In the D.C. region, the organization is working to mobilize 5 million voters with a focus on better laws and safer schools and workplaces.

It has also launched a national playbook for elected officials and political candidates across the country, “about what is a winning issue and not falling into the traps of letting queer and trans people be scapegoats,” said Jonathan Lovitz, senior vice president of campaigns and communications of the .

Though conversations about transgender bathroom and sports policies appear in advertisements and political rallies, including during last year’s gubernatorial election in Virginia, Lovitz said the LGBTQ+ community feels heard. It’s working to ensure LGBTQ+ rights aren’t pushed to the side in the current political environment.

“The biggest thing that we have to fight right now is the erasure of our voices in the marketplace of ideas,” Lovitz said. “It’s why LGBTQ+ people have to show up in the huge numbers we’re expecting in the midterms.”

In many cases, the issues facing the LGBTQ+ community are “universal American issues,” Lovitz said, adding, “We want safe places to work, safe schools for our kids, lower prices, more affordable housing, more work opportunities.”

The organization, Lovitz said, is routinely speaking to and collaborating with members of Congress, and “there is more bipartisan courage to support equality than people realize.”

Lovitz said they’re “always grateful when Congress re-ups ,” and other pieces of legislation that address inequities.

“Even if those don’t move forward right now, to know that that is on the mind and lips and hearts of so many of the members,” Lovitz said, “who again realize that LGBTQ people live in every one of their zip codes that they oversee.”

As the midterms approach, Lovitz said LGBTQ+ issues are only a small part of what’s motivating people to vote. Instead, he said, it’s a focus on things such as the cost of living.

“You don’t think we’re heard, look at the millions and I mean tens of millions of people who are showing up at Pride events all over the country this month and are going to continue that message all summer long, right up to the midterms, to remind people we’re here, we’re queer and we are not going anywhere,” Lovitz said.

Close margins in political races across the country, Lovitz said, suggest, “people are returning back to the fold and saying we have gotten way too off the path of what really makes America work and part of that answer is making sure that everyone is included and represented to that and that includes queer people.”

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For Tony Pierce, culture is the key to running a top workplace in D.C.

The partner in charge of Akin’s D.C. office has worked at the law firm since the 1980s.

“One of the things I think we’ve done, and we’ve instilled within all of our staff and lawyers, is to promote a positive culture,” Pierce said.

He said staying positive is “the key to our success.”

Pierce currently oversees more than 500 employees and Akin requires staff to work in the office at least three days a week, making efforts to maintain a positive culture not the easiest of tasks.

“I tend to be old school. So I encourage people to come in as much as they can,” he said. “I think it’s always better to have that personal interaction. So while we have a three-day policy, which we follow, many of our people come in more than that.”

Pierce makes sure everyone is in the loop at Akin, a firm that traces its roots back to the 1940s and recently shortened its name for branding reasons.

“I think any effective leader has got to communicate,” he said, “and making sure that people in the office, indeed in our whole firm, know what’s happening in the firm is an important aspect of the success of Akin Gump.”

Right now, Pierce is busy embracing artificial intelligence and studying its impact on the legal profession.

“We’re going through the AI transformation right now,” he said. “We have a saying in our firm, ‘AI will not replace lawyers, but lawyers who don’t use AI will be replaced.’ So that’s a sign of us embracing the change and using it to bring more effective services to our clients.”

AI requires a lot of fact-checking, he said, but it’s making his staff more efficient.

“There is a tremendous amount of economic activity associated with AI, investment of capital and you’re going to have to embrace that,” Pierce said.

He’s also busy making sure everyone is having fun. Akin, he said, holds a cornhole tournament and honors everyone’s birthdays each month. The firm also stages a Thanksgiving celebration each year.

And the most recent way to have fun? Ice cream.

Pierce approved buying three ice cream machines. What flavors are available to help his office survive the hot D.C. summer, you wonder?

“Oh, you want to know? Come on down to the office: salted caramel, chocolate, vanilla,” he said. “We even have a very nasty, low-calorie mango.”

