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Prominent Democrats duel ex-baseball star Garvey for Feinstein's US Senate seat in California 02/05/2024 09:50am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A crowded primary contest to fill the U.S. Senate seat once held by the late Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein is showing again that money matters in notoriously expensive California while testing whether the state’s long-squabbling Republicans can unite behind a single candida Orbán's party boycotts a session of Hungary's parliament to further stall Sweden's bid to join NATO 02/05/2024 09:34am • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Lawmakers from the party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán boycotted an emergency session of parliament on Monday where a vote was scheduled to place Sweden's bid to join NATO on the legislative agenda, adding to 18 months of delays that have angered Hungary's alli South Block will take its smoothies and açai bowls beyond the DC region 02/05/2024 09:33am • Arlington, Virginia's South Block has set its sights on expanding beyond the D.C. region, and now has the financial backing to do it. South Block's first smoothie, pressed juice and açai bowl shop opened in Arlington's Clarendon neighborhood in 2011, and the chain has already grown to 15 locati As groundbreaking nears, massive Ellicott City tunnel plan could 'fix' flooding on Main Street 02/05/2024 08:52am • The devastation and disappointment in 2018 from the second "thousand year flood" in two years took its toll on residents and small business owners on Main Street in historic Ellicott City, Maryland, said Rep. John Sarbanes. "When that second storm hit, in the wake of it, I think many of them were How two sentences in the Constitution rose from obscurity to ensnare Donald Trump 02/05/2024 08:25am • DENVER (AP) — In the summer of 2020, Gerard Magliocca, like many during the coronavirus pandemic, found himself stuck inside with time on his hands. A law professor at Indiana University, Magliocca figured he would research the history of two long-neglected sentences in the Constitution’s 14th A Victoria Monét, Dua Lipa, Miley Cyrus stun on the wild-and-wacky Grammys red carpet 02/05/2024 06:19am • NEW YORK (AP) — Victoria Monét walked the Grammys red carpet Sunday in a bronze Versace goddess body-hugger, her adorable 2-year-old and fellow nominee, Hazel, in a matching color as music's big night unfolded on the wildest and wackiest red carpet of awards season. Dua Lipa went for low-cut silv Who will run the US House in 2025? Once again, control could tip on California swing districts 02/05/2024 12:36am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Heavily Democratic California might appear an unlikely national battleground, but a string of competitive U.S. House contests is again poised to play a crucial role in determining control of the chamber as Republicans look to maintain their fragile majority in a deeply divided n Pennsylvania governor to deliver budget while seeking money for higher education and public transit 02/05/2024 12:28am • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Josh Shapiro is set to deliver a second budget proposal to Pennsylvania lawmakers on Tuesday with a firmer grasp on how he wants to pursue several top priorities, his state in a relatively strong fiscal position and lessons learned from last year's ugly budget fight. Mo Salvadorans celebrating expected reelection of 'world's coolest dictator' as their president 02/05/2024 12:03am • SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Salvadorans packed the capital's central square Sunday evening to celebrate the expected reelection of Nayib Bukele as president even before any official results were announced. With soaring approval ratings and virtually no competition, Nayib Bukele was almost cer Today in History: February 5, Senate acquits Donald Trump in first impeachment 02/05/2024 12:01am • Today in History Today is Monday, Feb. 5, the 36th day of 2024. There are 330 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 5, 2020, the Senate voted to acquit President Donald Trump, bringing to a close the third presidential trial in American history, though a majority of Shelling kills at least 28 at bakery in Russian-occupied Ukraine, Moscow-installed officials say 02/04/2024 11:32pm • Ukrainian shelling killed at least 28 people at a bakery in the Russian-occupied city of Lysychansk, Moscow-installed officials said. At least one child was among the dead Saturday, local leader Leonid Pasechnik wrote in a statement on Telegram. A further 10 people were rescued from under the rubble Senators release a border and Ukraine deal but the House speaker declares it 'dead on arrival' 02/04/2024 11:25pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators on Sunday released a highly anticipated $118 billion package that pairs border enforcement policy with wartime aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies, but it quickly ran into a wall of opposition from top House Republicans, including Speaker Mike Johnson. The p What's in the bipartisan Senate package to aid Ukraine, secure U.S. border 02/04/2024 11:17pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators have come out with a carefully negotiated $118 billion compromise that pairs tens of billions of dollars in wartime aid for Ukraine with new border laws aimed at shrinking the historic number of people who have come to the U.S. border with Mexico to seek asylum. The legi Victoria Monét wins best new artist at the Grammys 02/04/2024 11:13pm • Singer-songwriter Victoria Monét won best new artist at the 66th annual Grammy Awards. Monét, 34, won the category against Gracie Abrams, Fred Again.., Noah Kahan, Ice Spice, Jelly Roll, Coco Jones and The War and Treaty. She emerged as a frontrunner early — and reigned in The Associated Pres Second atmospheric river in days blows into California, knocking out power and flooding roads 02/04/2024 09:41pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The second of back-to-back atmospheric rivers battered California on Sunday, flooding roadways and knocking out power to nearly 850,000 people and prompting a rare warning for hurricane-force winds as the state braced for what could be days of heavy rains. The storm inundated st