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Jason Momoa hosts Discovery's 'Shark Week,' featuring feeding frenzies and junkie sharks 07/21/2023 11:42am • NEW YORK (AP) — Discovery Channel has landed the perfect host this year for “Shark Week,” none other than a huge fan of all ocean creatures — Aquaman. Jason Momoa, who in real life dreamed of a career as a marine biologist before Hollywood anointed him an ocean god, is going back to his root Blocked from power, 8-party Thai coalition says it will negotiate with conservative opponents 07/21/2023 11:36am • BANGKOK (AP) — A coalition of Thai political parties, struggling to form a government after two failed attempts, announced Friday it would try again next week to persuade conservative parliamentary opponents to back it, and suggested it might consider removing its most progressive member which won Woman killed in Georgetown hospital parking garage crash identified 07/21/2023 11:30am • Police in D.C. identified the woman who was killed when the driver of a car crashed into several people inside a Georgetown hospital parking garage — and released more details about the collision. The woman who died has been identified as Jewel Regina Bazilio-Bellegarde, 68, of Silver Spring, M Viewpoint: National emergency braking mandate is no overreach 07/21/2023 10:19am • There continues to be far too many people dying on our roads and highways. An estimated 31,785 people died in traffic crashes from January to September 2022 in the U.S., according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). That does not include the approximately 7,508 people kill Man charged in killing of 6-year-old found dead in DC jail 07/21/2023 08:18am • The Maryland man charged in the deadly 2021 shooting of 6-year-old Nyiah Courtney was found dead Thursday in the D.C. jail, according to the city's department of corrections. Authorities said Marktwan Hargraves, 24, of Waldorf, was found unresponsive early Thursday morning. First responders admin Hiring blitz: Maryland's transportation dept. aims to fill 1,100 jobs 07/21/2023 08:16am • The Maryland Department of Transportation is looking to fill 1,100 job vacancies across its divisions. These open vacancies across MDOT include the State Highway Administration, the Motor Vehicle Administration, the Maryland Transit Administration and the Maryland Transportation Authority, accord After decades of struggle in Israel, dozens of African Hebrew Israelites face deportation 07/21/2023 07:00am • DIMONA, Israel (AP) — For two years, Toveet Israel and dozens of other residents of the Village of Peace have lived in fear. Dimona, a city on the edge of the nation of Israel’s Negev Desert, has been her home for 24 years. Her eight children were born here and know no other country. Now, she an Swiss order hang gliders to stay away, closing air space as firefighters battle forest inferno 07/21/2023 06:51am • GENEVA (AP) — Swiss authorities have temporarily shut the airspace over a small part of southwestern Switzerland because recreational gliders have endangered the work of emergency teams battling a persistent forest fire in the area. The Federal Office of Civil Aviation said Friday that the restric House aims to ease air travel delays with more money for air traffic controllers 07/21/2023 05:23am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration would get more money to hire air traffic controllers and the mandatory retirement age for airline pilots would be raised under a bill approved Thursday by the House. The measure seeks to improve air travel, which has been plagued by delays and A Croatian firefighter has died in the storm that swept the Balkans, raising the toll to 6 dead 07/20/2023 10:52pm • ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A Croatian firefighter has died during a deadly storm that swept the Balkans after a heat wave, bringing the death toll to six, officials said Thursday. Emergency services in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia scrambled to restore electricity and clear the debris left over UN chief says the world is in a new era marked by the highest major power competition in decades 07/20/2023 10:00pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the world’s nations Thursday that the post-Cold War period is over and the world is moving toward a new multipolar era already marked by the highest level of geopolitical tensions and major power competition in decades. He warned that New York police officer indicted, accused of using stun gun 7 times on handcuffed man 07/20/2023 08:44pm • MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. (AP) — A police sergeant in a New York City suburb has been indicted on federal civil rights charges, accused of using his stun gun multiple times on a handcuffed man in mental crisis who was being involuntarily taken for medical treatment, prosecutors announced Thursday. Sgt. M How to Be Master of Your Cash Flow 07/20/2023 08:00pm • Financial security requires mastering all kinds of personal finance skills but perhaps the most fundamental is managing your cash flow -- or the money you have coming in and going out. To accomplish everything from maintaining a basic quality of life to building wealth, earning enough money and spen Should you pay off student loans or invest for retirement? 07/20/2023 08:00pm • If you have student debt, you may be struggling to decide whether you should pay off your student loans or invest your money for retirement. How you should approach this question depends on your financial picture, but it is possible to work to pay off student debt while also getting on track for Try This 6-Month Savings Challenge 07/20/2023 08:00pm • Just how far are you willing to push yourself to save a meaningful amount of money in a short period of time? Only you know. But when you want to accumulate a lump sum by a date on your calendar six months in advance, odds are you'll hit that target if you create a feasible plan. So, whether you wan