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It’s the first major change to the in Centreville in over 25 years.

The new plan includes about 3,000 acres near the crossroads of Interstate 66 and routes 28 and 29 in the Sully Supervisor District.

The plan, which envisions Centreville as a “suburban center,” is the result of a multiyear Centreville Study and extensive community engagement, including a two-year community task force, multilingual surveys, open houses and additional targeted outreach.

Community recommendations helped form the staff’s final recommendations, which include:

• Pedestrian safety and improvements to bike and pedestrian infrastructure
• Improved access to a wider range of goods and services
• More communal park and gathering spaces, including the creation of a town center
• Improving community character through better design

The plan also recommends introducing mixed-use and affordable housing into the area. It lists the Centreville Regional Library and the Stone Road Park & Ride as possible locations for affordable housing.

Also included is a potential Metrorail station west of I-66 and south of Route 29, with the possibility to move to the median of I-66. Centreville does not currently have any WMATA Metrorail or Metrobus service.

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A: QR codes have become so woven into everyday life that most people scan them without a second thought. They’re often included in restaurant menus, parking meters, package tracking notices and event check-ins.

That familiarity is precisely what makes them attractive to scammers and Google’s Trust and Safety team recently flagged QR code phishing as one of the fastest-growing threats they’re tracking.

The attack is known as “quishing,” a combination of QR code and phishing. The danger isn’t the QR code itself, it’s where it quietly sends you.

Why QR codes are a scammer’s dream

When you receive a suspicious link in an email, your email security tools can inspect the destination, recognize a known malicious website and block it before you ever click.

A QR code is different. To your email’s security software, it’s simply an image made up of black and white squares. Think of it as a sealed envelope. Your email security can inspect what’s written on the outside, but it can’t always see what’s tucked inside.

Now scammers are using “dynamic” QR codes to thwart new attempts to analyze them. When the email is sent, the code points to a completely harmless webpage to trick security filters into clearing it. Once the email safely lands in your inbox, the criminal flips a switch on the back-end, redirecting that same QR code to a malicious site.

Why your phone changes everything

Quishing is especially effective because it cleverly shifts the attack from your computer to your mobile phone.

You receive an email on your laptop containing a QR code and instead of clicking a link, you’re encouraged to scan it with your smartphone. That move instantly strips away your computer’s robust security protections and drops you into a mobile browser, where compressed screens make it much harder to spot a fake website.

The destination page often looks identical to a legitimate login page for Google, Microsoft, your bank or a delivery company. If you enter your username and password, you’ve handed them directly to the scammer. Some of the more sophisticated attacks can even capture your active login session, allowing criminals to bypass two-factor authentication entirely.

The physical world threat: The restaurant scam

Why would a cybercriminal bother targeting a local cafe or a busy restaurant patio?

The answer lies in the shift toward “scan, order and pay” restaurant apps. Scammers aren’t trying to hack the restaurant’s kitchen; they are waiting for you to pay for your dinner. By placing high-quality stickers over existing table codes or replacing plastic menu stands entirely, thieves intercept the payment process.

When a distracted diner enters their credit card to “start a tab,” they are handing their raw card data to a digital skimming portal. The brilliance of the scam is the built-in delay. By the time you realize your food isn’t coming and alert a server, the thief is long gone

Your golden rule

To stay safe, establish a strict personal safety valve: Never use a QR code to log into an account or enter a credit card number. If a QR code asks for a password or a payment, close the tab.

At restaurants, you always have a low-tech alternative, which is to skip the digital process and order food the old-fashioned way. Ask your server for a physical menu and a paper bill. If a parking meter or shipping utility wants you to take action, bypass the QR code altogether. Open the official app you already have or manually type the website address yourself.

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were toppled in several countries on the weekend, wildfires were sparked in Germany and Berlin police used water cannons to cool down the crowds.

