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Airbus targets 800 aircraft deliveries for 2024 even as supply chain issues linger 02/15/2024 07:17am • PARIS (AP) — Airbus plans to deliver more aircraft to customers in 2024 even as supply chain headaches continue to afflict the European airplane maker. The company reported healthy results for its commercial aircraft business Thursday in its latest annual earnings report, and signaled that there Who is Prabowo Subianto, the former general who's Indonesia's next president? 02/15/2024 05:55am • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A wealthy ex-general with ties to both Indonesia's popular outgoing president and its dictatorial past looks set to be its next leader. He's promised to continue the outgoing president's widely popular policies, but his human rights record has activists and some analysts DC man who police say shot 3 officers in custody after 13-hour standoff 02/15/2024 05:33am • Listen live to WTOP for the latest updates. A suspect is in custody Wednesday night after police said he shot and wounded three D.C. officers who were attempting to serve an arrest warrant and then holed up inside his home. The standoff lasted around 13 hours and started when police approached Queen Camilla, once shunned by British public, comes to the rescue as Charles is treated for cancer 02/15/2024 12:46am • LONDON (AP) — What a difference a few decades can make. Queen Camilla, once seen as the scourge of the House of Windsor, the woman at the heart of King Charles III’s doomed marriage to the late Princess Diana, has emerged as one of the monarchy’s most prominent emissaries. With Charles and Kat Even voters in independent-minded Maine are taking sides in a polarized nation 02/15/2024 12:18am • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The state of Maine's long-cherished reputation for political independence is being threatened by the nation's polarized politics, with more and more of its voters feeling pressured to take sides. The shift, reflected in new voter registration numbers and an increasingly p Democrats embrace tougher border enforcement, seeing Trump's demolition of deal as a 'gift' 02/15/2024 12:10am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate's border proposal was one of the toughest bipartisan bills to emerge on the issue in decades. Yet it quickly collapsed when Republicans — galvanized by Donald Trump, the likely Republican presidential nominee — rejected the compromise as insufficient. Now Democrats It's time for Northeast to prep for floods like those that hit this winter. Climate change is why 02/15/2024 12:09am • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — After back-to-back storms lashed the Northeast in January, rental properties Haim Levy owns in coastal Hampton, New Hampshire, were hammered by nearly two feet of water, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage and causing him to evacuate tenants to safer grou Today in History: February 15, Singer Nat King Cole dies at 45 02/15/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Thursday, Feb. 15, the 46th day of 2024. There are 320 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 15, 1965, singer Nat King Cole, who despite facing extreme racism throughout his short career sold more than 50 million records that included massive hits Thom Browne closes out NY Fashion Week with a black-and-white flourish and a nod to Edgar Allan Poe 02/14/2024 11:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Thom Browne, ever the master showman of American fashion, closed out New York Fashion Week on a blustery day with his own wintry landscape, blanketing the floor with fake snow and presenting his latest inventive designs to the words of Edgar Allan Poe’s chilling “The Raven.” First-ever February tornadoes in Wisconsin caused $2.4M in damages 02/14/2024 09:54pm • EVANSVILLE, Wis. (AP) — The first tornadoes ever recorded in Wisconsin in the usually frigid month of February caused more than $2.4 million in damage, officials said Wednesday. The tornadoes that ripped through Rock County on Feb. 8 killed some cattle and hit 30 homes, officials said. The damage Former Indonesian general linked to human rights abuses claims victory in presidential election 02/14/2024 08:58pm • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A former general linked to past human rights abuses claimed victory Wednesday in Indonesia’s presidential election, a result that would raise questions about the commitment to democratic values in the sprawling island nation that is the world’s third-largest democracy Myanmar will start drafting 5,000 people a month into the military soon. Some think of fleeing 02/14/2024 08:25pm • BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government on Wednesday said it will draft 60,000 young men and women yearly for military service under its newly activated conscription law, with call-ups beginning after the April festival marking the country’s traditional New Year. The conscription measure Some worry California proposition to tackle homelessness would worsen the problem 02/14/2024 07:51pm • OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom is urging voters to approve a ballot initiative that he says is needed to tackle the state's homelessness crisis, a change social providers say would threaten programs that keep people from becoming homeless in the first place. In 200 7 of the Best REIT ETFs to Own in 2024 02/14/2024 07:00pm • Real estate investment trusts, or REITs, are specialty companies that own and operate real estate or financial instruments such as mortgages or mortgage bonds that are tied to commercial real estate. Investors buy REITs for two primary reasons: Dependable income and the potential for long-term capit How Much Physical Activity Do You Need? 02/14/2024 07:00pm • A person's physical activity requirements depend on a number of variables, including their current health status and personal goals. The simple answer is that some is better than none, and more is usually better than some. That sentiment doesn't change as we age. In other words, if you aren't curren