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Heat wave begins Monday, bringing hotter weather and higher temperatures to DC area 06/17/2024 09:36am • After an ideal summer weekend for wandering outdoors, forecasts for the D.C. region this week see temperatures climbing upward, with heat indexes possibly breaking 100 degrees. Stay inside — and stay cool. Here's what you need to know. Starting Monday, an extended run of 90-degree days begin Chinese premier agrees with Australia to 'properly manage' differences 06/17/2024 04:46am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Chinese Premier Li Qiang said he agreed with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday to properly manage their nations' differences as they emerge from a hostile era in which minister-to-minister contacts were banned and trade barriers cost Australian export The high cost of living is still biting the UK. Many don't think the election will change anything 06/17/2024 12:09am • LONDON (AP) — Dominic Watters watches his gas and electricity meter like a hawk. He topped it up a few days ago, but now there’s just 1.85 pounds ($2.40) of credit left. That may determine what kind of dinner he and his teen daughter get tonight, he says. Watters, a campaigner for better access 2 killed and 6 wounded in shooting during a Juneteenth celebration in a Texas park 06/16/2024 08:43pm • ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) — A weekend shooting in a Texas park left two people dead and six wounded, including two children, authorities said. The victims were shot shortly before 11 p.m. Saturday during a Juneteenth celebration at Old Settlers Park in Round Rock, about 19 miles (30 kilometers) north 7 Best Money Market Funds to Buy for 2024 06/16/2024 08:00pm • Both the European Central Bank and the Bank of Canada have initiated 25-basis-point cuts in their policy interest rates, but their U.S. counterpart has not followed suit. In its June decision, the Federal Reserve again kept its policy interest rate unchanged at 5.25% to 5.5% and indicated that marke Hot days ahead for DC area: Heat emergency plan in effect this week 06/16/2024 05:52pm • D.C., Maryland and Virginia are starting a streak of 90-degree days this week as Juneteenth and the Summer Equinox — the longest day of the year and the beginning of astrological summer — creep ever closer. Here's what you need to know. After a calm, breezy and fairly sunny Father's Day weeke Milan Fashion Week: Prada projects youthful optimism, not escapism, in a turbulent world 06/16/2024 03:56pm • MILAN (AP) — Without making overt statements, Milan designers expressed their concern over the global turbulence through their collections. Miuccia Prada said she wanted to project optimism. “Because even if the times are bad, I feel that it was the right thing to do," she said backstage at the At Euro 2024 the talented Belgium team almost escapes the 'Golden Generation' tag. But not quite yet 06/16/2024 03:50pm • FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — So close, so nearly made it. After more than 25 minutes of questions to Belgium captain Kevin De Bruyne and coach Domenico Tedesco on Sunday, the dreaded words “Golden Generation” had not yet been heard. And then it happened — with the very last question, to Tedesc Md. Gov. Moore: Programs for Key Bridge recovery will sunset in June 06/16/2024 03:14pm • Maryland Gov. Wes Moore announced Friday that certain economic relief programs responding to the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse will sunset, beginning in late June. In a news release, the governor's office said the programs, which began in April, have provided $37.4 million in assistance to th Shooting in Detroit suburb injures 9, leaving an 8-year-old in critical condition 06/16/2024 10:32am • ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (AP) — Nine people were injured, including two young children and their mother, after a shooter opened fire at a splash pad in a Detroit suburb where families gathered to escape the summer heat Saturday. Police tracked the shooter to a home, where the man apparently shot him What to know about Trump's outreach with Arab Americans led by his daughter Tiffany's father-in-law 06/16/2024 08:17am • LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Donald Trump's allies are working to win over Arab American voter s who are unhappy with President Joe Biden’s support for Israel. The effort is led by Massad Boulos, whose son married Tiffany Trump, the former president's younger daughter, two years ago. Boulos, a Lebanese New Caledonia reopening its international airport and shortening curfew as unrest continues to ebb 06/16/2024 05:12am • PARIS (AP) — The French Pacific territory of New Caledonia is shortening its overnight curfew and reopening its international airport that was closed to commercial flights for more than a month because of deadly violence that wracked the archipelago where pro-independence Indigenous Kanaks want to Trump blasts immigrants for taking jobs as he courts voters at a Black church, MAGA event in Detroit 06/15/2024 09:23pm • DETROIT (AP) — Donald Trump blamed immigrants for stealing jobs and government resources as he courted separate groups of Black voters and hardcore conservatives in battleground Michigan on Saturday. The Republican former president also made several new baseless claims attacking the nation's votin Texan whose husband died by hot tub electrocution at Mexican beach resort files wrongful death suit 06/15/2024 07:54pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — An American tourist was killed and his wife hospitalized after being electrocuted in a hot tub in a Mexican beach town earlier this week, an incident that prompted the family to sue the resort for wrongful death and negligence, their lawyers said Saturday. The seriously injured Missouri abortion ban wasn't about lawmakers imposing religious beliefs, judge says 06/15/2024 06:39pm • A judge in Missouri says lawmakers who passed a restrictive abortion ban were not trying to impose their religious beliefs on everyone in the state, rejecting a case filed by more than a dozen Christian, Jewish and Unitarian Universalist leaders who support abortion rights. The groups sought a perma