Meanwhile, the heat wave slowly moved toward eastern parts of the continent.

marked a new record for the third day in a row with 41.7 degrees Celsius (107 degrees Fahrenheit) in Neißemünde, near the border with Poland, which baked under its new all-time high of 40.5 C (104.9 F). The Czech Republic also experienced its hottest day ever with 41.9 C (107.4 F), up from the previous record of 40.9 degrees Celsius (105.6 F) on Saturday.

A from the World ӣ����Ƶ Attribution, a Europe-based collaboration of scientists, reported Friday that the record-breaking heat and humidity in Europe this past week would not have been possible .

The rapid study found that the heat would have been virtually impossible just five decades ago, and is 200 times more likely today than it would have been 20 years ago.

France records surge in deaths during heat wave

France reported a surge in deaths last week, including a sharp increase at private homes, especially in the Paris region, the national public health agency said Sunday.

There were more than 1,200 deaths on Wednesday, when France was sweltering under its hottest temperatures, increasing to more than 1,400 deaths on each of the two following days, Public Health France said. In April and May, before the heat wave, France’s rate of deaths was about 900 to 1,000 per day.

The agency concluded that France experienced a total of at least 1,000 additional deaths during those three days alone, an estimate it cautioned is likely to increase as more data is collected, including for deaths at home.

The increase was sharpest in areas under red warnings of extreme heat, it said. Those warnings blanketed about three-quarters of the country at the peak of the heat wave. The agency said that 85% of the deaths involved people aged 65 and above.

Europe is the fastest-warming continent, WHO warns

“Europe is the fastest-warming continent on Earth, heating at twice the global average,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Sunday on X. “Right now 150 million people are living under extreme heat, hundreds have died, schools are shut, grids are buckling.”

Driven by climate change and global warming, the “once-in-a-generation” heat wave is now occurring nearly every year, Tedros said, adding that more than 1,300 excess deaths have been recorded since June 21 linked to high temperatures in Europe.

“Heat stress is often called the ‘silent killer’ — and European homes, workplaces and schools were not built for these temperatures,” Tedros warned as he called on European countries to implement action plans. He said they should focus on preparedness, prevention and stronger health system responses.

Lightning strikes Swedish theme park

In Sweden, several people were injured when they were hit by lightning at an amusement park, the country’s TT news agency reported.

Three adults were taken to the hospital, among them a woman with serious injuries, after the lightning struck the Tosselilla Sommarland park in Tomelilla in the south of the country.

Across Europe, the extreme heat has been followed by severe thunderstorms.

Denmark, which marked new temperature records on Saturday, recorded 1,156 lighting strikes by Sunday morning, according to public broadcaster DR.

Heat sparks wildfires in forests contaminated with WWII ammunition

In in a large forest that’s still contaminated with ammunition from , complicating efforts by firefighters.

Similarly, a major firefighting operation was underway in southwest Germany near the village of Traisen, where the heat sparked a forest fire in an area that also contained unexploded ordnance. Firefighters had to stop work temporarily after explosions took place and an ordnance disposal unit was brought in to continuously assess the situation, German news agency dpa reported. Some 650 people in Traisen had to leave their homes Sunday afternoon because the fire continued to spread.

Fire departments in the big cities were busy sending out ambulances to people suffering from heat-related illnesses. In Berlin, an additional 500 ambulance dispatches were reported on Saturday, most of them heat-related.

Berlin police use water cannons to cool down locals and tourists

The German capital’s police found a way to help suffering Berliners and tourists alike. They put up two huge water cannons — usually used to disperse unruly protesters — in front of the iconic Brandenburg Gate and sprayed the cool water across the cheering crowd.

The heat also worsened damage to infrastructure, with the concrete surface on countless highways breaking up, and a weekend warning by national rail operator Deutsche Bahn to avoid all unnecessary train travel.

More than 600 passengers had to be evacuated from an overheated train in Brandenburg after a tree fell onto an overhead power line during a storm on Saturday evening. The train, which was on its way from Hamburg to Prague, lost power. The air conditioners stopped working and the doors were locked until emergency responders forced them open. Two people were hospitalized with heat-related problems, dpa reported.

