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Zimbabwe police rescue 251 children used as labor and find graves in religious sect compound raid 03/14/2024 03:16am • HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) ��� Zimbabwe police on Wednesday said they have arrested a man claiming to be a prophet of an apostolic sect at a shrine where believers stay in a compound and authorities found 16 unregistered graves, including those of infants, and more than 250 children used as cheap labor. Nichushkin scores in OT and Colorado erases a 3-goal deficit for a 4-3 win over Vancouver 03/14/2024 03:05am • VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) ��� Valeri Nichushkin scored 30 seconds into overtime and the Colorado Avalanche erased a three-goal deficit for a 4-3 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday night. Mikko Rantanen and Nathan MacKinnon each had a goal and an assist for the Avalanche, who have Miles Bridges scores 27, rookie Vasa Micic has career-best 25 as Hornets beat Grizzlies 110-98 03/13/2024 11:39pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ��� Miles Bridges scored 27 points, rookie Vasa Micic added a career-best 25 and the Charlotte Hornets defeated the Memphis Grizzlies 110-98 on Wednesday night. Micic shot 9 of 10, including 5 of 6 from 3-point range, and had eight assists. Grant Williams added 18 points for the Should You Take Out a Personal Loan to Pay Off Credit Card Debt? 03/13/2024 08:00pm • If you are deep in credit card debt and struggling to climb out of the hole, a personal loan might seem like a good way to turn around a bad situation. A personal loan is a lump sum of money that you borrow from a bank, credit union or online lender and pay back in installments over a fixed period. Tyler Adams returns to US roster after hamstring injury that sidelined him for nearly entire year 03/13/2024 05:47pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Captain Tyler Adams will rejoin the U.S. team for the first time since the World Cup after recovering from a hamstring injury and making just his second club appearance in the past year. The 25-year-old midfielder was among 23 players picked Wednesday for the American roster for th Jury begins deliberating manslaughter case against Connecticut trooper who killed man in stolen car 03/13/2024 05:32pm • A Connecticut state trooper's fatal shooting of the 19-year-old man who had just crashed a stolen car following a high-speed chase was ���overkill��� and showed an ���extreme indifference to human life,��� a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday during closing arguments at the trooper's manslaughter tria Putin warns again that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if its sovereignty is threatened 03/13/2024 04:50pm • President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if its sovereignty or independence is threatened, issuing another blunt warning to the West just days before an election in which he���s all but certain to secure another six-year term. The Russian leader has repeate Judge dismisses suit by Georgia slave descendants over technical errors. Lawyers vow to try again 03/13/2024 04:03pm • SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) ��� A Georgia judge has thrown out a lawsuit accusing local officials of race discrimination when they approved zoning changes to one of the South's last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants. Superior Court Judge Jay Stewart ruled the civil complaint had to be dis First on WTOP: Thousands fined for driving, parking in DC's bus lanes 03/13/2024 03:29pm • Thousands of people have received tickets for driving or parking in D.C.'s dedicated bus lanes, ever since a program that aims to make buses safer and more efficient advanced to its second phase earlier this year. As part of its Clear Lanes initiative, D.C.'s Department of Transportation started Waymo's robotaxi service expands into Los Angeles, starting free rides in parts of the city 03/13/2024 03:17pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Robotaxis will begin cruising the streets of Los Angeles on Thursday when Google spinoff Waymo starts offering free rides to some of the roughly 50,000 people who have signed up for its driverless ride-hailing service. Waymo is expanding into Los Angeles, the second largest U.S. Spring for Amish people in Pennsylvania means 'mud sales,' from pitchforks to pies 03/13/2024 03:13pm • GORDONVILLE, Pa. (AP) ��� A couple hundred used buggies ��� horses not included ��� were lined up and ready for the auctioneer's gavel last weekend when day began at the Gordonville mud sale, a local Amish tradition dating to the 1960s. Mud sales are country auctions that benefit volunteer fire d 140 iconic DC cherry trees to be removed for 3-year repair project at Tidal Basin 03/13/2024 02:56pm • As part of a multimillion dollar rehabilitation project to address flooding issues, officials say 140 of D.C.'s famed cherry trees will be cut down along the Tidal Basin and Potomac River for construction. During the three-year, $113 million project, the National Park Service said Wednesday it wi Virgin of Charity unites all Cubans ��� Catholics, Santeria followers, exiled and back on the island 03/13/2024 10:55am • EL COBRE, Cuba (AP) ��� Ramon Nieblas fixed his tearful eyes on the small golden statue, a beloved icon of Cuba���s patron saint. Whispering, he asked the Virgin of Charity of Cobre for a miracle: Please save his sick son. ���I came to pray for his health,��� said Nieblas, a Cuban living in Brazil w A US envoy urges Kosovo and Serbia to make tough decisions to restart talks on normalizing ties 03/13/2024 10:47am • PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) ��� A senior U.S. official on Wednesday urged Kosovo and Serbia to make tough decisions to restart talks and ���move forward��� on normalizing ties. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Gabriel Escobar met with officials in Kosovo in the latest American effort to restart the tal Revered by Hemingway and visited by popes, why Cuba's small patron saint is such a huge symbol 03/13/2024 08:07am • EL COBRE, Cuba (AP) ��� One religious icon unites Cubans: The Virgin of Charity of Cobre. Cuba's patron saint is venerated by observant Catholics and followers of Afro-Cuban Santeria traditions as well as Cubans in exile and back on the island. The wooden statue of the Virgin Mary is kept at the Ba