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Olympic host country France sees less New Year's Eve disorder as it celebrates 2024's arrival 01/01/2024 04:56am • PARIS (AP) — France saw fewer of the car burnings that usually blight the arrival of a new year as the Olympic host country celebrated the start of 2024, the interior minister said Monday. The 380 arrests made nationwide overnight was a 10% drop compared with a year ago, said Gerald Darmanin, citi DC-area officers finish New Year weekend with increased police presence 01/01/2024 03:20am • Maryland, Virginia and District police agencies have spent New Year's Eve — a night of drinks and celebration — responding to several incidents across the region. WTOP's Traffic Center and producer's desk reached out to several agencies about their plans to increase patrols over the holiday w Today in History: Jan. 1, Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation 01/01/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Monday, Jan. 1, the first day of 2024. There are 365 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that slaves in rebel states shall be “forever free.” On this date: Beloved Prince George’s Co. pizzeria closes after decades of serving 12/31/2023 06:41pm • The Pizza Oven has been a staple in the Riverdale, Maryland, community since the 1950s — and for his 90th birthday, owner Brian Boileau got a big gift: retirement. With over 60 years of service under his belt, Boileau is packing up the handmade sauce and dough and closing his doors, but not wit The year in review: Influential people who died in 2023 12/31/2023 06:30pm • Yevgeny Prigozhin rose from being an ex-con and hot dog vendor to winning lucrative Kremlin contracts and heading a formidable mercenary army. But it all came to a sudden end when the private plane carrying him and others mysteriously exploded over Russia. Prigozhin's Aug. 23 death put an exclamatio Former Ugandan steeplechase Olympian Benjamin Kiplagat found fatally stabbed in Kenya 12/31/2023 03:27pm • ELDORET, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya are investigating the slaying of three-time Ugandan Olympian Benjamin Kiplagat, whose body was found with stab wounds inside his brother's car on Sunday morning, a local official said. Kiplagat had been driving the car before his body was discovered in the ve Shecky Greene, legendary standup comic, improv master and lord of Las Vegas, dies at 97 12/31/2023 01:59pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shecky Greene, the gifted comic and master improviser who became the consummate Las Vegas lounge headliner and was revered by his peers and live audiences as one of the greatest standup acts of his generation, has died. He was 97. His widow, Marie Musso Green, told the Las Ve NASCAR Hall of Famer Cale Yarborough, a 3-time Cup champion in the 1970s, dies at 84 12/31/2023 01:08pm • Cale Yarborough, considered one of NASCAR's all-time greatest drivers and the first to win three consecutive Cup titles, died Sunday. He was 84. NASCAR announced the death of the Hall of Famer and South Carolina native in a statement. No cause was given. “Cale Yarborough was one of the toughest co German officials detain 3 more suspects in connection with a Cologne Cathedral attack threat 12/31/2023 01:04pm • BERLIN (AP) — Three more people were detained Sunday in connection with a reported threat of an attack on the Cologne Cathedral over the holidays, German authorities said. The detentions came only days after a 30-year-old Tajik man was detained in relation to an alleged plot to attack the world-fa QB Nussmeier, No. 13 LSU ready to launch post-Jayden Daniels era in ReliaQuest Bowl vs Wisconsin 12/31/2023 12:57pm • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — LSU quarterback Garrett Nussmeier is confident he can lead the nation’s most prolific offense into the post-Jayden Daniels era. The patient third-year sophomore will make his first college start, stepping in for the Heisman Trophy winner when the 13th-ranked Tigers (9-3) face LeBron James turns 39: Here are 3 evidence-based approaches he uses to stay fit 12/31/2023 10:54am • PhotoAlto/Sandro Di Carlo Darsa/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- LeBron James turned 39 on Saturday, and he continues to dominate in the NBA while being the oldest current player -- and shows no signs of slowing down. According to James, the key to success is consistency. In a 2018 interview with author Celebrity birthdays for the week of Jan. 7-13 12/31/2023 10:39am • Celebrity birthdays for the week of Jan. 7-13: Jan. 7: Rolling Stone magazine founder Jann Wenner is 78. Singer Kenny Loggins is 76. Singer-songwriter Marshall Chapman is 75. Actor Erin Gray (“Silver Spoons,” ″Buck Rogers in the 25th Century”) is 74. Actor Sammo Hung (“Martial Law”) is 7 Displaced, repatriated and crossing borders: Afghan people make grueling journeys to survive 12/31/2023 12:09am • TORKHAM, Afghanistan (AP) — The barren desert plain among the mountains of eastern Afghanistan is filled with hundreds of thousands of people. Some live in tents. Others live out in the open, among the piles of the few belongings they managed to take as they were forced from neighboring Pakistan. Shelling kills 21 in Russian city of Belgorod following Moscow's aerial attacks across Ukraine 12/30/2023 05:49pm • Shelling in the center of the Russian border city of Belgorod Saturday killed 21 people, including three children, local officials reported. A further 110 people were wounded in the strike, said regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, making it one of the deadliest attacks on Russian soil since the st Israeli-French hostage recounts harrowing experience in captivity 12/30/2023 01:46pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli woman who recently returned from captivity in the Gaza Strip says she was groped by her Palestinian kidnapper and lived in constant fear throughout the weeks she was held hostage. Mia Schem, a 21-year-old dual citizen of Israel and France, was attending a music festival