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Nashville Predators bring back goalie guru Mitch Korn as director of goaltending 05/29/2024 12:56pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Longtime goalie guru Mitch Korn is back with the Nashville Predators to oversee their operation at the most important position in hockey. The team named Korn director of goaltending on Wednesday, reuniting him with now-general manager Barry Trotz for whom he worked at sever FRESHFARM takes over Southeast farmers market in Ward 8 05/29/2024 12:52pm • FRESHFARM, which operates more than two-dozen farmers markets in the D.C. region, is adding another, assuming operations of the Ward 8 farm stand at THEARC campus at 1901 Mississippi Ave. Southeast. FRESHFARM has partnered with nonprofit Building Bridges Across the River to operate its existing s Ahorros en Walgreens: la tienda reduce precios de 1,300 productos 05/29/2024 12:08pm • Walgreens anunció el miércoles que seguiría reduciendo los precios de unos 1,300 productos, la última empresa en pivotar hacia el valor en medio de señales de que los consumidores estadounidenses están experimentando fatiga de gasto. La cadena de farmacias dijo en un comunicado anunciando u Cleveland Fed names former Goldman Sachs executive Beth Hammack to succeed Mester as president 05/29/2024 11:56am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Cleveland branch of the Federal Reserve said Wednesday that Beth Hammack, a former executive at investment bank Goldman Sachs, would be its next president effective Aug. 21. Hammack, 52, worked at Goldman Sachs from 1993 until stepping down earlier this year. She was most re The art of drag is a target. With Pride Month near, performers are organizing to fight back 05/29/2024 11:12am • “Drag is joy, but it’s under attack. Our very existence, our self-expression, our art — all of it is being threatened. And we’ve had enough.” That’s the opening salvo of Qommittee, a group of drag performers banding together to protect and promote their art form, as it announced its f Forget 300 career wins. Even 200 wins for an MLB pitcher might be a thing of the past 05/29/2024 10:56am • PHOENIX (AP) — José Berríos turned 30 years old on Monday, giving up an obscure crown in the process. The two-time All-Star, who started his career with the Minnesota Twins and now pitches for the Toronto Blue Jays, has 88 career wins, which made him the active leader for under-30 pitchers in Ma Giant pandas are coming back to the Smithsonian National Zoo 05/29/2024 10:35am • After a long and bittersweet farewell last November when D.C.'s giant pandas embarked to China on a FedEx plane, giant pandas are coming back to the nation's capital. The Smithsonian National Zoo announced Wednesday that two new pandas, Bao Li and Qing Bao, will be transported to the zoo by t New Hampshire's limits on teaching on race and gender are unconstitutional, judge says 05/29/2024 10:16am • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A federal judge has struck down New Hampshire’s nearly 3-year-old law limiting what teachers can say about race, gender, sexual orientation, disability and other topics in public schools as unconstitutionally vague. The ruling could revive the topic as an election year campa Not a gym rat? Here’s how to get started on an outdoor exercise routine 05/29/2024 10:02am • Between the sweat smell, fluorescent lights and omnipresent television screens, April Herring has never connected with going to the gym. Instead, she runs, bikes, hikes, plays tennis, pickleball and football — anything to get her exercise outside as often as possible. “Fresh air, sunshine, the v Quality early education can be expensive or hard to find. Home visits bring it to more families 05/29/2024 09:57am • PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — Standing in her living room, Isabel Valencia sets up her makeshift tennis serve with the materials on hand: a green balloon for a ball and a ruler affixed to a paper plate for a racket. She bats the balloon to her home visitor, Mayra Ocampo, and they pass it back and forth, c A Jewish veteran from London prepares to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings 05/29/2024 08:49am • LONDON (AP) — Even as he prepared to embark for the battlefields of Normandy, Pvt. Mervyn Kersh was summoned by his commanding officer and threatened with arrest. Why, the officer demanded, had Kersh refused to eat his army rations of canned beef and vegetables, subsisting only on canned peaches? National Bank of Canada: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot 05/29/2024 08:31am • MONTREAL (AP) — MONTREAL (AP) — National Bank of Canada (NTIOF) on Wednesday reported net income of $668.1 million in its fiscal second quarter. The bank, based in Montreal, said it had earnings of $1.87 per share. The bank posted revenue of $2.03 billion in the period. Its revenue net of intere Abercrombie: Fiscal Q1 Earnings Snapshot 05/29/2024 07:37am • NEW ALBANY, Ohio (AP) — NEW ALBANY, Ohio (AP) — Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (ANF) on Wednesday reported fiscal first-quarter earnings of $113.9 million. The New Albany, Ohio-based company said it had net income of $2.14 per share. The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estim DC's MET Fest aims to help connect kids with careers in gaming 05/29/2024 07:35am • This Saturday, an event taking place at the Entertainment & Sports Arena in Southeast D.C. hopes to not only entertain young gamers but also show them how they can make a career out of their passion. It's called MET FEST 2024, and this year’s event will be hosted by radio and TV personality Ja A woman will likely be Mexico's next president. But in some Indigenous villages, men hold the power 05/29/2024 07:25am • PLAN DE AYALA, Mexico (AP) — At 4:30 a.m., girls and women begin to appear in the dark streets of this village of Tojolabal people in southern Mexico. They walk in silence. Some head to grind corn to make their family’s tortillas. Others fetch firewood to carry home, on their backs or with the h