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Finland will keep its border with Russia closed until further notice over migration concerns 04/04/2024 10:40am • HELSINKI (AP) ��� Finland will extend the closure of its border crossing points with Russia beyond the current April 14 deadline ���until further notice��� due to a high risk of organized migration orchestrated by Moscow, the Finnish government said on Thursday. The Finnish Interior Ministry said in NCAA Women's Div. II Basketball Tournament Glance 04/04/2024 10:01am • All Times EDT First Round Friday, March 15 Atlantic Region At campus sites Gannon 73, West Virginia St. 53 Lock Haven 74, California (Pa.) 60 Fairmont St. 72, West Chester 68 Fayetteville St. 72, Indiana (Pa.) 63 Central Region Southern Nazarene 70, Henderson St. 61 Harding 82, Pittsburg St. 74, OT Should you itemize or take a standard deduction on your tax return? Here's what to know 04/04/2024 09:56am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� When tackling your taxes, it can sometimes be hard to figure out whether to opt for a standard deduction or itemize. According to tax pros, itemizing generally only makes sense if your itemized deductions, taken together, add up to more than the current standard deduction of $13,85 Mexico's likely next president is a scientist. Politics has her mostly quiet on climate threats 04/04/2024 09:43am • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� The L��pez home kept filling with seawater as the Gulf of Mexico rose and winter storms got worse. Cristina L��pez and her family decided to leave after one bad storm in November, knowing the ocean would eventually devour their home in the fishing town of El Bosque. ���There wa Rescuers in Taiwan search for those missing or stranded after major earthquake kills 10 04/04/2024 09:35am • HUALIEN, Taiwan (AP) ��� Rescuers searched Thursday for missing people and worked to reach hundreds stranded when Taiwan's strongest earthquake in 25 years sent boulders and mud tumbling down mountainsides, blocking roads. Ten people died and more than 1,000 were injured. The powerful quake struck d Things to do in the DC area: Capital Art Book Fair, AdMo Art Walk ��� and more! 04/04/2024 08:02am • There���s so much to do in the D.C. area in the coming days, and WTOP has you covered with our weekly roundup of area events worth anticipating. Check back every Thursday for a roundup of��Things to do in the D.C. area. The 2023 Capital Art Book Fair. (Photo courtesy of East City Art) Over As fire season fast approaches, Greece���s planners look for an edge in response time 04/04/2024 07:13am • GLYKA NERA, Greece (AP) ��� In a drill at a 12th century monastery near Athens, a fast-approaching wildfire threatens to trap clergy and a group of people attending a baptism. Volunteers and firefighters race to pull them to safety through clouds of red smoke, as a drone buzzing overhead sends live The true toll of the war in Ukraine is measured in bodies. This man brings them home, one at a time 04/04/2024 04:25am • DOVHENKE, Ukraine (AP) ��� The smell in the car is sick and sweet, the overpowering scent of corpses that have lain too long in muck and ruin, the ones the dogs didn���t devour. Oleksii Yukov, a 38-year-old martial arts instructor who leads a team of volunteer body collectors in Ukraine, doesn���t n People jump into the sea to escape raging ferry fire in Gulf of Thailand. All 108 on board are safe 04/04/2024 03:08am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Panicked passengers jumped into the sea to escape a raging ferry fire in the Gulf of Thailand early Thursday, and all 108 people on board were safe. The overnight ferry from Surat Thani province was about to arrive at Koh Tao, a popular tourist destination off the Thai coast, when o In the aftermath of the Moscow concert hall attack, is a harsher era under Putin in the works? 04/04/2024 01:16am • Video and photos of suspects in a mass shooting show them apparently being brutalized by Russian security forces ��� without any rebuke from authorities. A top Kremlin official urges that hit squads be sent to assassinate Ukrainian officials. Senior lawmakers call for restoring capital punishment, a Suzuki homers, drives in 4 to help Cubs beat Rockies 9-8 after blowing 6-run lead 04/04/2024 12:11am • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Seiya Suzuki homered in his second straight game and drove in four runs and the Chicago Cubs regrouped to beat the Colorado Rockies 9-8 after blowing a six-run lead Wednesday night. The Cubs looked as if they were on their way to another easy win with an 8-2 lead in the sixth after The women's NCAA Tournament is having a big moment that has also been marred by missteps 04/03/2024 11:43pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� A huge disparity between the men's and women's weight rooms drew attention to the women's NCAA Tournament for all the wrong reasons in 2021, starting a conversation about equity that has carried over into today. Then this season brought the mismatched 3-point lines in Portlan Thailand has a plan to contain the monkey mayhem in the popular tourist town of Lopburi 04/03/2024 11:39pm • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Thai wildlife officials laid out a plan on Wednesday to bring peace to a central Thai city after at least a decade of human-monkey conflict. The macaques that roam Lopburi are a symbol of local culture, and a major tourist draw. But after years of dangerous encounters with resident Storms bear down on New England and East Coast as severe weather persists across the US 04/03/2024 10:51pm • TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) ��� A major spring storm was expected to drop more than a foot of snow in parts of New England on Wednesday night, while heavy rains soaked the East Coast and cleanup work continued in several states wracked by tornadoes and other severe weather blamed for at least three deaths Scoot Henderson outduels Brandon Miller as Trail Blazers beat Hornets 89-86 to snap 10-game skid 04/03/2024 10:09pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� Scoot Henderson had 22 points and 10 assists and the Portland Trail Blazers beat Brandon Miller and the Charlotte Hornets 89-86 on Wednesday night in a matchup of two of the league���s top three draft picks. Henderson, taken one spot behind Miller at No. 3 overall, shot 9 of