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The high cost of living is still biting the UK. Many don't think the election will change anything 06/17/2024 12:09am • LONDON (AP) ��� Dominic Watters watches his gas and electricity meter like a hawk. He topped it up a few days ago, but now there���s just 1.85 pounds ($2.40) of credit left. That may determine what kind of dinner he and his teen daughter get tonight, he says. Watters, a campaigner for better access Does Financial Aid Cover Summer Classes? 06/16/2024 08:00pm • Many college students want to take a break from the books over the summer. However, for students planning to enroll in a summer term -- whether to make up a class or reduce the length of time to graduation, among other reasons -- the cost doesn't always have to come out of pocket. There are options Hershey Bears beat Coachella Valley Firebirds 5-2 in Game 2 to even AHL's Calder Cup final 06/16/2024 07:57pm • HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) ��� Hunter Shepard made 32 saves, Jimmy Huntington and Pierrick Dub�� scored late in the second period and the Hershey Bears beat the Coachella Valley Firebirds 5-2 on Sunday night in Game 2 to even the Calder Cup final. Hardy H��man Aktell scored twice and Ivan Miroshnichenko h People on the National Mall salute their dads this Father's Day 06/16/2024 06:56am • It���s a popular belief that Father���s Day has taken a back seat to Mother's Day since it was first conceived in 1909 by Sonora Smart Dodd. Dodd, a native of Spokane, Washington, was motivated to create the day honoring fathers during a Mother's Day church service that year. A decade later, Shackells celebrate strong starts for brother, sister duo at U.S. Olympic swimming trials 06/15/2024 11:15pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Aaron Shackell celebrated his Olympic dream by throwing his goggles and swim cap to the ground Saturday night. Alex Shackell fully anticipated the move as she watched her brother competing from the warm-up pool just a short walk away. Their proud parents, meanwhile, were part o Charges filed against Maryland delegate by his son are dismissed 06/15/2024 10:39pm • Assault charges filed against a Cecil County delegate by his adult son have been dismissed. Del. Kevin B. Hornberger faced a second-degree assault charge filed in April by his adult son, Adam Hornberger. The charges were filed through a Cecil County District Court commissioner and later appealed French protesters are standing up to the far right ahead of the country's snap elections 06/15/2024 06:41pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Anti-racism groups joined French unions and a brand-new left-wing coalition in protests in Paris and across France on Saturday against the surging nationalist far right as frenzied campaigning is underway ahead of snap parliamentary elections. The French Interior Ministry said 250,000 On Father's Day, this LGBTQ+ couple celebrates the friend who helped make their family dream reality 06/15/2024 04:51pm • PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. (AP) ��� David Titterington had a sense of what his childhood friend would ask him when she led him into a photo booth at a mutual friend's wedding roughly a decade ago. As the countdown for the second photo ticked, Jen Wilson popped the question: Will you be my sperm donor? �� Italian activist freed from Hungary returns home after being elected to European Parliament 06/15/2024 03:27pm • ROME (AP) ��� Italian anti-fascist activist Ilaria Salis returned to her parents��� house in the northern Italian city of Monza on Saturday evening, after being freed from house arrest in Budapest the day before. ���A nightmare is over,��� her father Roberto Salis told journalists waiting for her at Rome LGBTQ+ Pride parade celebrates 30th anniversary, makes fun of Pope Francis comments 06/15/2024 02:59pm • ROME (AP) ��� The Rome LGBTQ+ Pride parade celebrated its 30th anniversary Saturday as tens of thousands of people in brightly colored outfits marched through the Italian capital waving banners, dancing and singing as they marked gay rights and poked fun at Pope Francis. Many of the signs and banner Missouri woman's murder conviction tossed after 43 years. Her lawyers say a police officer did it 06/15/2024 01:05pm • A judge has overturned the conviction of a Missouri woman who was a psychiatric patient when she incriminated herself in a 1980 killing that her attorneys argue was actually committed by a now-discredited police officer. Judge Ryan Horsman ruled late Friday that Sandra Hemme, who has spent 43 years 4-year-old boy found dead inside SUV in Northeast DC 06/15/2024 11:02am • A 4-year-old boy was found dead inside a vehicle in Northeast on Friday evening, according to D.C. police. Police told WTOP officers were called to Galloway Street and South Dakota Avenue NE in the Fort Totten neighborhood shortly after 5 p.m., for the report of an unconscious child in a car. A timeline of recent British royal events as Kate appears in public while battling cancer 06/15/2024 10:16am • LONDON (AP) ��� Kate, Princess of Wales, stood alongside King Charles III and other royal family members on a Buckingham Palace balcony on Saturday, making her first public appearance since she was diagnosed with cancer early this year. Her attendance at the King's Birthday Parade comes after a diff WTOP Book Report: The D.C. man who brought basketball to Black athletes 06/15/2024 10:00am • This story is part of the WTOP Book Report series written by Terik King. Read more of that coverage. Edwin Bancroft Henderson II has penned the first contemporary biography of his grandfather, Dr. Edwin Bancroft (E.B.) Henderson, a pivotal figure in the history of African American basketball. Fairfax Co. adding 7 early release Mondays for elementary schoolers so teachers can finish required trainings 06/15/2024 07:39am • Fairfax County Public Schools is adding seven early release days to its elementary school calendar for the 2024-25 school year so teachers have enough time to finish required Virginia trainings. At Thursday's school board meeting, Superintendent Michelle Reid unveiled the plan to add the three-ho