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The White House says FDIC chairman to step down following report on agency's toxic workplace culture 05/20/2024 06:27pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The White House said Monday that the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation will step down, a departure that follows the release earlier this month of a damning report about the agency���s toxic workplace culture. The White House said Martin Gruenberg will step down US pediatricians reverse decades-old advice against HIV-positive mothers breastfeeding 05/20/2024 06:02pm • People with HIV can breastfeed their babies, as long as they are taking medications that effectively suppress the virus that causes AIDS, a top U.S. pediatricians��� group said Monday in a sharp policy change. The new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics reverses recommendations it had in 70 years ago, school integration was a dream many believed could actually happen. It hasn't 05/20/2024 05:48pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Seventy years ago this week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On paper, that decision ��� the fabled Brown v. Board of Education, taught in most every American classroom ��� still stands. But for decades, American schools h Insider Q&A: CIA's chief technologist's cautious embrace of generative AI 05/20/2024 04:54pm • Knowledge advantage can save lives, win wars and avert disaster. At the Central Intelligence Agency, basic artificial intelligence ��� machine learning and algorithms ��� has long served that mission. Now, generative AI is joining the effort. CIA Director William Burns says AI tech will augment huma What's next for a crackdown on Haitian migrants as the Dominican Republic leader enters a new term? 05/20/2024 04:40pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� After Dominican President Luis Abinader coasted into a second term over the weekend, he promised in a nationalistic speech that ���the best is yet to come.��� But as one of the region's most popular leaders spoke of economic prosperity and constitutional reforms, he notably left Philadelphia requires all full-time city employees to return to the office 05/20/2024 04:32pm • Philadelphia has mandated all city employees to return to their offices if employed full-time, as of July 15. Mayor Cherelle Parker made the announcement Monday, saying she wants to create a more visible and accessible government. The decision ends the city���s virtual work policy that was put in pl Tugboats escort ship that caused deadly Baltimore bridge collapse back to port 05/20/2024 04:19pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� The recovery from the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse reached a significant milestone Monday as tugboats escorted the ill-fated container ship Dali back to port, its damaged bow still covered with smashed shipping containers, fallen steel trusses and mangled concrete. Nearly two Norwegian Cruise Line, Wix.com rise; Cushman & Wakefield, Target fall, Monday, 5/20/2024 05/20/2024 04:16pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Monday: Johnson Controls International PLC, up $1.60 to $70.62. Elliott Investment Management has reportedly taken a large stake in the diversified technology and industrial company. Hims & Hers Health Inc., up $4.0 Colton Herta shows speed as Honda fights back in penultimate Indy 500 practice session 05/20/2024 04:14pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Colton Herta and Andretti Global showed Monday that the Honda teams at the Indianapolis 500 just might have something for the mighty Chevrolet cars from Team Penske and Arrow McLaren when the green flag drops next weekend. Herta spent about half of the penultimate 2-hour practi Off-duty police officer injured in shooting in Washington, DC 05/20/2024 03:42pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A off-duty police officer in Washington, D.C., was injured Monday afternoon when a suspect opened fire as the officer was driving to work. Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith said the officer was on his way to the 4th District station just after noon when he ���obse Red Lobster seeks bankruptcy protection days after closing dozens of restaurants 05/20/2024 03:23pm • Red Lobster, the casual dining chain that brought seafood to the masses with inventions like popcorn shrimp and ���endless��� seafood deals, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The 56-year-old chain made the filing late Sunday, days after shuttering dozens of restaurants. ���This restruc The Latest | Iran's president, foreign minister and others die in helicopter crash 05/20/2024 03:13pm • Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country���s foreign minister and others were found dead Monday at the site of a helicopter crash after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region in the country���s northwest, state media reported. State TV gave no immediate cause for the crash Sunda Why FedEx is still very present around Commanders Field, even after end of naming-rights deal 05/20/2024 03:12pm • When FedEx Corp. confirmed in February it had decided to cut short its naming rights deal for the Washington Commanders' stadium, the team was quick to strip the shipping giant���s moniker from the 63,000-seat Landover venue.�� Until a deal is signed with a new sponsor, the team will play at Comman NYC mayor defends police response after videos show officers punching pro-Palestinian protesters 05/20/2024 03:09pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� New York City Mayor Eric Adams defended the police department's response to a pro-Palestinian street demonstration in Brooklyn over the weekend, calling video of officers repeatedly punching men lying prone on the ground an ���isolated incident.��� ���Look at that entire incident,� Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to Maryland ban on rifles known as assault weapons 05/20/2024 02:50pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Supreme Court on Monday declined, for now, to hear a challenge to a Maryland law banning certain semi-automatic firearms commonly referred to as assault weapons. The court did not elaborate on the denial, as is typical. It would have been unusual for the justices to take up a