In the eastern city of Leipzig, no trams will be running until early Monday morning due to heat damage to tracks and switches. The Leipzig Public Transportation Authority said that the high temperatures had caused the joint sealant for asphalt and concrete in switches and tracks to run and clump together in many places throughout the city’s network.

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Leicester reported from Paris. Associated Press writer Karel Janicek in Prague contributed to this report.

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The National ӣ����Ƶ Service said wildfire conditions “remain critical” across the Southwest, with risk high in the Four Corners region where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah intersect. The agency warned of “extreme fire behavior” along the Utah-Colorado border, where “rapid fire growth is likely.”

The firefighters were killed and two sustained burn injuries when they were overcome Saturday by flames from fast-moving fires. They deployed emergency protective shelters during the so-called burnover — which occurs when a fire spreads and closes off all escape routes — in Mesa County, the U.S. Interior Department said.

They worked for the U.S. Wildland Fire Service and U.S. Forest Service and were part of an interagency response to the Knowles and Gore fires, which merged with other fires to form the Snyder Fire. So far, about 44 square miles (114 square kilometers) have burned.

The Wildland Fire Service, created earlier this year to streamline firefighting on public lands, said in a statement that it “stands united” with the Forest Service in grief and “in our unwavering support for the loved ones left behind.”

The names of the firefighters were withheld pending notification to their loved ones, the Interior Department said.

Temperatures in Grand Junction — east of the fire — hit a high of 93 degrees Fahrenheit (34 degrees Celsius) Saturday, with winds gusting to 44 mph (71 kph), according to the National ӣ����Ƶ Service.

The Mesa County Sheriff’s Office asked people to evacuate the potential path of the fire and to turn on irrigation water to saturate the land. The federal Bureau of Land Management on Saturday closed public access to lands it manages nearby.

On Sunday, strong winds pushed waves of thick, gray smoke from the fire as it burned through a desolate stretch of scrub and red mesa.

Hot, dry and windy conditions

Consecutive days of hot, dry and windy weather fueled fires in Colorado, Utah, Arizona and elsewhere. New fires popped up across the region.

The largest blaze, the , burned out of control in rugged terrain in southwest Utah. It ballooned Sunday to more than 146 square miles (378 square kilometers) after marching through canyons and mountainsides, destroying part of a ski resort. The cause is under investigation.

Firefighters worked on multiple fronts, using bulldozers to scrape away brush and trees to starve the fire of fuel.

No estimates of damage were immediately available. Gov. Spencer Cox in a post on social media thanked crews for what he called “several miraculous stops and saves.”

The danger is even higher this year because of Utah’s record-low snowpack and its warmest winter on record. Much of the West is grappling with similar conditions, according to . Some 12 fires were burning in Utah. None were contained by late afternoon Sunday.

Fires across the U.S. burn thousands of square miles this year

Nationally, nearly 4,688 square miles (12,142 square kilometers) have burned since Jan. 1. That is more than the 10-year average.

Fully or largely uncontained wildfires burned across the desert Southwest on Sunday, according to Forest Service data, including in Nevada and Arizona. Their area totaled nearly 469 square miles (1,214 square kilometers).

Emergencies declared in Utah and Colorado

Citing fire conditions, Cox declared an emergency last week and banned fireworks ahead of the July Fourth holiday. State officials said Utah has seen an increase in wildfire starts, with each fire showing unprecedented behavior and stretching wildland firefighting capabilities.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis also declared an emergency on Saturday, authorizing the use of the National Guard to tackle the fires.

South of Grand Canyon National Park, authorities said a new wildfire was moving away from Grand Canyon Village on Saturday. But about 50 miles (80 kilometers) away, another fire prompted Coconino County officials to issue evacuation orders for those near Kendrick Mountain.

Parts of northern Arizona were without power Saturday as the utility serving the area initiated a safety shut-off in hopes of lessening the wildfire risk. On Sunday, officials said power had been restored to much of Grand Canyon National Park.

