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Celebrity birthdays for the week of March 31-April 6 03/25/2024 09:57am • Celebrity birthdays for the week of March 31-April 6: March 31: Actor William Daniels (“St. Elsewhere,” ″Boy Meets World”) is 97. Actor Richard Chamberlain is 90. Actor Shirley Jones is 90. Musician Herb Alpert is 89. Actor Christopher Walken is 81. Comedian Gabe Kaplan (“Welcome Back Kott Kimberly Palmer: 5 ways to calm financial stress 03/25/2024 08:34am • Financial stress is so common that certified financial planner Katie Lindquist says almost every client she has tells her they are feeling it. “They don’t know what they should be doing with their money, and they feel like they should know. They feel shame around their money habits, which is a h As dust settles from Kevin Hart's Kennedy Center party, who should receive next Mark Twain Prize? 03/25/2024 07:37am • On Sunday night, Kevin Hart received the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. So that begs the question: Who should be next year's recipient? Before we know where we're going, we have to know where we've been. Past prizes have gone to a list of legends, including Richar Car Review: Hyundai continues its string of hits with the all-new 2024 Santa Fe 03/25/2024 04:47am • Not just comfortable on the paved road. Now the Santa Fe can tackle some off-roading with added ground clearance and AWD. (WTOP/Brian Armstead) By Brian Armstead, special contributor The first Santa Fe bowed in 2000 and was a competent, but fairly homely, SUV. Well, things have changed in a big way. Hardy souls across New England and New York dig out after major winter storm 03/24/2024 09:31pm • BOSTON (AP) — Thousands of hardy souls across New England spent Sunday digging out after a major weekend storm dumped more than two feet of snow in some areas, caused multiple road accidents, downed power lines and left hundreds of thousands across the Northeast in the dark, some perhaps for days. Pole to checkered flag: Byron dominates NASCAR's 1st road course race of season, wins at COTA 03/24/2024 08:06pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — William Byron won the Daytona 500 with an agonizing final lap under a caution flag. He took the checkered flag on Sunday at the Circuit of the Americas at full throttle. Bryon started from pole position and delivered a dominant drive in NASCAR's first road course race of the s Everything You Need To Know about the 2024 EV Tax Credit 03/24/2024 08:00pm • Purchasing an electric vehicle offers Americans the chance to reduce their carbon footprint -- and it can lead to tax benefits. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, combined purchases of hybrid, plug-in hybrid and battery electric vehicles in the United States jumped to 16.3% of 12 Home Improvements That Don't Add Value 03/24/2024 08:00pm • The average American household spent $9,542 on home improvement projects in 2023, according to Angi's annual State of Home Spending report. But not every home renovation project will increase the resale value of a home. Before you invest in a swimming pool or new addition, you should consider whethe Michigan women have travel woes getting home after first-round March Madness loss 03/24/2024 07:45pm • The Michigan women's basketball team had a hard time getting home after its overtime loss to Kansas in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The team played in Los Angeles on Saturday and was supposed to take a charter flight back to Michigan that evening along with the school's band and cheerlead Senegal voted in a tightly contested presidential race after months of unrest 03/24/2024 06:08pm • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegalese voted Sunday in a tightly contested presidential race following months of uncertainty and unrest that has tested the West African nation’s reputation as a stable democracy in a region shaken by a wave of coups in recent years. The election comes after President M Brazilian police arrest suspected masterminds behind the killing of councilwoman-turned-icon 03/24/2024 05:51pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s federal police arrested two men Sunday for allegedly ordering the killing of a popular Rio de Janeiro councilwoman in 2018, a long-awaited step after years of society clamoring for justice. The assassination of Marielle Franco, a 38-year-old city councilwoman, in a Angry Verstappen an early retirement from Australian GP in race won by Sainz 03/24/2024 05:50pm • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An angry Max Verstappen was an early exit from the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix on Sunday, with the Red Bull driver sustaining a fiery mechanical failure on the fourth lap of the race, enduring his first race retirement since Albert Park in Australia in 2022. Minutes Concert hall attack dents Putin's tough image. He tries to use it to rally support for Ukraine war 03/24/2024 05:40pm • A week ago, President Vladimir Putin swaggered triumphantly onstage at a post-election event surrounded by young people in T-shirts reading “Putin — Russia — Victory,” and he confidently shrugged off Western criticism of the vote as neither free nor fair. This weekend, a very different Vladi 'There's so much room’: Visitors react to Metro’s newest 8000 Series rail cars 03/24/2024 05:25pm • You might not expect to see a train car on the National Mall in D.C., but it will be the norm all through this week. Metro is offering the public a sneak peek into its new 8000 Series rail car and zero-emission buses through the Fleet of the Future Expo, held on the National Mall from now through New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy suspends her Senate campaign to replace indicted Sen. Menendez 03/24/2024 04:45pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy on Sunday suspended her U.S. Senate campaign to replace Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez as he faces federal corruption charges, Murphy said in a video posted to social media that winning the Democratic primary would require her to wage “a ver