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How DC's deputy mayor is uniquely positioned to lead Chinatown revitalization 05/14/2024 03:40pm • All throughout May, WTOP is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with stories about the people and places shaping the D.C. region. As a child, one of Nina Albert's favorite foods was a dehydrated prune. The dried fruit is salted on the outside. She'd tear the skin off AP gets rare look as Ukraine tries to slow Russia with drones on new front 05/14/2024 02:46pm • KHARKIV REGION, Ukraine (AP) ��� From the sky, the Ukrainian drone unit commander had a bird���s-eye view of Russia���s renewed offensive playing out in the country���s war-ravaged northeast. Enemy forces have captured a string of Ukrainian villages over the past few days after opening a new front a Astronomers find the biggest known batch of planet ingredients swirling around young star 05/14/2024 02:02pm • CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ��� Astronomers have discovered what they believe is the biggest known batch of planet-making ingredients swirling around a young star. The diameter of this colossal disk is roughly 3,300 times the distance between Earth and the sun, with enough gas and dust to form super-s AUTO RACING: Brad Keselowski back in Victory Lane in NASCAR. Lando Norris wins in F1 05/14/2024 01:11pm • All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES NASCAR All-Star Open & All-Star Race Site: North Wilkesboro, North Carolina. Schedule: Friday, practice, 4:35 p.m., and qualifying, 5:40 p.m.; Saturday, All-Star Race Heat 1, 5:20 p.m., and Heat 2, 6:15 p.m.; Sunday, All-Star Open, 5:30 p.m., and All-Star Race Paret-Peintre emulates older brother by winning a Giro d'Italia stage 05/14/2024 12:51pm • CUSANO MUTRI, Italy (AP) ��� Valentin Paret-Peintre emulated his older brother by winning a Giro d���Italia stage on Tuesday for his first professional victory. Paret-Peintre shook his head in disbelief as he approached the summit finish and then sat up, encouraged the crowd to cheer even louder, an Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan settles in at Pimlico ahead of the Preakness 05/14/2024 12:39pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� Mystik Dan exerted so much energy winning the Kentucky Derby by a nose in the race's closest finish in 75 years that there was no guarantee his camp would send him to the Preakness to chase the second jewel of the Triple Crown. After a bit of rest, the decision was made to go to B Private investment, public benefits: Celebrating the success of the 66 Express Outside the Beltway project 05/14/2024 12:34pm • This content is provided by I-66 Express Mobility Partners. I-66 Express May marks 18 months since the full opening of the 66 Express Outside the Beltway dynamic toll managed-lane system in Northern Virginia. This month, we also celebrate Infrastructure Week (May 13-17), making it a great tim Analysis: David Puig left college for LIV. He's still playing in the majors and maybe the Olympics 05/14/2024 12:19pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� David Puig knew what he was signing up for when the Spaniard left Arizona State to join Saudi-funded LIV Golf, even if it really wasn't entirely about the money for him. The guarantee that LIV offered Puig was not so much a rich bonus ��� he played two events as an amateur b Mississippi man suspected of killing mother, 2 sisters is fatally shot by state troopers in Arizona 05/14/2024 11:41am • MORENCI, Ariz. (AP) ��� A man suspected of fatally shooting three family members in Mississippi has been killed in a shootout with Arizona state troopers, according to authorities. Ivory James Welch III, 54, was wanted in connection with the deaths of his 76-year-old mother and two sisters, accordin David Sanborn, Grammy-winning saxophonist who played on hundreds of albums, dies at 78 05/14/2024 11:29am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� David Sanborn, the Grammy-winning saxophonist who played lively solos on such hits as David Bowie's ���Young Americans��� and James Taylor's ���How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)��� and enjoyed his own highly successful recording career as a performer of melodic, contemporary jaz Jimmie Johnson to attempt his own version of Indy 500 & NASCAR doubleheader 05/14/2024 10:46am • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Jimmie Johnson will attempt his own version of ���The Double��� when he becomes the first driver to be part of the Indianapolis 500 broadcast team hours before he competes in NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600. Johnson, who ran the Indy 500 in 2022, was part of NBC Sports' broadcast booth Waymo is latest company under investigation for autonomous or partially automated technology 05/14/2024 10:21am • DETROIT (AP) ��� The U.S. government's highway safety agency has opened another investigation of automated driving systems, this time into crashes involving Waymo's self-driving vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration posted documents detailing the probe on its website early Tue Preakness Odds 05/13/2024 10:57pm • The field for Saturday's 149th Preakness Stakes, with post position, horse's name, jockey's name and odds: PP HorseJockeyOdds1. MugaturJoeBravo20/12. Uncle HeavyIradOrtizJr.20/13. Catching FreedomFlavienPratt6/14. MuthJuanHernandez8/55. Mystik DanBrianHernandezJr.5/26. Seize the GreyJaimeTorres15/1 Palestinian band escapes horrors of war but members' futures remain uncertain 05/13/2024 10:14pm • DOHA, Qatar (AP) ��� They stroll Doha's waterfront promenade and sing softly about children who are now ���birds in heaven,��� flying free of the pain of the war in Gaza. For the Palestinian group Sol Band, it seems surreal that weeks ago they were hiding from Israeli shelling. ���I just want the w A combustible Cannes is set to unfurl with 'Furiosa,' 'Megalopolis' and a #MeToo reckoning 05/13/2024 08:27pm • The Cannes Film Festival rarely passes without cacophony but this year���s edition may be more raucous and uneasy than any edition in recent memory. When the red carpet is rolled out from the Palais des Festivals on Tuesday, the 77th Cannes will unfurl against a backdrop of war, protest, potential s