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A sellout for a WNBA preseason game? Welcome to the league's Caitlin Clark era 05/04/2024 08:08am • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ��� More than three hours before Caitlin Clark made her WNBA debut with the Indiana Fever in a preseason game against the Dallas Wings on Friday night, some fans among the sellout crowd were lined up outside the arena dressed in No. 22 University of Iowa jerseys. And Clark put The Twins and their lucky home run sausage are home safely with the winning streak still intact 05/03/2024 11:49pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� The lucky home run sausage safely returned to Minnesota with the Twins ��� and their winning streak. After hitting coach David Popkins initiated the superstition last week, grabbing an unopened summer sausage from a table in the clubhouse and encouraging his players to tap it be Berlin���s government offers to give away villa once owned by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels 05/03/2024 10:28am • BERLIN (AP) ��� Berlin���s government is offering to give away a villa once owned by Adolf Hitler���s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, hoping to end a decades-long debate on whether to repurpose or bulldoze a sprawling disused site in the countryside north of the German capital. ���I offer to a Barnes & Noble to return to Georgetown in June in a familiar spot 05/02/2024 04:23am • The future site of the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Georgetown. (Courtesy Google Street View) Barnes & Noble will open its new Georgetown location in D.C. on June 19 in the exact same building where it closed in 2011. Barnes & Noble will occupy three floors at 3040 M St., NW, a bui Mavericks-Clippers, Heat-Celtics set for pivotal Game 5s in their first-round series 04/30/2024 07:40pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The Los Angeles Clippers and the Dallas Mavericks are all tied up after four games in a series that's been a back-and-forth thriller with big finishes, surprising twists and an intriguingly counterintuitive narrative. The Boston Celtics know they should really try to finish off Colts use the NFL draft to fill two needs: Improve defense, help QB Anthony Richardson 04/27/2024 09:05pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Indianapolis Colts general manager Chris Ballard started NFL draft weekend with two goals. He wanted to improve his defense, and he wanted to give second-year quarterback Anthony Richardson a stronger supporting cast. Ballard accomplished both by selecting the first defensive p Things to do in the DC area: Independent Bookstore Day, DC Chocolate Festival ��� and more! 04/25/2024 06:19am • This Saturday, several of the D.C. region's local bookstores are celebrating the 11th annual��Independent Bookstore Day��with discounts and other deals, plus food and fun, family-friendly activities. For those looking to celebrate their local bookstore, here are over 10 bookstores that are celebrati Reggie Bush is reinstated as 2005 Heisman Trophy winner, with organizers citing NIL rule changes 04/24/2024 09:07pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Reggie Bush has his Heisman back. The Heisman Trust reinstated the former Southern California tailback as the 2005 Heisman Trophy winner on Wednesday, citing fundamental changes in the structure of college athletics during the 14 years since Bush forfeited the trophy and the hon Review: 'The Big Door Prize' returns for Season 2 on Apple TV+, providing more questions than answers 04/24/2024 04:38pm • Imagine if a magical machine showed up in town promising to reveal your true life potential. Would you change your career to pursue your supposed destiny? Or would you cherish the life that you've already built? That's the fascinating high-concept premise of the existential dramedy "The Big D Music Review: St. Vincent's art-rock burns bright on seventh album, 'All Born Screaming' 04/24/2024 02:21pm • St. Vincent is on fire. On her seventh full-length studio album, Annie Clark, who performs as St. Vincent, unleashes her broad range of art-rock gifts, from the crackling ember of her textured vocals to the raging infernos of swirling, epic orchestration. St. Vincent canonized her name in the 2010s Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson pledged $10M for Maui wildfire survivors. They gave much more. 04/22/2024 09:07pm • Lana Vierra misses the swing set at her Lahaina home, which was reduced to ashes in the wildfires that swept through her community last summer. ���Multiple generations went through there playing in my front yard," she said. "Just with the animals and the turtles and the deer and goats that we once 11 of the Best Investing Books for Beginners 04/22/2024 08:00pm • Books can hold decades of earned knowledge in the span of a few hundred pages. When it comes to understanding finances, fewer decisions are easier, cheaper or more impactful than the move to educate yourself with a great investing book. Money touches everything we do, so learning how to properly inv What we know about the shooting of an Uber driver in Ohio and the scam surrounding it 04/19/2024 07:47pm • It was a common scam that ended with an uncommon outcome, tragically in an Ohio driveway. William J. Brock fatally shot an Uber driver because he wrongly assumed she was part of a scheme to extract $12,000 in supposed bond money for a relative, authorities said this week. Lo-Letha Hall was a victim Meta's newest AI model beats some peers. But its amped-up AI agents are confusing Facebook users 04/18/2024 04:41pm • CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) ��� Facebook parent Meta Platforms unveiled a new set of artificial intelligence systems Thursday that are powering what CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls ���the most intelligent AI assistant that you can freely use.��� But as Zuckerberg's crew of amped-up Meta AI agents started ventur Americans lost $10B to scammers last year. Here's how to avoid popular scams 04/18/2024 04:04pm • More than two-and-a-half million Americans lost $10 billion to scammers last year ��� surpassing the total amount lost to scammers in 2022 by a billion dollars. And the tactics used to fool people are only getting savvier and more aggressive ��� which itself should be a big warning sign. What are