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Sri Lanka reaches deal on debt restructuring with bilateral creditors including China and France 06/26/2024 08:49pm • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s President Ranil Wickremesinghe announced a debt restructuring deal with countries including India, France, Japan and China in a televised address to the nation Wednesday. The agreement marks a key step in the country’s economic recovery after defaulting on What Jamaal Bowman's loss in New York means for the future of 'the Squad' 06/26/2024 08:35pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — When Jamaal Bowman first ran for Congress, he chastised his opponent — a 16-term Democratic congressman who chaired a powerful House committee — as disconnected from his suburban New York district and too focused on foreign policy. The message helped Bowman defeat incumbent Is the Chase Sapphire Preferred Card Worth its $95 Annual Fee? 06/26/2024 08:00pm • The Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card offers numerous perks for people who like to travel. These perks include travel protections, flexible point redemptions and up to $50 in statement credits to cover eligible hotel spending each year. However, it's fair to question whether the card is worth its $95 Why Is the Middle Class Shrinking? 06/26/2024 08:00pm • A little more than half of Americans (51%) are part of the middle class, according to a recent report by the Pew Research Center. But how has this segment changed over time? Between 1971 and 2023, the middle class shrank by 10%, while the upper and lower classes grew by 8% and 3%, respectively. Here Best Nutrients and Foods to Eat When Pregnant 06/26/2024 08:00pm • A healthy diet is key to living a long and healthy life, but proper nutrition becomes even more important during pregnancy. After all, you're growing a whole new human being inside of you. During pregnancy, your body needs an immense amount of energy in order to support the physiological changes and How Yoga Helps Reduce Acute and Chronic Pain 06/26/2024 08:00pm • When I finished wrestling in college, I suffered from chronic lower back pain as well as persistent ankle and knee pain, which felt like they would never go away. The pain started with acute injuries while training and competing, and I kept re-aggravating the injuries without giving them time to hea Same seat, new surface: Metro goes from cloth to vinyl bus seats 06/26/2024 07:54pm • It's been in the works for a while, and WMATA announced this week it's moving ahead with plans to shift the current cloth seats on its buses to easy-to-clean vinyl seats on its entire fleet. So far, 40 buses have the new look and feel. WTOP asked some riders if the seat surface was ever an iss How tensions in Bolivia fueled an attempt to oust President Arce from power 06/26/2024 07:50pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Armored vehicles rammed into the doors of Bolivia’s government palace on Wednesday as President Luis Arce said his country faced an apparent attempted coup. In a sense, the uprising was the culmination of tensions that have been brewing in Bolivia for months, with protester NTSB derailment investigation renews concerns about detectors, tank cars and Norfolk Southern 06/26/2024 07:13pm • The National Transportation Safety Board's daylong hearing on what caused the disastrous East Palestine train derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border last year gave the community, railroads and policymakers plenty to think about. The NTSB confirmed the crash was caused by an overheating bearing Southwest Airlines says a key measure of pricing power will be weaker than expected in 2Q 06/26/2024 06:51pm • DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines, already under pressure from a hedge fund for disappointing financial results, said Wednesday that a key revenue ratio will be weaker than expected because of changes in how consumers book travel. The airline said it still expects second-quarter revenue to hit a re Brewers' Chourio continues productive June by hitting inside-the-park HR and making a diving catch 06/26/2024 06:29pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) — Now that he’s had a few months to get accustomed to life in the majors, Milwaukee’s Jackson Chourio is starting to showcase the skills that made the 20-year-old one of baseball’s top prospects. Chourio delivered perhaps the biggest highlight of his young career Wednesday, be Jury recommends death penalty for ex-prison guard trainee who murdered 5 women inside Florida bank 06/26/2024 06:12pm • A jury on Wednesday recommended a former prison guard trainee be sentenced to death for his execution-style murders of five women inside a Florida bank five years ago, a massacre that fulfilled his long-stated desire to kill. Jurors voted 9-3 to recommend Zephen Xaver receive the death penalty for UK's Sunak and Starmer struggle to be heard as a noisy protest mars their final election debate 06/26/2024 06:08pm • LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour Party leader Keir Starmer struggled to get their messages across in the first half of their fiery final televised debate of the U.K. election campaign on Wednesday as protesters drowned out their answers. The two politicians vying to beco The Latest | Iran-allied militants claim an attack targeting the Israeli port city of Eilat 06/26/2024 05:58pm • An Iranian-backed umbrella group known as the Islamic Resistance in Iraq claimed an attack targeting the southern Israeli port city of Eilat on Wednesday. The militants are allied with Yemen's Houthi rebels, who are suspected of attacking a ship in the Gulf of Aden the same day. Shipping has reduce Justices seem set to allow emergency abortions in Idaho for now, a prematurely posted opinion says 06/26/2024 05:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appears poised to allow emergency abortions in Idaho when a pregnant patient’s health is at serious risk, according to a copy of the opinion briefly posted on the court's website Wednesday and obtained by Bloomberg News. The document suggests the court will fi