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Turkey strikes suspected Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq after suicide attack in Ankara 10/01/2023 05:04pm • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish warplanes carried out airstrikes on suspected Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq on Sunday following a suicide attack on a government building in the Turkish capital, Turkey's defense ministry announced. Some 20 targets of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK EU's top diplomat urges US to reconsider dropping Ukrainian aid from stop-gap budget bill 10/01/2023 03:38pm • LONDON (AP) — The European Union’s foreign policy chief called on U.S. lawmakers Sunday to reconsider their decision to omit financial support for Ukraine from a stop-gap budget bill Congress passed to halt a federal government shutdown. The legislation approved Saturday to keep the federal gove In New York City, scuba divers' passion for the sport becomes a mission to collect undersea litter 10/01/2023 01:38pm • NEW YORK (AP) — On a recent Sunday afternoon, the divers arrived on a thin strip of sand at the furthest, watery edge of New York City. Air tanks strapped to their backs, they waded into the sea and descended into an environment far different from their usual terrestrial surroundings of concrete, Federal workers relieved, for now, as calls grow for a long term solution to government funding 10/01/2023 10:18am • Federal workers around the D.C. region are breathing a sigh of relief on Sunday after Congress passed a short term funding bill on Saturday night to keep the government running. But that funding doesn't mean the government is out of the woods. The stopgap deal means the government has enough mone Can AI be trusted in warfare? 10/01/2023 09:50am • ▶ Watch Video: AI: The next battlefield Earlier this year House and Senate Committees and Subcommittees heard a good bit of alarming testimony about artificial intelligence and China. Alexandr Wang, the CEO of Scale AI, testified that, "The Chinese Communist Pa Rishi Sunak needs to rally his flagging Conservatives. He hopes a dash of populism will do the trick 10/01/2023 02:09am • LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak heads to the governing Conservative Party’s annual conference on Sunday facing a triple challenge: Cheer up a party that’s trailing in opinion polls, sideline rivals who are eyeing his job and persuade the voting public that a party in power for 13 Government shutdown averted with little time to spare as Biden signs funding before midnight 10/01/2023 12:16am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The threat of a federal government shutdown suddenly lifted late Saturday as President Joe Biden signed a temporary funding bill to keep agencies open with little time to spare after Congress rushed to approve the bipartisan deal. The package drops aid to Ukraine, a White House p Biden says it's 'good news' the shutdown was averted but blames House GOP for 'manufactured crisis' 09/30/2023 11:46pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Staring down a possible government shutdown, the White House wanted to make sure any blame would fall at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue — specifically on House Republicans. After all, it was the majority party in the House that had been paralyzed until Saturday by an ina Rep. Jamaal Bowman triggered a fire alarm in a House office building amid voting on a funding bill 09/30/2023 10:23pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman acknowledged triggering a fire alarm Saturday in one of the U.S. Capitol office buildings as lawmakers scrambled to pass a bill to fund the government before the midnight shutdown deadline. The fire alarm sounded out around noon in the Cannon House McCarthy's last-ditch plan to keep the government open collapses, making a shutdown almost certain 09/29/2023 08:29pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's last-ditch plan to keep the federal government temporarily open collapsed in dramatic fashion Friday as a robust faction of hard-right holdouts rejected the package, making a shutdown almost certain. McCarthy’s right-flank Republicans refused to s Business Highlights: Autoworker strike spreads; Effects of looming government shutdown explained 09/29/2023 05:05pm • ___ United Auto Workers strikes spread as 7,000 more workers at two plants join the picket line DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union expanded its strikes against Detroit automakers, ordering 7,000 more workers to walk off the job in Illinois and Michigan. The move announced Friday is suppo Gun control among new laws taking effect in Maryland 09/29/2023 10:24am • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Gun control laws will take effect in Maryland on Sunday. The laws were approved as part of state lawmakers' response to last year's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that ended a requirement to demonstrate a particular need for a license to carry a concealed gun in public, but they a As employers face labor shortages, Biden administration rolls out playbook for training workers 09/29/2023 05:03am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Friday is expected to release a playbook on best practices for training workers as the low 3.8% unemployment rate and years of underinvestment have left manufacturers, construction firms and other employers with unfilled jobs. Worker shortages have bee Child Care at a Crossroads: Is there a solution? 09/29/2023 04:59am • This is the final part of a special three-part series, “Child Care at a Crossroads,” where WTOP looks at the state of child care now and what the future holds once billions of dollars in aid expire. The child care industry is struggling — and fewer and fewer people are getting into the fie Another arrest made in toddler's fentanyl-linked death at Bronx day care center 09/28/2023 08:22pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A man who fled a New York City day care center where a child died and three others were hospitalized with suspected fentanyl poisoning is in custody in California — the latest person to face charges in what investigators said was a drug lab run out of a place where toddlers playe