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Fall music releases: Pop powerhouses, country classics, hip-hop heavyweights and beyond 09/10/2023 01:03pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Music fans, it is time to bid adieu to the sunny, slow summer months, and welcome fall ��� historically, one of the busiest times in the calendar year for new albums, EPs, and mixtapes. Trends have already begun to reveal themselves: Some of the biggest names in pop (and in pop' Repurposed pay phone entertains kids and grownups with jokes in DC 09/09/2023 09:30pm • Coin-operated pay telephones, once ubiquitous, in places ranging from gas stations to drug stores to street corners, have vanished from the landscape. But someone has figured a way to repurpose an old pay phone to dial up some smiles. Near Lafayette Elementary School in D.C.'s Chevy Chase neighbo How parents can discern between real numbers and anecdotal stories of COVID in classrooms 09/09/2023 04:49am • Kids are back in the classroom ��� but across the D.C. region, some classrooms are already seeing empty desks due to students with COVID-19. But for all the stories you might hear from parents and teachers, the true numbers are harder to track than they used to be. That's because the dashboard Missouri constitutional amendment would ban local gun laws, limit minors' access to firearms 09/08/2023 06:57pm • COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) ��� The Democratic stronghold of St. Louis and other cities in the Republican-leaning state of Missouri would be blocked from cracking down on guns under a newly proposed constitutional amendment. A petition for a November 2024 vote on the proposal, filed this week, also would re Justice Alito rejects Senate Democrats' call to step aside from an upcoming Supreme Court case 09/08/2023 04:12pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Justice Samuel Alito on Friday rejected demands from Senate Democrats that he step aside from an upcoming Supreme Court case because of his interactions with one of the lawyers, in a fresh demonstration of tensions over ethical issues. Alito attached an unusual statement to an ot EXPLAINER: Abortion access has expanded but remains difficult in Mexico. How does it work now? 09/08/2023 01:39pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� The decision by Mexico's Supreme Court ending federal criminal penalties for abortion was a boost to activists who waged decades-long campaigns for safe abortion access nationwide. The mostly Catholic country still has significant barriers to overcome before Mexican women gain u Latin America women's rights groups say their abortion win in Mexico may hold the key to US struggle 09/08/2023 12:06am • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Women's rights activists in Latin America have long looked to the United States as a model in their decades-long struggle to chip away at abortion restrictions in their highly religious countries. But after a historic Mexican Supreme Court ruling decriminalizing abortion on the Music Review: Tyler Childers shines on 'Rustin' in the Rain,' conceived as an audition for Elvis 09/08/2023 12:01am • ���Rustin��� in the Rain,��� Tyler Childers (Hickman Holler Records/RCA/Sony) Tyler Childers says he came up with the concept for his latest album, ���Rustin' in the Rain,��� by imagining song pitches to Elvis Presley. The result is a rangy, rollicking seven-song collection, out Friday ��� one that Artificial Intelligence Stocks: The 10 Best AI Companies 09/07/2023 08:00pm • Virtually every industry is being disrupted by artificial intelligence, automation and robotics. In recent months, the world has gotten a firsthand look at the remarkable advances in AI technology, including expanded public access to OpenAI's DALL-E 2 AI image and art generator and the public launch Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh predicts 'concrete steps soon' to address ethics concerns 09/07/2023 04:23pm • CLEVELAND (AP) ��� Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh told a judicial conference on Thursday he hopes there will be ���concrete steps soon��� to address recent ethics concerns surrounding the court, but he stopped short of addressing calls for justices to institute an official code of conduct. Probe of Florida building collapse that killed 98 to be completed by June 2025, US investigators say 09/07/2023 01:30pm • The probe into the 2021 collapse of a beachfront condominium building that killed 98 people in South Florida should be completed by the fourth anniversary of the disaster, federal officials said Thursday. The investigation led by the National Institute of Standards & Technology is looking into t After summit joined by China, US and Russia, Indonesia's leader warns of protracted conflicts 09/07/2023 11:32am • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) ��� Indonesia's president issued a stark warning Thursday after wrapping up a summit of Southeast Asian countries that was joined by China, the United States and Russia, saying ���we will be destroyed��� unless conflicts are resolved. The three-day summit by leaders of the A No students charged following Montgomery Co. football game brawl 09/07/2023 10:23am • No students involved in the post-football game brawl in Bethesda last week were charged with a crime, Montgomery County officials said. Word came in a joint statement released Wednesday evening by Superintendent of Montgomery County Schools Monifa McKnight and police Chief Marcus Jones. On Fri Emerald Fennell on 'Saltburn,' class and Barry Keoghan: Fall Movie Preview 09/07/2023 09:12am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Countless English protagonists have for decades been making their way to grand country estates where their lives are irrevocably changed. ���Brideshead Revisited.��� ���The Go-Between.��� ���Remains of the Day.��� ���Rebecca.��� These are some of the books that Emerald Fennell grew Today in History: September 7, Nazi Germany begins air blitz on London 09/07/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Thursday, Sept. 7, the 250th day of 2023. There are 115 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On Sept. 7, 1940, Nazi Germany began its eight-month blitz of Britain during World War II with the first air attack on London. On this date: In 1901, the Peac