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Rivers recede but flooding plagues thousands in central Russia 04/22/2024 02:11pm • MOSCOW (AP) — Water levels in some overflowing rivers in Russia were starting to drop on Monday, but flooding remains widespread, Russian state TV reports said. More than 5,000 properties in Russia’s Kurgan region, about 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) east of Moscow along the border with Kazakhs Police in Greece raid homes and detain dozens in crackdown on deadly soccer violence 04/22/2024 02:06pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Police in Greece have raided multiple homes in Athens and detained dozens of suspects in a crackdown on soccer violence that led to the death of a police officer in December. Police officer Giorgos Lyggeridis, 31, died on Dec. 27 after being hit by a flare during violence bet Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous 04/22/2024 01:03pm • BEIJING (AP) — The hunt for the origins of COVID-19 has gone dark in China, the victim of political infighting after a series of stalled and thwarted attempts to find the source of the virus that killed millions and paralyzed the world for months. The Chinese government froze meaningful domestic a Heavy rainstorms kill 4 people in southern China. Ten others are missing 04/22/2024 11:46am • BEIJING (AP) — Heavy rainstorms that swept across southern China over the weekend killed at least four people in riverside cities, while a search was underway for 10 others missing, state media said Monday. The official Xinhua news agency said three people died in Zhaoqing city while one rescuer d Armenia asks UN court to throw out Azerbaijan’s claim alleging racial discrimination 04/22/2024 11:18am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Lawyers for Armenia asked the top United Nations court on Monday to throw out a case filed by Azerbaijan over the Karabakh region that accuses Armenia of ethnic cleansing. Azerbaijan launched proceedings at the International Court of Justice in 2021 in the case, less Prehistoric lake sturgeon is not endangered, US says despite calls from conservationists 04/22/2024 10:04am • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Lake sturgeon don't need Endangered Species Act protections, federal wildlife officials announced Monday, saying that stocking programs have helped the prehistoric fish return to areas where they had vanished. The decision ends the Arizona-based Center of Biological Diversity' 'DWTS' champ Derek Hough returns to DC area, invites doctor after wife's medical emergency during last visit 04/22/2024 04:33am • In December, Derek Hough joined WTOP before he and his wife Hayley Erbert performed at MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland. At the end of the show, his wife became disoriented and was taken to the hospital for an emergency craniotomy, to treat a cranial hematoma that resulted from a b Ecuadorians vote overwhelmingly in referendum to approve toughening fight against gangs 04/22/2024 12:23am • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s fledgling president got a resounding victory Sunday in a referendum that he touted as a way to crack down on criminal gangs behind a spiraling wave of violence. An official quick count showed that Ecuadorians overwhelmingly voted “yes” to all nine questions fo A Palestinian baby in Gaza is born an orphan in an urgent cesarean section after an Israeli strike 04/21/2024 11:25pm • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Sabreen Jouda came into the world seconds after her mother left it. Their home was hit by an Israeli airstrike shortly before midnight Saturday. Until that moment, the family was like so many other Palestinians trying to shelter from the war in Gaza's southernmost city Iran's supreme leader tacitly acknowledges that Tehran hit little in its attack on Israel 04/21/2024 09:57pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran's supreme leader on Sunday dismissed any discussion of whether Tehran's unprecedented drone-and-missile attack on Israel hit anything there, a tacit acknowledgment that despite launching a major assault, few projectiles actually made it through to their targets. Ayatollah Al Do Balance Transfers Hurt My Credit Score? 04/21/2024 08:00pm • If you're looking for a way to lower the interest rate on your credit card balances, a balance transfer could help. By using a balance transfer credit card, you can transfer a balance from one credit card to another. In the process, you could score a promotional interest rate that's lower, sometimes 7 Best Recent and Upcoming IPOs in 2024 04/21/2024 08:00pm • The initial public offering (IPO) market is in rally mode in April, as interest rates moderate and stock valuations bounce back for publicly traded companies. Last year, significant growth indicators for IPOs began to emerge, as the S&P 500 benchmark index rose 24.2%. Also, the MSCI World Index Hawaii lawmakers take aim at vacation rentals after Lahaina wildfire amplifies Maui housing crisis 04/21/2024 06:06pm • HONOLULU (AP) — Amy Chadwick spent years scrimping and saving as a single mother of two to buy a house in the town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui. But after a devastating fire leveled Lahaina in August and reduced Chadwick's home to white dust, the cheapest rental she and her now-husban Haitians scramble to survive, seeking food, water and safety as gang violence chokes the capital 04/21/2024 01:52pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — As the sun sets, a burly man bellows into a megaphone while a curious crowd gathers around him. Next to him is a small cardboard box with several banknotes worth 10 Haitian gourdes — about 7 U.S. cents. “Everyone give whatever they have!” the man shouts as he gra 2 Japanese navy helicopters crash in the Pacific Ocean during training, leaving 1 dead and 7 missing 04/21/2024 07:10am • TOKYO (AP) — Two Japanese navy helicopters carrying eight crew members crashed in the Pacific Ocean south of Tokyo during nighttime training in a possible collision, leaving one dead while rescuers on Sunday searched for seven others missing, the defense minister said. The two SH-60K choppers fro