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Today in Sports - Week Ahead, Sept. 6 - Sept. 12 09/05/2024 10:00am • Sept. 10 1933 — Fred Perry wins his first U.S. men’s singles title with a 6-3, 11-13, 4-6, 6-0, 6-1 victory over Australian Jack Crawford. 1937 — The Cleveland Rams play their first NFL game and lose 28-0 to the Detroit Lions. 1962 — Rod Laver becomes the first man since Don Budge in 1938 to When the US left Kabul, these Americans tried to help Afghans left behind. It still haunts them 08/30/2024 09:49am • The United States' longest war is over. But not for everyone. Outside of San Francisco, surgeon Doug Chin has helped provide medical assistance to people in Afghanistan via video calls. He has helped Afghan families with their day-to-day living expenses. Yet he remains haunted by the people he could Things to do in the DC area: New running club, DC Afro Latino Fest ... and more! 08/29/2024 06:53am • For the past 11 years, the District Running Collective (DRC) has welcomed and trained both new and experienced runners by hosting several weekly runs, some of which are so popular that they can encompass up to 500 people per run. Check back every Thursday for a roundup of things to do in the Iran police shot a woman while trying to seize her car over hijab law violation, activists say 08/15/2024 02:04am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — On a darkened road beside the Caspian Sea, Iranian police officers opened fire last month on a 31-year-old woman who had tried to speed away likely knowing they wanted to seize her vehicle. Police had been ordered to impound her car, activists say, because of an Ferguson police release body camera footage showing protester knocking officer to sidewalk 08/13/2024 08:38pm • FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Ferguson police on Tuesday released officer-worn body camera footage showing a protester knocking a Black police officer to the ground on the 10th anniversary of Michael Brown’s death, leaving the Missouri officer with a life-threatening brain injury. Police Chief Troy Doyle Timeline of events in Ferguson, Missouri, after a police officer fatally shot Michael Brown 08/09/2024 12:13am • FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — On Aug. 9, 2014, Michael Brown and a friend were walking in the middle of Canfield Drive, a two-lane street in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, when a police officer drove by and told them to use the sidewalk. After words were exchanged, the white officer confronted Philippe Petit recreates high-wire walk between World Trade Center's twin towers on 50th anniversary 08/08/2024 04:33pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Fifty years after his iconic high-wire walk between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center, Philippe Petit recreated the death-defying stunt with a performance about 7 miles north of the trade center at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The artist, 74, sought to celeb Strathmore presents James Baldwin Centennial Series to mark 100th birthday of influential author, activist 07/30/2024 06:46pm • This Friday marks what would have been the 100th birthday of author and activist James Baldwin. To celebrate, Strathmore is partnering with the AFI Silver Theatre and Eaton D.C. to host a special James Baldwin Centennial Series that runs from Aug. 2 through Oct. 5. "Aug. 2 is a really impo Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary sentenced to life in prison for directing a terrorist group 07/30/2024 04:58pm • LONDON (AP) — Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for directing a banned terrorist group that a judge said had put many lives at risk. Choudary, 57, was convicted last week in Woolwich Crown Court for directing the radical Muslim group al-Muhajiroun, or LL Cool J relearned 'how to rap' on his first album in 11 years, 'The FORCE.' Here's how 07/12/2024 12:12am • NEW YORK (AP) — The Grammy award winning rapper-actor- author LL COOL J will release his first new album in 11 years, “The FORCE” in September — 40 years into his hip-hop career. Not that he hasn't been making music in that time. “I've always tinkered around in the studio here and there,� Mutual defense pact between North Korea and Russia raises new questions, but it's far from unique 06/20/2024 06:02am • BANGKOK (AP) — A new mutual-defense pact signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un commits each country to come to the other's aid if attacked. Just what the threshold for such assistance would be is currently unclear -- maybe deliberately so, to deter other c Alonso has season-high 5 RBIs as surging Mets beat Padres 11-6 for 5th straight win 06/16/2024 08:02pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Pete Alonso had a season-high five RBIs, combining with Francisco Lindor on first-inning home runs that built a three-run lead against Dylan Cease after 16 pitches, and the surging New York Mets beat the San Diego Padres 11-6 Sunday for their fifth straight win. Tylor Megill (2-3) A timeline of recent British royal events as Kate appears in public while battling cancer 06/15/2024 10:16am • LONDON (AP) — Kate, Princess of Wales, stood alongside King Charles III and other royal family members on a Buckingham Palace balcony on Saturday, making her first public appearance since she was diagnosed with cancer early this year. Her attendance at the King's Birthday Parade comes after a diff It's Cinco de Mayo time, and festivities are planned across the US. But in Mexico, not so much 05/04/2024 11:17am • The United States is gearing up for Cinco de Mayo. Music, all-day happy hours and deals on tacos are planned at venues across the country on Sunday — May 5 — in a celebration with widely misunderstood origins that is barely recognized south of the border. In the U.S., the date is largely seen a New York made Donald Trump and could convict him. But for now, he's using it to campaign 05/03/2024 12:02am • NEW YORK (AP) — He's visiting Manhattan construction sites, decrying local crime and holding court in his gilded Fifth Avenue penthouse. After a years-long breakup with his hometown, Donald Trump is back in New York, this time as a criminal defendant. Stuck here most weekdays for the duration of h