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Want to spend the night in a Paris museum or a house owned by Prince? Airbnb plans to list them 05/01/2024 07:58pm • In a mad mix of game-show glitter and marketing flash, Airbnb is offering customers a chance to spend a night in a Paris museum, stay in houses mocked up to look like movie settings, or sleep surrounded by eight Ferrari racing cars. Those and other chimerical listings are part of a splashy new campa DC speed cameras at these locations issued 10,000-plus tickets over three months 05/01/2024 06:55pm • D.C.'s busiest speed camera in the last three months of 2023 was also one of its newest, according to Department of Transportation data shared with the D.C. Council. From Oct. 1 through Dec. 31, the speed camera located along the northbound Potomac Freeway at 25th Street in Northwest issued 3 A list of mass killings in the United States this year 05/01/2024 06:26pm • The latest mass killing in the U.S. happened Monday, April 29, in Charlotte, North Carolina, where four officers were fatally shot in the deadliest attack on U.S. law enforcement since 2016. The officers were killed when a task force made up of officers from different agencies arrived in the reside Remains of child found in duffel bag in Philadelphia neighborhood identified as missing boy 05/01/2024 05:24pm • A decomposed body found earlier this year in a duffel bag in Philadelphia has been identified as a 4-year-old boy who authorities say was beaten to death. The body of Damari Carter was found March 18 in the city’s Mantua neighborhood by a worker who was cleaning out an alleyway. Authorities initia Mister Car Wash: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 05/01/2024 05:17pm • TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Mister Car Wash Inc. (MCW) on Wednesday reported first-quarter net income of $16.6 million. On a per-share basis, the Tucson, Arizona-based company said it had profit of 5 cents. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense and to extinguish debt, were 8 Biden to travel to North Carolina to meet with families of officers killed in deadly shooting 05/01/2024 04:58pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to travel to North Carolina on Thursday to meet with the family members of four officers killed earlier this week in the deadliest attack on U.S. law enforcement since 2016. The president is scheduled to visit Wilmington across the state that Avis Budget: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 05/01/2024 04:33pm • PARSIPPANY, N.J. (AP) — PARSIPPANY, N.J. (AP) — Avis Budget Group Inc. (CAR) on Wednesday reported a first-quarter loss of $114 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier. The Parsippany, New Jersey-based company said it had a loss of $3.21 per share. The results did not Police, family of slain Hyattsville nightclub security guard plead for help 05/01/2024 03:24pm • Police and family members in Prince George's County, Maryland, pleaded for help Wednesday as they continue to search for a motive and suspects in a March 2023 shooting outside a Hyattsville nightclub that left a man dead. Alex Lynch, 28, was a security guard at the Area Code Gentlemen's Club alon Review: Netflix's most-watched show 'Baby Reindeer' is about so much more than a stalker 05/01/2024 01:46pm • It currently ranks as the No. 1 show on Netflix with 22 million views this past week alone. If you're not watching the stalker thriller miniseries "Baby Reindeer," remedy that immediately. It's so compelling that I binged all seven episodes in less than 24 hours. Inspired by the true traum Court case over fatal car crash raises issues of mental health and criminal liability 05/01/2024 12:16pm • ATLANTA (AP) — No one disputes that Michelle Wierson crashed her SUV into a car stopped at a traffic light, causing the death of a young boy. But while prosecutors say she needs to be held accountable for her actions, her lawyers say her mental state at the time absolves her of criminal liability No need to guess: Mom knows best what she wants for Mother's Day 05/01/2024 11:46am • NEW YORK (AP) — Not all moms are the same. They like and do different things. Some, gasp, don't love the idea of flowers and chocolates for Mother's Day. Consider these alternative gifts, many based on testimonials from actual moms. PAMPER, PAMPER, PAMPER There’s a zillion ways to pamper mom. Th AUTO RACING: Formula One goes to Miami, NASCAR to Kansas 05/01/2024 11:08am • All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES AdventHealth 400 Site: Kansas City, Kansas. Schedule: Saturday, practice, 5:05 p.m., and qualifying, 5:50 p.m.; Sunday, race, 3 p.m. (FS1). Track: Kansas Speedway. Race distance: 267 laps, 400.5 miles. Last year: Denny Hamlin won after starting eighth. Last race: Utah cat with a fondness for cardboard takes surprise trip to California in an Amazon box 05/01/2024 11:00am • Galena, a 6-year-old house cat from Utah, likes hiding and playing with cardboard. Earlier this month, the combination of the two made for a stressful trip in an Amazon package, a feverish search, a California rescue and a tearful reunion. Her family is still waiting to “reintroduce cardboard to AM car radios debated in Congress, automakers want to phase out 'century-old technology' 05/01/2024 10:37am • Many WTOP listeners have at one point listened to Washington's all-news station on an AM car radio — Congress is debating a bill that would require automakers to continue to install AM radios in new models. In 2024, listeners can hear WTOP in their cars, at work, on a smart speaker, online or o Red Bull chief technical officer Adrian Newey to step down from F1 team 05/01/2024 06:28am • MILTON KEYNES, England (AP) — Adrian Newey, the designer who was a pivotal figure in Red Bull's dominance of Formula One, will step down early next year, the team said Wednesday. The 65-year-old Newey will end his near two-decade career with Red Bull in the “first quarter of 2025." “For almos