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How DC-area travelers are beating traffic during Memorial Day weekend 05/24/2024 03:28pm • Some drivers in the D.C. area are choosing Friday as their time to get away for Memorial Day weekend, which is historically one of the busiest travel times of the year, but has morphed into a multiday getaway that hasn't caused widespread traffic congestion in the D.C. region. One traveler, A Prosecutor tells jury that self-exiled wealthy Chinese businessman cheated thousands of $1 billion 05/24/2024 02:26pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A self-exiled wealthy Chinese businessman became an internet sensation and conned thousands of people worldwide into sending him $1 billion, enabling him to spend lavishly on a mansion, two yachts and even a $35,000 mattress, a prosecutor told a New York jury Friday at the start of Scott Dixon and Helio Castroneves lead final Carb Day practice for the Indianapolis 500 05/24/2024 02:06pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Scott Dixon and Helio Castroneves turned the fastest laps on Carb Day during final practice for the Indianapolis 500 on Friday, while pole sitter Scott McLaughlin and Team Penske teammates Josef Newgarden and Will Power had stress-free days. Dixon and Castroneves, who have five Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, who skewered fast food industry, dies at 53 05/24/2024 12:53pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar nominee whose most famous works skewered America's food industry and who notably ate only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died. He was 53. Spurlock died Thursday in New York from complica Sainz taking time over F1 future as Ferrari teammate Leclerc chases elusive Monaco podium 05/24/2024 12:25pm • MONACO (AP) — With Carlos Sainz Jr. still looking for a new team for next year, his stock could rise even more with a strong performance for Ferrari at the Monaco Grand Prix this weekend. He does not appear short of options: Sauber, Red Bull and Williams are potential destinations when he makes w As the election nears, Biden pushes a slew of rules on the environment and other priorities 05/24/2024 12:24pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — As he tries to secure his legacy, President Joe Biden has unleashed a flurry of election year rules on the environment and other topics, including a landmark regulation that would force coal-fired power plants to capture smokestack emissions or shut down. The limits on greenhouse F1 urged to improve overtaking chances at Monaco GP 05/24/2024 11:46am • MONACO (AP) — Red Bull boss Christian Horner added his voice to those calling for ways to improve overtaking at the Monaco Grand Prix. Formula 1's wide and heavy cars have almost nowhere to pass, and often follow each other around the tight and sinewy 3.3-kilometer (two-mile) street circuit. “Th US pushes for Ukraine aid, united front against China's trade practices at G7 finance meeting 05/24/2024 09:37am • FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The U.S. sought to build support for squeezing more money for Ukraine out of frozen Russian assets and for uniting against China’s trade practices as finance ministers from the Group of Seven rich democracies opened a two-day meeting on Friday on the shores of northern NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 05/24/2024 09:29am • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. ___ Judge in Trump’s hush money trial did not bar campaign finance expe Man dead after being struck by car in Fairfax Co. 05/24/2024 08:17am • A man is dead after being struck by a car in Fairfax County, Virginia, early Friday morning. Police said the incident happened on North Kings Highway in Huntington. Officers got the call around 12:30 a.m. The driver of the vehicle remained on the scene until police came. He was arrested shortl King Charles III won’t be out and about much over the next six weeks amid election campaign 05/24/2024 07:19am • LONDON (AP) — King Charles III won’t be out and about much over the next six weeks — and it’s not because of his ongoing cancer treatments. Shortly after U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called an early parliamentary election for July 4, Buckingham Palace said that all members of the royal fa Washington Spirit's Hal Hershfelt discusses rookie season, US women's national team selection 05/24/2024 03:53am • Hal Hershfelt is only in her first season coming out of Clemson University but has already cemented herself as a midfield stalwart for the Washington Spirit. After a shocking trade early during the NWSL draft in January, Washington selected the Hattiesburg, Mississippi, native with the No. 5 over Rapper Sean Kingston arrested in California after SWAT raids his Florida home; charged with fraud 05/24/2024 12:30am • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Rapper Sean Kingston was arrested in California on fraud charges Thursday, several hours after a SWAT team raided his rented South Florida mansion and carted away a van load of items. The Broward County Sheriff's Office said Kingston was arrested without incident on More bad weather could hit Iowa, where 3 powerful tornadoes caused millions in damage 05/23/2024 11:22pm • GREENFIELD, Iowa (AP) — For block after block through the small city of Greenfield, Iowa, the destructive power of a tornado that ripped apart more than 100 homes in just one minute is evident in the muddy, shattered mess left behind. All along the mile-long swath Thursday was the deafening clamo 6 killed in Idaho crash were agricultural workers from Mexico, officials say 05/23/2024 11:10pm • IDAHO FALLS, Idaho. (AP) — Six people killed when a pickup crashed into a passenger van in Idaho on Saturday were agricultural workers from Mexico, officials said. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico said in a news release that the van passengers were all agricultural workers from Mexico wh