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Tax charges in Hunter Biden case are rarely filed, but could have deep political reverberations 12/08/2023 05:18pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden has been hit with new criminal charges in California accusing him of scheming to avoid paying his taxes while spending lavishly on everything from luxury hotels to escorts to exotic cars. The president's son is also facing separate firearm charges in Delaware, raisi Loudoun Co. updates absence policy over post-pandemic attendance 12/08/2023 04:03pm • The number of students missing 18 or more school days a year is declining in Loudoun County Public Schools, but Superintendent Aaron Spence said the Virginia school system has updated its absence policy in response to absenteeism in a WTOP exclusive interview. Spence, in his first year leading th McCarthy back with Cowboys after appendectomy, set to call plays against Eagles 12/08/2023 03:34pm • FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Dallas Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy is back with the team after undergoing an emergency appendectomy just four days before planning to be the sideline for an NFC East showdown with Philadelphia. The 60-year-old knew he would be a big part of the story despite the division lead Column: So much for peace and harmony in the world of golf as Jon Rahm heads to LIV 12/08/2023 03:15pm • So much for peace and harmony in the world of golf. Jon Rahm's surprising defection from the PGA Tour to Saudi-funded LIV shows just how fractured the sport remains, even as it faces an end-of-the-year deadline to finalize an agreement that was supposed to make everything kumbaya. Only one thing is Putin will seek another term as Russian president, aiming to extend his rule of over two decades 12/08/2023 03:10pm • Vladimir Putin on Friday moved to prolong his repressive and unyielding grip on Russia for at least another six years, announcing his candidacy in the presidential election next March that he is all but certain to win. Putin still commands wide support after nearly a quarter-century in power, despit Johnny Depp among stars paying tribute at funeral of The Pogues singer Shane MacGowan 12/08/2023 02:44pm • LONDON (AP) — Thousands of people lined the streets of Dublin on Friday to say goodbye to The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan as his coffin wound through the Irish capital before a small-town funeral attended by family, neighbors and friends including Johnny Depp and Nick Cave. MacGowan died Nov. 3 Baltimore's light rail service suspended temporarily for emergency inspections 12/08/2023 02:22pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — Transportation officials in Maryland temporarily suspended light rail service in the Baltimore area Friday to perform emergency inspections of the whole fleet. The Maryland Transit Administration announced Thursday afternoon that the suspension was due to a potential problem un Hunter Biden is indicted on 9 tax charges, adding to gun charges in a special counsel investigation 12/08/2023 02:17pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden was indicted on nine tax charges in California as a special counsel investigation into the business dealings of President Joe Biden's son intensifies against the backdrop of the 2024 election. The new charges filed Thursday — three felonies and six misdemeanors — Houston has a population that's young. Its next mayor, set to be elected in a runoff, won't be 12/08/2023 12:24pm • HOUSTON (AP) — No matter who wins, Houston will elect the oldest big-city mayor in the U.S. this weekend, choosing between two candidates who each have been in public office longer than the median age of the residents they will govern. Voters in Saturday’s runoff between state Sen. John Whitmire Haliburton and Pacers to meet James and the Lakers for the NBA's In-Season Tournament title 12/08/2023 11:52am • LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tyrese Haliburton can change his own narrative on Saturday night. And LeBron James gets a chance to add yet another prize to his legacy. It's a game that doesn't count in the standings — but still has a ton of money, a trophy, medals and bragging rights on the line. Haliburton a Street closures for Sunday's Jingle All the Way race in DC 12/08/2023 05:00am • The Jingle All the Way 5K/15K race happens in the District Sunday. That means there will be road closures, per D.C. police and U.S. Park Police. These streets will be closed to vehicle traffic by D.C. police from around 6 a.m. to noon: 1200 block of Maine Avenue SW Maine Avenue from In Bloodshed, fear, hunger, desperation: Palestinians try to survive war's new chapter in southern Gaza 12/08/2023 01:47am • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The roads are so ravaged that the dead and wounded arrive by donkey cart. Desperate relatives rush bloodied and dust-covered people, many of them children, to the hospital. Naseem Hassan, a 48-year-old Palestinian medic in the Gaza Strip's southern town of Khan Younis, sai High-profile attacks on Derek Chauvin and Larry Nassar put spotlight on violence in federal prisons 12/08/2023 01:08am • Derek Chauvin was stabbed nearly two dozen times in the law library at a federal prison in Arizona. Larry Nassar was knifed repeatedly in his cell at a federal penitentiary in Florida. The assaults of two notorious, high-profile federal prisoners by fellow inmates in recent months have renewed co Desperation grows among Palestinians trapped with little aid as Israel battles Hamas in Gaza 12/07/2023 09:28pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Desperation grew Thursday among Palestinians largely cut off from supplies of food and water as Israeli forces engaged in fierce urban battles with Hamas militants. Strikes in the southern Gaza town of Rafah sowed fear in one of the last places where civilians coul Seychelles declares an emergency after deadly flooding and a blast at an explosives depot 12/07/2023 08:57pm • VICTORIA, Seychelles (AP) — The Indian Ocean island nation of Seychelles declared a state of emergency Thursday after flooding killed three people and a huge blast at an explosives depot near the capital injured scores of others. The explosion caused mostly minor injuries to 178 people, the health