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North Dakota lawmaker made homophobic remarks to officer during DUI stop, bodycam footage shows 12/22/2023 10:44pm • BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota lawmaker who serves on a panel that handles law enforcement legislation made homophobic and anti-migrant remarks to a police officer who arrested him on a charge of driving drunk, body camera footage shows. Republican state Rep. Nico Rios of Williston was also Railroad operations resume after 5-day closure in 2 Texas border towns 12/22/2023 05:46pm • The federal government on Friday reopened two cross-border railroad crossings in Texas, five days after the shuttering of rail operations there disrupted trade and sparked outrage from U.S. and Mexican businesses. Customs and Border Protection closed railroad operations in Eagle Pass and El Paso, T Hall of Fame drag racer Paula Murphy, 1st woman licensed to drive a Funny Car, dies at 95 12/22/2023 05:31pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Paula Murphy, a Hall of Fame racer and the first woman licensed to drive a Funny Car, died Thursday. She was 95. The National Hot Rod Association announced Murphy's death on Friday. It did not provide any details. Murphy was a pioneer for women in racing. She had set a women's land Police: 2 victims identified in quadruple Southwest DC shooting 12/22/2023 04:04pm • D.C. police have identified the two people killed in Thursday morning's shooting in Southwest, which officials continue to investigate. Patricia Harris, 35, and Tyrone Jacobs, 24, were both killed in the shooting in the 1300 block of Half Street Southwest. Harris died at the scene, while Jacobs d Michael Mann still has another gear. At 80, he's driving 'Ferrari' 12/22/2023 02:36pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Mann, who gave Crockett a white Ferrari on “Miami Vice,” pummeled cars with bullets in the shootout in “Heat” and set the thriller “Collateral” in a taxicab, has had an affection for automobiles since growing up in Chicago. “It’s a city in which you drive, y Jury clears 3 Washington officers in death of Manuel Ellis, a Black man who said he couldn't breathe 12/22/2023 12:46pm • TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A jury cleared three Washington state police officers of all criminal charges Thursday in the 2020 death of Manuel Ellis, a Black man who was shocked, beaten and restrained face-down on a Tacoma sidewalk as he pleaded for breath. Two of the officers — Matthew Collins, 40, an Now you see it, now you don't: Banksy stop sign taken from London street soon after it appears 12/22/2023 11:54am • LONDON (AP) — The elusive artist Banksy displayed his latest work on a London street corner and it was taken less than hour after he confirmed its installation Friday. A red stop sign with three military drones on it was taken in the middle of the day by a man with bolt cutters as witnesses snappe Engine maker Cummins agrees to pay $1.67 billion to settle claims it bypassed emissions tests 12/22/2023 11:47am • NEW YORK (AP) — Cummins Inc. has agreed to pay an over $1.67 billion penalty to settle claims by regulators that the engine manufacturer unlawfully altered hundreds of thousands of pickup truck engines to bypass emissions tests. According to the U.S. Justice Department, which announced the agreeme A serial killer set Detroit on edge. Police missteps over 15 years allowed him to roam free 12/22/2023 11:23am • DETROIT (AP) — The serial killer lured women one by one into vacant homes to be murdered, posing their nude or partially clothed corpses amid cheap booze pints, crumbling sheetrock and hypodermic needles. The slayings set Detroit on edge, prompting authorities to dispatch crews on overtime to scou Federal Reserve's favored inflation gauge tumbles in November as prices continue to ease 12/22/2023 11:19am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of prices fell last month, another sign that inflation is easing and that Americans should benefit from reduced interest rates and get relief from painful price shocks in 2024. Friday's report from the Commerce Department showed that U.S. Still haven't bought holiday gifts? Retailers have a sale for you 12/22/2023 10:59am • NEW YORK (AP) — Retailers are stepping up sales and other enticements in the final days before Christmas to lure shoppers who've been waiting for the best deals, or who didn’t have the time or the urge to wrap up gift-buying early. Incentives to spend last minute are an extension of ongoing effo How to prepare for the busiest holiday travel period in four years 12/22/2023 09:25am • Getting ready to hit the road for the holidays? Prepare to hit the brakes, a lot. AAA expects about 104 million Americans to hop in their cars for the holidays, up 1.8% from last year. This end of year holiday travel period, which runs from Dec. 23 through Jan. 1, is forecast to be the second bus 'It has gotten so much better': DC mom on electric tricycle talks going carless in the city 12/22/2023 09:23am • How safe is it to bike around the District? One mom in Northeast D.C. has gone carless, and despite a recent run-in with a car, she thinks it's pretty safe. Lelac Almagor's family stopped driving in 2019. "We own a car, but we literally have to set a reminder to start it once a month and drive Man dies after rescue from car submerged in Potomac River, police say 12/22/2023 07:24am • A man is dead after a vehicle was found in the Potomac River early Thursday morning, according to U.S. Park Police. The federal agency said officers arrived at Ohio Drive SW in the area of the Memorial Bridge at about 12 a.m., after a car was found in the Potomac River. D.C. police and DC Fire an Tesla moves forward with a plan to build an energy-storage battery factory in China 12/22/2023 06:20am • BEIJING (AP) — American electric automaker Tesla's plans to produce energy-storage batteries in China moved forward on Friday with a signing ceremony for the land acquisition for a new factory in Shanghai, China's state media said. Construction is scheduled to start early next year with production