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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 Salman Rushdie's 'Knife' is unflinching about his brutal stabbing and uncanny in its vital spirit 04/16/2024 01:26pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� In Salman Rushdie's first book since the 2022 stabbing that hospitalized him and left him blind in one eye, the author wastes no time reliving the day he thought might be his last. ���At a quarter to eleven on August 12, 2022, on a sunny Friday morning in upstate New York, I was at Robinhood Introduces its First Credit Card 04/15/2024 08:00pm • With free accounts and trades starting at just $1, Robinhood has become a popular platform for beginning investors. Expanding on this popularity, the Robinhood Gold Card launched in March 2024. This credit card earns unlimited 3% cash back on every purchase, and includes complimentary perks like tra Alexandria's poet laureate, a child of Palestinian refugees, creates potent art from the devastation in Gaza 04/15/2024 01:45pm • Alexandria Poet Laureate Zeina Azzam first found it difficult to write about the war in Israel amid the ongoing conflict that started last October. Now, her words about the children of Gaza have been translated into five languages and recited everywhere from senators��� offices to churches, from 8 Smart Tax Strategies for Investors 04/14/2024 08:00pm • Investors typically find it more fun and interesting to focus on their investment portfolio or their stock trades, rather than tax strategies. While the stock market is certainly more exciting than the tax code, investors who overlook tax planning are leaving money on the table instead of putting mo West Ham's European hopes hit again with 2-0 loss to Fulham in Premier League 04/14/2024 11:33am • LONDON (AP) ��� West Ham���s European hopes received a second blow in the space of four days after a meek 2-0 home loss to Fulham in the Premier League on Sunday. The Hammers were beaten by the same score by Bayer Leverkusen in the first leg of the Europa League quarterfinals on Thursday, leaving th Legendary athlete, actor and millionaire: O.J. Simpson's murder trial lost him the American dream 04/11/2024 11:08pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� For a long time, O.J. Simpson was the man who had it all. He lived the American dream as a sports legend, movie actor, commercial pitchman and millionaire. With his wildly successful career, startling good looks and a gorgeous wife, he became an image of success for Black American