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With 2024 presidential contest looming, Georgia governor signs new election changes into law 05/07/2024 05:46pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation Tuesday that makes additional changes to Georgia's election laws ahead of the 2024 presidential contest in the battleground state, including defining probable causes for removing voters from the rolls when their eligibility is challenged. Republica 'I'm hoping to learn from what they're doing': Firefighters from around the world collaborate in DC to keep you safer 05/07/2024 05:45pm • They have come from as far as Fiji and Croatia and as close as D.C. and Fairfax County, Virginia. Firefighters packed a conference room at the Hyatt Regency in Downtown D.C. on Tuesday for the inaugural World Fire Congress to collaborate and share information to better keep citizens across the world Rockville man charged with manslaughter following 2023 pedestrian crash 05/07/2024 05:13pm • A driver has been arrested and charged with manslaughter after police say he struck and killed a 70-year-old woman while she was crossing the street in Rockville, Maryland, last December. Jose Isaac Zelaya, 24, of Rockville was arrested on May 3 for allegedly striking and killing Teresa Moreno De The Latest | Stormy Daniels to return to witness stand on Thursday as court adjourns 05/07/2024 05:11pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� As the third week of witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial takes place, all eyes are on Stormy Daniels, who took the stand Tuesday morning and recounted for jurors the lead-up to meeting Trump and a 2006 sexual encounter she has said the two engaged in. Trump denies Met Gala photos: Outside the Mark Hotel, the carpet before the carpet 05/07/2024 04:49pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Before guests make it to the Met Gala, there are the red carpets before the carpet ��� otherwise known as the parade of departures from the various New York hotels that host gala guests and their teams for preparations before fashion's big night. The Mark Hotel is perhaps the best Scenes from Israel and Gaza reflect dashed hopes as imminent cease-fire seems unlikely 05/07/2024 04:22pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� An announcement by Hamas late Monday that it had accepted a cease-fire proposal sent people in the streets of Rafah into temporary jubilation, as Palestinian evacuees in the jam-packed town felt their first glimmer of hope the war could end. For families of Israeli hostages held i Kenvue, Crocs rise; Disney, Teradata fall, Tuesday, 5/7/2024 05/07/2024 04:12pm • Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Tuesday: The Walt Disney Co., down $11.08 to $105.39. The entertainment giant's revenue fell shy of forecasts and said it expects its streaming video business to weaken. Kenvue Inc., up $1.20 to $20.08. The maker of Band-Aids and Tylenol Noting campus protests, Democrats are preparing for intense action at their summer convention 05/07/2024 03:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� As pro-Palestinian demonstrations escalate on college campuses around the country, critics of President Joe Biden 's handling of the Israel-Hamas war suggest this summer's Democratic National Convention could be hit by protests and scenes of chaos that undermine his reelection ca Biden hosts Romanian leader at the White House to celebrate NATO partnership 05/07/2024 03:43pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden hosted Klaus Iohannis, the president of Romania, on Tuesday at the White House, with the two leaders celebrating their joint cooperation on issues including international security, the economy and continued support for Ukraine. The meeting in the Oval Office The Met Gala's flowery theme went in all directions 05/07/2024 03:42pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Who won the Met Gala? Nature and its many blooms, along with some far-flung princesses. It was anybody's guess exactly how the celebrity crowd on the steps of The Metropolitan Museum of Art would interpret the ���Garden of Time��� dress code Monday at the annual fashion extravaganz Billy Porter, Keke Palmer headline DC's Capital Pride Concert 05/07/2024 03:09pm • "Totally Radical." That's the theme of this year's Capital Pride Parade and could also describe the lineup for the concert that accompanies the annual event. The Capital Pride Alliance (CPA) announced Monday that Ava Max, Billy Porter, Keke Palmer, Expos�� and Sapphira Crist��l will be performing Met Opera hosts 4 female conductors in landmark week. From its founding to 2016, there were only 4 05/07/2024 02:05pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Oksana Lyniv, Speranza Scappucci, Marin Alsop and Xian Zhang filled their lockers in the guest conductors��� dressing room off the Metropolitan Opera���s orchestra pit. Just four women had led the orchestra from 1883 through 2016, but four took the baton in a landmark week from Apr Editorial Roundup: United States 05/07/2024 01:46pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: May 6 The Washington Post on Medicare and Social Security reforms President Biden and former president Donald Trump don���t agree on much, but both have pledged not to touch Social Security benefits. This is a reflection of political r Bruins-Panthers getting set for Game 2. Canucks-Oilers ready to open their series 05/07/2024 01:42pm • SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) ��� The season for the Florida Panthers cannot end on Wednesday night. It���s not an elimination game, the Boston Bruins cannot close them out and no matter what happens there���s a flight to Massachusetts on Thursday and another game there on Friday. So, it���s not a must-win. Th Penske suspends Cindric and 3 others in the wake of a cheating scandal ahead of the Indianapolis 500 05/07/2024 01:23pm • Roger Penske has suspended the president of Team Penske along with three others for the next two races for their roles in the cheating scandal that has rocked IndyCar ahead of the Indianapolis 500. Penske said Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press that a review done by his general counse