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Millennial Money: I saved $800 in 5 months by eating more plants 01/02/2024 10:04am • I tried going vegetarian once when I was in high school. My best friend was a vegetarian, and I was curious. I lasted only about four days. My downfall: a buffalo chicken sandwich. Since that ill-fated attempt, I’ve never tried to curb my meat consumption. It’s just too dang tasty. But in 202 What does a total abortion ban look like in Dominican Republic? 01/02/2024 08:02am • SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The Dominican Republic is one of four Latin American nations that criminalizes abortion without exceptions. Women face up to 2 years in prison for having an abortion, while the penalties for doctors or midwives range from 5 to 20 years. Abortion rights acti Sober curious, gray-area drinkers and more terms to know this Dry January 01/02/2024 08:00am • ▶ Watch Video: People who drink frequently may be "gray area" drinkers The arrival of the new year means many people are gearing up for Dry January, the increasingly popular challenge of quitting alcohol for the month. As the sober curious movement gains traction, with more A missing person with no memory: How investigators solved the cold case of Seven Doe 01/02/2024 07:18am • CHICAGO (AP) — Buried at the edge of a Chicago Catholic cemetery are an elderly person’s remains marked only by a cement cylinder deep in the ground labeled with the numbers 04985. The person died in 2015 at a nursing home not remembering much, including their own name. They went by Seven. Now A missing person with no memory: How investigators solved the cold case of Seven Doe 01/02/2024 07:17am • CHICAGO (AP) — Buried at the edge of a Chicago Catholic cemetery are an elderly person’s remains marked only by a cement cylinder deep in the ground labeled with the numbers 04985. The person died in 2015 at a nursing home not remembering much, including their own name. They went by Seven. WTOP's Neal Augenstein: My 2024 resolution, living with stage 4 lung cancer 01/01/2024 05:27am • 2023 was a great year for me, despite starting it with stage 4 lung cancer. By now you know, after one-pill-a-day targeted therapy, and a robotic-assisted lobectomy, I've been cancer-free since the end of April. But, what's in store for 2024? In a few weeks I'll have a new type of test for The year in review: Influential people who died in 2023 12/31/2023 06:30pm • Yevgeny Prigozhin rose from being an ex-con and hot dog vendor to winning lucrative Kremlin contracts and heading a formidable mercenary army. But it all came to a sudden end when the private plane carrying him and others mysteriously exploded over Russia. Prigozhin's Aug. 23 death put an exclamatio Sen. Fetterman says he thought news about his depression treatment would end his political career 12/31/2023 03:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John Fetterman acknowledges having “dark conversations” about harming himself before he hit “the emergency brake” and sought treatment for depression. He remembers thinking about his three school-age kids. “I can’t be a blueprint for my children. I can’t let th Luton's Tom Lockyer to meet with specialists before determining future following cardiac arrest 12/31/2023 10:34am • LUTON, England (AP) — Luton captain Tom Lockyer will meet with heart specialists before deciding his future after suffering cardiac arrest in a Premier League game at Bournemouth on Dec. 16. The 29-year-old defender collapsed in the 59th minute at Vitality Stadium, resulting in the game being aban States set to enact new laws on guns, pornography, taxes and even fuzzy dice 12/30/2023 02:24pm • Fuzzy dice finally will be free to dangle in Illinois. Starting Monday, police there no longer will be allowed to pull over motorists solely because they have something hanging from the rearview mirror of the windshield. That means air fresheners, parking placards and, yes, even those dice are fair Consulting firm McKinsey agrees to $78 million settlement with insurers over opioids 12/30/2023 12:26pm • Consulting firm McKinsey and Co. has agreed to pay $78 million to settle claims from insurers and health care funds that its work with drug companies helped fuel an opioid addiction crisis. The agreement was revealed late Friday in documents filed in federal court in San Francisco. The settlement mu Thousands accuse Serbia's ruling populists of election fraud at a Belgrade rally 12/30/2023 09:25am • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Thousands of people rallied in Serbia's capital on Saturday, chanting “Thieves!” and accusing the populist authorities of President Aleksandar Vucic of orchestrating a fraud during a recent general election. The big rally in central Belgrade capped nearly two weeks of New Maryland, Virginia laws going into effect on Jan. 1, 2024 12/30/2023 04:49am • There are a few new laws around the D.C. area that will go into effect on New Year's Day. There are no new laws in the District itself that will affect residents directly, but there are quite a few in neighboring states. Laws that will go into effect on the first day of 2024 in Maryland and Vi Judge allows lawsuit that challenges Idaho's broad abortion ban to move forward 12/29/2023 07:48pm • An Idaho judge on Friday denied a request by the state's top legal chief to throw out a lawsuit seeking to clarify the exemptions tucked inside the state's broad abortion ban. Instead, 4th District Judge Jason Scott narrowed the case to focus only on the circumstances where an abortion would be allo Ohio’s GOP governor vetoes ban on gender-affirming care and transgender athletes in girls' sports 12/29/2023 05:10pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed a measure Friday that would have banned gender-affirming care for minors, casting the action out of step with many in his own party as thoughtful, limited and “pro-life.” He simultaneously announced plans to move to administratively