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House Speaker Mike Johnson pushes towards a vote on aid for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan 04/16/2024 12:01am • WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is pushing toward action this week on aid for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, unveiling an elaborate plan Monday to break the package into separate votes to squeeze through the House's political divides on foreign policy. Facing an outright rebellion from c Hochul announces budget outline as lawmakers continue to hash out details 04/15/2024 07:39pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday announced the framework of a $237 billion budget that includes broad plans to drive new housing construction, address the influx of migrants and crack down on illegal marijuana shops. Hochul, a Democrat, described the announcement as the � It's Tax Day. And your refund may be big this year 04/15/2024 05:38pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — On this Tax Day, refunds are looking a bit bigger for taxpayers. According to the latest IRS statistics, the average income tax refund so far this season is $3,011, up $123 from last year. Two out of three taxpayers expect to receive a refund. The IRS is promoting the customer Hundreds pass this Prince George's Co. hospital every day for treatment elsewhere. Someday they may not have to 04/15/2024 01:56pm • Every day, hundreds of people who live in southern Prince George's County, Maryland, drive past or away from Adventist Fort Washington Medical Center to get care elsewhere. With big plans for a brand-new facility a couple of miles up Route 210, the hope is that eventually more of those residents Ukraine's foreign minister says Israel's response to an Iranian aerial attack shows what Kyiv needs 04/15/2024 09:40am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The success of Israel and its allies in largely thwarting a massive Iranian missile and drone attack shows what Ukraine could achieve against Russian aerial barrages if it had more support from its partners, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Monday. A recent Russia EU releases blocked funds of $6.7 billion to Poland as part of its post-pandemic recovery package 04/15/2024 07:57am • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The European Union disbursed 6.3 billion euros (about $6.7 billion) to Poland as a part of the 27-nation bloc's post-pandemic recovery fund, the biggest single transfer ever to the country, a government minister said Monday. Poland's former national conservative governmen t, Biden administration agrees to provide $6.4 billion to Samsung for making computer chips in Texas 04/15/2024 07:06am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has reached an agreement to provide up to $6.4 billion in direct funding for Samsung Electronics to develop a computer chip manufacturing and research cluster in Texas. The funding announced Monday by the Commerce Department is part of a total investment More civilians die in Ukraine as analysts warn that delays in US aid will hamper Kyiv's forces 04/14/2024 11:32pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — More civilians died across Ukraine on Sunday as analysts warned that delays in U.S. military assistance would see Kyiv struggle to fight off Russian offensives. One man was Sunday killed after a Russian drone hit the truck he was driving in the Sumy region, the local prosecuto These Are the Cheapest Restaurants to Feed a Family 04/14/2024 08:00pm • Dining out can be an expensive activity, and in many cases prices are escalating. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture 2024 Food Price Outlook report, food-away-from-home prices are predicted to increase 4.1% this year. It's costly enough when you're only treating yourself, but when you'r House Speaker Mike Johnson says he will push for aid to Israel and Ukraine this week 04/14/2024 06:50pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday he will try to advance wartime aid for Israel this week as he attempts the difficult task of winning House approval for a national security package that also includes funding for Ukraine and allies in Asia. Johnson, R-La., is already unde Shooting at Baltimore mall sends girl, 7, to hospital 04/14/2024 01:47pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — A 7-year-old girl was hospitalized Saturday after she was shot at a Baltimore shopping mall. Baltimore police say the girl was shot Saturday afternoon at Mondawmin Mall. According to police, two groups at the mall got into an altercation, and an unidentified male fired a shot a Right whale is found entangled off New England in a devastating year for the vanishing species 04/13/2024 05:15pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A North Atlantic right whale has been spotted entangled in rope off New England, worsening an already devastating year for the vanishing animals, federal authorities said. The right whales number less than 360 and are vulnerable to entanglement in fishing gear and collisions Ukraine's military chief warns of 'significantly' worsening battlefield situation in the east 04/13/2024 01:06pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's military chief on Saturday warned that the battlefield situation in the industrial east has “significantly worsened in recent days,” as warming weather allowed Russian forces to launch a fresh push along several stretches of the more 1,000 km-long (620-mile) fron 'HELP' sign on beach points rescuers to men stuck nine days on remote Pacific atoll 04/12/2024 10:30pm • Three men stranded on an uninhabited Pacific island survived for more than a week and used palm fronds to spell out HELP on the beach – leading to rescue by Navy and Coast Guard aviators who spotted the sign from several thousand feet in the air. They had embarked March 31 in a 20-foot boat with a Robert MacNeil, creator and first anchor of PBS 'NewsHour' nightly newscast, dies at 93 04/12/2024 08:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Robert MacNeil, who created the even-handed, no-frills PBS newscast “The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour” in the 1970s and co-anchored the show with his late partner, Jim Lehrer, for two decades, died on Friday. He was 93. MacNeil died of natural causes at New York-Presbyterian Hosp