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Federal government braces for a long – and expensive – road to recovery from Baltimore bridge collapse 03/27/2024 02:24pm • Washington (CNN) — Rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge and getting the critical Port of Baltimore back online will require an enormous interagency effort – and significant federal funding.President Joe Biden pledged the full support of the federal government in the response and recovery Iowa attorney general not finished with audit that's holding up contraception money for rape victims 03/27/2024 01:43pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa attorney general’s office said it is still working on an audit of its victim services that has held up emergency contraception funding for victims of sexual assault. Attorney General Brenna Bird, a Republican, paused the funding while awaiting the results of the A UK financial trader dubbed the ringleader of an interest rate manipulation scandal loses an appeal 03/27/2024 12:54pm • LONDON (AP) — A British financial trader, who has been described as the ringleader in the manipulation of a key interest rate before and after the global financial crisis, lost his appeal Wednesday to have his conviction quashed. Tom Hayes, 44, who was a former trader at U.S. bank Citigroup and Sw Ukraine ramps up spending on homemade weapons to help repel Russia 03/27/2024 11:01am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine needs any edge it can get to repel Russia from its territory. One emerging bright spot is its small but fast-growing defense industry, which the government is flooding with money in hopes that a surge of homemade weapons and ammunition can help turn the tide. The effor Kia invests in new compact car even though the segment is shrinking as Americans buy SUVs and trucks 03/27/2024 10:58am • NEW YORK (AP) — Kia is rolling out a revamped compact car in the U.S. even though sales of small cars are dropping as the nation continues to favor SUVs and pickup trucks. The South Korean automaker rolled out the new K4, which replaces the Forte, at the New York International Auto Show on Wednesd They fled kibbutzim after Hamas attacked. Now, many Israelis must decide whether to go back. 03/27/2024 10:57am • KIBBUTZ NAHAL OZ, Israel (AP) — For a few minutes on a recent afternoon, the sun-bathed silence that fills Nadav Tzabari’s neighborhood could almost be mistaken for peace. Then shelling from Israeli tanks dug in across the fence line in Gaza erupts again, sending shudders through the vacated hom 50 years after the former Yugoslavia protected abortion rights, that legacy is under threat 03/27/2024 07:50am • ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — With vigils outside clinics, marches drawing thousands and groups of men kneeling to pray in public squares, religious and neo-conservative groups have been ramping up pressure to ban abortions in staunchly Catholic Croatia. The fierce debate has fueled divisions in the Eur France beatable, Germany resurgent, Italy seeking redemption: The state of play ahead of Euro 2024 03/27/2024 07:06am • LONDON (AP) — The 24-team lineup for the European Championship is complete after Poland, Ukraine and Georgia became the final teams to qualify for the tournament in Germany. Here's a look at the how the favorites, title outsiders and underdogs stack up with less than 80 days to go until the openin German investigators work through hundreds of tips on fugitive Red Army Faction suspects 03/27/2024 06:52am • BERLIN (AP) — German investigators said Wednesday they were working through hundreds of new tips on the whereabouts of two fugitive suspected ex-members of the left-wing militant Red Army Faction following the arrest last month of their former comrade after decades in hiding. Daniela Klette, 65, w The irony of Steve Martin's life isn't lost on him 03/26/2024 09:03pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Steve Martin has long marveled at the many phases of his life. There’s his youth as a Disneyland performer, surrounded by vaudeville performers and magicians. A decade as a stand-up before the sudden onset of stadium-sized popularity. An abrupt shift to movies. Later, a new chapt How to Get a $10,000 Personal Loan 03/26/2024 08:00pm • When an unexpected circumstance arises, you may not have enough emergency savings on hand. What should you do if you need to cover a medical emergency, a last-minute trip or pressing debt? One option is to take out a personal loan. Here's everything you need to know about getting a $10,000 personal 6 construction workers presumed dead after Baltimore Key Bridge collapse, Coast Guard says 03/26/2024 07:33pm • Listen to WTOP online and on the radio at 103.5 FM or 107.7 FM for our team coverage. Six construction workers who were on Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge at the time it was rammed by a cargo ship, causing the bridge to collapse, are presumed dead after a search and rescue operation that Supreme Court seems likely to preserve access to the abortion medication mifepristone 03/26/2024 06:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed likely to preserve access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion case since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago. In nearly 90 minutes of Texas AG Ken Paxton reaches deal to end securities fraud charges after 9 years 03/26/2024 06:34pm • HOUSTON (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday agreed to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution under a deal to end criminal securities fraud charges that have shadowed the Republican for nearly a decade. The announcement by special prosecutors in a Houston courtroom came less than three Economic impact of Baltimore bridge collapse: 'Uncharted territory' 03/26/2024 05:45pm • Listen to WTOP online and on the radio at 103.5 FM or 107.7 FM for our team coverage. The collapse of Baltimore's Key Bridge on Tuesday after a cargo ship crashed into it, suspending the flow of ships into the Port of Baltimore, may not only hurt the local economy — there could be larger s