Search

DC officials acknowledge challenge of 'snowcrete,' say progress has been made 01/28/2026 07:38pm • D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday that following Sunday's winter storm, the city's government agencies have been making progress in clearing the hardened snow from city streets. "I want to just really start by giving a big thank you to the many people who have been working day and night, th Tesla made smallest annual profit since the pandemic, plans to spend big on robotaxis and robots 01/28/2026 07:26pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Tesla’s annual profit plunged to its lowest level since the pandemic five years ago as it lost the title of the world’s biggest electric vehicle maker to a Chinese rival and boycotts hammered sales. The EV company run by Elon Musk reported Wednesday that net income last year dr How to Help Someone With PTSD: Supportive Tips for Loved Ones 01/28/2026 07:00pm • Living with post-traumatic stress disorder can be isolating and unpredictable. Around 13 million adults in the United States -- 5% of the population -- experience PTSD each year, according to the National Center for PTSD. With PTSD, a traumatic event in the recent or distant past can cause a prolong Kolo Muani scores for Tottenham in Champions League a day after being involved in car crash 01/28/2026 06:40pm • FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Tottenham striker Randal Kolo Muani started — and scored — against Eintracht Frankfurt in the Champions League on Wednesday, a day after being involved in what manager Thomas Frank described as a “minor” car crash. Pictures circulated on social media Tuesday showi Federal Reserve keeps interest rates unchanged even as Trump continues to insist they be lowered 01/28/2026 05:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve pushed the pause button on its interest rate cuts Wednesday, leaving its key rate unchanged at about 3.6% after lowering it three times last year. Chair Jerome Powell said at a news conference after the central bank announced its decision that the economy's ou Dozens of water main leaks and breaks have WSSC Water crews busy 01/28/2026 05:18pm • WSSC Water continues to ask customers to conserve water — as heightened demand from people snowed in at home coupled with an ever-growing list of water main breaks and leaks threatening to strain the system — which spans Montgomery and Prince George's counties in Maryland. As of Wednesday aft Sergi López on 'Sirāt': A journey that makes you look inward 01/28/2026 11:59am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — “Sirāt,” Spain’s latest Oscar contender, follows Luis as he treks through the North African desert with his 12-year-old son and his dog to find his missing daughter. Blending the grit of “Mad Max” with the underground rave culture of the 1990s, the film is set against It's one storm after another for much of the US, but the next one's path is uncertain 01/28/2026 11:28am • HOUSTON (AP) — Winter's brutal grip on the U.S. East is not letting up, with coming days bringing subfreezing temperatures that will plunge deep into what had been a toasty Florida peninsula and a powerful blizzard forecast that may strike the Atlantic coast. Deep cold is forecast to stick around Movie Review: Jason Statham sticks close to the formula as a lethal former spy in 'Shelter' 01/28/2026 10:45am • Jason Statham lives in a Scottish lighthouse when we meet him in “Shelter” and that's a pretty good analogy for Statham's usual movie role these days: Tall, cold, alone, tough, quiet and only intermittently illuminating. Statham may appear to be just a grim-faced lighthouse keeper, but he's real Swedish amusement park fined over fatal roller coaster derailment 01/28/2026 10:26am • STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish amusement park was fined nearly $590,000 on Wednesday in connection with a roller coaster derailment that left one passenger dead and nine others injured, including several children. Witnesses at the Gröna Lund park described how the front of the Jetliner ride appeared Huge landslide leaves Sicilian homes teetering on cliff edge as 1,500 people are evacuated 01/28/2026 09:23am • ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni visited a southern town in Sicily on Wednesday that has been left teetering on the edge of a cliff after days of heavy rains from a cyclone triggered a huge landslide that brought down properties and forced the evacuation of over 1,500 people. The landsli Germany trims this year's growth forecast to 1% as its economy is slow to gather pace 01/28/2026 09:10am • BERLIN (AP) — The German government on Wednesday trimmed its 2026 forecast for the country's economy, Europe's biggest, as growth picks up more slowly than previously hoped. Chancellor Friedrich Merz's government now expects gross domestic product to expand by about 1% this year and 1.3% in 2027, The EU is seeking new trade partnerships. Here's why 01/28/2026 05:11am • BRUSSELS (AP) — The ambitious free trade agreement between the European Union and India underscores the EU’s efforts to ink new global partnerships at a time when the Trump administration has rattled a continent deeply tied to Washington on trade, defense and diplomacy. The agreement announced T 7 police officers won't face criminal charges after man’s restraint death in Boston suburb 01/27/2026 10:16pm • SALEM, Mass. (AP) — The seven officers involved in the death of a 43-year-old man who became unresponsive and died as police tried to restrain him in a Boston suburb will not face criminal charges, Essex District Attorney Paul Tucker announced Tuesday. “After a comprehensive review of the facts, Mexican president says her country has paused oil shipments to Cuba 01/27/2026 09:10pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday her government has at least temporarily stopped oil shipments to Cuba, but struck an ambiguous tone, saying the pause was part of general fluctuations in oil supplies and that it was a “sovereign decision” not made under press