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To cut costs and keep vehicle prices down, Stellantis makes buyout offers to US white-collar workers 07/30/2024 03:19pm • DETROIT (AP) — Jeep and Ram maker Stellantis says it will offer buyout packages to many of its U.S. white-collar workers just five days after the company's CEO said the auto industry is in the middle of a significant storm. The company told salaried workers that eligible employees will get individ Analysis: World ranking doesn't always work for LIV. It works for Olympic qualifying 07/30/2024 01:10pm • SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France (AP) — The men's golf competition in the Olympics has assembled its strongest field for the Paris Games. That's not be mistaken for the best field. The most glaring omission is Bryson DeChambeau, the U.S. Open champion when he's not creating YouTube content with f Paris Olympics brings out hoses and misters to cool down fans during heat wave 07/30/2024 01:06pm • PARIS (AP) — The 2024 Olympics famously launched with a rain-soaked opening ceremony that drenched athletes and spectators alike. They're enduring the opposite experience Tuesday: a heat wave. Most of France is under heat warnings, with temperatures in Paris hitting 36 degrees Celsius (97 Fahrenhe Kamala Harris energizes South Asian voters, a growing force in key swing states 07/30/2024 11:25am • JOHNS CREEK, Ga. (AP) — A drive out to Atlanta's sprawling suburbs passes the cultural centers, schools and houses of worship that opened as this became the nation's sixth-largest metropolitan area. Displaying the diversity within the growth, shops and brightly lit billboards advertise in Chinese Disneyland workers vote to ratify new contracts that raise wages 07/30/2024 10:43am • ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Disneyland workers have voted to ratify new contracts that include wage hikes and changes to sick leave policies after months of negotiations. Workers including ride operators, candy makers and parking attendants voted to ratify the three-year contracts that bump the minimum Stores lure back-to-school shoppers with deals and 'buy now, pay later' plans 07/30/2024 08:04am • NEW YORK (AP) — Mass market retailers in the U.S. are plying shoppers with offers for computers, clothes and other back-to-school essentials at affordable prices. To seal the deal, they are marketing “buy now, pay later” services as a way for customers to spread out the cost of going back to c 1 dead and dozens sickened after eating roasted eel from a Japanese department store 07/30/2024 07:08am • TOKYO (AP) — One person died and nearly 150 others were sickened after eating grilled eel prepared by a restaurant chain and sold at a department store near Tokyo, officials said. Among those sickened, two required hospitalization. Keikyu Department Store said 147 customers as of Monday had report What riders need to know now that Amtrak has taken over DC's Union Station 07/29/2024 07:08pm • Amtrak gained control of D.C.'s Union Station on Monday, and the national passenger railroad company said that it's launching a program aiming to "revitalize and improve the operations" of the terminal. This comes after a yearslong lawsuit wherein Amtrak argued in court that eminent domain privil At these locations around the world, cats are the star 07/29/2024 06:55pm • It’s a tail as old as time. You’re in the right place at the right moment and the next thing you know, you’re living in the White House. That’s what happened to a stray, gray, green-eyed cat named Willow, who turned up at a Joe Biden rally in Pennsylvania in 2020, jumped onstage and left wit 2 children dead and 11 people injured in stabbing rampage at a dance class in England, police say 07/29/2024 05:45pm • LONDON (AP) — Bloodied children ran screaming from a dance and yoga class “like a scene from a horror movie” to escape a teenager’s savage knife attack that killed two children and wounded 11 other people Monday in northwest England, police and witnesses said. A 17-year-old boy was arrested Brixmor: Q2 Earnings Snapshot 07/29/2024 04:28pm • NEW YORK (AP) — NEW YORK (AP) — Brixmor Property Group Inc. (BRX) on Monday reported a key measure of profitability in its second quarter. The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The New York-based real estate investment trust said it had funds from operations of $163.8 million, or 54 ce Dog days are fun days on trips away from the shelter with volunteers 07/29/2024 04:14pm • MADISON, N.J. (AP) — The place where Finlee lives is nice enough: It's clean, they feed and care for him well and there are always people to pet and scratch him. But it's still an animal shelter in New Jersey. Beyond its walls, however, is a big, wide, wonderful world full of unexplained, unexplor Power of attorney and preparing your home — what to do when you become your parent's caregiver 07/29/2024 11:15am • In WTOP's series "Parenting Your Parents," reporter Sandra Jones delves into a difficult task many adults will eventually face — taking care of their parents. Here in Part 1, Jones opened up about how she took on the difficult role of helping her mom cope with illness in her last days. You m Prince George's Co. hopeful on new law cracking down on street racing, illegal car rallies 07/29/2024 05:07am • Community leaders in Prince George's County are hopeful over a new Maryland law that cracks down on illegal street racing and car rallies that have been increasing over the last few years. Six Maryland men arrested last week are charged under a new law, barely 2 months old, that stiffens penaltie Ten years on, many Yazidis uprooted by Islamic State onslaught struggle to find safe, stable homes 07/29/2024 01:19am • SINJAR, Iraq (AP) — When Rihan Ismail returned to her family’s home in the heartland of her Yazidi community, she was sure she was coming back for good. She had yearned for that moment throughout long years of captivity. Islamic State militants had abducted then-adolescent Ismail as they rampage