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In swing-state Pennsylvania, a Latino-majority city embraces a chance to sway the 2024 election 07/10/2024 03:34pm • READING, Pa. (AP) ��� Religion and politics frequently overlap in Reading, an old industrial city in one of the most pivotal swing states of this year���s presidential election. In Pennsylvania, there is early precedent for this kind of thing. The state began as a haven for Quakers and other Europea Their Vermont homes were inundated by extreme flooding. A year later, they still struggle to recover 07/10/2024 03:28pm • MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) ��� A year after catastrophic flooding inundated parts of Vermont, Lisa Edson Neveu and her two teenage sons still live in their flood-wracked home despite unrepaired damage that festers like an open wound: torn-out walls and floors, a missing ceiling in one room and a downstair Pop-soul band Lake Street Dive wants to spread a little joy around. What's wrong with that? 07/10/2024 11:10am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Lake Street Dive chooses to spread some joy. You got a problem with that? The veteran pop-soul band's upbeat approach permeates the new disc ���Good Together,��� with the title track's sprightly synthesizers pushing along members' Rachael Price and Akie Bermiss duet about of a coup Fraternity and sorority suspended as Dartmouth student's death investigated 07/10/2024 11:08am • HANOVER, N.H. (AP) ��� Dartmouth College has suspended a fraternity and a sorority as the investigation continues into the death of a student whose body was found Sunday in the Connecticut River after a party nearby the night before, the school said. Won Jang, 20, of Middletown, Delaware, had been Olympians' early memories of seeing Michael Phelps and the torch kickstarted their careers 07/10/2024 10:53am • Jordan Larson remembers the little, white TV that was perched on a swivel in the kitchen, making it easy to keep an eye on things while cooking or eating. One summer during Larson's childhood, the Olympics were on ��� Olympic gymnastics, to be more specific. ���I was like, ���I think I���m going to More Indigenous youth are learning to spearfish, a connection to ancestors and the land 07/10/2024 09:30am • HAYWARD, Wis. (AP) ��� Ganebik Johnson started learning traditional Ojibwe songs when he was about 2 years old. He'd hang around listening to his uncle sing, or observe elders, or even pull up music on YouTube. Spearfishing came shortly after, at around age 7, when his grandfather took him out on a Kroger to sell 6 DC-area Harris Teeter stores in Albertsons merger 07/10/2024 08:17am • Kroger and Albertsons have released a final list of the hundreds of grocery stores they plan to divest as part of their $24.6 billion merger, despite the legal challenges and union opposition they face. The stores proposed for sale include six Harris Teeter locations in the D.C. area ��� in Darne From 'Body Like a Back Road' to 'Locked Up': Country crossover star Sam Hunt performs at Jiffy Lube Live 07/10/2024 04:22am • Few country music stars have crossed over in recent years more successfully than Sam Hunt. This Friday, Hunt brings his "Locked Up Tour" to Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, Virginia, for a blend of new radio hits like "Outskirts" and career-defining tunes like "Body Like a Back Road." "There'll 6 Easy Ways to Pay Off Debt 07/09/2024 08:00pm • If you're one of the many Americans struggling to manage debt, you aren't alone. Prices and interest rates alike are high, and it can feel difficult to get out from under payments. Whether you are paying off credit cards, student loans or other kinds of debt, figuring out a plan can cause immense mo How to Choose a Financial Advisor 07/09/2024 08:00pm • If you're sorting out the financial decisions around retirement or estate planning, or wondering how you can help your kids or grandkids finance their education, a financial advisor can help. It can be difficult to understand an advisor's credentials, how their business is structured or whether your Mississippi man charged with stealing car that had a baby inside; baby found safe 07/09/2024 07:26pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� A Mississippi judge on Tuesday set bond at $300,000 for a man accused of stealing a car with a 7-month-old baby inside. James Wilson, 44, of Rankin County, was arrested Monday at a hotel in Jackson and charged with auto theft and kidnapping. The Mazda sedan was unattended wit Gypsy Rose Blanchard pregnant soon after release from prison for conspiring to kill abusive mother 07/09/2024 05:55pm • Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who recruited her former boyfriend to kill her mother after years of being forced to pretend she was gravely ill, announced Tuesday that she is pregnant and hopes to give her child everything she lacked growing up. Blanchard said in a YouTube video that the baby is due in Janu Chaos and horror at a Kyiv hospital as the city is hit with heaviest bombardment in months 07/09/2024 05:32pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� The sky was crystal clear as Oksana Femeniuk took her daughter to Ukraine���s largest children���s hospital for routine dialysis. Around 10 a.m, air-raid sirens blared. Sixteen-year old Solomiia was undergoing the treatment that required her to sit still for up to five hours a Gov. Youngkin issues executive order establishing 'cellphone-free education' in Virginia 07/09/2024 04:47pm • Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Tuesday issued an executive order requiring public school divisions to adopt policies establishing cellphone-free education by January 2025. The order directs the Virginia Department of Education to initiate "a robust public engagement effort with parents, students, teacher DC go-go legend and EU frontman Sugar Bear celebrates 50 years of music in Tysons, Bethesda 07/09/2024 02:17pm • A D.C. music legend is celebrating 50 years of his beloved go-go group Experience Unlimited. Sugar Bear brings EU to Capital One Hall in Tysons, Virginia this Friday, July 12, followed by a pair of shows at Bethesda Theater in Bethesda, Maryland on July 26 and 27. "Let's have a party, remi