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Residents of Alaska's capital dig out after snowfall for January hits near-record level for the city 01/24/2024 06:15pm • JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Residents of Alaska’s capital were digging out Wednesday after back-to-back winter storms brought the city’s snowfall totals for the month to near-record levels, leaving some parked cars buried with just side-view mirrors or windshield wipers poking out of the white stuff Harrowing helicopter rescue saves woman trapped for hours atop overturned pickup in swollen creek 01/24/2024 05:36pm • A helicopter team rescued a woman Tuesday morning who was trapped for almost 15 hours atop her overturned pickup truck in rushing waters after she tried to traverse a swollen creek after recent rains in Northern California. A helicopter of California Highway Patrol Air Operations airlifted the woman Biden vetoes GOP measure that aimed to block White House policy on foreign content in EV chargers 01/24/2024 04:47pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday vetoed a Republican measure that would have blocked a White House waiver that allows some foreign-made content in federally funded chargers for electric vehicles. The White House said the GOP plan would actually block made-in-America requiremen Kentucky lawmakers resume debate over reopening road in the heart of the state Capitol complex 01/24/2024 02:15pm • FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky lawmakers resumed their debate Wednesday over whether to reopen a road through the heart of the Bluegrass State's Capitol complex, seeking to balance safety and public access concerns. The Senate Transportation Committee advanced a bill meant to resume vehicle traffi Collision of gas truck and car in Mongolia sets off explosions that kill 3 firefighters 01/24/2024 01:43pm • ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — A truck carrying 60 tons of liquefied natural gas and a car collided at an intersection in the Mongolian capital early Wednesday, causing a massive fireball and a series of explosions that killed three firefighters and injured 11 people, officials said. Images showed t European farmers block French roads and head to Brussels to protest wages and bureaucratic meddling 01/24/2024 12:30pm • BRUSSELS (AP) — A surge in agricultural protests from the streets of Berlin to the flanks of the Pyrenees reached the European Union's headquarters on Wednesday where farmers decried everything from petty bureaucratic meddling to the scourge of bankruptcy and worse. With the political visibility o Oahu’s historic homes offer a slice of history and a sense of place 01/24/2024 12:24pm • There’s a mountain on Oahu named for the Greek myth of Tantalus, for whom satisfaction was always just out of reach. The road up is winding, filled with switchbacks, hanging vines, and vistas where, on mild nights, couples linger in cars against the backdrop of Honolulu’s city lights. Hidden ami DC carjackings are driving up insurance rates, report indicates 01/24/2024 11:48am • The District, already with some of the highest auto insurance premiums in the country, is getting hit by rising insurance rates following a surge in carjackings and other auto thefts, according to a new report. Auto insurance policy comparison site Insurify reports D.C. residents in 2023 paid an 12-year-old arrested after stealing electric bike and car with four other suspects, DC police say 01/24/2024 10:42am • A 12-year-old boy was arrested last week after D.C. police say he stole an electric bike and then a car in September 2023. The boy was in a group with four other suspects that allegedly attacked two people before stealing their vehicles. Officials said in a Tuesday news release that the stealing Civil war turned Somalia's main soccer stadium into an army camp. Now it's hosting games again 01/24/2024 07:42am • MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A stadium in Somalia's violence-prone capital is hosting its first soccer tournament in three decades, drawing thousands of people to a facility that had been abandoned for years and later became a base for military — and even extremists — amid civil war. Somali autho Visa enters F1 with Red Bull, rebrands AlphaTauri with wordy new team name 01/24/2024 07:02am • Visa will enter Formula One this year with Red Bull Racing in its first new global sports sponsorship agreement in 15 years. Visa has taken over the title sponsorship of Red Bull's second team, which has been called Scuderia AlphaTauri since 2020 when Red Bull put its fashion label on its two jun Edmunds Top Rated Awards for 2024 are out 01/24/2024 06:43am • Every year Edmunds’ experts put their heads together to determine the best new vehicles on sale. The annual Edmunds Top Rated Awards are given to the cars, trucks and SUVs that rank at the top of their class according to Edmunds’ vehicle testing program. That means each winner has been tested at New York man convicted of murdering woman who wound up in his backcountry driveway after wrong turn 01/24/2024 05:51am • FORT EDWARD, N.Y. (AP) — A man was convicted of second-degree murder Tuesday for fatally shooting a young woman when the SUV she was riding in mistakenly drove into his rural driveway in upstate New York. After deliberating for less than an hour, a jury found Kevin Monahan, 66, guilty for shooting Annual count of homeless residents begins in Los Angeles, where tens of thousands live on streets 01/24/2024 04:14am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County’s annual count of homeless residents began Tuesday night — a crucial part of the region’s efforts to confront the crisis of tens of thousands of people living on the streets. Up to 6,000 volunteers with the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority fann German train drivers go on strike for 6 days, bringing railway traffic to a near-standstill - again 01/24/2024 03:47am • BERLIN (AP) — Germany's train drivers brought rail traffic to a standstill again early Wednesday when they began a six-day strike to push their demands in a rancorous dispute with the country’s main railway operator over working hours and pay. The strike by the GDL union will affect passenger se