Power shutoffs have become more common in the West as wildfire risk has expanded. It is usually a last resort after utility forecasters weigh factors like sustained wind and gust speeds, available fuels and topography.

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Smyth contributed from Columbus, Ohio. Sisak reported from New York. Associated Press writer Michael R. Blood in Los Angeles contributed.

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7News First Alert Meteorologist Mark Peña said the chance for continued storms wraps up around midnight, but not before a half-inch of rain accumulates. He warned that a “low end flash flooding threat” continues for low-water crossings “that tend to swell after heavy rainfall.”

The latest comes after Northern Virginia was placed under a flood warning alert by the National ӣ����Ƶ Service. At the time, WTOP Meteorologist said rain was falling at rates of 2 to 3 inches an hour on Interstate 66 near Oakton, Fairfax and Vienna.

The District and surrounding areas were also placed under a flood watch. Both weather notices were lifted by 2 p.m. Sunday.

By Monday morning, however, commuters will be met with partly cloudy and patchy fog conditions and temperatures in the mid-60s, according to Peña. The day’s highest temperatures will peak around 90 degrees.

Heat and humidity increase Tuesday as winds turn southerly, with highs returning to the lower 90s under mostly sunny skies.

Dangerous heat builds Wednesday and continues into the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Highs reach the upper 90s and could approach 100, with heat index values between 102 and 107.

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An Arlington, Virginia, native has taken on an iconic vegetable in one of the biggest animated film franchises ever: Mrs. Potato Head.

Anna Vocino said she was shocked when she heard she landed the animated role in Disney and Pixar’s “Toy Story 5.”

“I read on it, and then my agent called me,” Vocino said, detailing how the studio was looking for her availability to record for the role.

Vocino said she thought Disney and Pixar were asking her to do “scratch tracking,” where producers have someone come in to read, and then have another actor record the final version for the movie. But that wasn’t the case here.

“They’re like, ‘no, no, to do the actual part,’ and I was just in disbelief,” she said. “I was in disbelief up until I think after I even recorded it.”

Producers gave Vocino the option to either record at home or at the Pixar campus.

“I was like, ‘duh, go to the Pixar campus,'” she said.

Taking on the role

Vocino said she felt a lot of pressure taking on the role because she was replacing Estelle Harris, who voiced the iconic role in the first four films.

Harris died in 2022 at the age of 93.

“I wanted to make sure that I did it well and did her justice and made her family proud and made her memory proud,” Vocino said.

She said she even got to meet Mr. Potato Head, her animated “husband” in the movie that’s voiced by Jeff Bergman in “Toy Story 5.”

Bergman took over the role after the 2017 death of actor Don Rickles, who voiced Mr. Potato Head since the first film in 1995. Rickles died at the age of 90.

“I recorded my session, and as I was walking out, Jeff was coming in to do his session. So we got to meet each other, give each other a hug, and then have since been in touch … and talking about what it’s like to be the Potato Heads,” she said.

Vocino is hopeful that maybe the viewers will get a little more backstory about the vegetable couple in the future. “We’re trying to convince Pixar to do a Potato Head origin story, so that we can find out how the Potato Heads met. That’s what we want to do,” she said.

Northern Virginia roots

Vocino grew up in Northern Virginia and traveled around the area with her mom who was a United Methodist minister.

She grew up singing and said she believes it really helped her develop her skills as a voice actor.

“I was in church choir, trained as a singer, played the piano, and I have noticed that people who I now meet in voice-over, a lot of them have a musical background, I think that the music ear helped with the voice matching with the rhythm in the case,” she said.

Vocino does stand up and always like doing “funny voices” and realized it just fit.

“We need actors, we need entertainment, and yet we think that it’s all the Tom Hanks and the Tim Allens … we need those guys, but we also need the little journeyman actors who fill in the other roles, like myself, and I’ve been lucky to be one of those guys,” she said.

