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Sen. Bob Menendez and wife seek separate trials on bribery charges 01/16/2024 12:39am • Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife are seeking separate trials on bribery charges they each face in a New York court. The New Jersey Democrat and his wife, Nadine, were each charged in the fall with aiding three New Jersey businessmen in return for cash, gold bars and a luxury car. The couple and the bu Up to 4 inches of snow measured in parts of DC area as flakes continue to fall 01/15/2024 11:46pm • Snowfall intensified Monday evening as temperatures dropped, making for slushy roads and a messy commute in the D.C. area. Here's what you need to know. After steady morning snowfall Monday, a heavier round of snow fell on the D.C. region starting at around 6 p.m. and was expected to last until a Man arrested in dog's killing in Falls Church may have killed other animals, farm director says 01/15/2024 10:20pm • A man arrested for stabbing a dog in Falls Church, Virginia, may have killed other animals in the area, police told WTOP on Monday. Falls Church police said Reyan Hassan Ibrahim, 25, of Broadlands, Virginia, allegedly stabbed a dog on Broad Street while it was being walked by its owner on Sunday. Wave of transgender slayings in Mexico spurs anger and protests by LGBTQ+ community 01/15/2024 09:01pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in Mexico said at least three transgender people were killed in the first two weeks of 2024, and rights groups were investigating two additional such cases. The slayings marked a violent start to the year in a country where the LGBTQ+ community is often targeted. The Arctic freeze continues to blast huge swaths of the US with sub-zero temperatures 01/15/2024 08:55pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Brutally cold temperatures and dangerous wind chills stayed put across much of the U.S. Monday, promising the coldest temperatures ever for Iowa’s presidential nominating contest, holding up travelers, and testing the mettle of NFL fans in Buffalo for a playoff game that was Cyclone causes heavy flooding, 1 death in Mauritius after also battering French island of Reunion 01/15/2024 07:59pm • SAINT-PAUL, Reunion (AP) — A tropical cyclone caused heavy flooding and at least one death in Mauritius on Monday as cars were washed away by surges of water in the Indian Ocean island's capital city and elsewhere. A motorcyclist died in an accident caused by the flooding, the government said and Winter weather leads to vehicle crashes, messy roads around DC region 01/15/2024 07:17pm • An overturned dump truck temporarily closed a portion of southbound Interstate 295 in D.C. on Monday as snow continues to fall across the region, leading to icy roads and slippery conditions. D.C. Fire and EMS reported the dump truck spilled its load across the road Monday morning. The crash invo How to Transform Your Bonus Room 01/15/2024 07:00pm • Most rooms in your home have a name and a designated function. If you're lucky, your home has extra space, typically called a bonus room, to repurpose and use as you wish. Bonus rooms give homeowners more square footage and flexibility to adapt the space that best suits their needs. If you're thinki UN agency chiefs say Gaza needs more aid to arrive faster, warning of famine and disease 01/15/2024 05:38pm • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza urgently needs more aid or its desperate population will suffer widespread famine and disease, the heads of three major U.N. agencies warned Monday, as authorities in the enclave reported that the death toll in the Israel-Hamas war had surpassed 24,000. While the U.N. Live updates | Gaza death toll tops 24,000 as UN agencies call urgently for more aid 01/15/2024 03:08pm • Israeli strikes hit Gaza City and soldiers battled militants in southern Gaza on Monday as the heads of three major U.N. agencies said the enclave desperately needs more aid to ward off famine and disease outbreaks. More than 100 days into Israel's war against Hamas, Palestinian authorities said th DP World Tour Schedule 01/15/2024 03:00pm • Nov. 23-26 _ Joburg Open (Dean Burmester) Nov. 23-26 _ Fortinet Australian PGA Championship (Min Woo Lee) Nov. 30-Dec. 3 _ ISPS Handa Australian Open (Joaquin Niemann) Nov. 30-Dec. 3 _ Investec South African Open Championship (Dean Burmester) Dec. 7-10 _ Alfred Dunhill Championship (Louis Oosthuizen How Fairfax Co. is using data patterns to help make roads safer 01/15/2024 01:31pm • The number of fatal crashes in Fairfax County, Virginia, increased from 2020 to 2022, according to the county’s new mobility and transportation data dashboard. There were 60 fatal crashes in the county in 2022, the dashboard shows, and crashes of all types increased over that same period of Chinese owner of English soccer club Reading fined and warned to 'fund the club adequately' 01/15/2024 12:50pm • LONDON (AP) — The Chinese businessman who owns English soccer team Reading was fined a further 50,000 pounds ($63,650) on Monday for financial mismanagement and told that he needs to “fund the club adequately” or make “immediate arrangements” to sell up. The sanction came two days after Re German farmers and their tractors throng Berlin in a protest against fuel subsidy cuts 01/15/2024 10:02am • BERLIN (AP) — Farmers clogged Berlin streets with their tractors on Monday, honking their horns in protest at a plan to scrap tax breaks on the diesel they use, the climax of a week of protests that has tapped into wider discontent with Germany’s government. Columns of tractors rolled into the c Men who say they were abused by a Japanese boy band producer criticize the company's response 01/15/2024 07:29am • TOKYO (AP) — Members of a group of men who say they were sexually abused as boys by a Japanese entertainment mogul are accusing the company behind the scandal, previously known as Johnny's, of not being sincere in dealing with the victims. Shimon Ishimaru, who represents the victims' group, said m