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Thai court dissolves progressive Move Forward Party, which won election but was blocked from power 08/08/2024 12:57am • BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand on Wednesday ordered the dissolution of the progressive Move Forward Party, which finished first in last year's general election, saying it violated the constitution by proposing an amendment of a law against defaming the country’s royal family. The Constitutio Daughter of Utah death row inmate navigates complicated dance of grief and healing before execution 08/08/2024 12:42am • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Tressa Honie is caught between anger and grief in the lead-up to Utah’s first execution since 2010. That’s because her father is the person set to die by lethal injection, and her maternal grandmother is the person he brutally murdered in 1998. The heinous intrafamilial c How horses at the Spirit Horse Ranch help Maui wildfire survivors process their grief 08/08/2024 12:05am • KANAIO, Hawaii (AP) — Fear. Anxiety. Anger. Depression. Overwhelmed. Janice Dapitan began her second counseling session by writing those words on a whiteboard, reflecting what she felt in that moment. The day fire destroyed her hometown of Lahaina — and the struggles that have followed for nearl Bobby Witt's 2 homers, double and 4 RBIs lead the Royals past the Red Sox 8-4 08/07/2024 11:49pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Bobby Witt Jr. had two homers, a double and four RBIs as the Kansas City Royals beat the Boston Red Sox 8-4 Wednesday night and salvaged the final game of a three-game series. “He's just a phenomenal baseball player,” teammate Vinnie Pasquantino said of Witt. “I don't Man accused of sending his 17-year-old son to rob and kill rapper PnB Rock convicted of murder 08/07/2024 11:45pm • COMPTON, Calif. (AP) — A Los Angeles County jury on Wednesday found a man guilty of sending his 17-year-old son to kill rapper PnB Rock. After deliberating for about four hours, jurors convicted Freddie Trone, 42, of one count of murder, two counts of robbery and one count of conspiracy to commit Residents in Alaska capital clean up swamped homes after an ice dam burst and unleashed a flood 08/07/2024 11:12pm • JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — In her yard under the blazing sun Wednesday, Debbie Penrose Fischer leafed through a water-logged cookbook with sentimental value that she hoped to salvage but doubted she could. Nearby, friends helped carry boxes out of her family's garage, which was inundated this week afte Bangladesh's incoming interim leader Muhammad Yunus appeals for calm. He'll take office Thursday 08/07/2024 11:04pm • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s incoming interim leader Muhammad Yunus appealed for calm Wednesday and urged all parties to help the country rebuild after weeks of violence that killed hundreds and prompted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee to India. Yunus, a Nobel peace laur What to know about the controversy over a cancelled grain terminal in Louisiana's Cancer Alley 08/07/2024 11:00pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An agricultural company made the surprise decision Tuesday to cancel a project to build a massive grain terminal in a historic Black town in Louisiana's “Cancer Alley," a heavily industrialized stretch of land along the Mississippi River. The company, Greenfield Louisiana LLC, Chapman has 3 hits including a homer, Snell goes 6 innings and Giants beat Nationals 7-4 08/07/2024 10:47pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Heliot Ramos and Matt Chapman hit fifth-inning solo homers to break a 3-3 tie and the San Francisco Giants beat the Washington Nationals 7-4 on Wednesday night. Ramos homered for the second straight game, and Chapman finished a triple short of the cycle for the Giants, who have w In a 2020 flashback, Georgia's GOP-aligned election board wants to reinvestigate election results 08/07/2024 10:13pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Four years after the 2020 election, a newly GOP-aligned election board in Georgia is pushing to reinvestigate the state's largest county for its handling of the vote. Georgia's State Election Board voted 3-2 Wednesday to ask state Attorney General Chris Carr to investigate the Fult Tropical Storm Debby doles out repeat deluges for weather-weary residents 08/07/2024 09:36pm • HUGER, S.C. (AP) — Days of rain forced the deluge-hardened residents of a South Carolina community to begin the near-ritualistic task of assessing damage left behind by Tropical Storm Debby, which continued spinning over the Atlantic Ocean and influencing thunderstorms from the East Coast to the G Brazil's Olympic champion Andrade inspires girls at her hometown gym where career began 08/07/2024 09:24pm • GUARULHOS, Brazil (AP) — As she practiced her complex moves and somersaults, aspiring gymnast 14-year-old Manuela Kriegel kept gazing at one of the walls of the Bonifácio Cardoso gym outside the Brazilian metropolis of Sao Paulo. It featured a painting of a national hero — Olympic champion and A tanker ship catches fire off Indonesia's Bali island, leaving 5 crew dead and 15 injured 08/07/2024 09:00pm • DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — A tanker ship caught fire Wednesday off Indonesia's Bali island, leaving five crew members dead and 15 others injured, officials said. The tanker Elisabeth with 21 crew on board caught fire at Gili Tepekong in Bali's Karangasem district while traveling to West Nusa Tengg FAA has doubled its enforcement cases against Boeing since a door plug blew off a 737 Max 08/07/2024 08:35pm • A federal Aviation Administration official said Wednesday that the agency has 16 pending enforcement cases against Boeing, half of which have been opened since a door plug blew off a 737 Max in midflight. The increase in cases was disclosed Wednesday during a National Transportation Safety Board he National Guard standing by to help with Debby in Virginia 08/07/2024 08:20pm • Listen live to WTOP for traffic and weather updates on the 8s. Tropical Storm Debby pushed bad weather up the East Coast on Wednesday, moving toward Virginia, which is expected to see the heaviest downpours Thursday night and early Friday. "We are going to get a significant amount of rain thro