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Austrian party reverses leadership result after spreadsheet hiccup 06/05/2023 12:12pm • BERLIN (AP) — Austria's main center-left opposition party on Monday reversed the result of its weekend leadership election, announcing that a computer error originally led to the wrong candidate being declared the winner. Andreas Babler, the mayor of the town of Traiskirchen, outside Vienna, becom 'I am haunted by it': Survivors of deadly train crash in India recount trauma 06/05/2023 05:17am • BALASORE, India (AP) — Gura Pallay was watching another train pass by the one he was sitting in when he heard sudden, loud screeching. Before he could make sense of what was happening, he was thrown out of the train. Pallay, 24, landed next to the tracks along with metal wreckage of the train he' DC pilot program takes round-the clock look at air pollution 06/05/2023 04:30am • The District has a new plan to take an round-the-clock, block-by-block check of air quality, starting in three mostly-Black neighborhoods. Neighbors in the Ivy City/Brentwood, Buzzard Point and Mayfair communities will soon see what looks like a ride-hailing vehicle cruising through their streets Rescuers in Japan search for 3 missing in or near rivers swollen by heavy rains last week 06/05/2023 12:27am • TOKYO (AP) — Rescue workers in Japan searched Monday for three people who went missing in or near rivers swollen by heavy rains last week that left one person dead and dozens injured. A man in his 60s who was pulled from a flooded car Friday in the central city of Toyohashi was pronounced dead ove Error in signaling system led to train crash that killed 275 people in India, official says 06/04/2023 11:58pm • BALASORE, India (AP) — The derailment in eastern India that killed 275 people and injured hundreds was caused by an error in the electronic signaling system that led a train to wrongly change tracks and crash into a freight train, officials said Sunday. Authorities worked to clear the mangled wrec Australian mother imprisoned 20 years pardoned and freed because of doubt she killed her 4 children 06/04/2023 11:45pm • CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian woman who spent 20 years in prison was pardoned and released Monday based on new scientific evidence that her four children died by natural causes as she had insisted. The pardon was seen as the quickest way of getting Kathleen Folbigg out of prison, and a Rose Zhang win in her pro debut, Hovland wins Memorial in playoff 06/04/2023 09:15pm • JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Rose Zhang became the first player to win on the LPGA in her pro debut Sunday, capturing the Mizuho Americas Open with a par on the second playoff hole to beat Jennifer Kupcho and earn LPGA membership. Zhang went from two-time NCAA champion to LPGA winner in a span of 13 d China tightens access to Tiananmen Square, 32 detained in Hong Kong on anniversary of 1989 protests 06/04/2023 08:42pm • BEIJING (AP) — China tightened access to Tiananmen Square in central Beijing on Sunday, the anniversary of the military suppression of 1989 pro-democracy protests that left a still unknown number of people dead and discussions and commemorations forbidden within the country. In Hong Kong, which w WTOP wins 5 first place awards from Chesapeake AP Broadcasters Association 06/04/2023 03:36pm • It was a big night for WTOP at the Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters Association Awards convention held in Ocean City, Maryland, on Saturday. In all, 27 news organizations in D.C., Maryland and Delaware submitted 314 entries for the annual contest. You can check out the full list of the wi Nuggets' 2-man game of Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murral is setting new pick-and-roll standard in NBA 06/04/2023 03:21pm • DENVER (AP) — Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra practically snickered when asked about neutralizing the effective two-man game played by Denver Nuggets teammates Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray. “Yeah, where do you start? You have two guys that can score 50 in a playoff game. One guy is a triple-dou Md. vet stresses pet summer safety as weather heats up 06/04/2023 04:09am • As the District springs into warmer summer months, veterinarians are sending a friendly reminder about preparing pets for the hot weather ahead. “If it’s too hot for you, it’s too hot for them,” said Dr. Peter Eeg, a veterinarian at Poolesville Veterinary Clinic in Maryland. Eeg said l Yankees' Judge knocks open bullpen door while making running catch 06/03/2023 11:11pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Yankees star Aaron Judge knocked open the door of the visiting bullpen at Dodger Stadium while making a spectacular running catch in the eighth inning of New York's 6-3 victory over Los Angeles on Saturday. Judge might have saved a run for the Yankees with his sprinting catch on Ramírez hits tiebreaking 2-run double as Rays beat Red Sox 4-2 for doubleheader split 06/03/2023 10:05pm • BOSTON (AP) — Harold Ramírez hit a tiebreaking two-run double in the ninth inning and Jose Siri made a diving catch for the final out, sending the Tampa Bay Rays to a 4-2 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Saturday and a split of their day-night doubleheader. Ramírez collected five hits on the d Prince George’s Co. mother, daughter charged in connection with grandmother’s murder 06/03/2023 09:17pm • A mother and daughter in Landover, Maryland, have been charged in connection to the killing of their 71-year-old mother and grandmother, according to Prince George’s County police. The police's preliminary investigation suggests that 44-year-old Candace Craig murdered her elderly mother, Margar What led Capitol Police to stop a youth performance of the ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ 06/03/2023 08:46pm • Video of a children’s choir singing the national anthem in the U.S. Capitol, only to be unceremoniously cut off by police, spread across social media on Friday. Capitol Police say singers from Rushingbrook Children’s Choir from Greenville, South Carolina, were stopped May 26 because of a miscomm