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1 dead, 4 hurt after fiery car crash on I-295 in Northeast DC 03/29/2024 01:00pm • One person is dead after a fiery car crash on Interstate 295 in Northeast on Friday morning. D.C. Fire and EMS posted on X that they received a call about a vehicle crash on I-295 at Benning Road NE at 6:50 a.m. Firefighters said one vehicle caught fire with a person trapped inside. One per For years she thought her son had died of an overdose. The police video changed all that 03/29/2024 12:39pm • BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) ��� It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son���s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.m., the moment that a doctor had pronounced him dead. As Goodwin swept and dusted the room, she���d often NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 03/29/2024 10:52am • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. ___ Video from 2022 misrepresented as footage of Baltimore bridge collaps Falls Church man accused of plotting mass shooting at church in Haymarket indicted on federal hate crime 03/29/2024 10:51am • A Falls Church man accused of bringing a gun, ammo and knives to a Haymarket church last September with the intent of bringing "injury and death" to the congregation has now been indicted for a federal hate crime. On Wednesday, a federal jury returned an indictment against Rui Jiang, 35, charging Data Doctors: Tips for testing and buying battery banks 03/29/2024 10:05am • Q: Is there a way to test an external battery pack before I go on a long road trip? A: With all the portable electronics we tend to bring on our trips these days, having a portable power source has become an essential travel accessory. If you���ve had your battery pack for a few years, its abi Sports on TV for Apr. 1 - 7 03/29/2024 10:00am • Adv30 (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Monday, Apr. 1 COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN���S) 2:30 p.m. ESPNU ��� WBIT Tournament: TBD, Semifinal 5 p.m. ESPNU ��� WBIT Tournament: TBD, Semifinal 7:15 p.m. ESPN ��� NCAA Tournament: TBD, Elite Eight 8 p.m. ESPNU ��� NJCAA Tournam Syria reports Israeli airstrikes near the city of Aleppo. A war monitor says 44 people are dead 03/29/2024 09:58am • BEIRUT (AP) ��� The Syrian army says Israeli airstrikes on Friday near the northern city of Aleppo killed or wounded ���a number of��� people and caused damage. A war monitor said the strikes killed 44, most of them Syrian troops. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition Chinese investigators arrive in Pakistan to probe suicide attack that killed 5 of��its��nationals 03/29/2024 08:54am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� A team of Chinese investigators arrived in Pakistan on Friday to join a probe into a suicide attack that killed five of its nationals earlier this week, officials said, as Pakistan continued its own investigations into the attack. The slain Chinese engineers and workers were head Former South Africa leader Jacob Zuma is barred from running in elections, election authority says 03/29/2024 07:22am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) ��� Former South African President Jacob Zuma is not eligible to run in upcoming elections, the Independent Electoral Commission has ruled. The commission said at a media briefing on Thursday that it had upheld an objection against Zuma's candidacy in the May 29 elections. In July Are you afraid of driving over bridges? It's more common than you think, says local psychologist 03/29/2024 07:14am • As engineers studied the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, one thing occurred to Ben Schafer, a bridge expert with the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University: "Most people have some natural trepidation when they're driving across a large span bridge." Schaf NYC will try gun scanners in subway system in effort to deter violence underground 03/29/2024 06:54am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� New York City officials announced a pilot program on Thursday to deploy portable gun scanners in the subway system, part of an effort to deter violence underground and to make the system feel safer. The scanners will be introduced in certain stations after a legally mandated 90-day Georgia joins states seeking parental permission before children join social media 03/29/2024 01:51am • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Georgia could join other states in requiring children younger than 16 to have their parents��� explicit permission to create social media accounts. Lawmakers on Friday gave final approval to Senate Bill 351, which also would ban social media use on school devices and internet servic Mob in Mexico brutally beats suspected kidnapper to death hours before Holy Week procession 03/29/2024 12:11am • TAXCO, Mexico (AP) ��� A mob in the Mexican tourist city of Taxco brutally beat a woman to death Thursday because she was suspected of kidnapping and killing a young girl, rampaging just hours before the city���s famous Holy Week procession. The mob formed after an 8-year-old girl disappeared Wednes The Moscow concert massacre was a major security blunder. What's behind that failure? 03/29/2024 12:04am • Hours before gunmen last week carried out the bloodiest attack in two decades in Russia, authorities made an addition to a government register of extremist and terrorist groups: They included the international LGBTQ+ ���movement.��� That addition to the register followed a Russian Supreme Court cour AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean 03/29/2024 12:02am • March 22-28, 2024 Wildfires in Mexico burned a cemetery in the High Mountains of Veracruz state, while heavy rain in Brazil flooded homes in Duque de Caxias. Violent gangs in Haiti set fire to cars amid attacks that started in late February, killing many and leaving thousands homeless. Roman Catholi