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Here's how you can improve your health by stopping negativity and embracing optimism 06/10/2024 06:53pm • Prince Bhojwani never thought of himself as a negative person, until three trips to the hospital in one month forced him to reconsider. Before May 2018, he was a healthy but chronically worried start-up founder who regularly did 20-mile (32-kilometer) bike rides. When he suddenly became barely able They launched a club to help Afghan refugees. 2 Fairfax Co. students saw it grow to welcome many others 06/10/2024 06:30pm • In 2021, as thousands of Afghan refugees arrived in the U.S., Annandale High School's Multilingual Education Department Chair, Meredith Hedrick, reached out to students Sosan Barakzai and Husna Basiri. Hendrick asked whether the pair, who are both Afghan immigrants, would be interested in helping Wyoming pass landslide brings mountain-sized headache to commuting tourist town workers 06/10/2024 06:13pm • CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A landslide that wiped out a vital two-lane road in western Wyoming is causing a mountain of headaches for thousands of commuting tourist town workers at the outset of the Yellowstone region's busy summer season. After the slide sent both lanes crashing into a ravine near Tet Blinken pushes Israel on postwar Gaza plans as pressure mounts on Hamas to accept cease-fire plan 06/10/2024 06:12pm • TEL AVIV (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged top Israeli officials on Monday to accept and implement a plan for postwar Gaza as he pushed for more international pressure on Hamas to agree to a cease-fire proposal newly endorsed by the U.N. Security Council. On his latest urgent mis US will store aid on secure beach in Gaza as UN pauses distribution from pier 06/10/2024 05:20pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Monday that it plans to stockpile aid shipments on a secure beach in Gaza during a U.N. pause on distributing food from the American-built pier after one of the deadliest days of the Israel-Hamas war. The U.N. World Food Program, which works with U.S. offic After disappointing 2023, defending Olympic champion Canada has steadied heading into Paris Games 06/10/2024 04:55pm • Even coach Bev Priestman acknowledges the Canadian national team lost its way last year. Two years after winning Olympic gold at the Tokyo Games, the Canadians were humbled by a poor performance at last summer's Women's World Cup. Canada failed to advance out of the group stage for the first time si An investment firm has taken a $1.9 billion stake in Southwest Airlines and wants to oust the CEO 06/10/2024 04:38pm • DALLAS (AP) — Activist shareholder Elliott Investment Management has bought a $1.9 billion stake in Southwest Airlines and is seeking to force out the CEO of the airline, which has struggled with operational and financial problems. Shares in the airline rose 7% Monday, their second-best day since Child well-being rankings place Virginia above Maryland 06/10/2024 03:28pm • Virginia ranks slightly higher than Maryland in a study of overall well-being of children, with Virginia taking the seventh spot among states in education. The 2024 Kids Count Data Book assigns state-by-state ratings for five children's well-being categories: Overall, economic well-being, educati The Latest | Election shifts the European Parliament further right 06/10/2024 02:47pm • Far-right parties made big gains in the European Parliament in election results that rattled the traditional powers and made French President Emmanuel Macron call snap legislative elections. Macron’s party suffered a heavy defeat from the far-right National Rally party, while in Germany support f Extended power outage that hit Puerto Rico angers and worries many during heat advisories 06/10/2024 02:28pm • COAMO, Puerto Rico (AP) — Towns in central and southern Puerto Rico are struggling to emerge from a prolonged power outage that forced authorities in the U.S. territory to activate an emergency response team on Monday and request food distribution to those in need. The outage occurred more than a Sudan's notorious paramilitary group loots a main Darfur hospital, aid group says 06/10/2024 01:58pm • CAIRO (AP) — The notorious Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group, fighting Sudan’s military for over a year, fired shots and looted a main hospital in the western region of Darfur, forcing its closure, an international aid group said. The RSF attacked the South Hospital in al-Fasher, the capit Hungary's Orbán shows weakest performance in EU elections in 20 years, opening path to pro-EU rival 06/10/2024 01:25pm • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The day after Hungarians voted in the European Parliament elections, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's government declared a big win, but missing from the victory speeches was an acknowledgement that it was his party's worst performance in an EU election since Hungary joined Martha's Vineyard is about to run out of pot. That's led to a lawsuit and a scramble by regulators 06/10/2024 01:13pm • VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. (AP) — An 81-year-old woman on Martha's Vineyard drove up to the Island Time dispensary last week seeking her usual order of pot. But owner Geoff Rose had to tell her the cupboard was bare — he'd been forced to temporarily close three weeks earlier after selling every last Book Review: ‘Miss May Does Not Exist’ is an engaging study of enigmatic Hollywood figure Elaine May 06/10/2024 12:58pm • Groundbreaking comedian, writer and filmmaker Elaine May charted her own fearlessly original path in Hollywood and the theater world over the decades. Shunning the spotlight and reluctant to talk to reporters, her name might not be as well known as her comedy partner, Mike Nichols, but Carrie Courog This NYC vet makes house calls. In 'Pets and the City,' she's penned a memoir full of tails 06/10/2024 12:09pm • NEW YORK (AP) — As a city kid, Amy Attas had big dreams of roaming the countryside, healing animals a la James Herriot's classic “All Creatures Great and Small.” How did it go? Well, the veterinarian made it from Queens to Manhattan, spending the last 32 years traversing the streets of her hom