But Vocino’s life isn’t all behind the microphone. She also deals with food for her other gig.

She’s the founder and CEO of Eat Happy Kitchen, a brand known for clean-ingredient pasta sauces, spices, and snacks.

The company, she said, started out of her own struggles after being diagnosed with celiac disease in 2002.

“I was upset to find out that gluten was in pretty much everything that I like to eat, being half southern and half Italian, with all the good foods, you name it — pasta, red velvet cake, key lime pie, fried chicken. Like, you name it, I couldn’t have it,” she said. “So I was like, let me figure out how to make this stuff, and I started blogging about it.”

Vocino’s brand is now in about 1,300 retailers nationwide.

WTOP’s Andrew Alsbrooks contributed to this report.

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In a , Virginia’s Task Force 1 team was captured removing a woman and her nine-month-old baby from the rubble of a collapsed structure.

Cheers erupt as the team of volunteers carry the woman out on a stretcher. Both the mother and baby suffered minor injuries.

The rescue team, which includes first responders from the Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue Team, was deployed to northern Venezuela alongside a similar rescue group from California.

Latest figures show the death toll from the earthquakes has already exceeded 1,400 people, as families reported nearly 70,000 people missing as of Saturday.

DC groups come together to help

Locally, several D.C.-area establishments have hosted donation drives, collecting a — like soap and toothpaste — intended to be shipped to Venezuela.

Over the weekend, , hosted events at all three of its locations in Northwest D.C., College Park, Maryland, and in Virginia’s Fairfax County. By Sunday, the donation goal was reached by organizers.

Similar donation targets set by and were also met.

Resident looking to help out in any way are urged to monitor posts issued by the eateries as new donation goals could be set in the coming days.

“Please be on the lookout for posts by Arepa Zone, there’ll be a great resource for the D.C. community on when and what is needed,” one donor told WTOP. “Even if things are paused right now, I’m sure at some point you’ll see something about again needing more donations.”

Groups like the International Red Cross, World Central Kitchen, Global Impact and many other organizations are accepting monetary support as well.

