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US to require automatic emergency braking on new vehicles in 5 years and set performance standards 04/29/2024 06:10pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� In the not-too-distant future, automatic emergency braking will have to come standard on all new passenger vehicles in the United States, a requirement that the government says will save hundreds of lives and prevent thousands of injuries every year. The National Highway Traffic Saf House and Senate negotiate bill to help FAA add more air traffic controllers and safety inspectors 04/29/2024 05:20pm • Congressional negotiators have agreed on a $105 billion bill designed to improve the safety of air travel after a series of close calls between planes at the nation���s airports. House and Senate lawmakers said Monday that the bill will increase the number of air traffic controllers and require the A horse-shaped nebula gets its close-up in new photos by NASA's Webb telescope 04/29/2024 04:33pm • DALLAS (AP) ��� NASA���s Webb Space Telescope has revealed the sharpest images yet of a portion of a horse-shaped nebula, showing the ���mane��� in finer detail. The Horsehead Nebula, in the constellation Orion, is 1,300 light-years away. A light-year is nearly 6 trillion miles (9.7 trillion kilome Oklahoma towns hard hit by tornadoes begin long cleanup after 4 killed in weekend storms 04/29/2024 04:33pm • SULPHUR, Okla. (AP) ��� When a monster nighttime tornado came roaring into the southern Oklahoma town of Sulphur, Sheila Hilliard Goodman, a grandmother and casino worker, hunkered down inside Raina's Sport Lounge with about 30 other customers in the popular downtown hangout. The roof of the bar col Zebras get loose near highway exit, gallop into Washington community before most are corralled 04/29/2024 04:32pm • NORTH BEND, Wash. (AP) ��� It was an unusual wildlife sighting Sunday when four zebras escaped from their trailer and galloped into a Washington neighborhood. Three of the four black-and-white striped animals were quickly captured, but the fate of the fourth wasn���t immediately known Monday, Washin DC Small Business Week kicks off with ribbon cutting, grant announcement 04/29/2024 02:29pm • D.C. kicked off its Small Business Week on Monday, with a ribbon-cutting and an announcement of dozens of grants for small businesses in the city. On Rhode Island Avenue, Mayor Muriel Bowser and others cut the ribbon, to open the newly renovated offices of Bandura Designs. The interior design com Tractor-trailers with no one aboard? The future is near for self-driving trucks on US roads 04/29/2024 01:01pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) ��� On a three-lane test track along the Monongahela River, an 18-wheel tractor-trailer rounded a curve. No one was on board. A quarter-mile ahead, the truck's sensors spotted a trash can blocking one lane and a tire in another. In less than a second, it signaled, moved into the u Tractor-trailers with no one aboard? The future is near for self-driving trucks on US roads 04/29/2024 12:10pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) ��� On a three-lane test track along the Monongahela River, an 18-wheel tractor-trailer rounded a curve. No one was on board. A quarter-mile ahead, the truck's sensors spotted a trash can blocking one lane and a tire in another. In less than a second, it signaled, moved into the uno 50 migrants reported missing and 9 rescued after their boat overturns off Spanish Atlantic island 04/29/2024 11:37am • MADRID (AP) ��� About 50 migrants were missing after their boat overturned some 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of Spain's Canary Island of El Hierro in the Atlantic Ocean, Spanish media reported Monday. The national marine rescue service said one of its helicopters rescued nine people who were fou IndyCar Children's of Alabama Indy Grand Prix Results 04/29/2024 11:20am • Sunday At Barber Motorsports Park Leeds, Ala. Lap length: 2.38 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (1) Scott McLaughlin, Dallara-Chevrolet, 90 laps, Running. 2. (2) Will Power, Dallara-Chevrolet, 90, Running. 3. (19) Linus Lundqvist, Dallara-Honda, 90, Running. 4. (5) Felix Rosenqvist, Dallara- Suspect killed after 3 police officers wounded by gunfire in standoff near New Orleans 04/29/2024 03:03am • KENNER, La. (AP) ��� Three Louisiana police officers were wounded by gunfire Sunday in a standoff with a man who was later killed by a police sharpshooter, authorities and news reports said. Sheriff Joseph Lopinto said a sniper from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office shot and killed the suspect a Car Review: The Mazda CX-5 is a small crossover that still delights in 2024 04/29/2024 02:04am • The Mazda CX-5 offers a more driver-oriented experience with higher handling limits than other crossovers or small SUVs in its class. (WTOP/Mike Parris) Even though Mazda introduced an impressive new compact crossover last year, the venerable Mazda CX-5 is still a big seller for the company. It is a Deforestation in Indonesia spiked last year, but resources analyst sees better overall trend 04/28/2024 10:06pm • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) ��� From trees felled in protected national parks to massive swaths of jungle razed for palm oil and paper plantations, Indonesia had a 27% uptick in primary forest loss in 2023 from the previous year, according to a World Resources Institute analysis of deforestation data. B Tornadoes kill 4 in Oklahoma, leaving trail of destruction and thousands without power 04/28/2024 09:46pm • SULPHUR, Okla. (AP) ��� Tornadoes killed four people in Oklahoma, including an infant, and left thousands without power Sunday after a destructive outbreak of severe weather flattened buildings in the heart of one rural town and injured at least 100 people across the state. More than 20,000 people Nicole Kidman, who 'makes movies better,' gets AFI Life Achievement Award 04/28/2024 09:15pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Morgan Freeman spoke the words, but pretty much everyone who took the stage at the presentation of the AFI Life Achievement Award agreed: ��� Nicole Kidman. She makes movies better.��� The line came in a video parody of Kidman's AMC Theatres ���we make movies better��� ad that