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Angela Chao, Mitch McConnell’s sister-in-law, was drunk when she drove into pond, police say 03/20/2024 07:42pm • Angela Chao, a shipping industry CEO and sister-in-law to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, was intoxicated when she drove into a pond and died last month in Texas, according to a law enforcement report released Wednesday. The investigation by the Blanco County Sheriff’s Office concluded th US inflation up again in February in latest sign that price pressures remain elevated 03/20/2024 05:54pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumer prices in the United States picked up last month, a sign that inflation remains a persistent challenge for the Federal Reserve and for President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign, both of which are counting on a steady easing of price pressures this year. Prices rose 0. Federal Reserve still foresees 3 interest rate cuts this year despite bump in inflation 03/20/2024 05:51pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials signaled Wednesday that they still expect to cut their key interest rate three times in 2024, fueling a rally on Wall Street, despite signs that inflation remained elevated at the start of the year. For now, the officials kept their benchmark rate unchan The Latest | Airstrike in the West Bank kills at least 3 Palestinian militants, officials say 03/20/2024 04:37pm • An Israeli airstrike has killed at least three Palestinian militants traveling in a car in the northern West Bank near the town of Jenin, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials. The Islamic Jihad militant group claimed the three dead men as members. The airstrike occurred as raids of the lar EPA issues new auto rules aimed at cutting carbon emissions, boosting electric vehicles and hybrids 03/20/2024 04:36pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration announced new automobile emissions standards Wednesday that officials called the most ambitious plan ever to cut planet-warming emissions from passenger vehicles. The new rules relax initial tailpipe limits proposed last year but eventually get close to t Suspect charged in Indianapolis bar shooting that killed 1 person and injured 5 03/20/2024 03:37pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man accused of opening fire inside a crowded Indianapolis bar, killing one person and seriously injuring five others, was formally charged Wednesday with murder in last weekend’s shooting. Marion County prosecutors charged Nicholas Fulk, 25, with one count of murder, three Philadelphia mass shooting suspect is headed to trial after receiving mental health treatment 03/20/2024 02:13pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The suspect in a Philadelphia mass shooting last summer who had been deemed mentally incompetent is headed to trial after his lawyers told a judge he has been undergoing treatment and is prepared to move forward with the case. Kimbrady Carriker, 41, is charged with five counts 10 years after the deadliest US landslide, climate change is increasing the danger 03/20/2024 01:45pm • OSO, Wash. (AP) — After the mountainside collapsed, obliterating a neighborhood and 43 lives in the worst landslide disaster in U.S. history, Jessica Pzsonka made a promise -– to herself, to her bereft parents and to her late sister, who was buried along with two young sons, her husband and in-l Toddler gets behind wheel of truck idling at a gas pump, killing a 2-year-old 03/20/2024 01:29pm • WOODLAND, Calif. (AP) — A toddler climbed out of a car seat and got behind the wheel of a truck idling at a gas pump in Northern California, rolling toward a taco stand and killing a 2-year-old child, police said. The owner of the truck was inside the gas station store at the time of the tragedy o Helicopter lands on National Mall to transport officer injured by fleeing car 03/20/2024 01:04pm • A helicopter landed on the National Mall in D.C. on Wednesday to transport a U.S. Park Police officer who was hurt by a fleeing car. It happened on Wednesday around noon near 12th Street. Park Police said the officer was hurt by a "vehicle fleeing a traffic stop." Anyone with information shou Historic covered bridges are under threat by truck drivers relying on GPS meant for cars 03/20/2024 10:44am • LYNDON, Vt. (AP) — One of Vermont's historic covered bridges has fallen under threat from modern technology. Box truck drivers relying on GPS continually crash through Lyndon's 140-year-old Miller’s Run bridge despite signs, including a flashing one, to deter vehicles that are too tall or too he Family of teen killed by US Park Police presses for answers on the anniversary of his death 03/20/2024 10:35am • One year after 17-year-old Dalaneo Martin was shot and killed by U.S. Park Police, his family and their attorneys called on the Department of Justice for answers in the investigation into the D.C. teen's death. On the morning of March 18, 2023, Martin was found sleeping in a stolen car in a North Carlos Sainz Jr. expected back from appendicitis for Ferrari at this weekend’s Australian GP 03/20/2024 10:28am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Carlos Sainz Jr. is expected to return for Ferrari at this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix after undergoing surgery for appendicitis. Sainz was ruled out after feeling unwell at the Saudi Arabian GP, prompting Ferrari to hand 18-year-old Oliver Bearman his Formula 1 d Edmunds: Best used spring break adventure vehicles for less than $30K 03/20/2024 07:10am • Even with much of the country blanketed by rain and snow, it’s not too early to think of the thaw. March and April bring one of the most anticipated parts of the calendar — spring break — and with it thoughts of adventure and the open highway. If the idea lifts your spirits but your current ca Trump favorites Moreno and Merrin win GOP primaries to face 2 vulnerable Ohio Democrats this fall 03/20/2024 06:32am • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Things went former President Donald Trump’s way on Tuesday in a pair of high-profile elections in Ohio that could determine Republicans' chances of picking up critical seats this fall and expanding their power in Washington. In the bruising and expensive primary to face