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GROUP A

Thursday, June 11

Mexico 2, South Africa 0

South Korea 2, Czechia 1

Thursday, June 18

Czechia 1, South Africa 1

Mexico 1, South Korea 0

Wednesday, June 24

Czechia 0, Mexico 3

South Africa 1, South Korea 0

GROUP B

GROUP B

Friday, June 12

Canada 1, Bosnia-Herzegovina 1

Saturday, June 13

Qatar 1, Switzerland 1

Thursday, June 18

Switzerland 4, Bosnia-Herzegovina 1

Canada 6, Qatar 0

Wednesday, June 24

Switzerland 2, Canada 1

Bosnia-Herzegovina 3, Qatar 1

GROUP C

GROUP C

Saturday, June 13

Brazil 1, Morocco 1

Haiti 0, Scotland 1

Friday, June 19

Scotland 0, Morocco 1

Brazil 3, Haiti 0

Wednesday, June 24

Scotland 0, Brazil 3

Morocco 4, Haiti 2

GROUP D

GROUP D

Friday, June 12

United States 4, Paraguay 1

Sunday, June 14

Australia 2, Turkey 0

Friday, June 19

United States 2, Australia 0

Turkey 0, Paraguay 1

Thursday, June 25

Turkey 3, United States 2

Paraguay 0, Australia 0

GROUP E

GROUP E

Sunday, June 14

Germany 7, Curacao 1

Ivory Coast 1, Ecuador 0

Saturday, June 20

Germany 2, Ivory Coast 1

Ecuador 0, Curacao 0

Thursday, June 25

Ecuador 2, Germany 1

Curacao 0, Ivory Coast 2

GROUP F

GROUP F

Sunday, June 14

Netherlands 2, Japan 2

Sweden 5, Tunisia 1

Saturday, June 20

Netherlands 5, Sweden 1

Sunday, June 21

Tunisia 0, Japan 4

Thursday, June 25

Tunisia 1, Netherlands 3

Japan 1, Sweden 1

GROUP G

GROUP G

Monday, June 15

Belgium 1, Egypt 1

Iran 2, New Zealand 2

Sunday, June 21

Belgium 0, Iran 0

New Zealand 1, Egypt 3

Friday, June 26

New Zealand 1, Belgium 5

Egypt 1, Iran 1

GROUP H

GROUP H

Monday, June 15

Spain 0, Cape Verde 0

Saudi Arabia 1, Uruguay 1

Sunday, June 21

Spain 4, Saudi Arabia 0

Uruguay 2, Cape Verde 2

Friday, June 26

Uruguay 0, Spain 1

Cape Verde 0, Saudi Arabia 0

GROUP I

GROUP I

Tuesday, June 16

France 3, Senegal 1

Iraq 1, Norway 4

Monday, June 22

France 3, Iraq 0

Norway 3, Senegal 2

Friday, June 26

Norway 1, France 4

Senegal 5, Iraq 0

GROUP J

GROUP J

Tuesday, June 16

Argentina 3, Algeria 0

Wednesday, June 17

Austria 3, Jordan 1

Monday, June 22

Argentina 2, Austria 0

Jordan 1, Algeria 2

Saturday, June 27

Jordan 1, Argentina 3

Algeria 3, Austria 3

GROUP K

GROUP K

Wednesday, June 17

Portugal 1, Congo 1

Uzbekistan 1, Colombia 3

Tuesday, June 23

Portugal 5, Uzbekistan 0

Colombia 1, Congo 0

Saturday, June 27

Colombia 0, Portugal 0

Congo 3, Uzbekistan 1

GROUP L

GROUP L

Wednesday, June 17

England 4, Croatia 2

Ghana 1, Panama 0

Tuesday, June 23

England 0, Ghana 0

Panama 0, Croatia 1

Saturday, June 27

Panama 0, England 2

Croatia 2, Ghana 1

ROUND OF 32

Sunday, June 28

South Africa 0, Canada 1

Monday, June 29

Brazil vs. Japan, 1 p.m.

Germany vs. Paraguay, 4:30 p.m.

Netherlands vs. Morocco, 9 p.m.

Tuesday, June 30

Ivory Coast vs. Norway, 1 p.m.

France vs. Sweden, 5 p.m.

Mexico vs. Ecuador, 9 p.m.

Wednesday, July 1

England vs. Congo, 12 p.m.

Belgium vs. Senegal, 4 p.m.

United States vs. Bosnia-Herzegovina, 8 p.m.

Thursday, July 2

Spain vs. Austria, 3 p.m.

Portugal vs. Croatia, 7 p.m.

Switzerland vs. Algeria, 11 p.m.

Friday, July 3

Australia vs. Egypt, 2 p.m.

Argentina vs. Cape Verde, 6 p.m.

Colombia vs. Ghana, 9:30 p.m.

ROUND OF 16

Saturday, July 4

Canada vs. W75, 1 p.m.

W74 vs. W77, 5 p.m.

Sunday, July 5

W76 vs. W78, 4 p.m.

W79 vs. W80, 8 p.m.

Monday, July 6

W83 vs. W84, 3 p.m.

W81 vs. W82, 8 p.m.

Tuesday, July 7

W86 vs. W88, 12 p.m.

W85 vs. W87, 4 p.m.

QUARTERFINAL

Thursday, July 9

W89 vs. W90, 4 p.m.

Friday, July 10

W93 vs. W94, 3 p.m.

Saturday, July 11

W91 vs. W92, 5 p.m.

W95 vs. W96, 9 p.m.

SEMIFINAL

Tuesday, July 14

W97 vs. W98, 3 p.m.

Wednesday, July 15

W99 vs. W100, 3 p.m.

3RD PLACE PLAYOFF

Saturday, July 18

RU101 vs. RU102, 5 p.m.

FINAL

Sunday, July 19

W101 vs. W102, 3 p.m.

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The first strike targeted a group of people in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya, killing two and wounding another, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.

