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Labor Day weekend forecast a mixed bag that includes humidity, storms and some 'fantastic weather' 08/31/2024 07:00pm • Listen live to WTOP for the latest weather conditions on the 8s. Summer weather gets a last hurrah, with humidity returning for Labor Day weekend. Here's what you need to know. Humidity mades a comeback Saturday, with temperatures reaching around 90, though it will feel a few degrees warmers w Jin Young Ko takes 2-shot lead in Boston after Haeran Ryu falls apart 08/31/2024 06:41pm • NORTON, Mass. (AP) — Jin Young Ko took advantage of an early collapse by Haeran Ryu and turned her own bad break into a birdie Saturday for a 5-under 67 that took her from a six-shot deficit to a two-shot lead over Lauren Coughlin in the FM Championship. Ryu was coming off a career-best 62 on the Cup Series regular Christopher Bell holds off Cole Custer to win Xfinity Series race at Darlington 08/31/2024 06:28pm • DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — Christopher Bell thought his chance to win at Darlington Raceway was over — twice. He got passed by Sheldon Creed with eight laps remaining, then after regaining the lead a final time coming out the pits with four laps left, was bumped from behind in overtime by Cole Cus Pato O'Ward blasts IndyCar leadership for not landing race in Mexico ahead of NASCAR 08/31/2024 05:52pm • WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) — The line for Pato O'Ward at every IndyCar autograph session snakes around corners, blocks the entrances for other drivers and pretty much shames his rivals. When his Arrow McLaren Racing team tries to debrief at the track, fans of the 25-year-old Mexican gather outside the Two-time NASCAR champ Kyle Busch puts aside problems, focuses on Darlington win to reach playoffs 08/31/2024 03:13pm • DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — Kyle Busch has experienced a maddening, frustrating season so far that's left the two-time Cup Series champion on the outside of a 12th straight NASCAR playoff appearance. Busch hopes to put past problems aside at Darlington Raceway, where winning the Southern 500 on Sunda Get out your top hat and cape, it’s a weekend full of magic in DC 08/30/2024 07:25pm • The D.C. Festival of Magic returns this weekend to the Capital Hilton. The three-day festival includes performances from professional magicians from around the country, including top slight-of-hand artist Eric DeCamps and magician Chris Capehart, who got his start as a street performer in New Yor She's a Norwegian princess. He's an American self-professed shaman. Their wedding is this weekend 08/30/2024 09:53am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian king’s eldest child, Princess Märtha Louise, will marry American self-professed shaman Durek Verret on Saturday in a picturesque corner of southern Norway. The wedding comes amid widespread criticism of the couple's actions and waning support for the Sca Trump calls for universal coverage of IVF treatment with no specifics on how his plan would work 08/30/2024 05:37am • POTTERVILLE, Mich. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump says that, if he wins a second term, he wants to make IVF treatment free for women, but did not detail how he would fund his plan or precisely how it would work. “I'm announcing today in a major statement that under the Trump administratio The Latest: Trump campaigns in Michigan, Wisconsin; Harris sit down for interview with CNN 08/29/2024 09:55pm • Former President Donald Trump is campaigning Thursday in Michigan and Wisconsin as he ramps up battleground state travel heading into the traditional Labor Day turn toward the fall election. Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, sat down Thursday for NASCAR adds 2 new venues to 2025 Cup schedule, tweaks 10-race playoff 08/29/2024 06:24pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR released its full 2025 Cup Series schedule on Thursday, two days after it announced it will take its top level of competition for an international points-paying race for the first time in modern history. NASCAR said Tuesday it would race next June in Mexico City, and National Symphony Orchestra spotlights local music at Labor Day weekend concert in DC 08/29/2024 05:00pm • If you'd like to hear live music this Labor Day weekend, you can join the National Symphony Orchestra for a free concert in D.C. WTOP talked to guest conductor Enrico Lopez-Yañez about the orchestra's annual Labor Day weekend concert, which is held on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol. "Bring Darlington honors the late Cale Yarborough at his hometown track where he won five Southern 500s 08/29/2024 12:05pm • DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — Cale Yarborough used to sneak under the fence as a child at Darlington Raceway, planning for the day when he would dominate at the hometown track known as “Too Tough To Tame.” Yarborough, the Hall of Fame driver who died at age 84 this past New Year's Eve, soon enough l Why Russia has struggled to halt Ukraine's incursion in the Kursk region 08/29/2024 08:09am • After three weeks of fighting, Russia is still struggling to dislodge Ukrainian forces from the Kursk region, a surprisingly slow and low-key response to the first occupation of its territory since World War II. It all comes down to Russian manpower and Russian priorities. With the bulk of its milit Bluegrass, Americana fans flock to Front Royal for 9th annual Appaloosa Music Festival 08/29/2024 07:12am • Front Royal, Virginia is the place to be this weekend if you dig bluegrass or Americana music. The ninth annual Appaloosa Music Festival returns to Skyline Ranch this Saturday and Sunday. WTOP caught up with Dan Fedoryka, who cofounded the festival with his brother Alexander. "My band S 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