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DC-area leaders react to President Biden withdrawing from White House race 07/21/2024 05:36pm • Visit��WTOP���s Election 2024��page for our comprehensive coverage.��Listen live to 103.5 FM for the latest.�� D.C.-area politicians and leaders shared their thoughts in the wake of President Joe Biden's announcement Sunday saying that he would be ending his reelection bid for the White House. Who has endorsed Harris for the nomination, and who hasn't? 07/21/2024 04:24pm • ▶ Watch Video: Majority of states pledge delegates to Kamala Harris ahead of DNC Leading Democrats are voicing their support for Vice President Kamala Harris as their party seeks a nominee to replace President Biden in the 2024 race, now that he has taken Trump, GOP lawmakers react to Biden's decision to leave presidential race 07/21/2024 03:09pm • ▶ Watch Video: How Trump campaign is shifting its strategy with Biden out of race President Biden's unprecedented announcement on Sunday that he is dropping out of the 2024 presidential race prompted reactions from both sides of the aisle. Here's how forme The Secret Service acknowledges denying some past requests by Trump's campaign for tighter security 07/21/2024 02:43pm • REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) ��� The Secret Service has acknowledged it denied some requests by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's campaign for increased security at his events in the years before the assassination attempt on him at a recent rally. In the immediate aftermath of the July A timeline of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump 07/21/2024 01:47pm • Former President Donald Trump was the target of an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally on July 13. A former fire chief attending the rally with family was killed, as was the gunman. Two other people were critically wounded. An Associated Press analysis of more than a dozen videos and photo Secret Service chief noted a 'zero fail mission.' After Trump rally, she's facing calls to resign 07/21/2024 12:13pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� When Kimberly Cheatle led the Secret Service's operations to safeguard the American president and other dignitaries, she said she would talk to agents in training about the ���awesome responsibility��� of their job. ���This agency and the Secret Service has a zero fail mission,�� Beyond Biden, Democrats are split over who would be next ���VP Harris or launch a 'mini primary' 07/20/2024 05:55pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� As Democrats churn over whether President Joe Biden should stay in the 2024 race, the party turmoil is deepening over whether his Vice President Kamala Harris is next in line for the job or if a ���mini primary��� should be quickly launched to choose a new nominee before the part How the global technology outage affected the DC region���s hospitals, transit services 07/20/2024 03:10pm • Listen live to WTOP for the latest traffic updates on the 8s. D.C.-area institutions ��� including hospitals, courts and transit services ��� modified operations Friday due to a global technology outage. The three major D.C. area airports saw delays and cancellations Friday morning, with some Blinken points to wider pledges to support Ukraine in case US backs away under Trump 07/20/2024 11:48am • ASPEN, Colo. (AP) ��� Ukraine is on its way to being able to ���stand on its own feet��� militarily, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday, noting that more than 20 other countries have pledged to maintain their own military and financial aid to the country even if the U.S. were to withdraw How a faulty CrowdStrike update crashed computers around the world 07/20/2024 09:45am • Airlines, banks, hospitals and other risk-averse organizations around the world chose cybersecurity company CrowdStrike to protect their computer systems from hackers and data breaches. But all it took was one faulty CrowdStrike software update to cause global disruptions Friday that grounded flight Ukrainian former lawmaker killed in suspected assassination as civilians die in Russian airstrikes 07/20/2024 09:35am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� A Ukrainian former lawmaker best known for her crusade to promote the Ukrainian language has died after being shot in the street by an unknown assailant. Iryna Farion, 60, initially survived the assault in the western city of Lviv on Friday, but later died from her wounds in a A French alleged neo-Nazi sympathizer, suspected of targeting Olympic torch, sentenced to 2 years 07/20/2024 07:25am • PARIS (AP) ��� A French alleged neo-Nazi sympathizer was sentenced to two years in prison after making threats online and was suspected of wanting to target the Olympic torch relay, authorities said Saturday. The Paris public prosecutor���s office said in a statement the 19-year-old man was convicte Myanmar's civil war has seen a devastating increase in attacks on schools, researchers say 07/20/2024 03:47am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� An intensification of fighting in Myanmar���s civil war has brought a sharp increase in destructive attacks on schools, a group that monitors armed conflict in the Southeast Asian nation said in a report Saturday. Myanmar Witness said the attacks have further strained Myanmar���s al Israel-Hamas war latest: Drone strike hits Tel Aviv, killing 1 and injuring at least 10 07/19/2024 11:46pm • A drone attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels killed one person in the center of Tel Aviv, Israel's biggest city, and wounded at least 10 others near the United States Embassy early Friday, authorities said. Meanwhile, the top United Nations court issued a non-binding opinion that Israel���s presence in Missouri woman who served 43 years in prison is free after her murder conviction was overturned 07/19/2024 09:22pm • CHILLICOTHE, Mo. (AP) ��� A woman whose murder conviction was overturned after she served 43 years of a life sentence was released Friday, despite attempts in the last month by Missouri���s attorney general to keep her behind bars. Sandra Hemme, 64, left a prison in Chillicothe, hours after a judge