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How (and where) to watch Oscar-nominated films online 03/01/2024 10:53pm • The winner in the Oscar race this year is “Oppenheimer” with 13 nominations, followed by the otherworldly “Poor Things” with 11 and the period epic “Killers of the Flower Moon” with 10. This year's Oscars race come after a bruising 2023 that was marred by strikes and work stoppages for t Biden approves military airdrops of aid into Gaza after chaotic encounter left more than 100 dead 03/01/2024 09:04pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will begin airdropping emergency humanitarian assistance into Gaza, President Joe Biden said Friday, a day after more than 100 Palestinians were killed during a chaotic encounter with Israeli troops. The president announced the move after at least 115 Palestinians were President Joe Biden signs short-term spending bill to avoid partial government shutdown 03/01/2024 08:08pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday signed a short-term spending measure that keeps one set of federal agencies operating through March 8 and another set through March 22 — officially staving off a partial government shutdown that would have started on Saturday. The measure gives Gaza doctor says gunfire accounted for 80% of the wounds at his hospital from aid convoy bloodshed 03/01/2024 08:01pm • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The head of a Gaza City hospital that treated some of the Palestinians wounded in the bloodshed surrounding an aid convoy said Friday that more than 80% had been struck by gunfire, suggesting there was heavy shooting by Israeli troops. At least 115 Palestinians were killed Rays' Amed Rosario would increase earnings to $2 million with 620 plate appearances 03/01/2024 10:56am • PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (AP) — Infielder Amed Rosario would increase his earnings with the Tampa Bay Rays to $2 million if he has at least 620 plate appearances this season. Rosario agreed Feb. 20 to a one-year contract with a base salary of $1.5 million. The 28-year-old would earn $100,000 each for Congress approves short-term extension to avoid shutdown, buy more time for final spending agreement 02/29/2024 09:06pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress passed another short-term spending measure Thursday that would keep one set of federal agencies operating through March 8 and another set through March 22, avoiding a shutdown for parts of the federal government that would otherwise kick in Saturday. The bill now goes to Alaska governor threatens to veto education package that he says doesn't go far enough 02/29/2024 08:06pm • JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy has threatened to veto an education package overwhelmingly passed by lawmakers after a bruising debate, saying it lacks provisions he favors, including a pilot program offering annual bonuses of up to $15,000 as a way to attract and keep t The jobs market is hot, but layoffs keep coming in a shifting economic environment 02/29/2024 12:44pm • The U.S. economy is humming and there are hundreds of thousands of jobs being added every month. In a stunning burst of hiring to start the year, the nation added 353,000 jobs in January, shrugging off the highest interest rates in two decades that have been put in place by the U.S. Federal Reserve Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge picked up last month in sign of still-elevated prices 02/29/2024 12:42pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — An inflation gauge favored by the Federal Reserve increased in January, the latest sign that the slowdown in U.S. consumer price increases is occurring unevenly from month to month. The government reported Thursday that prices rose 0.3% from December to January, up from 0.1% in t US adults fracture along party lines in support for Ukraine military funding, AP-NORC poll finds 02/29/2024 08:19am • WASHINGTON (AP) — As Russia makes battlefield advances and Ukrainian soldiers run short on ammunition, U.S. adults have become fractured along party lines in their support for sending military aid to Kyiv, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. De Legislation allowing recreational marijuana sales in Virginia heads to GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin 02/29/2024 04:35am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia lawmakers passed legislation Wednesday that if approved by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin would allow recreational retail sales of marijuana to begin next year. Under the bills, the state would start taking applications on Sept. 1 for cultivating, testing, processi FedEx drops name off Commanders' Landover stadium, ending its naming rights agreement early 02/28/2024 11:59pm • The Washington Commanders' stadium will be getting a new name after more than two decades of being known as FedEx Field. The package delivery company is ending its sponsorship of the stadium two years early. The team tells WTOP that for now the stadium will be called Commanders Field while the Co Anheuser-Busch, Teamsters reach labor agreement that avoids US strike 02/28/2024 09:11pm • Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch has reached a contract agreement with the Teamsters union that avoids a strike at its U.S. plants. The union had threatened a strike at the brewer’s 12 U.S. plants if an agreement on a new five-year contract wasn’t reached by 11:59 p.m. EST Thursday. The Teamsters Congressional leaders reach a tentative deal to avoid government shutdown. But Ukraine aid stalls 02/28/2024 08:22pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders announced Wednesday they have reached a tentative agreement to prevent a government shutdown for now, days before an end-of-the-week deadline that risked shuttering some federal operations. Under the new plan, Congress would temporarily fund one set of feder 16 Best Jobs for High School Graduates 02/28/2024 07:00pm • Careers for high school graduatesHigh school graduates have great options when it comes to careers. Here are 16 opportunities for those with high school degrees or equivalents. Some jobs on this list also require some postsecondary training, but there's no need to go into college debt for them.The j