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How a DC restaurant's turkey fry event is supporting the community 11/23/2023 02:00pm • Dozens of people lined the street corner near Medium Rare in Cleveland Park on Thursday morning, dropping off their turkeys with a team of efficient volunteers working to support the community on the Thanksgiving holiday. Since 2008, the Northwest D.C. restaurant has offered to fry turkey Body camera footage shows man shot by Tennessee officer charge forward with 2 knives 11/23/2023 01:14pm • MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — A police officer shot and killed a man who tried to rob an armored car employee in Tennessee and then charged at the officer with two knives, authorities said. Murfreesboro Police on Thursday released body camera footage of the shooting the day before, blurring out the f McLaren signs IndyCar racer Pato O’Ward as a reserve driver for the 2024 F1 season 11/23/2023 12:52pm • WOKING, England (AP) — Formula One team McLaren signed its IndyCar racer Pato O’Ward on Thursday as a reserve driver for next season. The 24-year-old Pato will jump behind the wheel for the first practice session of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Friday, and will then take part in post-season testi Pilot tried to pull out of landing before plane crashed on the doorstep of a Texas mall 11/23/2023 12:15pm • PLANO, Texas (AP) — A pilot who died when the small plane he was flying crashed and burned on the doorstep of a strip mall in Texas was aborting a landing, according to an incident report released Wednesday. Plano police on Wednesday identified the pilot of the single-engine Mooney M20 as 87-year- F1 bosses Wolff and Vasseur handed formal warnings by FIA for bad language at Las Vegas GP 11/23/2023 10:31am • Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff and Ferrari counterpart Fred Vasseur were both handed formal warnings by motorsports governing body FIA on Thursday for using bad language at the Las Vegas Grand Prix. The FIA also said that the use of such language was not commonplace for either of them. Both team Some of the longest emergency room wait times in Maryland can stretch almost a whole day 11/23/2023 09:51am • With increased risks of food poisoning, burns from cooking, car accident injuries and the rise of wintertime ailments like the flu, the holiday season can result in more trips to emergency rooms. But in Maryland, higher rates of emergency room visits may exacerbate an existing issue: it can take Slovakia's government signs a memorandum with China's Gotion High-Tech to build a car battery plant 11/23/2023 09:44am • BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — The Slovak government signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday with Chinese electric vehicle battery maker Gotion High-Tech and its local partner, InoBat, to build a car battery plant in Slovakia. The two companies formed Gotion InoBat Batteries, a Chinese-Slova Portraits of those held hostage after Hamas attack on Israel 11/23/2023 09:31am • A temporary cease-fire deal that would facilitate the release of dozens of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza offers a glimmer of hope to families and friends of those who have been held captive since their abduction from southern Israel by militants on Oct. 7. In all, roughly 240 people were taken to G Small Kentucky town urged to evacuate after train derails, spilling chemical 11/23/2023 08:39am • MOUNT VERNON, Ky. (AP) — A train derailed and spilled a chemical in a remote part of eastern Kentucky on Wednesday, prompting officials to encourage residents of a small town to evacuate amid concerns about air quality. Gov. Andy Beshear said in a statement that local officials in Rockcastle Coun US electric vehicle sales to hit record this year, but still lag behind China and Germany 11/23/2023 07:54am • Electric vehicle sales are expected to hit a record 9% of all passenger vehicles in the U.S. this year, according to Atlas Public Policy. That will be up from 7.3% of new car sales in 2022. It will be the first time more than 1 million EVs are sold in the U.S. in one calendar year, probably reaching Longer droughts in Zimbabwe take a toll on wildlife and cause more frequent clashes with people 11/23/2023 12:20am • GONAREZHOU NATIONAL PARK, Zimbabwe (AP) — In a remote southeastern corner of Zimbabwe, people watched from cars or towers in an annual wildlife census, peering through binoculars at animals coming to drink at waterholes and jotting down notes, often by torchlight. Around 140 volunteers slept in sh Fiery crash kills 2 at Niagara Falls' Rainbow border bridge. Officials say no sign of terrorism 11/22/2023 09:54pm • NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — A vehicle speeding toward a U.S.-Canada bridge from the American side crashed and exploded at a checkpoint in Niagara Falls on Wednesday, killing two people and prompting the closing of multiple border crossings for hours. Authorities weren't sure what spurred the wreck Fantasy plays: Players to start and sit for NFL Week 12 11/22/2023 08:59pm • We’re still a few weeks away from the official “most wonderful time of the year,” but for fantasy purposes, this is the pinnacle. Week 12: Thanksgiving week. No byes. Three games on Thursday. An all-new Black Friday game. Does it get any better than this? Well, if you’re out of the fantasy f Colts owner Jim Irsay says police pulled him over because he's a 'rich, white billionaire' 11/22/2023 07:16pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay told HBO Sports his arrest for operating a vehicle while intoxicated nearly a decade ago occurred because of police prejudice against “a rich, white billionaire.” Irsay made the comments in an interview aired Tuesday by the network. Police DC-area veterinarians puzzled by respiratory illness in dogs 11/22/2023 06:30pm • Something is making dogs in at least five states sick with a potentially fatal upper respiratory disease, and D.C.-area vets are vigilantly keeping track. It starts with a persistent cough, and can quickly develop into pneumonia and lead to severe respiratory distress. Dr. Patrick Hilson, with