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DC delays implementing fines for using bus lanes, extends warning period indefinitely 09/19/2023 10:12pm • Drivers in D.C. will not receive hefty fines for blocking red-painted bus lanes in the city — at least, not yet. A new bus lane ticketing system was expected to be implemented on Monday, which followed a 45-day period of time during which drivers were issued warnings instead of fines. Howeve Gray backpack, Instagram posts led DC police to suspect in 10-year-old girl's Mother's Day shooting 09/19/2023 08:54pm • The 19-year-old man accused in the shooting death of a 10-year-old girl on Mother's Day was arraigned in court on Tuesday, where more details about the shooting emerged — as well as how police say they connected him to the crime. Koran Gregory, of Southeast D.C., appeared before a judge Tuesday NYC day care operator tried to cover up fentanyl operation before 1-year-old's death, feds allege 09/19/2023 08:32pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The owner of a New York City day care center where a 1-year-old child died after being exposed to fentanyl took steps to cover up her involvement in a sprawling drug operation, even as medics rushed to treat several children in her care who were poisoned by the opioid, federal pros El Salvador's leader, criticized internationally for gang crackdown, tells UN it was the right thing 09/19/2023 08:29pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele trumpeted the success of his gang crackdown during his speech at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, crediting his administration’s will against international criticism over human rights violations. Bukele said that if El Salvador had li New Mexico official orders insurance companies to expand timely access to behavioral health services 09/19/2023 07:58pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s top insurance regulator on Tuesday ordered health insurance companies to expand timely access to behavioral health services in response to the governor recently declaring a public health emergency over gun violence in the state's largest metropolitan area. Demo Pilot of downed F-35 stealth fighter jet parachuted into residential backyard, official says 09/19/2023 07:45pm • NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The pilot of a $100 million stealth fighter jet parachuted safely into the backyard of a home in South Carolina after a malfunction forced him to eject from the aircraft, causing the plane to crash into a wooded area about 60 miles away. A U.S. Marine Corps official w New Zealand rattled by magnitude 5.6 quake but no immediate reports of major damage or injuries 09/19/2023 07:08pm • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand was rattled by a magnitude 5.6 earthquake Wednesday morning but there were no immediate reports of major damage or injuries. The quake struck in the central South Island about 124 kilometers (77 miles) west of Christchurch, according to the U.S. Geologica Sacramento prosecutor sues California’s capital city over failure to clean up homeless encampments 09/19/2023 07:04pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Sacramento’s top prosecutor is suing the city’s leaders over failure to cleanup homeless encampments, escalating a monthslong dispute with leaders in California’s capital city. County District Attorney Thien Ho announced the lawsuit Tuesday during a news conference Brazil's Lula pitches his nation — and himself — as fresh leader for Global South 09/19/2023 06:49pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — “Brazil is back.” That has been Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's refrain for the better part of the last year, with the president deploying the snappy slogan to cast Brazil — and himself — as a leader of the Global South no longer content to abide the world's outdated work Chicago Blackhawks to play without a captain this season 09/19/2023 06:37pm • CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Blackhawks will not have a captain this season. General manager Kyle Davidson made the announcement on Tuesday. Jonathan Toews captained the team for almost 15 years, but he played his last game with the team in April. “I think we’ve added a lot of experienced leader Music Review: With reissue of ‘Last Splash,’ The Breeders make waves 30 years later 09/19/2023 05:03pm • The Breeders are celebrating the 30th anniversary of their second studio album with the release of “Last Splash (30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition),” out Friday on 4AD. The re-release won’t rewrite the history of the '90s alt-rock band, but it surfaces new curiosities from the vault, an Russian drone attack on a city in western Ukraine sparks an inferno at a warehouse and kills 1 09/19/2023 04:42pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a massive drone attack on the western city of Lviv early Tuesday, burning down a warehouse said to house humanitarian supplies and killing one man, Ukrainian authorities said. It was one of at least three deadly attacks in different cities. Ukraine intercepted House Republicans set first Biden impeachment inquiry hearing for Sept. 28 09/19/2023 01:30pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans plan to hold their first hearing next week in their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. The hearing — scheduled for Sept. 28 — is expected to focus on “constitutional and legal questions” that surround the allegations of Biden's involvement in The UN chief summons world leaders to action. But, he says, they seem 'incapable of coming together' 09/19/2023 01:20pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Insisting that international cooperation is critical, the United Nations chief delivered a dire warning to leaders from across the world Tuesday, declaring that the planet is becoming unhinged with mounting global challenges and geopolitical tensions — and warning that “w Transfers are fueling some of college football's biggest success stories as teams embrace the portal 09/19/2023 01:05pm • Clemson, the reigning Atlantic Coast Conference champion, has one player on its depth chart who arrived in Death Valley via the transfer portal: The backup quarterback. No. 4 Florida State is trying to reclaim the ACC crown from the Tigers, and has used the portal to supercharge a rebuild under coac