takeaways from AP's story on Alabama's ecologically important Mobile-Tensaw Delta and its watershed 08/13/2024 11:14am • Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw Delta is a more-than 400-square-mile (1,036-square-kilometer) expanse of cypress swamps, oxbow lakes, marshland, hardwood stands and rivers unusually rich in plant and animal diversity. It's also a critical conduit between the rest of Alabama and the Gulf of Mexico, drainin Want to speed up a road or transit project? Just host a political convention 08/13/2024 11:09am • CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago officials had planned to open a new elevated train station near the United Center more than four years ago, but numerous delays left some neighbors wondering if it ever would happen. Then the Democratic National Committee picked the city to host its convention. Construction Home Depot, sensing uneasy economic vibe from homeowners and contractors, trims outlook for 2024 08/13/2024 10:30am • Home Depot's second-quarter sales rose slightly as the nation's biggest home improvement retailer benefitted from an $18 billion acquisition this spring, but customers continued to rein in spending because of broadly higher costs and elevated interest rates. Sales edged up to $43.18 billion, from $ Frank Selvy, NCAA record holder with 100 points in a game, dies at 91 08/13/2024 09:47am • GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Frank Selvy, an All-America guard at Furman who scored an NCAA Division I-record 100 points in a game and later played nine NBA seasons, died Tuesday. He was 91. Selvy's family announced that he died at his home in Simpsonville. The Furman athletic department released th US wholesale inflation cooled in July in sign that price pressures are continuing to ease 08/13/2024 09:27am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale price increases in the United States eased in July, suggesting that inflation pressures are further cooling as the Federal Reserve moves closer to cutting interest rates, likely beginning next month. The Labor Department reported Tuesday that its producer price index †Why seeding for the expanded College Football Playoff isn't as simple as counting from 1 to 12 08/13/2024 09:10am • The College Football Playoff expands from four to 12 teams this season, a massive change that will profoundly impact the sport and how success is defined. The system is also kind of quirky. The second-best team in the country by the selection committee's rankings could conceivably be the fifth seed. Trump and Musk talk about assassination attempt and deportations during glitchy chat on X 08/13/2024 07:16am • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump recounted his assassination attempt in vivid detail and promised the largest deportation in U.S. history during a high-profile return to the social media platform formerly known as Twitter — a conversation that was plagued by technical glitches. “If I had not turne Russian artist released in swap builds a new life in Germany, now free to marry her partner 08/13/2024 06:39am • KOBLENZ, Germany (AP) — Sasha Skochilenko and Sofya Subbotina are planning to get married. That wasn't an option in their native Russia, but it's possible now that they live in Germany, which recognizes same-sex weddings. “We don’t know how or in which city we will do it, but that’s the plan Yemen’s Houthis seized UN rights office in Sanaa, UN official says 08/13/2024 06:18am • CAIRO (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels stormed the headquarters of the United Nations’ Human Rights Office in the capital, Sanaa, seizing documents, furniture and vehicles, a senior U.N. official said Tuesday. The seizure was the latest move in a crackdown by the Houthis on people working with the Liberty aims to defend C-USA title as favorite in Year 2, though challenges loom from several teams 08/13/2024 06:10am • Liberty not only proved with coach Jamey Chadwell that it could win as a new arrival to Conference USA last season, but take that success to another level. An unprecedented 13-0 regular season that included the league championship, its first in FBS. A high-profile New Year's Six appearance in the Fi Pick-Six: Ohio State's star-studded group of transfers has Buckeyes thinking big 08/13/2024 06:10am • Ohio State attacked the transfer portal intent on stopping Michigan’s run of Big Ten supremacy. The same night Michigan clinched the national title with a 34-13 victory over Washington, running back Quinshon Judkins went on social media to announce he was transferring from Mississippi to Ohio Stat 'MJ: The Musical' finally hits DC at National Theatre after Maryland native won Tony Award on Broadway 08/13/2024 04:44am • In 2022, "MJ: The Musical" won a Tony Award for Maryland native Myles Frost on Broadway. Now, D.C. audiences can finally see the acclaimed production at National Theatre through Sept. 8. WTOP caught up with Jamaal Fields-Green, who now plays Michael Jackson on the national tour. "It's t