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DC isn���t tracking youth in both child welfare and juvenile justice systems, report says 05/29/2024 06:20am • D.C. isn���t monitoring young people involved with both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, leaving some of the District's most vulnerable youth without access to essential services, according to a report from the city���s auditor. The report, produced with help from the Council for C Firefighter helmets go up across DC to honor fallen heroes 05/28/2024 04:32pm • Amid the solemn sound of a bagpipe, two firefighters perched in the fire truck's bucket hung a gray helmet on a light pole above the intersection of 14th and H streets in Northwest D.C. The helmet bore the inscription LODD, line of duty death, and it honors firefighter John T. Williams, who d What Is Medicare: Coverage, Cost and Enrollment 05/27/2024 08:00pm • If you've just celebrated your 65th birthday or it's coming up in the next year, your mailbox is probably full of postcards, flyers and letters about your eligibility for Medicare. It's important to understand the ins and outs of Medicare before you sign up to avoid unexpected costs. Even if you've Armenians, Hmong and other groups feel US race and ethnicity categories don't represent them 05/27/2024 06:22pm • The federal government recently reclassified race and ethnicity groups in an effort to better capture the diversity of the United States, but some groups feel the changes miss the mark. Hmong, Armenian, Black Arab and Brazilian communities in the U.S. say they are not represented accurately in the o Newgarden salvages his season with an Indy 500 win on a last-lap defeat of a heartbroken O'Ward 05/27/2024 04:07pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� As Roger Penske investigated the cheating incident that cost Josef Newgarden his IndyCar season-opening victory, never did Newgarden worry about his job security at Team Penske. He had too much else to worry about, Newgarden insisted, and helping his boss understand how Newgard A Thai court sentences an opposition lawmaker to 2 years in prison for defaming the monarchy 05/27/2024 01:52am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� A Thai court on Monday sentenced a lawmaker from a progressive opposition party to two years in prison after finding her guilty of defaming the monarchy in a speech she made during a protest rally three years ago. Chonthicha Jangrew of the Move Forward Party was greeted by several s Amissville family charged with 60 animal abuse counts 05/26/2024 08:26pm • Laura Choi, 32, of Fairfax, a scientist with a biotechnology company, adopted one of the rescued Chihuahuas and named her Lychee Luigi "because she is so sweet like the lychee fruit, my favorite fruit." Lychee "had 11 teeth extracted last Monday and recovered very well." All of the rescued Rappahan Fire at a baby care center kills 7 infants in India's capital, a fire officer says 05/26/2024 01:04am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� A fire broke out in a baby care center in India's capital Saturday night, killing seven infants, a fire service officer said. Rescuers carried 12 newborns from the center to a nearby hospital but five of them died due to smoke inhalation, fire officer Atul Garg said. The five oth At least 27 people killed in a fire at an amusement park in western India, police say 05/25/2024 03:45pm • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� A major fire broke out Saturday at an amusement park in Gujarat state in western India, killing at least 27 people, including several children, police and media reports said. The fire erupted at the park in the city of Rajkot in Gujarat state. Police Commissioner Raju Bhargava sai UAW files objection to Mercedes vote, accuses company of intimidating workers 05/24/2024 07:03pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ��� The United Auto Workers on Friday accused Mercedes of interfering in a union election at two Alabama factories by intimidating and coercing workers into voting no. A week after Mercedes workers voted against joining the union, the labor group filed an objection with the Na Democratic senators request meeting with Chief Justice Roberts over flags flown at Alito's homes 05/24/2024 04:05pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Two Democratic senators are requesting a meeting with Chief Justice John Roberts after reports that two separate flags carried by rioters at the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol had flown outside of houses owned by Justice Samuel Alito. Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin, D Italian teenage computer wizard set to become the first saint of the Millennial generation 05/24/2024 10:48am • ROME (AP) ��� Pope Francis paved the way for the canonization of the first saint of the millennial generation on Thursday, attributing a second miracle to a 15-year-old Italian computer whiz who died of leukemia in 2006. Carlo Acutis, born on May 3, 1991, in London and then moved with his Italian pa The 'Appeal to Heaven' flag evolves from Revolutionary War symbol to banner of the far right 05/23/2024 06:09pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is embroiled in a second flag controversy in as many weeks, this time over a banner that in recent years has come to symbolize sympathies with the Christian nationalist movement and the false claim that the 2020 presidential election was st Judge says $475,000 award in New Hampshire youth center abuse case would be 'miscarriage of justice' 05/23/2024 05:28pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� The judge who oversaw a landmark trial over abuse at New Hampshire���s youth detention center says capping the verdict at $475,000 as the state proposes would be an ���unconscionable miscarriage of justice.��� In a lengthy order issued Wednesday, Judge Andrew Schulman outlined Fate of lawsuit filed by Black Texas student punished over hairstyle in hands of federal judge 05/23/2024 04:11pm • GALVESTON, Texas (AP) ��� A federal judge did not issue an immediate ruling on Thursday after hearing legal arguments over whether to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Black high school student who has alleged racial and gender discrimination over his monthslong punishment by his Texas school district fo