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Column: ‘Lion King' trailer could signal Disney's best live-action remake yet 04/11/2019 12:17am • When Disney first announced annual live-action remakes of animated classics, I was skeptical. After all, why touch already perfect movies that we adored at our most impressionable age? But over the past five years, I've become a believer thanks to a near flawless track record, which with the 'SNL' brings back Jason Sudeikis' Joe Biden for sensitivity training 04/07/2019 12:30am • Former cast member Jason Sudeikis returned to "Saturday Night Live" to reprise one of his most memorable characters: former Vice President Joe Biden. Sudeikis' Biden returned to the NBC variety show to kick off Saturday night's episode by taking sensitivity training, eve Some of the greatest April Fools' pranks of all time 04/01/2019 02:38am • April Fools' Day ain't what it used to be. Companies will come up with gags. Everybody will have a good laugh, but nobody will be fooled. Oh, for the days when April Fools' Day hoaxes and pranks could cause lines outside liquor stores or prompt people to smell their T Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg calls for more regulation of the internet 03/30/2019 05:03pm • Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, who has been under scrutiny for the social media company's role in spreading misinformation and inadequately policing content, is calling for regulators to play a "more active role" in establishing rules for the internet. Zuckerb Column: Join in on "Earth Hour 2019" tonight 03/30/2019 11:13am • Hey, DMV, what are you doing Saturday night at 8:30 p.m.? I hope wherever you are, you will be able to participate in “Earth Hour 2019." This is an annual worldwide event that brings attention to our planet and nature. Participating is as easy as turning off all lights to save energy and reduce Fake modeling agent sentenced to prison for child porn 03/29/2019 04:50pm • GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A Maryland man who posed as a modeling agent has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for coercing girls into sending him nude and sexually explicit photographs. U.S. District Judge Paul Grimm also on Friday sentenced 44-year-old Stephen McGrath of Rockville to 25 Yale ex-coach expected to plead guilty in bribery scandal 03/28/2019 09:31am • BOSTON (AP) — A former women's soccer coach at Yale University is expected to plead guilty Thursday to taking bribes in exchange for pretending applicants were recruits to boost their chances of getting into the school. Rudy Meredith was a key figure in the investigation into the wide-rang With repeal of Kings Dominion law, Va. schools can now start before Labor Day 03/21/2019 11:26am • After years of battles over when school should start, Virginia is making significant changes to the so-called "Kings Dominion Law." This week, Gov. Ralph Northam signed bills into law that will allow all Virginia school systems to open up to two weeks before Labor Day as long as they give student Investigators are scrambling to solve a mystery just miles from the US-Mexico border 03/16/2019 02:22am • Masked gunmen barged onto a bus in northern Mexico, carrying a list of names. They left without firing a single shot, taking at least 19 passengers with them as they sped away from the scene. And so far, they seem to have vanished without a trace. Where did the missing passengers go? It's a DC worker accused of trading welfare benefits for sex, cash 03/14/2019 08:45am • A D.C. city worker accused of trading about $1.4 million worth of welfare benefits for sexual favors and cash pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of bribery of a public official. Department of Human Services worker Demetrius McMillan, 48, arranged nearly 800 fraudulent transactions of cash and f Ex-Georgetown tennis coach indicted in admissions cheating scandal 03/12/2019 06:26pm • Georgetown University’s former tennis coach is among those indicted on a charge of racketeering conspiracy as part of a sweeping series of allegations of college admissions bribery and cheating. Gordon Ernst was the head men’s and women’s coach at Georgetown University for 12 seasons, leavi My Take: Is 'Fake Melania' back? 03/12/2019 01:56am • Clinton Yates wonders if the First Lady has her own body double. Trump defends 'Tim Apple' comment, says he was saving time 03/11/2019 12:27pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he didn't slip up when he referred to Apple CEO Tim Cook as "Tim Apple" at a White House meeting. Trump tweeted Monday: "I quickly referred to Tim + Apple as Tim/Apple as an easy way to save time & words. The Fake News wa Publisher of Loudoun Co. news site arrested on charges of fraud 03/09/2019 06:42pm • The publisher of a Loudoun County news site has been arrested on charges of fraud. Brian Thomas Reynolds, of Leesburg, was indicted on charges that he defrauded investors and lenders to Tribune Media Group, LLC, a company that he controls, which operates the Loudoun Tribune. Reynolds is the presi Can Zuckerberg really make a privacy-friendly Facebook? 03/07/2019 09:41am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After building a social network that turned into a surveillance system, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's shifting his company's focus to messaging services designed to serve as fortresses of privacy. Instead of just being the network that connects everyone, Facebook wan