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Dengue is sweeping through the Americas early this year 03/28/2024 03:04pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Dengue is surging across the Americas early this year from Puerto Rico to Brazil, with 3.5 million cases of the tropical disease reported so far, health officials said Thursday. That tally is three times the number of cases reported at this point last year, said Dr. Ja Civil rights icon Malcolm X gets a day of recognition in Nebraska, where he was born in 1925 03/28/2024 02:29pm • LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Malcolm X has garnered the recognition many have sought for his contributions to the civil rights movement in the conservative Midwest state where he was born, after years of being rejected as too controversial to be honored. The Nebraska Legislature on Thursday passed a bill Punxsutawney Phil, the spring-predicting groundhog, and wife Phyllis are parents of 2 babies 03/28/2024 02:18pm • Now we know what Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog who predicts whether an early spring will arrive each Feb. 2, does on the other 364 days. The Pennsylvania group that handles Phil, and his groundhog wife, Phyllis, says the couple have become parents. The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club said in a Facebo Rio de Janeiro declares a dengue health emergency days ahead of Carnival 03/28/2024 02:01pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro on Monday has declared a public health emergency because of an outbreak of mosquito-borne dengue fever, the city announced Monday, just days before Carnival celebrations kick off across Brazil. The outbreak wasn't expected to derail Carnival, which officially s Md. Senate President Ferguson promises aid for affected port workers 03/28/2024 01:02pm • House and Senate leaders say they will draft emergency legislation to help workers at the Port of Baltimore following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City), in a post on social media Wednesday, said he and other lawmakers representing the Maryland business fuels up boats and first responders in wake of Baltimore bridge collapse 03/28/2024 12:57pm • Just an hour after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in Baltimore early Tuesday morning, a nearby Dundalk business owner was awoken and minutes later rushed to help. His mission: to make sure the boats looking for the missing construction workers had enough fuel and to ensure first responde Minnesota teen gets 4 years as accomplice in fatal robbery that led to police shooting of Amir Locke 03/28/2024 12:24pm • ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A teenager has been sentenced to four years for his role in a St. Paul killing that prompted police in Minneapolis to execute a search warrant that led to the fatal shooting of Amir Locke by a police officer in a case that focused scrutiny on the use of no-knock warrants. Fe Why did more than 1,000 people die after police subdued them with force that isn't meant to kill? 03/28/2024 11:23am • Carl Grant, a Vietnam veteran with dementia, wandered out of a hospital room to charge a cellphone he imagined he had. When he wouldn’t sit still, the police officer escorting Grant body-slammed him, ricocheting the patient’s head off the floor. Taylor Ware, a former Marine and aspiring college ‘This deal is a win-win-win’: Mayor Bowser praises new deal to keep Caps, Wizards in downtown DC 03/28/2024 10:26am • The Washington Capitals and the Washington Wizards are staying in D.C. until at least 2050 after city leaders and the teams’ owner Ted Leonsis agreed to a $515 million deal on Wednesday. The agreement was announced after the City of Alexandria said negotiations to bring the two teams to Norther After bodies recovered from Patapsco River, where does Baltimore bridge recovery stand now? 03/28/2024 09:40am • Listen to WTOP online and on the radio at 103.5 FM or 107.7 FM for our team coverage. As recovery efforts slow down and long-term investigations begin into how a large cargo ship crashed into a pillar of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on Tuesday, officials are evaluating how they can Venezuelans are increasingly stuck in Mexico, explaining drop in illegal crossings to US 03/28/2024 07:52am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Venezuelan migrants often have a quick answer when asked to name the most difficult stretch of their eight-country journey to the U.S. border, and it's not the dayslong jungle trek through Colombia and Panama with its venomous vipers, giant spiders and scorpions. It's Mexico. †Md. congressman wants to cut the red tape so new Baltimore bridge can be built faster 03/28/2024 06:05am • Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., urged federal and state officials Wednesday to take a fresh look at environmental requirements that he said could slow down reconstruction of a new Francis Scott Key Bridge. Harris said a new round of environmental studies related to a new span of the bridge could add yea Biden administration will lend $1.5B to restart Michigan nuclear power plant, a first in the US 03/28/2024 05:37am • The federal government will provide a $1.5 billion loan to restart a nuclear power plant in southwestern Michigan, officials announced Wednesday. Holtec International acquired the 800-megawatt Palisades plant in 2022 with plans to dismantle it. But now the emphasis is on restarting it by late 2025, Turkey's high-stakes mayoral races are expected to be close. Volunteer monitors will be key 03/28/2024 01:18am • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — With local elections across Turkey days away, legal experts are coaching thousands of volunteer election monitors on the rules they'll need to watch for fraud and ensure a fair vote. The vote across Turkey’s 81 provinces Sunday will determine who controls localities from m Hawaii says 30 Lahaina fire survivors are moving into housing daily but 3,000 are still in hotels 03/27/2024 11:30pm • HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said Wednesday some 3,000 people displaced by Lahaina's wildfires are still living in hotels more than seven months after the August blaze but that up to 30 people are moving to longer-term housing each day. Green told a news conference the state and federal