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In Ukraine’s forests, fighters race to prepare for next push 05/04/2023 04:13pm • SOMEWHERE IN CENTRAL UKRAINE (AP) — The fighters depart at dawn, single-file, rifles slung, compasses in hand, and disappear like chameleons into the lush greenery of central Ukraine’s dense forests. They’re training for a long-anticipated campaign that Ukraine hopes will shift the momentum of Research monkey shortage undermines US readiness, panel says 05/04/2023 03:58pm • There’s a shortage of monkeys available for medical research and the U.S. should expand its breeding programs rather than rely on international suppliers to solve it, an influential scientific advisory panel said Thursday. Studies using nonhuman primates, especially monkeys, have been critical to GOP boycott: What's halting vote on guns, abortion and more? 05/04/2023 03:43pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Partisan tensions in Oregon skyrocketed this week because Republican state senators haven't shown up to work since Tuesday, meaning the Democrats who control the chamber don’t have enough people to lawfully convene. The move is casting doubt on planned votes set for this we California lawmakers OK emergency loans to failing hospitals 05/04/2023 02:48pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Alarmed by the closure of a rural hospital earlier this year, California lawmakers on Thursday voted to loan $150 million to struggling medical centers in the hope of preventing a cascade of similar failures across the state. The only hospital in Madera County closed in D 1 person has life-threatening injuries following motorized wheelchair fire 05/04/2023 02:00pm • One person was hurt late Wednesday after a fire started under the seat of a motorized wheelchair. It happened Wednesday around 11:30 p.m. at the Alexander House apartment complex on 2nd Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland. The woman, 70, was in her motorized wheelchair in a second-floor apartment. Cinco destinos potenciales para Lionel Messi en medio de rumores de salida del PSG 05/04/2023 01:08pm • Las cosas se están complicando en Francia, específicamente en París. Según los informes, la estrella argentina Lionel Messi dejará el París Saint-Germain este verano, según el periodista Fabrizio Romano. La situación llegó a un punto de ebullición en las últimas semanas en medio Crystal City’s remake of Water Park includes almost a dozen restaurants and bars 05/04/2023 10:03am • Developer JBG Smith has lined up its roster of restaurants for its remake of Crystal City's Water Park, focused on small, locally-owned businesses, with a total of 11 restaurant and bar concepts. Nine of the food operators will occupy 300-foot kiosks that will line Crystal Drive. In addition to d Another DC-area bear sighting. What to do if you encounter one 05/04/2023 08:00am • More bear sightings have been reported in Montgomery County, Maryland. Sightings of a "large black bear" has been recently reported in the areas of Woodley Gardens and Great Falls Road, according to the Rockville City Police Department. Residents who see a bear are asked to call Rockville police' 2 people killed in train accident in western Germany 05/04/2023 07:50am • BERLIN (AP) — Two people were killed and several experienced a psychologically damaging shock in a train accident near the western German city of Cologne on Thursday, German news agency dpa reported. The train apparently crashed into a group of people who were working on the tracks close to the to WHO fires scientist who led COVID search over sex misconduct 05/04/2023 06:04am • GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says it has fired the scientist who led a high-profile delegation from the U.N. health agency to China two years ago to jointly look into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, citing sexual misconduct. Peter Ben Embarek, who led the WHO side of a join Rights groups call for probe into shooting of Lao activist 05/04/2023 01:02am • BANGKOK (AP) — Human rights groups on Wednesday called for an investigation into the shooting of a political and social activist in Laos whose posts on Facebook criticized the Southeast Asian nation’s communist government. Initial reports, repeated by human rights groups, had said Anousa Luangsu North Carolina House OKs bill tightening abortion limits 05/04/2023 12:29am • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina House on Wednesday approved a Republican package of abortion restrictions that would tighten the state's ban on the procedure from after 20 weeks to after 12 weeks, while creating new exceptions but also more requirements for pregnant women and physicians. T UN humanitarian chief in Sudan, seeking guarantees on aid 05/03/2023 10:28pm • PORT SUDAN, Sudan (AP) — The U.N.'s humanitarian chief arrived in Sudan’s main seaport on Wednesday to seek guarantees for the safe passage of aid deliveries, as thousands of Sudanese and foreign nationals gathered there in hopes of fleeing the conflict-torn east African country. Martin Griffit Victims in Texas mass shielded baby; 9-year-old loved soccer 05/03/2023 09:13pm • CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — A mass shooting that killed five people, including a 9-year-old boy, at a home in a rural Texas community has left a trail of anguish and sorrow that extends to Honduras and includes two newly orphaned children. A manhunt for the gunman culminated in the arrest of 38-year- Floods from heavy rainfall kill at least 129 in Rwanda 05/03/2023 09:11pm • KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Torrential rains caused flooding in western and northern Rwanda, killing at least 129 people, a public broadcaster said Wednesday. The death toll “continues to rise,” the Rwanda Broadcasting Agency said Wednesday. “This could be the highest disaster-induced death toll