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Who is Alvin Bragg? District attorney who prosecuted Trump says he was just doing his job 06/01/2024 07:42am • NEW YORK (AP) — When Alvin Bragg took office as Manhattan district attorney in 2022, he stunned the public and his own staff by pausing an investigation into former President Donald Trump that appeared to be hurtling toward an indictment. Two top prosecutors were so upset with the decision, they q NHRA New England Nationals 05/31/2024 09:28pm • FridayAt New England DragwayEpping, N.H.First RoundTop Fuel 1. Doug Kalitta, 3.700 seconds, 332.84 mph; 2. Steve Torrence, 3.702, 335.23; 3. Brittany Force, 3.715, 335.57; 4. Shawn Langdon, 3.722, 330.23; 5. Billy Torrence, 3.744, 332.43; 6. Justin Ashley, 3.754, 328.22; 7. Clay Millican, 3.759, 332 At bribery trial, ex-US official casts Sen. Bob Menendez as a villain in Egyptian meat controversy 05/31/2024 08:07pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A former top U.S. agricultural official cast Sen. Bob Menendez as a villain at his bribery trial Friday, saying he tried to stop him from disrupting an unusual sudden monopoly that developed five years ago over the certification of meat exported to Egypt. A Manhattan federal court 3 new arrests in shootings that injured 11 in downtown Savannah 05/31/2024 04:29pm • SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Three additional suspects in a shootout that injured 11 people in a public square in the heart of Savannah's downtown historic district have been arrested, police announced Friday. That brings the total number of people charged in the May 18 shootings to four. No one was kille Pato O'Ward looks to bounce back from Indy 500 heartbreaker with a winning run at Detroit Grand Prix 05/31/2024 04:00pm • DETROIT (AP) — Pato O'Ward had tears triggered following the Indianapolis 500 after pushing the No. 5 Honda to the limits only to come up just short, getting passed two corners from the finish by Josef Newgarden. “What I had to do in order to get that car forward, that's what ultimately made it Historic Saratoga takes its place at center of horse racing world when Belmont Stakes comes to town 05/31/2024 03:46pm • SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — Health, history and horses are the three H’s carved into the welcome sign when travelers venturing into New York's Adirondack Mountains reach Saratoga Springs. Horses have always been the main event here, where the oldest active sporting venue in the country, the Sa X Ambassadors ready to rock 9:30 Club like 'Renegades,' leaving DC a little 'Unsteady' 05/31/2024 02:30pm • The alt-rock band X Ambassadors rocks the 9:30 Club in D.C. on Tuesday, June 4. WTOP caught up with lead singer and co-founder Sam Harris to get hyped. "We've played the 9:30 Club so many times, I've eaten so many of those delicious cupcakes, I can't wait to come back and have some more," Har AP analysis finds 2023 set record for US heat deaths, killing in areas that used to handle the heat 05/31/2024 11:33am • David Hom suffered from diabetes and felt nauseated before he went out to hang his laundry in 108-degree weather, another day in Arizona's record-smashing, unrelenting July heat wave. His family found the 73-year-old lying on the ground, his lower body burned. Hom died at the hospital, his core bod 'World famous' Northern Virginia trail celebrates 50th anniversary 05/31/2024 11:23am • Saturday is National Trails Day, and one of the most popular trails in our area is celebrating a big anniversary. The Washington and Old Dominion Trail, runs 45 miles from Purcellville in Loudoun County to Arlington County and turns 50 in September. "No other feature more defines Northern Virg An inflation gauge closely tracked by Federal Reserve rises at slowest pace this year 05/31/2024 10:39am • WASHINGTON (AP) — A price gauge closely tracked by the Federal Reserve cooled slightly last month, a sign that inflation may be easing after running high in the first three months of this year. Friday’s report from the Commerce Department showed that an index that excludes volatile food and ener Sports on TV for June 3 - 9 05/31/2024 10:00am • Adv01 (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Monday, June 3 COLLEGE BASEBALL Noon ESPNU — NCAA Tournament: TBD, Super Regional 3 p.m. ESPNU — NCAA Tournament: TBD, Super Regional 6 p.m. ESPNU — NCAA Tournament: TBD, Super Regional 9 p.m. ESPNU — NCAA Tournament: TBD, Minneapolis police officer dies in ambush shooting that killed 2 others including suspected gunman 05/31/2024 09:52am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis police officer responding to a shooting call was ambushed and killed Thursday when he stopped to provide aid to a man who appeared to be a victim. That man instead wound up shooting the officer, authorities said. The death of Officer Jamal Mitchell happened during WTOP rides along with one of DC’s boot crews looking for 'scofflaw' vehicles 05/31/2024 05:17am • The sun was still rising one morning when a big, white traffic enforcement van with license plate readers on top and a computer on the dash left a D.C. Department of Public Works yard in Northeast and started driving. Within a few minutes, not far from Union Station, a computer started buzzing, lett Months after nation's 1st nitrogen gas execution, Alabama gives man lethal injection for 2 killings 05/31/2024 12:40am • ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man received a lethal injection Thursday for the 2004 deaths of an elderly couple who police said were attacked with a hammer, machete and tire tool during a robbery at their home. Jamie Ray Mills, 50, was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m. after a three-drug injection at Tennessee officers accused of shielding a man committing sex crimes. Police deny extortion 05/31/2024 12:19am • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal lawsuit claims police officers took thousands of dollars from a businessman in their Tennessee city in exchange for obstructing efforts to investigate allegations that he was sexually assaulting multiple women for years. The police department has denied any wrongd