Search

Chicago woman pleads guilty, to testify against own mother accused of cutting baby from teen's womb 01/08/2024 06:30pm • CHICAGO (AP) — A 29-year-old Chicago woman has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder after authorities said she helped her mother kill a pregnant teenager whose baby was cut from her womb. Desiree Figueroa's plea was made Monday at the Leighton Criminal Court Building. It stipulates that she testi Campaign to save Benito the Giraffe wins him a new, more spacious home in warmer southern Mexico 01/08/2024 04:43pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — A campaign to save Benito the giraffe from extreme temperatures and a small enclosure in Mexico’s arid northern border city of Ciudad Juarez has finally paid off, with officials promising to move him to a more spacious animal park 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) to the south. B Rays shortstop Wander Franco released from Dominican jail amid ongoing investigation 01/08/2024 04:39pm • SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Wander Franco, a shortstop for the Tampa Bay Rays, was released Monday from a jail in the Dominican Republic amid an ongoing investigation into allegations he had a relationship with a 14-year-old girl. Franco paid 2 million Dominican pesos ($34,000) as a t Some of James Bond's most iconic cars are coming to DC's Spy Museum 01/08/2024 04:35pm • Something is coming to the Spy Museum in D.C. that's going to "shake" things up and cause a "stir" among visitors and film buffs alike. The “Bond in Motion” exhibit will feature 17 full-sized vehicles that were used in the 60 years of James Bond films. The temporary exhibit opens March 1 a A heavy wave of Russian missile attacks pounds areas across Ukraine, killing at least 4 civilians 01/08/2024 03:46pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched its latest barrage of hypersonic and cruise missiles against Ukrainian targets early Monday, striking near the front lines of fighting in the east as well as in central and western parts of the country, officials said. At least four civilians were reported kill 1 dead after crash in Beltsville; stretch of Md. 201 reopens 01/08/2024 03:24pm • One person is dead following a crash in Beltsville, Maryland, on Monday morning, according to U.S. Park Police. Officers responded to the intersection of Edmonston Road and Sunnyside Avenue for a two-car crash around 6:45 a.m., police told WTOP. One person was pronounced dead at the scene. The DP World Tour Schedule 01/08/2024 03:01pm • 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 Tiger Woods, Nike end partnership after more than 27 years 01/08/2024 02:42pm • Tiger Woods has gone from “Hello, world,” to saying goodbye to Nike. Woods ended months of speculation by making it official Monday that the partnership between golf's biggest star and the powerful Swoosh brand is ending after 27 years, a move that raises questions about the future of both in th CES 2024 is upon us. Here's what to expect from this year's annual show of all-things tech 01/08/2024 02:02pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — CES, the Consumer Technology Association's annual trade show of all-things tech, is kicking off in Las Vegas this week. The multi-day event, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show, is set to feature swaths of the industry's latest advances and gadgets across personal tech 'Soldiers of Christ' killing unsettles Korean Americans in Georgia and stokes fear of cults 01/08/2024 12:24pm • LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Just days into the admission process for Soldiers of Christ, Sehee Cho was faint and feeble. The 33-year-old had come to the Atlanta suburb of Lawrenceville from South Korea in July to heal from a traumatic experience. Instead, police say, the Soldiers group led by two Ko Mary Lou Retton says she's a 'fighter' as she recuperates at home following pneumonia scare 01/08/2024 12:09pm • Olympic gymnastics great Mary Lou Retton said she faces a long battle recuperating at home from a rare form of pneumonia in which doctors weren't sure whether she would survive. In an interview that aired Monday on NBC’s “Today” show, Retton said while wearing a breathing tube pumping oxygen t In first interview since conviction, Jonathan Majors says he hopes to work in Hollywood again 01/08/2024 12:09pm • In his first interview since his assault and harassment conviction last month, actor Jonathan Majors said he hopes to work in Hollywood again. “I pray I do, but it’s God’s plan and God’s timing,” Majors said in the interview that aired Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” Asked w This Bethesda company may repurpose your holiday gift returns 01/08/2024 10:51am • An estimated 18% of holiday gifts from this past season will be returned to retailers. Most won’t end up back on the retailers’ shelves, but those returns aren’t a total loss. Bethesda, Maryland-based Liquidity Services is among companies helping retailers salvage value from returned mercha German farmers block roads with tractors and stage protests against plan to scrap diesel tax breaks 01/08/2024 06:41am • BERLIN (AP) — Farmers blocked highway access roads in parts of Germany Monday and snarled traffic elsewhere with their tractors, launching a week of protests against a government plan to scrap tax breaks on diesel used in agriculture. Chancellor Olaf Scholz's unpopular three-party coalition infuri Vietnam's VinFast to build a $2 billion EV plant in India as part of its global expansion 01/08/2024 06:16am • HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnamese automaker VinFast says it plans to spend up to $2 billion to build an electric vehicle factory in India, the world’s third-largest auto market by sales. The factory in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state will be the company’s first foray into India and follows