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Russia strikes Ukraine's Kharkiv with aerial bombs for the first time since 2022 03/27/2024 11:04pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia struck the northeastern city of Kharkiv with aerial bombs Wednesday for the first time since 2022, killing at least one civilian and wounding 16 others, local officials said. The airstrikes caused widespread damage, hitting several residential buildings and damaging the Hunter Biden's lawyers push California judge to toss out tax charges 03/27/2024 08:12pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Attorneys for Hunter Biden asked a judge Wednesday to toss out the tax case accusing him of a four-year scheme to avoid paying $1.4 million in taxes while living an extravagant lifestyle. President Joe Biden's son has pleaded not guilty to the nine felony and misdemeanor tax of Remains of 2 people recovered after Baltimore Key Bridge collapse 03/27/2024 07:45pm • Listen to WTOP online and on the radio at 103.5 FM or 107.7 FM for our team coverage. Searchers recovered the remains of two people from the Patapsco River after a massive container ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on Tuesday morning. The discovery came amid a daylo Louisville tabs Charleston's Pat Kelsey to become Cardinals' head coach, AP source says 03/27/2024 07:43pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville has reached an agreement with College of Charleston coach Pat Kelsey to become the Cardinals’ next men’s basketball coach, a person with direct knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press. The person spoke Wednesday on the condition of anonymity becau Debate emerges over whether modern protections could have saved Baltimore bridge 03/27/2024 07:30pm • When a 900-foot container ship struck the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge in 2007, the span stood firm and no one died, either on the ship or the highway above. The bridge's supports were protected by a fendering system of concrete and other materials that was installed to absorb such strikes. What we know about the missing workers presumed dead after Baltimore Key Bridge collapse 03/27/2024 06:29pm • More information about the people who were killed in the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse emerged Wednesday as authorities announced the bodies of two people had been recovered from the water.  Authorities identified the two as Alejandro Fernandez Fuentes, 35, of Baltimore, and Dorlian Castillo Israeli strikes in Lebanon kill 16, militant rockets kill 1 Israeli as cross-border violence soars 03/27/2024 06:07pm • HEBBARIYE, Lebanon (AP) — A series of Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon killed 16 people and a barrage of rockets fired by the militant group Hezbollah killed one Israeli man, making Wednesday the deadliest day in more than five months of fighting along the border. Since the outbreak of the I Yellen says China's rapid buildout of its green energy industry 'distorts global prices' 03/27/2024 06:03pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called out China's ramped-up production in solar energy, electric vehicles and lithium-ion batteries, calling it unfair competition that “distorts global prices" and “hurts American firms and workers, as well as firms and workers around the wor The Latest | Airstrikes and rocket fire on Lebanon-Israel border as death toll climbs 03/27/2024 05:50pm • The death toll from Israeli airstrikes across southern Lebanon has climbed to 16, including several militants and members of paramedic groups, according to Lebanese state media and the militant organizations. And in northern Israel, one man was killed by a barrage of at least 30 rockets fired by Leb A $15 toll to drive into part of Manhattan has been approved. That's a first for US cities 03/27/2024 05:45pm • NEW YORK (AP) — New York is on track to become the first U.S. city with congestion tolls on drivers entering its central business district after transit officials approved a $15 fee for most motorists headed to the busiest part of Manhattan. Members of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority boa West Virginia animal shelter pleads for help fostering dogs after truck crashes into building 03/27/2024 04:56pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia animal shelter put out an urgent plea for people to foster its dogs after a vehicle plowed into its building Wednesday, shelter officials said. The Kanawha-Charleston Humane Association said on Facebook that a rental truck struck the building as workers Movie Review: Alice Rohrwacher's tombaroli tale 'La Chimera' is pure magic 03/27/2024 04:04pm • When we talk about “movie magic,” the first thing that comes to mind is often something like the bikes achieving liftoff in “E.T.” But it applies no less to Alice Rohrwacher’s wondrous “La Chimera,” a grubbily transcendent folk tale of a film that finds its enchantment buried in the gr Suspects plead not guilty in human smuggling case involving Indian family's death on Canada border 03/27/2024 03:33pm • ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A man accused of helping smuggle people across the U.S.-Canada border into Minnesota, including four members of an Indian family who froze to death in 2022, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to seven counts of human smuggling. Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 28, who prosecutors say we The death toll in the Moscow concert hall attack rises to 143, while 80 others remain hospitalized 03/27/2024 03:31pm • MOSCOW (AP) — The death toll from last week's Moscow concert hall attack rose to 143, Russian authorities said Wednesday. Around 80 other people wounded in the siege by gunmen remain hospitalized. The Friday night massacre in Crocus City Hall, a sprawling shopping and entertainment venue on the no 'Women farmers are invisible': A West African project helps them claim their rights — and land 03/27/2024 02:27pm • ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal (AP) — Mariama Sonko’s voice resounded through the circle of 40 women farmers sitting in the shade of a cashew tree. They scribbled notes, brows furrowed in concentration as her lecture was punctuated by the thud of falling fruit. This quiet village in Senegal is the headquar