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What you need to know about road closures in DC this Memorial Day weekend 05/25/2024 01:00am • Listen live to WTOP for the latest traffic updates on the 8s. D.C. and its host of National Park facilities are gearing up for Memorial Day with a series of events, and with them come road closures. A series of traffic restrictions will be in place Sunday and Monday, as many drivers no doubt w Failed Graceland sale by a mystery entity highlights attempts to take assets of older or dead people 05/25/2024 12:01am • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The catalyst behind the failed gambit to sell off the iconic Graceland property in Memphis is a mystery. The self-styled investment company also is under fire from a lawsuit alleging fraud, an aggressive attorney general and a community of Elvis Presley loyalists who consider Efforts to draft a pandemic treaty falter as countries disagree on how to respond to next emergency 05/24/2024 06:38pm • GENEVA (AP) — A global treaty to fight pandemics like COVID is going to have to wait: After more than two years of negotiations, rich and poor countries have failed — for now — to come up with a plan for how the world might respond to the next pandemic. After COVID-19 triggered once-unthink Caleb Carr, military historian and author of bestselling novel 'The Alienist,' dies at 68 05/24/2024 06:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Caleb Carr, the scarred and gifted son of founding Beat Lucien Carr who endured a traumatizing childhood and became a bestselling novelist, accomplished military historian and late-life memoirist of his devoted cat, Masha, has died at 68. Carr died of cancer Thursday, according to Cats on the moon? Google's AI tool is producing misleading responses that have experts worried 05/24/2024 06:10pm • Ask Google if cats have been on the moon and it used to spit out a ranked list of websites so you could discover the answer for yourself. Now it comes up with an instant answer generated by artificial intelligence -- which may or may not be correct. “Yes, astronauts have met cats on the moon, pla Police search Gilgo Beach serial killing suspect's home on Long Island for 5th straight day 05/24/2024 05:14pm • MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Investigators in the New York City suburbs continue to scour the home of a Manhattan architect charged in a string of slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings. Friday marked the fifth straight day of the renewed search by state and local police of Rex Heuermann's dil Caleb Carr, military historian and author of bestselling novel 'The Alienist,' dies at 68 05/24/2024 04:38pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Caleb Carr, the scarred and gifted son of founding Beat Lucien Carr who endured a traumatizing childhood and became a bestselling novelist, accomplished military historian and late-life memoirist of his devoted cat, Masha, has died at 68. Carr died of cancer Thursday, according to How DC-area travelers are beating traffic during Memorial Day weekend 05/24/2024 03:28pm • Some drivers in the D.C. area are choosing Friday as their time to get away for Memorial Day weekend, which is historically one of the busiest travel times of the year, but has morphed into a multiday getaway that hasn't caused widespread traffic congestion in the D.C. region. One traveler, A Big Ten and SEC are again the top conferences in revenue with athlete pay plan on horizon 05/24/2024 02:56pm • The Big Ten held a narrow edge over the Southeastern Conference in revenue for the second straight year and the Atlantic Coast Conference again ranked a distant third among the five largest college sports conferences, according to tax filings released this week. The five leagues combined to generate US intelligence agencies' embrace of generative AI is at once wary and urgent 05/24/2024 11:29am • ARLINGTON, Virginia (AP) — Long before generative AI's boom, a Silicon Valley firm contracted to collect and analyze non-classified data on illicit Chinese fentanyl trafficking made a compelling case for its embrace by U.S. intelligence agencies. The operation's results far exceeded human-only an A police officer is held in deadly shooting in riot-hit New Caledonia after Macron pushes for calm 05/24/2024 11:20am • PARIS (AP) — A police officer in riot-hit New Caledonia shot and killed a man Friday after being attacked by a group of about 15 people, the territory's prosecutor said, the seventh shooting death in the unrest shaking the French Pacific archipelago. The officer was in custody and an investigation Over 100 feared dead in landslide in remote part of Papua New Guinea, with rescue efforts underway 05/24/2024 10:52am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 people are believed to have been killed in a landslide Friday that buried a village in a remote, mountainous part of Papua New Guinea, and an emergency response is underway, officials in the South Pacific island nation said. The landslide struck Enga provi Movie Review: This is her, now, in space: J.Lo heads to a new galaxy for AI love story in 'Atlas' 05/24/2024 10:05am • Let’s all be clear, if we weren’t already, that when it comes to Jennifer Lopez, it's about the love story. Always the love story. J.Lo the pop star, singing about rekindled love on her latest album, “This is Me … Now.” J.Lo the rom-com regular, making movies about seeking love (including Extreme weather. A lack of lifesaving vaccines. Africa's cholera crisis is worse than ever 05/24/2024 01:22am • LILANDA, Zambia (AP) — Extreme weather events have hit parts of Africa relentlessly in the last three years, with tropical storms, floods and drought causing crises of hunger and displacement. They leave another deadly threat behind them: some of the continent's worst outbreaks of cholera. In sout More bad weather could hit Iowa, where 3 powerful tornadoes caused millions in damage 05/23/2024 11:22pm • GREENFIELD, Iowa (AP) — For block after block through the small city of Greenfield, Iowa, the destructive power of a tornado that ripped apart more than 100 homes in just one minute is evident in the muddy, shattered mess left behind. All along the mile-long swath Thursday was the deafening clamo