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WATCH: Black smoke visible for miles after Sterling warehouse catches fire 04/22/2024 10:00pm • A warehouse fire in Sterling, Virginia, sent black smoke billowing into the sky and triggered a significant emergency response Monday afternoon. Firefighters were called to a facility in the 100 block of Acacia Lane just after 3 p.m., according to Loudoun County Fire and Rescue. ⁦@WTOP⁩ Ma Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson pledged $10M for Maui wildfire survivors. They gave much more. 04/22/2024 09:07pm • Lana Vierra misses the swing set at her Lahaina home, which was reduced to ashes in the wildfires that swept through her community last summer. “Multiple generations went through there playing in my front yard," she said. "Just with the animals and the turtles and the deer and goats that we once Jury: BNSF Railway contributed to 2 deaths in Montana town where asbestos sickened thousands 04/22/2024 08:29pm • HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A federal jury on Monday said BNSF Railway contributed to the deaths of two people who were exposed to asbestos decades ago when tainted mining material was shipped through a Montana town where thousands have been sickened. The jury awarded $4 million each in compensatory dama Should You Wait for Mortgage Rates to Fall to Buy a House? 04/22/2024 08:00pm • Over the past two years, mortgage rates have surged from around 3% to well past 7%, leaving many would-be homebuyers simply priced out of the market. Others have decided to wait on the sidelines, holding out for lower rates. In fact, two-thirds of homebuyers are waiting for rates to fall before buyi 12 Ways to Achieve a Happy Retirement 04/22/2024 08:00pm • What makes people happiest in retirement? The answer will vary from person to person, but there are strategies you can use to increase your odds of retiring happy. While health conditions and living situations can change, you have many opportunities to create your own path and make the most of your Trump tried to 'corrupt' the 2016 election, prosecutor alleges as hush money trial gets underway 04/22/2024 06:52pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump tried to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election by preventing damaging stories about his personal life from becoming public, a prosecutor told jurors Monday at the start of the former president's historic hush money trial. "This was a planned, coordinated, The pandemic exposed staff shortages at nursing homes. A new White House push aims for a remedy 04/22/2024 06:24pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday said the first rule to set minimum staffing levels at federally funded nursing homes and require that a certain portion of the taxpayer dollars they receive go toward wages for care workers is a long-overdue “milestone” that recognizes t Without cameras to go live, the Trump trial is proving the potency of live blogs as news tools 04/22/2024 05:08pm • NEW YORK (AP) — They watched from the courtroom or via closed-circuit television in an overflow room — roughly 140 reporters, most with laptops or other silenced electronic devices, serving up news at its most elemental and in rapid-fire fashion. There were utterances posted a few seconds after Maui officials push back on some details in Hawaii attorney general report on deadly wildfire 04/22/2024 04:49pm • HONOLULU (AP) — Days after the Hawaii attorney general’s office released an outside report that flagged communications issues in the response to the deadly August wildfire, Maui County officials pushed back and offered “clarifications” on some of the report’s details. Hawaii Attorney Gener When red-hot isn't enough: New government heat risk tool sets magenta as most dangerous level 04/22/2024 04:20pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Forget about red hot. A new color-coded heat warning system relies on magenta to alert Americans to the most dangerous conditions they may see this summer. The National Weather Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday — Earth Day — presented a new PEN America calls off awards ceremony amid criticism over its response to Israel-Hamas war 04/22/2024 03:37pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Facing widespread unhappiness over its response to the Israel-Hamas war, the writers’ group PEN America has called off its annual awards ceremony. Dozens of nominees had dropped out of the event, which was to have taken place next week. PEN, a literary and free expression organiz Report urges fixes to online child exploitation CyberTipline before AI makes it worse 04/22/2024 03:33pm • A tipline set up 26 years ago to combat online child exploitation has not lived up to its potential and needs technological and other improvements to help law enforcement go after abusers and rescue victims, a new report from the Stanford Internet Observatory has found. The fixes to what the researc Editorial Roundup: United States 04/22/2024 03:11pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: April 18 The Los Angeles Times on Mike Johnson's Ukraine aid bill Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has been maddeningly slow in pushing the House to approve badly needed aid for Ukraine as it resists Russian aggression. But this week he sa The Latest | Lawyers in Trump hush money case paint competing portraits of him in opening statements 04/22/2024 03:04pm • NEW YORK (AP) — In opening statements in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial, prosecutors said Monday that the former president “orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt” the 2016 presidential election. Defense attorneys countered, calling Trump “innocent” and saying the Manhattan di Myanmar’s figurehead vice president, a rare holdover from Suu Kyi's civilian government, steps down 04/22/2024 02:54pm • BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s Vice President Henry Van Thio, who served in the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi and then continued in the position after the military ousted her to seize power in 2021, is stepping down for unspecified health reasons, state media said Monday. State television MRT