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Douglas C-54 plane with 2 people on board crashes into river outside Fairbanks, Alaska 04/23/2024 10:25pm • FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) ��� A Douglas C-54 Skymaster airplane carrying two people crashed into the Tanana River near Fairbanks on Tuesday and burst into flames, authorities said. No survivors have been found. The plane took off in the morning from Fairbanks International Airport. It crashed about 7 m Riley Greene homers twice and Mark Canha goes deep to power Tigers past Rays 4-2 04/23/2024 10:10pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) ��� Riley Greene went deep twice for his first multi-homer game, Mark Canha added a homer and the Detroit Tigers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-2 on Tuesday night. The Tigers have won the first two of the three-game set to clinch their fifth unbeaten road series (4-0-1) to start Sterling warehouse fire ruled accidental by Loudoun Co. fire officials 04/23/2024 08:26pm • A warehouse fire broke out Monday afternoon in Sterling, Virginia, sending black smoke into the sky that was visible from miles away. (Courtesy Loudoun County Fire and Rescue) The warehouse fire in Sterling, Virginia, that sent black smoke billowing into the sky and triggered a significant emerg 6 Best Airline Stocks to Buy This Year 04/23/2024 08:00pm • Flight has been part of the human imagination for centuries. Not even a global pandemic could keep people's feet on the ground for long. Airline travel numbers have continued to increase between 2023 and 2024 and are now above pre-pandemic levels, according to Transportation Security Administration Woman charged with murder in crash that killed young brother and sister at birthday party 04/23/2024 07:21pm • A Michigan woman was arraigned Tuesday on second-degree murder and other charges after prosecutors say she drunkenly crashed her SUV into a boat club that was hosting a child's birthday party, killing a young brother and sister and injuring several other people. Marshella Chidester, 66, did not ente College students, inmates and a nun: A unique book club meets at one of the nation���s largest jails 04/23/2024 06:19pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� For college senior Nana Ampofo, an unconventional book club inside one of the nation���s largest jails has transformed her career ambitions. Each week, the 22-year-old drives a van of her DePaul University peers to Cook County Jail to discuss books with inmates and recently, the wel The Latest | Tent compound rises in southern Gaza as Israel prepares for Rafah offensive 04/23/2024 06:06pm • Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press appear to show a new compound of tents being built near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip as the Israeli military signals that it plans an offensive on the city of Rafah. Khan Younis has been targeted by repeated Israeli military operations over Cicadas are so noisy in a South Carolina county that residents are calling the police 04/23/2024 04:25pm • NEWBERRY, S.C. (AP) ��� Emerging cicadas are so loud in one South Carolina county that residents are calling the sheriff's office asking why they can hear sirens or a loud roar. The Newberry County Sheriff's Office sent out a message on Facebook on Tuesday letting people know that the whining sound NASA hears from Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, after months of quiet 04/23/2024 03:58pm • CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ��� NASA has finally heard back from Voyager 1 again in a way that makes sense. The most distant spacecraft from Earth stopped sending back understandable data last November. Flight controllers traced the blank communication to a bad computer chip and rearranged the spacec WTOP movie critic donates entire DVD collection to Hyattsville branch of Prince George's County Library 04/23/2024 03:25pm • WTOP loves bringing you the news, but we also love giving back to the local community. So, after decades of staring at my shelves of DVDs and Blu-rays (arranged in chronological order, of course), I decided to donate my entire collection to the recently-renovated Hyattsville branch of the Pri NASCAR driver Erik Jones to miss Dover race because of broken lower vertebra 04/23/2024 03:05pm • STATESVILLE, N.C. (AP) ��� Erik Jones suffered a compression fracture in a lower vertebra in a wreck at Talladega and will not drive this weekend in the NASCAR Cup series race at Dover Motor Speedway. Corey Heim will substitute for Jones in the No. 43 Toyota for Legacy Motor Club. There is no timeli Georgia prison officials in 'flagrant' violation of solitary confinement reforms, judge says 04/23/2024 02:19pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Georgia prison officials have flagrantly violated a court order to reform conditions for prisoners in the state's most restrictive holding facility, showing ���no desire or intention" to make the required changes to solitary confinement practices, a federal judge said. In a damning UK puts its defense industry on 'war footing' and gives Ukraine $620 million in new military aid 04/23/2024 01:53pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) ��� The U.K. prime minister said Tuesday the country is putting its defense industry on a ���war footing��� by increasing defense spending to 2.5% of GDP by the end of the decade, and pledged to send arms worth 500 million pounds ($620 million) to Ukraine. Prime Minister Rishi Su A Russian strike on Kharkiv's TV tower is part of an intimidation campaign, Ukraine's Zelenskyy says 04/23/2024 11:52am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a Russian missile strike that smashed a prominent skyline television tower in Kharkiv was part of the Kremlin���s effort to intimidate Ukraine���s second-largest city, which in recent weeks has come under increasingly frequent attac NATO newcomer Finland is now a 'front-line state' for the alliance, Finnish president says 04/23/2024 11:16am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� Finnish President Alexander Stubb said Tuesday that joining the NATO alliance a year ago has transformed his country into a "front-line state," given that it has doubled the military bloc's border with Russia. Finland, which became the 31st NATO member in April 202 3, ha