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Red Bull's Max Verstappen on pole for Saudi Arabian GP. Ferrari teen stand-in Oliver Bearman 11th 03/08/2024 03:51pm • Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen qualified on pole position for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix on Friday, extending his strong start to the season even as he faced further questions over the turmoil at the Red Bull team. Verstappen was fastest by 0.319 seconds ahead of Ferrari's Charles Leclerc, with Ireland's Constitution says a woman's place is in the home. Voters are being asked to change that 03/08/2024 01:52pm • DUBLIN (AP) ��� According to Ireland���s Constitution, a woman���s place is in the home. Irish voters will decide Friday ��� International Women���s Day ��� whether to change the 87-year-old document to remove passages the government says are outdated and sexist. The twin referendums are on deleting Transcript of President Joe Biden's State of the Union address 03/08/2024 01:31pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Transcript of President Joe Biden���s as-delivered State of the Union address on March 7, 2024, as provided by the White House. It includes interactions with the audience and White House corrections to Biden���s remarks in brackets: Good evening. Good evening. If I were smart, I� Bribery, fraud charges reinstated against former New York Lt. Governor 03/08/2024 11:51am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A federal appeals court on Friday reinstated bribery and fraud charges against former New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin. The decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan reversed a December 2022 ruling by a lower-court judge that wiped out the bulk of the case agai Audi seals full takeover of Sauber ahead of becoming Formula 1 constructor in 2026 03/08/2024 11:02am • INGOLSTADT, Germany (AP) ��� German automaker Audi said Friday it has reached an agreement for a full takeover of the Sauber team ahead of its entry as a full Formula 1 constructor in 2026. Audi said Sauber's current majority shareholder Islero Investments backed Audi's plans for a full takeover of It's not just Israeli bombs that have killed children in Gaza. Now some are dying of hunger too 03/08/2024 10:24am • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� It���s not just Israeli bombs that have killed children in war-ravaged Gaza ��� now some are dying of hunger. Officials have been warning for months that Israel���s siege and offensive were pushing the Palestinian territory into famine. Hunger is most acute in northe T-minus one month to US solar eclipse ��� where to enjoy the spectacle in DC area 03/08/2024 09:34am • What better way to mark my 18th year as WTOP���s space reporter than a solar eclipse! A month from now, on April 8, the sun and new moon will meet in the daytime skies over North America to create a sky sight without compare ��� an eclipse of the sun. For some viewers, the sun will be totally ecl 'School boards are the front lines for democracy': Prince William Co. chair Lateef launches lieutenant governor run 03/08/2024 07:14am • Babur Lateef, the chairman of the Prince William County School Board, has launched his campaign to be lieutenant governor, telling WTOP in an exclusive interview that "the idea that Virginia somehow is in an educational crisis is a complete myth." "Glenn Youngkin has done real harm to the spi State of the Union guests spotlight divide on abortion and immigration but offer some rare unity 03/08/2024 05:41am • The invitation list for President Joe Biden's State of the Union address on Thursday speaks volumes about what Democrats and Republicans want to focus on as the 2024 election season heats up. Biden and Democratic lawmakers have invited several health care providers and women whose lives have been A Greek novelist and a lawyer are the first same-sex couple to wed at Athens city hall 03/08/2024 05:08am • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� A Greek novelist and his partner became the first same-sex couple to be married in Athens' city hall, three weeks after the legalization of same-sex marriage in Orthodox Christian Greece. The Greek capital's mayor officiated at the civil wedding on Thursday of Petros Hadjopou 10 years on, parents of Chinese passengers on MH370 are still asking: What happened to my child? 03/08/2024 03:47am • BEIJING (AP) ��� Ten years on, the families of Chinese passengers who disappeared on board a lost Malaysia Airlines flight still are searching for answers. On Friday, a few dozen relatives of the passengers met officials at China���s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing as part of their long jour Jury hears frantic 911 call from Michigan school shooter's dad: 'I have a missing gun' 03/08/2024 12:48am • PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) ��� Prosecutors on Thursday played a recording of a desperate 911 call by the father of a Michigan school shooter as they tried to show jurors how he quickly determined that the teen might be the killer. ���I have a missing gun at my house. ... I raced home just to like find out, Gunmen abduct 287 students in the latest school attack in Nigeria���s northwest, headteacher says 03/07/2024 10:44pm • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) ��� Gunmen attacked a school in Nigeria���s northwest region Thursday and abducted at least 287 students, the headteacher told authorities, marking the second mass abduction in the West African nation in less than a week. Abductions of students from schools in northern Nigeria ar Karol G becomes first Latina named woman of the year at Billboard ceremony honoring global musicians 03/07/2024 10:40pm • INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) ��� Karol G made history at Wednesday night's Billboard Women in Music awards ceremony. ���This is the first time, ever, a Latina is named woman of the year,��� Karol G began her acceptance speech after a fiery performance of her reggaet��n hit, "Amargura." And so, in honor of Lawsuit filed against San Jose Sharks' parent company for sexual abuse by youth hockey coach 03/07/2024 10:27pm • SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) ��� A lawsuit has been filed against the company that owns the San Jose Sharks alleging that a 12-year-old player was sexually abused by a former youth hockey coach. The suit filed in Santa Clara Superior Court on Thursday alleges that Sharks Sports & Entertainment, LLC and