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US stocks edge further from their record after oil prices rise 08/17/2026 04:18pm • NEWYORK (AP) — U.S. stocks edged further from their record heights on Monday after rising oil prices cranked up the pressure on inflation and financial markets. The S&P 500 fell 0.5% but remains near its all-time high set Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 272 points, or 0.5%, US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 years 08/17/2026 04:13pm • NEW YORK (AP) — How many women hold executive-level positions at top U.S. companies? What is the racial and ethnic breakdown of those roles? What is the gender and racial breakdown of the lowest-paid roles at those companies? The Trump administration is making it harder for the public to know, mov XP Inc.A: Q2 Earnings Snapshot 08/17/2026 04:13pm • GRAND CAYMAN GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (AP) — GRAND CAYMAN GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (AP) — XP Inc.A (XP) on Monday reported second-quarter earnings of $273.9 million. The Grand Cayman George Town, Cayman Islands-based company said it had profit of 53 cents per share. The results exceeded Wa Marathon US-Israel meeting produces optimism but no firm commitment to American plan for Gaza 08/17/2026 04:12pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — A marathon meeting Monday between U.S. negotiator Jared Kushner and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left the fate of the Gaza ceasefire unclear, with officials signaling moderate optimism but offering no concrete commitment by Israel to the latest U.S.-proposed plan. Ham Mom and sister testify about Lindsay Clancy's declining mental state before she killed her children 08/17/2026 03:58pm • PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Lindsay Clancy's mother and sister took the stand Monday to recount how they saw her become increasingly anxious, paranoid and suicidal in the months before she killed her three children. Clancy's mother, Paula Musgrove, sounding at times emotional, described her daughter as What kids are looking forward to as they go back to school in Loudoun County 08/17/2026 03:55pm • This story is part of WTOP’s 2026 Back to School coverage. Tens of thousands of students were back in class Monday in Loudoun County, Virginia. For many parents, the summer was too short; for others however the new school year couldn’t come soon enough. When asked how it felt to se Trump threatens Oman as it works with Iran on a Strait of Hormuz deal, and other Middle East news 08/17/2026 03:51pm • U.S. President Donald Trump has again threatened Oman as Iran says it is working with the Gulf Arab country on a plan to manage shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Fully reopening the waterway has been a key U.S. demand. Meanwhile, the 60-day negotiating period to find a peace deal between the U Belgian wildfire approaches Germany as Greece probes deadly blaze 08/17/2026 03:50pm • SOURBRODT, Belgium (AP) — One of Belgium's biggest ever wildfires blazed out of control Monday even as cooler weather and rain in the morning eased conditions for hundreds of firefighters in remote and hilly countryside. In Greece, a fire briefly flared up near the main airport on the outskirts of Bids start for long-term flood fix feds say will be fast and cheap — but they don’t know what it is 08/17/2026 03:50pm • Competitors are now being sought to design a long-term glacial flooding solution the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says will be built faster and cheaper than previous proposals — but they don’t know what the project is. The intent is to select a project and industry partner for it by the end of t Supreme Court again rebuffs Trump’s push to toss out $5 million verdict in E. Jean Carroll case 08/17/2026 03:48pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday again rebuffed President Donald Trump’s push to throw out a jury’s $5 million finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her. The Republican president’s lawyer What locals, spectators and tourists should know about the Freedom 250 Grand Prix in DC 08/17/2026 03:42pm • Streets near Downtown D.C. are transitioning into a racetrack this weekend, when IndyCars will thunder down iconic stretches of Pennsylvania, Independence and Constitution avenues at speeds around 200 mph during the Freedom 250 Grand Prix. Organized by the White House-led organization Freedom Raiders guard Jackson Powers-Johnson leaves practice early, escorted into facility 08/17/2026 03:38pm • HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Las Vegas Raiders right guard Jackson Powers-Johnson left practice early Monday and was escorted by a trainer into the team facility. The club provided no update on his status. Powers-Johnson has been in a competition at right guard with Caleb Rogers. Though the players have Thousands in Indonesia await aid after quake kills 68, overshadowing Independence Day 08/17/2026 03:33pm • REO, Indonesia (AP) — Thousands of people waited for aid on the Indonesian island of Flores on Monday as the country marked its 81st Independence Day, two days after a powerful earthquake killed at least 68 people, injured more than 200 others and damaged thousands of homes. Many residents on Flor Some Pa. schools are cutting off charter students’ access to yellow buses after court ruling 08/17/2026 03:23pm • Two weeks before the start of classes at his all-boys charter school near Pittsburgh, founder Darryl Canady received an email from his local public school district saying it wouldn’t provide traditional bus rides to his students this year. Instead, Woodland Hills School District said it would supp US '28 track trials headed back to Eugene (not LA) over compressed 6-day schedule 08/17/2026 03:10pm • The U.S. track and field Olympic trials will return to Eugene, Oregon, leaving Los Angeles on the sideline weeks before it hosts the 2028 Summer Games. The trials, set for June 17-22, 2028, will be the sixth straight held at Hayward Field on the University of Oregon campus, which has adopted the nic