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'World famous' Northern Virginia trail celebrates 50th anniversary 05/31/2024 11:23am • Saturday is National Trails Day, and one of the most popular trails in our area is celebrating a big anniversary. The Washington and Old Dominion Trail, runs 45 miles from Purcellville in Loudoun County to Arlington County and turns 50 in September. "No other feature more defines Northern Virg Rare drone video shows scale of destruction in Vovchansk, Ukraine's embattled front line town 05/31/2024 11:01am • VOVCHANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Smoking piles of rubble and the bombed-out shells of residential buildings are all that remains of the town of Vovchansk in Ukraine’s northeast, rare drone video obtained by The Associated Press showed. The town, like so many war-ravaged front-line cities in the countr AP Decision Notes: What to expect in the Montana presidential and state primaries 05/31/2024 10:59am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The general election for a race that could determine the Senate majority begins right after Montana voters lock in their nominees in Tuesday’s primaries. The center of the political storm in Montana is the U.S. Senate race, in which Democrat Jon Tester is running for reelection Berlin lets Ukraine use German weapons against targets in Russia after the US also eases its stance 05/31/2024 10:02am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Germany joined the United States on Friday in authorizing Ukraine to hit some targets on Russian soil with the long-range weapons they are supplying — a significant policy change that comes as depleted Ukrainian troops are losing ground in the war. Ukrainian officials have e Chicago Sky embracing their share of WNBA spotlight behind gregarious rookie Angel Reese 05/31/2024 08:10am • CHICAGO (AP) — Angel Reese is ensuring some of the glare from the bright spotlight on the WNBA shines squarely on the Chicago Sky. The Sky are embracing all the attention — led by the gregarious Reese. The seventh overall draft pick will remind anyone who will listen that there is a group Summer shutdown of Metro Red Line stations begins, here's how to get around construction work 05/31/2024 07:55am • Metro says free shuttle buses traveling in special bus-only lanes through parts of Montgomery County, Maryland, will help riders affected by the shutdown of five Red Line stations starting Saturday. The Glenmont, Wheaton, Forest Glen and Silver Spring stations will be closed from Saturday through Papua New Guinea's prime minister visits the site of a landslide estimated to have killed hundreds 05/31/2024 06:36am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Papua New Guinea’s prime minister on Friday visited the site of a major landslide, which is estimated to have buried hundreds of villagers in the South Pacific island nation’s mountainous interior a week ago and left the ground too unstable for heavy earthmoving mac Slovak prime minister who was shot in an assassination attempt is released from the hospital 05/31/2024 05:10am • BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, has been released from a hospital where he was treated after an assassination attempt. Miriam Lapunikova, the director of the hospital in the central city of Banska Bystrica, said on Friday that Fico was transported to Phillies host the Cardinals on home winning streak 05/31/2024 04:00am • St. Louis Cardinals (27-27, second in the NL Central) vs. Philadelphia Phillies (39-18, first in the NL East) Philadelphia; Friday, 6:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Cardinals: Miles Mikolas (3-5, 5.64 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 45 strikeouts); Phillies: Aaron Nola (6-2, 3.04 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 65 strikeouts) BET In Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, a hidden underground world is under threat by the Maya Train 05/31/2024 03:05am • AKTUN TUYUL CAVE SYSTEM, Mexico (AP) — Rays of sunlight slice through pools of crystal water as clusters of fish cast shadows on the limestone below. Arching over the emerald basin are walls of stalactites dripping down the cavern ceiling, which opens to a dense jungle. These glowing sinkhole lak Lava spurts from Iceland volcano for second day as its fissure extends 2 miles 05/31/2024 02:30am • GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Lava continued to spurt from a volcano in southwestern Iceland on Thursday but the activity had calmed significantly from when it erupted a day earlier. The eruption Wednesday was the fifth and most powerful since the volcanic system near Grindavik reawakened in December In Guinea's capital, a heartbroken family brings their son's body home 05/31/2024 02:29am • Ousmane Sylla’s final journey home came not with joyful celebration, but with mourning. The 21-year-old’s body was flown in a metal coffin from Rome to Conakry, Guinea’s coastal capital. On a hot day in April, his family collected him from the airport. It was Ramadan, so no one had eaten. But Pat Owtram used her language skills to listen in on German U-boats during WWII 05/31/2024 01:54am • LONDON (AP) — Pat Owtram didn’t need to go to war. It came to her. As the Nazis took control of Germany and Austria, her father hired Jewish refugees to cook and clean at the family home in Lancashire, where the Owtram family raised pedigreed shorthorn cows and Pat rode a pony named Dolly. One r Months after nation's 1st nitrogen gas execution, Alabama gives man lethal injection for 2 killings 05/31/2024 12:40am • ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man received a lethal injection Thursday for the 2004 deaths of an elderly couple who police said were attacked with a hammer, machete and tire tool during a robbery at their home. Jamie Ray Mills, 50, was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m. after a three-drug injection at Biden partially lifts ban on Ukraine using US arms in strikes on Russian territory, US officials say 05/31/2024 12:01am • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has given Ukraine the go-ahead to use American weaponry to strike inside Russia for the limited purpose of defending Kharkiv, according to four U.S. officials familiar with the matter. The officials, who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter, und