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DC plans to open emergency department in one of its most underserved communities 03/07/2024 09:21pm • D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has announced plans to open a free-standing emergency room on the Fletcher-Johnson Campus in Ward 7, expanding access to health care in some of the city's most underserved neighborhoods. In a Wednesday news release, Bowser said it's part of an agreement with Universal Hea United Airlines plane makes a safe emergency landing in LA after losing a tire during takeoff 03/07/2024 07:45pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A United Airlines jetliner bound for Japan made a safe landing in Los Angeles on Thursday after losing a tire while taking off from San Francisco. Video shows the plane losing one of the six tires on its left-side main landing gear assembly seconds after takeoff. The tire land Haiti extends a state of emergency and nighttime curfew to try and repel widespread gang attacks 03/07/2024 07:40pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s government said Thursday that it was extending a state of emergency and nighttime curfew to try and curb violent gang attacks that have paralyzed the capital of Port-au-Prince in a fierce battle for political power. An initial three-day curfew was announced o 7 of the Best REIT ETFs to Buy for 2024 03/07/2024 07:00pm • In recent testimony before Congress, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell gave every indication that interest rates have stopped their incessant march higher. Although he didn't provide lawmakers with a precise timetable, he insinuated rate cuts were coming "at some point" this year. The stock market Pros and Cons of Active Adult Communities 03/07/2024 07:00pm • About three years ago, Lori Felix's husband needed a double knee replacement. To accommodate his recovery, they needed to move before the surgery. After some searching, they landed at La Floresta, a 55-plus community with about 300 units -- including ones all on one level -- in Brea, California. It 6 dead after mass stabbing at Ottawa home, student who lived with family arrested 03/07/2024 06:04pm • TORONTO (AP) — A 19-year-old student from Sri Lanka is accused of stabbing and killing six people he lived with, including a 2 1/2-month-old baby girl and three other kids from a Sri Lankan family, Ottawa police said Thursday. Ottawa police chief Eric Stubbs said an “edged weapon” or “knife- Why are clocks set forward in the spring? Thank wars, confusion and a hunger for sunlight 03/07/2024 05:27pm • DALLAS (AP) — Once again, most Americans will set their clocks forward by one hour this weekend, losing perhaps a bit of sleep but gaining more glorious sunlight in the evenings as the days warm into summer. Where did this all come from, though? How we came to move the clock forward in the s A timeline of Haiti's gang violence and how the country got to where it is 03/07/2024 05:10pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti is once again facing a wave of chaos fueled by ongoing gang wars, which have spiraled since the 2021 assassination of the country’s president. Gang leaders have grown increasingly violent and empowered, taking advantage of power vacuums in the Caribbean nation Cannabis sales in Minnesota are likely to start later than expected. How much later isn't clear 03/07/2024 04:25pm • ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota probably won’t meet its goal of launching full-scale retail marijuana sales in the first quarter of 2025 because of the time it will take to draft regulations and issue licenses, the state’s top cannabis regulator acknowledged Thursday. While Charlene Briner, i Last month was hottest February ever recorded. It's the ninth-straight broken record 03/07/2024 02:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole and the world's oceans setting new high-temperature marks, according to the European Union climate agency Copernicus. The latest record-breaking in this climate change Apple is making big App Store changes in Europe over new rules. Could it mean more iPhone hacking? 03/07/2024 01:04pm • Apple is opening small cracks in the iPhone's digital fortress as part of a regulatory clampdown in Europe that is striving to give consumers more choices — at the risk of creating new avenues for hackers to steal personal and financial information stored on the devices. The overhaul rolling out T At least 200 people, mostly women and children, abducted by extremists in northeastern Nigeria 03/07/2024 12:39pm • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic extremists have abducted at least 200 people who were out searching for firewood, mostly women and children displaced by violence in northeastern Nigeria, the United Nations office in the country said. Locals blamed the attack on Islamic extremist rebels who launched Biden will announce a plan for a temporary port on Gaza's coast to increase flow of humanitarian aid 03/07/2024 12:21pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will announce a plan in his State of the Union address Thursday for the U.S. military to help establish a temporary port on the Gaza coast, increasing the flow of humanitarian aid for the beleaguered territory during the Israel-Hamas war, according to administ Haiti extends nighttime curfew and state of emergency in capital as armed violence continues 03/07/2024 12:11pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti extends nighttime curfew and state of emergency in capital as armed violence continues. EPL rivalry between Klopp and Guardiola has been one of the greatest. Enjoy it while it lasts 03/07/2024 07:49am • MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Enjoy it while it lasts. The most enduring English Premier League rivalry in recent times will end this season when Jurgen Klopp steps down as Liverpool manager and, presumably, makes life a lot easier for Manchester City and Pep Guardiola. Mikel Arteta may have somethi