Another Israeli strike in southern Gaza killed a man, according to health officials at Nasser hospital.

And the 13-year-old girl, Eileen al-Farra, was killed by shrapnel from Israeli tank shelling in southern Gaza, according to Nasser hospital.

The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the strikes but said one of them targeted a “Hamas terrorist,” without elaborating.

Palestinians on Sunday reported heavy tank shelling across Gaza and quadcopters — a type of unmanned aerial vehicle — buzzing overhead.

The heaviest fighting in Gaza has eased after a fragile ceasefire deal was reached in October between Israel and the Hamas militant group, but Palestinians continue to report new casualties almost daily. Israel says it targets Hamas and other militants who pose a threat and in response to ceasefire violations.

Israel has killed more than 1,040 people in Gaza since the ceasefire went into effect, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, part of the Hamas-led government. The ministry maintains detailed casualty records that are seen as generally reliable by United Nations agencies and independent experts. It does not distinguish between civilians and militants but says women and children make up around half of all deaths.

Israel has said five soldiers have been killed since the ceasefire.

The war began on Oct. 7, 2023, with a Hamas-led attack on southern Israel that killed some 1,200 people and saw 251 taken hostage. Israel’s retaliatory offensive in Gaza has killed more than 73,050 Palestinians, including those killed since the ceasefire, Gaza’s Health Ministry said.

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As the United States marks the  of the nation’s founding, one historian is traveling 750 miles to remind Americans where that history has taken us.

Anthony Cohen, 62, isn’t the first person to make this trek. It’s a path that was once part of the . a secret network of routes traversed by thousands of enslaved people who had escaped captivity and sought freedom in Canada.

, first traveled the Underground Railroad in 1996 from his home state of Maryland to Ontario, Canada. Since then, he has established the , which creates immersive, history-based experiences to teach audiences about the Underground Railroad.

For , he wanted to again bring the once-treacherous journey into the spotlight. He chose another route, this one from Sandy Spring, Maryland, to Toronto. Cohen says he used “a lot of historic maps” and historical accounts to determine the route, which he calls the “Freedom Walk.”

The trip has wound through Delaware, New Jersey and New York. A lot of the journey has been on foot, but sometimes Cohen uses other forms of transportation, including a train to upstate New York that closely follows the historic route.

“Any freedom movement is about putting one foot in front of the other and going for it,” Cohen said.

He isn’t alone. The Menare Foundation shared a list of stops he would be making, allowing people to come learn about the history and his journey along the way. The Harriet Tubman Journey to Freedom statue is accompanying them on the walk.

Cohen also invited Tom DeWolf, whose family was once the largest slave-trader in the United States, to join him.

“I said, ‘But I’m a White guy,'” DeWolf said. “And he said, ‘White people, White people helped.’ And then he said ‘You can write a new legacy for your family.'”

At events, Cohen and DeWolf are speaking about the history of the slave trade, the Underground Railroad and the walk itself.

Cohen will cross into Canada on July 1. He is slated to arrive in Toronto and complete his journey on July 4, just in time for the 250th anniversary of the United States.

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The begins Wednesday at the Point Reyes National Seashore on the California coast. The group is scheduled to travel across the Golden Gate Bridge on July 4.

The relay is expected to end on Thanksgiving at Cape Henlopen, just north of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

The route runs coast to coast, splitting into two branches between Denver and Cincinnati.

Relay teams carrying red, gold and blue batons holding copies of the Declaration of Independence will travel more than 6,800 miles in what organizers said is the longest continuous nonmotorized relay in world history.

The American Discovery Trail Society, based in Front Royal, Virginia, is organizing the relay to celebrate the nation’s history.

Organizers said they are still looking for teams to take part in the relay in daylong shifts.

Participants are not limited to walkers. Runners, cyclists, hikers, wheelchair users and horseback riders are encouraged to take part. The group is also seeking volunteers to help organize the trip, as well as sponsors.

More information on how to sign up is available on

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