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Lightning, rains kill 49 in Pakistan as authorities declare a state of emergency in the southwest 04/15/2024 02:47pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) — Lightning and heavy rains have killed at least 49 people across Pakistan in the past three days, officials said Monday, as authorities in the country's southwest declared a state of emergency. Some deaths occurred when lightning struck farmers harvesting wheat. Rains caused dozens Your morning coffee may be more than a half million years old 04/15/2024 12:35pm • That coffee you slurped this morning? It’s 600,000 years old. Using genes from coffee plants around the world, researchers built a family tree for the world's most popular type of coffee, known to scientists as Coffea arabica and to coffee lovers simply as “arabica.” The researchers, hoping t Music Review: Jazz pianist Fred Hersch creates subdued, lovely colors on 'Silent, Listening' 04/15/2024 12:23pm • Jazz pianist Fred Hersch fully embraces the freedom that comes with improvisation on his solo album “Silent, Listening,” spontaneously composing and performing tunes that are often without melody, meter or form. Listening to them can be challenging and rewarding. The many-time Grammy nominee ’ MedStar Health teams with DispatchHealth for in-home hospital stay follow-ups 04/15/2024 10:20am • MedStar Health has partnered with DispatchHealth, a company that provides same-day at-home urgent care and other medical services, to allow patients recently discharged from a hospital stay to receive in-home follow-ups. The patient’s hospital-based medical team coordinates the DispatchHealth t Car Review: Range Rover LWB has more space for people and cargo with loads of luxury at a big price 04/15/2024 12:49am • The front-end style of the Range Rover is modern without being too much or shouty. (WTOP/Mike Parris) It was just two weeks ago that I had to make do with a Range Rover Sport. Now, it’s time to up the luxury a few degrees with the Range Rover LWB — long wheel base — the head of the Land Ro The Latest | Israel says 99% of drones and missiles launched by Iran were intercepted 04/15/2024 12:11am • Israel on Sunday praised the success of its defenses in the face of an attack by Iran involving hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles while tensions ran high over a possible Israeli counter-strike. An Israeli military spokesman said the launches numbered more than 300, but 99% o US works to prevent an escalation across the Mideast as Biden pushes Israel to show restraint 04/14/2024 08:25pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Sunday highlighted its role in helping Israel thwart Iran's aerial attack as President Joe Biden convened leaders of the Group of Seven countries in an effort to prevent a wider regional escalation and coordinate a global rebuke of Tehran. The U.S. assisted I Everything You Need to Know About Common Food Allergies 04/14/2024 08:00pm • About 32 million people -- including 6% of children -- experience food allergies in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There is currently no cure for food allergy. Current treatment requires strict avoidance of the food(s) the patient is allergic to. Desp Herndon police officer shoots man armed with knife after he stabbed wife and family's dog, authorities say 04/14/2024 04:50pm • A man armed with a knife was shot by an officer in Herndon, Virginia, Sunday morning after police say he stabbed his wife and the family's dog. Both the woman and her husband were taken to the hospital with serious injuries, Herndon police said in a post on social media. The canine was taken to a Emma Bates, a top US contender in the Boston Marathon, will try to beat Kenyans and dodge potholes 04/14/2024 03:53pm • HOPKINTON, Mass. (AP) — Emma Bates should be extra weary of the Boston Marathon course on Monday when she tries to improve upon last year’s fifth-place finish. Not the hills or the headwinds. The potholes. The 31-year-old former Boston resident stepped in one midway through the Chicago Marathon Detectives solve 1968 killing of World War II veteran who became milkman, Florida sheriff says 04/14/2024 12:36pm • VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — More than five decades after a World War II veteran was slain while working as a milkman in Florida, investigators say they've solved the case thanks to two people who came forward after the killer died. Hiram “Ross” Grayam was delivering milk in April 1968 and failed t A Pittsburgh congressional race could test Democrats who have criticized Israel's handling of war 04/14/2024 10:24am • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — An election this month in Pittsburgh and some of its suburbs is emerging as an early test of whether Israel’s war with Hamas poses political threats to progressive Democrats in Congress who have criticized how the conflict has been handled. U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, a first-te Fashion that doesn’t fly: The turbulent issue of airline dress code policies 04/14/2024 06:32am • (CNN) — It has happened to a model, a medical doctor and a hairstylist, along with many other airline passengers: being singled out or denied boarding on a flight for their fashion choices. The typical first move for passengers involved: airing their complaints on social media. That’s what Officer, bystanders hailed for confronting and stopping a man who killed 6 at a Sydney shopping mall 04/14/2024 05:14am • SYDNEY (AP) — A police officer and several bystanders are being hailed for running “towards danger” to confront the attacker who stabbed and killed six people at a suburban Sydney shopping center. The shopping mall, one of the country’s busiest and near the world-famous Bondi Beach, was a hu Police in Australia identify the Sydney stabbing attacker who killed 6 people 04/14/2024 04:52am • SYDNEY (AP) — Police identified Sunday the assailant who stabbed and killed six people at a busy Sydney shopping center before a police officer fatally shot him. New South Wales Police said that Joel Cauchi, 40, was responsible for the Saturday afternoon attack at the Westfield Shopping Centre in