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Costs to Consider When Adopting a Pet 07/11/2023 08:00pm • If you're thinking about getting a pet, how much it'll cost to care for your pet might be the last thing on your mind. That's understandable. Dogs, cats, hamsters and gerbils -- those are cute and adorable. You can't cuddle a pet budget. But thinking about pet costs before you adopt a pet could help DC Council passes crime bill, gives police green light for high-speed chases 07/11/2023 06:47pm • On a 12 to 1 vote, the D.C. Council passed a bill on Tuesday that supporters said would help address a spike in crime across the nation's capital. Homicides are up 17%, and violent crime overall has risen 33% when compared to the same time last year, according to police figures. "Most crime is Things to know about a landslide that has destroyed homes in Southern California 07/11/2023 06:19pm • ROLLING HILLS ESTATES, Calif. (AP) — A landslide is destroying a cluster of hilltop homes in a gated Southern California community and poses a threat to others. Here are some things to know: WHAT HAPPENED? Los Angeles County firefighters responding to a report in the city of Rolling Hills Estates Jury decides 2014 document found in Aretha Franklin's couch is a valid will 07/11/2023 05:34pm • PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A document handwritten by singer Aretha Franklin and found in her couch after her 2018 death is a valid Michigan will, a jury said Tuesday, a critical turn in a dispute that has turned her sons against each other. It’s a victory for Kecalf Franklin and Edward Franklin whose Microsoft can move ahead with record $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, judge rules 07/11/2023 05:26pm • A federal judge has handed Microsoft a major victory by declining to block its looming $69 billion takeover of video game company Activision Blizzard. Regulators sought to ax the deal saying it will hurt competition. U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley said in a ruling that the merger deserv Appeals court blocks construction on Mountain Valley Pipeline even after Congress says it can't 07/11/2023 02:52pm • FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has again blocked construction on a contentious natural gas pipeline being built through Virginia and West Virginia, this time doing so even after Congress ordered the project's approval. The stay issued Monday by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Milwaukee council approves sales tax hike as part of plan to avoid bankruptcy 07/11/2023 12:54pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The sales tax in Milwaukee will go up 2 cents per dollar next year after the Common Council voted Tuesday to raise the rate as part of a bipartisan plan to avoid bankruptcy. City leaders who pushed for approval of the higher sales tax warned of looming deep cuts to core servic HCA Healthcare says data breach may affect 11 million patients in 20 states 07/11/2023 12:50pm • BOSTON (AP) — Medical giant HCA Healthcare, which operates 180 hospitals in the U.S. and Britain, says the personal data of about 11 million patients in 20 states may have been stolen in a data breach. Samples of the data, including addresses, phone numbers, emails and birth dates, were posted to Review: Sky Ferreira makes a joyful return to the stage and offers an alternative kind of pop career 07/11/2023 11:32am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — For two nights recently at Los Angeles' Vermont Hollywood, the enigmatic pop star Sky Ferreira emerged on stage like no time had passed — in jet black sunglasses and an oversized black pleather coat, in full “Matrix”-fashion — barreling through the songs from her 2013 cu Under pressure, Tunisia takes back hundreds of migrants trapped in a border zone with Libya 07/11/2023 10:44am • TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — At least 500 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have been transferred back to Tunisia after being pushed into a dangerous no-man’s-land on the Libyan border and trapped for a week there without access to basic necessities, aid agencies said Tuesday. The group was driven out e BBC grapples with sexual misconduct claims against unnamed presenter 07/11/2023 10:32am • London — BBC chief Tim Davie on Tuesday insisted on allowing a high-profile presenter accused of paying a teenager for sexually explicit images to remain anonymous, despite mounting calls for his identity to be revealed. The accusations fueled a fifth straight day of fevered frontpage hea Drought watch: Why some Marylanders are being urged to take shorter showers 07/11/2023 09:52am • Residents in parts of Maryland are now under a drought watch and are being encouraged by the state to cap their water use. "Water conservation is a good practice year-round," said Jay Apperson, spokesperson for the Maryland Department of the Environment. "Right now, the Maryland Department of the Catch garden pests and diseases early by keeping a close eye on your plants 07/11/2023 09:00am • Every morning, I head outside, coffee in hand, and usually in my pajamas, to check on my plants. “Who’s thirsty? Who needs a trim?” I ask, tending to their needs as I move from bed to bed. Most days, the visit reveals pleasant changes, like the first Madame Julia Correvon clematis flower of Tourists received no safety warnings before New Zealand volcano eruption killed 22, prosecutor says 07/11/2023 08:32am • Tourists received no health and safety warnings before they landed on New Zealand’s most active volcano ahead of a 2019 eruption that killed 22 people, a prosecutor said Tuesday. There were 47 people on White Island, the tip of an undersea volcano also known by its Indigenous Maori name, Whakaari, Tottenham signs Israel forward Manor Solomon as free agent from Ukrainian champion Shakhtar 07/11/2023 08:12am • Manor Solomon joined Tottenham as a free agent on Tuesday after leaving Shakhtar Donetsk which is pursuing legal action against FIFA for losing its players during the war on Ukraine. Tottenham said the Israel international, who spent last season in the English Premier League on loan at Fulham, has s