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With a new life and fresh ideas, Sandra Lee makes a TV comeback with a Netflix food competition show 08/08/2024 10:52am • Corn dogs, funnel cakes and fried Oreos may come to mind when you think of state fair food, but fairgrounds are also the place where bakers test out their creations by entering competitions. The sense of community and creativity found at state and county fairs is especially meaningful to Sandra Lee, Rider safety in equestrian an ongoing discussion with focus on helmets and protective airbags 08/08/2024 10:20am • VERSAILLES, France (AP) — When Laura Kraut competed in equestrian at the Paris Olympics she was one of the few showjumpers wearing a protective airbag vest. That's likely to change. Along with horse welfare, rider safety is an ongoing issue for the sport's international governing body, the FEI, wh The leader of the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement reflects on a year since the Lahaina fire 08/08/2024 09:07am • KAHULUI, Hawaii (AP) — On a Monday morning in July, 11 months after the devastating Lahaina fires, the Kako’o Maui Resource Center was still busy. Sunlight poured through big windows. A young man with a white flower tucked behind his ear sat behind a desk near the door, smiling as he greeted vis The Perseids are here. Here's how to see the 'fireballs' of summer's brightest meteor shower 08/08/2024 09:03am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Perseids are back to dazzle the sky with bursts of light and color. The annual meteor shower, active since July, peaks before dawn Monday. It's one of the brightest and most easily viewed showers of the year, producing “bright blue meteors — and lots of them," said Unive Street art pops up throughout Paris, adding some Olympic color to major landmarks 08/08/2024 07:49am • PARIS (AP) — Paris is getting a colorful splash of Olympic creative spirit with nearly 30 vibrant street art pieces that have popped up on bustling metro station walls, a large billboard at the airport and in front of city hall. One shows a drawing of French fencer Ysaora Thibus in action. Another Russia's war threatens Ukraine's Olympic future, not just the present. A young gymnast offers hope 08/08/2024 07:32am • CHORNOMORSK, Ukraine (AP) — When Oleksandra Paskal first took to the mat as a 4-year-old, her rhythmic gymnastics coach saw nothing but potential in a sport where the Olympics is the ultimate goal. Then a Russian missile crushed her summer house in the southern Odesa region, burying her beneath th How to avoid becoming a victim of donor scams as Election Day nears 08/08/2024 07:04am • With the general election a few months away and presidential candidates aggressively fundraising before Election Day, election-related scams are likely to become increasingly common, according to Thomas Dearden, an associate professor of sociology at Virginia Tech. Because political donations inc Russian prosecutors seek 15-year sentence for US-Russian woman in treason trial 08/08/2024 07:01am • MOSCOW (AP) — Russian prosecutors on Thursday asked for a 15-year sentence in the treason trial of a Russian-American woman, who has pleaded guilty, Russian news agencies reported. Ksenia Khavana, whom Russian authorities identify by her maiden name of Karelina, was arrested in Yekaterinburg in Fe Can you guess Olympians' warmup songs? World's top athletes share their favorite tunes 08/08/2024 06:53am • PARIS (AP) — Curious about which songs are fueling the Olympians competing in Paris? The Associated Press has an idea. Some of the world's top athletes from the Olympics and Paralympics have shared their favorite warmup tracks, revealing what gets them pumped before a crucial game, meet or match. AP PHOTOS: Olympians in Paris, caught in motion 08/08/2024 06:49am • PARIS (AP) — Athletes are moving in every direction at the Paris Olympics. Rowers work together to move backward toward their finish lines. Benny Wizani of Austria spins in the air during the men's men’s trampoline qualifying round. Long Daoyi and Wang Zongyuan of China jump upward in unison bef Casting aside concerns about the Seine, Sharon van Rouwendaal wins more Olympic gold in open water 08/08/2024 06:38am • PARIS (AP) — As Sharon van Rouwendaal approached the finish of an Olympic open water race like no other, she was hardly concerned about the safety of swimming in the Seine River. Heck, she'd already taken a few gulps of water — the same water that drew so much scrutiny at the Paris Games. “I w In Olympic relay, Sha'Carri Richardson saves US women, while men advance easily and Jamaica is out 08/08/2024 06:26am • SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Sha'Carri Richardson bailed out the U.S. women out from a near collapse Thursday in the Olympic 4x100 relay, overcoming a German runner in the anchor leg to help the Americans win their heat and move to the gold-medal race. The U.S. men, who haven't won a medal in this e New signs for confusing stretch of I-395 in DC could still be years away 08/08/2024 04:27am • Erratic driving and crashes on the Southeast-Southwest Freeway at the 3rd Street Tunnel could continue for several more years as D.C.'s interstate renumbering plan stalls. At the Southeast-Southwest Freeway's midpoint, the quirky divergence of Interstate 395 at Interstate 695 contributes to a Heavy rain hit DC area Wednesday night, with Debby to bring more this week 08/08/2024 03:10am • Listen live to WTOP for traffic and weather updates on the 8s. Parts of the D.C. region received heavy rain and storms Wednesday as Tropical Storm Debby pushes its way north after smacking the Gulf Coast. Here's what you need to know. Loudoun County, Virginia, already received 2 to 4 inch Relatives of Belarus' political prisoners complain that East-West swap didn't free their loved ones 08/08/2024 03:07am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A wave of disappointment swept over opposition activists in Belarus last week as the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War unfolded and they learned it included none of the hundreds of political detainees who've been locked up for years by its authoritarian lea