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Why Ukraine wants to use Western long-range missiles inside Russia 09/13/2024 10:01am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine is pushing for permission from its Western partners to use the long-range missiles they have provided to strike targets deep inside Russia, as Ukrainian forces struggle to hold back Russian advances in eastern Ukraine. Kyiv officials argue the weapons are vital to weak Former employee of troubled Wisconsin prison pleads guilty to smuggling contraband into the prison 09/13/2024 09:43am • WAUPUN, Wis. (AP) — A former employee at a troubled Wisconsin prison has pleaded guilty to smuggling contraband into the maximum-security prison that's been the subject of a federal investigation into alleged smuggling involving employees. William Lee Homan, 47, of Fox Lake, pleaded guilty in fede A military jet crashes in Bulgaria during a drill. Both pilots are killed 09/13/2024 09:35am • SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A Bulgarian military jet crashed on Friday during a drill for an airshow marking the anniversary of the country joining NATO, authorities said. Both pilots aboard the aircraft were killed. The L-39 Albatros training jet went down shortly after noon near Graf Ignatievo Air B David Beckham among soccer dignitaries attending ex-England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson's funeral 09/13/2024 09:13am • TORSBY, Sweden (AP) — David Beckham and former England coach Roy Hodgson were among the soccer dignitaries who attended the funeral of Sven-Goran Eriksson on Friday in the Swedish manager's small hometown of Torsby. Eriksson's wooden coffin was covered in white flowers and surrounded by six tall Detour ahead: Weekend road closures for DC events 09/13/2024 08:58am • This weekend, there are multiple events that will significantly impact how you get around D.C. On Saturday, the Celebrate Petworth Festival — a free neighborhood festival in Northwest D.C. with music and activities for the whole family — will be shutting down the following streets from 7 a.m. In Denmark, a man is suspected of 86 counts of reckless driving. He filmed it himself. 09/13/2024 08:46am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A 29-year-old man in Denmark faced a whopping 86 preliminary charges Friday for driving at high speed on motorcycles, riding on the rear wheel — also at high speed — and endangering others, police said, adding that the man had mounted a camera on his motorcycle helme There's officially a drought across the DC area, but will it affect the local drinking water supply? 09/13/2024 07:52am • It's dry out there. Abnormally dry. So dry that the federal U.S. Drought Monitor has declared that western parts of the D.C. region are in a "moderate drought." But will the trace amounts of rain in September affect the local drinking water supply? Unlikely, says the Interstate Commission on the AP PHOTOS: See the best moments from Pope Francis' Asia-Pacific trip — his longest ever 09/13/2024 06:29am • BANGKOK (AP) — Pope Francis has wrapped up his longest and most challenging trip ever, which took the 87-year-old pontiff more than 32,000 kilometers (20,000 miles) by air to four countries in the Asia-Pacific from Sept. 2 to 13. He visited the country with the world's largest Muslim population â Canadian woman dies after being caught in a sudden snowstorm in Italy's Dolomite mountains 09/13/2024 06:18am • MILAN (AP) — A 56-year-old Canadian woman died after being caught in a sudden snowstorm in Italy’s Dolomite mountains and her companion was being treated for severe hypothermia, Italy’s Alpine Rescue Corps said Friday. The two climbers, exhausted and suffering hypothermia, called for help Thur Francine weakens and moves inland after lashing Louisiana 09/13/2024 12:34am • MORGAN CITY, La. (AP) — Francine weakened Thursday after striking Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of utility customers, sent storm surge rushing into coastal communities and raised flooding fears in New Orleans and beyond. As the system moved inl Pope ends Asia trip with same message at the start: Interfaith tolerance to heal troubled world 09/12/2024 11:59pm • SINGAPORE (AP) — Pope Francis wrapped up his visit to Singapore on Friday by praising its tradition of interfaith harmony, closing out his four-nation trip through Asia with the same message of tolerance that he delivered at the start. Francis presided over a gathering of young people from some of Are Indonesia and Vietnam's multibillion-dollar clean energy deals stuck? Experts say not yet 09/12/2024 11:48pm • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia and Vietnam signed multibillion-dollar energy transition deals in 2022 that were heralded as drastic shifts in financing that would enable the coal-dependent countries to pivot to cleaner energy. The deals, known as Just Energy Transition Partnerships, were fund As war rages in Gaza, Israel’s crackdown on West Bank insurgency is killing Palestinian youths 09/12/2024 10:51pm • JENIN, West Bank (AP) — As the world’s attention focuses on the deadly war in Gaza, less than 80 miles away scores of Palestinian teens have been killed, shot and arrested in the West Bank, where the Israeli military has waged a monthslong crackdown. More than 150 teens and children 17 or younge A scenic California mountain town walloped by a blizzard is now threatened by wildfire 09/12/2024 10:36pm • RUNNING SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — In the Southern California mountain town of Running Springs, residents live between two scenic lake resorts — a seemingly serene spot but one also caught between the swings of devastating winter snowstorms and menacing summer wildfires. Niko Rynard is currently eva As war rages in Gaza, Israel’s crackdown on West Bank insurgency is killing Palestinian youths 09/12/2024 10:28pm • JENIN, West Bank (AP) — In the web of battered, sunbaked streets winding up the hillside, bloodshed is as unrelenting as the heat. So it is not hard to see why, when raid sirens and gunfire erupted yet again on a morning in late May, 15-year-old Mahmoud Hamadneh turned his bike down an alley that