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Biden visits his Pennsylvania hometown to call for more taxes on the rich and cast Trump as elitist 04/16/2024 08:56pm • SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) ��� President Joe Biden made a nostalgic return to the house where he grew up in working-class Scranton on Tuesday, kicking off three days of campaigning across Pennsylvania by calling for higher taxes on the rich and casting Donald Trump as an out-of-touch elitist. When the Democ Black immigrant rally in NYC raises awareness about racial, religious and language inequities 04/16/2024 07:26pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Black immigrants turned out in the hundreds on Tuesday across from New York City Hall during a hearing about racial inequities in the city's shelter and immigrant support systems. Over 1,500 immigrants, mostly from Guinea, assembled in City Hall Park, after it became clear that onl The Paris Games' grandiose opening ceremony is being squeezed by security and transport issues 04/16/2024 07:50am • PARIS (AP) ��� The talk before the opening ceremony of the Paris Games ideally should be about its grandiose backdrop: a summer sun setting on the Seine River as athletes drift by in boats and wave to cheering crowds. But behind the romantic veneer that Paris has long curated, mounting security conc Indiana limits abortion data for privacy under near-total ban, but some GOP candidates push back 04/16/2024 12:12am • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Indiana allows so few abortions that health officials stopped releasing individual reports to protect patient privacy ��� a move some Republicans are now fighting to reverse. The Republicans, including prominent candidates for office this year, want access to reports detailing Russian soldiers who quit Putin's war get no hero���s welcome abroad as asylum claims surge 04/15/2024 06:41pm • ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AP) ��� If the choice was death or a bullet to the leg, Yevgeny would take the bullet. A decorated hero of Russia���s war in Ukraine, Yevgeny told his friend and fellow soldier to please aim carefully and avoid bone. The tourniquets were ready. The pain that followed was the pric Tax Day reveals a major split in how Joe Biden and Donald Trump would govern 04/15/2024 05:30pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Tax Day reveals a major split in how Joe Biden and Donald Trump would govern: The presidential candidates have conflicting ideas about how much to reveal about their own finances and the best ways to boost the economy through tax policy. Biden, the sitting Democratic president, r The Civil War raged and fortune-seekers hunted for gold. This era produced Arizona's abortion ban 04/15/2024 02:52pm • As Union and Confederate armies clashed in a bloody fourth year of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln tasked one man to create the legal code for Arizona, almost 50 years before the territory became a state. New York judge William Thompson Howell wrote 500 pages that spanned provisions on duel Your morning coffee may be more than a half million years old 04/15/2024 12:35pm • That coffee you slurped this morning? It���s 600,000 years old. Using genes from coffee plants around the world, researchers built a family tree for the world's most popular type of coffee, known to scientists as Coffea arabica and to coffee lovers simply as ���arabica.��� The researchers, hoping t Fashion isn���t just for the eyes: Upcoming Met Gala exhibit aims to be a multi-sensory experience 04/15/2024 12:00pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Fashion, most would surely agree, is meant to be seen. Not heard, and certainly not smelled. But Andrew Bolton, the curatorial mastermind behind the blockbuster fashion exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art���s Costume Institute, begs to differ. His newest show, to be launched Macron says the Olympic opening ceremony on the Seine could be moved to stadium for security reasons 04/15/2024 09:43am • French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics planned on the River Seine could be shifted instead to the country's national stadium if the security threat is deemed too high. France is on high security alert ahead of the Paris Olympics and Paralympics, w These Are the Cheapest Restaurants to Feed a Family 04/14/2024 08:00pm • Dining out can be an expensive activity, and in many cases prices are escalating. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture 2024 Food Price Outlook report, food-away-from-home prices are predicted to increase 4.1% this year. It's costly enough when you're only treating yourself, but when you'r 8 Smart Tax Strategies for Investors 04/14/2024 08:00pm • Investors typically find it more fun and interesting to focus on their investment portfolio or their stock trades, rather than tax strategies. While the stock market is certainly more exciting than the tax code, investors who overlook tax planning are leaving money on the table instead of putting mo Roma's match at Udinese abandoned after defender Evan Ndicka collapses 04/14/2024 06:03pm • UDINE, Italy (AP) ��� Roma defender Evan Ndicka collapsed toward the end of his team���s Serie A match at Udinese on Sunday, causing the game to be abandoned, and was later visited in hospital by his teammates. Ndicka is being kept under observation but was admitted in a code yellow condition, which Sneezing, coughing, watery red eyes: Tips on getting ahead of seasonal allergies from a DC-area doctor 04/14/2024 12:43pm • Nearly a quarter of Americans ��� or 81-million people in the United States ��� suffer from seasonal allergies, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. Early-season allergies are often caused by pollen from trees, such as oak, elm, birch, poplar or maple, according to Meredith Capitals beat the Lightning 4-2 to keep their playoff hopes alive 04/13/2024 09:10pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� With the score tied and their season hanging in the balance, Charlie Lindgren made one big save after another to keep the Washington Capitals in a crucial game against the Tampa Bay Lightning. With the score still tied and the season still hanging in the balance, John Carlson