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US applications for jobless benefits fell last week and remain in historically healthy range 08/14/2025 09:58am • The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits fell modestly last week, remaining in the historically low range since the U.S. economy emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic. Applications for unemployment benefits for the week ending Aug. 9 fell by 3,000 to 224,000, the Labor Department reported Th 7 Best Agentic AI Stocks 08/12/2025 08:00pm • In early 2025, investors saw a turning point in artificial intelligence stocks after Chinese AI firm DeepSeek launched its R1 model. This open-source, lightweight AI challenged the dominance of resource-hungry, proprietary systems. In fact, chipmaker Nvidia Corp. (ticker: NVDA) -- long seen as the l Epic Games wins partial victory in Australian court against Google and Apple 08/12/2025 04:57pm • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� Epic Games, the company behind the popular online game Fortnite, on Tuesday won a partial victory in an Australian court. The case was brought by U.S. billionaire chief executive Tim Sweeney, who claimed that Google and Apple engaged in anti-competitive conduct in runni A guide to Taylor Swift's most elaborate album announcements 08/12/2025 04:52pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Taylor Swift doesn't simply announce albums. She curates events. That's a trend that certainly did not begin with the announcement of her 12th studio album, ���The Life of a Showgirl, ��� on Tuesday. She's long embraced new technologies and forward-thinking marketing opportunities Delivery drones may soon take off in the US. Here's why 08/12/2025 12:29pm • Delivery drones are so fast they can zip a pint of ice cream to a customer���s driveway before it melts. Yet the long-promised technology has been slow to take off in the United States. More than six years after the Federal Aviation Administration approved commercial home deliveries with drones, the One person killed in four-vehicle crash in Prince George's Co., Suitland Parkway roads diverted 08/12/2025 09:11am • One person was killed Tuesday morning following a four-vehicle crash in Prince George's County, Maryland. U.S. Park Police said officials responded to the scene around 7 a.m., heading inbound on Suitland Parkway near Suitland Road. One person, described as an adult, was pronounced dead at the YouTube to begin testing a new AI-powered age verification system in the U.S. 08/12/2025 08:35am • YouTube on Wednesday will begin testing a new age-verification system in the U.S. that relies on artificial intelligence to differentiate between adults and minors, based on the kinds of videos that they have been watching. The tests initially will only affect a sliver of YouTube's audience in the U 4 children, 2 adults dead in Charles Co. house fire 08/10/2025 06:26pm • Four children and two adults are dead after a��house fire erupted in Charles County, Maryland, Sunday morning. There were a total of nine people linked to the house, according to officials. Of the survivors, two people managed to get out of the home and two others were not there when the blaz House fire engulfs Virginia home's rear deck, no injuries reported 08/10/2025 12:39pm • Firefighters were called to the scene of a house fire Saturday in Fairfax County, Virginia, after flames emerged at the exterior of the home. Fairfax firefighters responded to the 13000 block of Sturno Drive in Clifton, as a fire engulfed a rear deck attached to a home. Crews extinguished the Man riding a motorcycle dead after crash in Montgomery Co. 08/10/2025 10:50am • A man riding a motorcycle died following a crash in Montgomery County, Maryland, Saturday night. Montgomery County police said officers and fire personnel went to the 22000 block of New Hampshire Avenue, near Sapling Ridge Lane in Brookeville, shortly after 6:15 p.m. for a report of a two-vehicle Teens allegedly trash store at Hechinger Mall in Northeast DC 08/09/2025 06:45pm • A store employee is hurt and clean ups are underway after a group of teenagers allegedly trashed and stole from a store in the Hechinger Mall in Northeast D.C. Friday night. Police told WTOP before 11:45 p.m., a large group entered a store on Benning Road near Maryland Avenue and stole multiple Man charged in connection with shooting death of mother's boyfriend in Accokeek 08/09/2025 04:59pm • A man was arrested in connection with the shooting death of his mother's boyfriend in Prince George's County, Maryland, Friday. Authorities charged Clarence Green Jr., 24, with first-degree murder in the death of Gene Garrett Jr., 38. Police said around midnight they went to the 16000 block o Loudoun Co. students launch site to make college prep more accessible 08/05/2025 09:32am • Frustrated by how expensive college counselors can be, two students in Loudoun County, Virginia, used artificial intelligence to launch a college prep website. The website, called Opporly, gives students the chance to cover various parts of the college preparation process. Arjun Gayam and Sidhart 9-year-old boy killed, 2 firefighters injured in Suitland house fire 08/05/2025 06:55am • A 9-year-old boy is dead and two firefighters were transported to a hospital after a house fire in Suitland, Maryland, early Tuesday morning. WTOP's Luke Lukert reported that the fire happened at a small two-story home located at the 5800 block of Auth Road just before 2 a.m. The 9-year-old bo ���It���s more than just a bar���: DC's The Wonderland Ballroom prepares to celebrate its 21st anniversary 08/03/2025 07:17am • For some, a neighborhood bar is a place where one can wind down after a long day, meet with friends and enjoy a drink or two. In D.C.'s Columbia Heights, The Wonderland Ballroom fits that description. Opened in 2004, the two-floor rustic bar has turned into a community staple. On Aug. 10, its