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'Full circle': Prince George's Co. native will dance with premier troupe at DC's Kennedy Center 04/02/2023 05:05am • This is part of WTOP���s continuing coverage of people making a difference from our community authored by Stephanie Gaines-Bryant.��Read more of that coverage. A Prince George's County native says he has always been goal oriented, and one of his goals was to dance at the Kennedy Center in D.C. No DC's love for New Balance sneakers highlighted in new documentary 04/01/2023 01:36pm • A new documentary dives into the love affair between D.C. residents and New Balance sneakers that elevated the functional shoe into a local fashion icon. While other cities adopted Air Force Ones, Timberlands and Chuck Taylors, the District's streetwear scene in the '80s became obsessed with the TikTok attorney: China can't get U.S. data under plan 04/01/2023 01:52am • SAULSALITO, Calif. (AP) ��� Under intense scrutiny from Washington that could lead to a potential ban, the top attorney for TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance defended the social media platform���s plan to safeguard U.S. user data from China. ���The basic approach that we���re following Today in History: Apr 1, First pro baseball, hockey strikes 04/01/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Saturday, April 1, the 91st day of 2023. There are 274 days left in the year. This is April Fool���s Day. Today���s Highlights in History: On April 1, 1972, the first Major League Baseball players��� strike began; it lasted 12 days. Twenty years later, on April 1, 1992, Mourners gather for 1st Nashville school shooting funeral 03/31/2023 08:22pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Family and friends of Evelyn Dieckhaus, one of three children who were killed in a school shooting in Nashville this week, remembered her Friday as a ���shining light��� and said farewell to a girl who loved art, music, animals and snuggling with her older sister on the cou Mississippi closer to more state police in mostly Black city 03/31/2023 08:15pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� Tensions erupted Friday as the majority-white and Republican-controlled Mississippi House passed the final version of a bill to expand the territory of a state-run police department inside the capital city of Jackson, which is majority-Black and governed by Democrats. Support Florida House votes to expand 'Don't Say Gay' law 03/31/2023 06:25pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� Florida could expand what critics call the ���Don't Say Gay��� law that limits discussions of gender identity and sexual orientation in public schools under a bill the House approved Friday along party lines. The bill, which passed on a 77-35 vote, would ban discussion on Judge: Dominion defamation case against Fox will go to trial 03/31/2023 06:18pm • DOVER, Del. (AP) ��� A Delaware judge's ruling Friday set the stage for a dramatic springtime trial on whether Fox News bears financial responsibility for airing false allegations that a voting machine company rigged the 2020 presidential election against former President Donald Trump. Superior Cour Viewpoint: Child care is a necessary investment for D.C. leaders 03/31/2023 04:59pm • D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's new D.C.'s Comeback Plan��sets an example for the nation by including a "multipronged child care affordability initiative" toward the goal of attracting 15,000 new residents downtown. Her plan would lower the cost of child care for working families and create more child ca Who���s who in the Manhattan DA���s Donald Trump indictment 03/31/2023 04:49pm • As Donald Trump fought his way to victory in the 2016 presidential campaign, key allies tried to smooth his bumpy path by paying off two women who had been thinking of going public with allegations of extramarital encounters with the Republican. The payoffs, and the way that Trump's company accounte Stocks rally to cap a winning month, quarter for Wall Street 03/31/2023 04:34pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Stocks rallied Friday to close out a winning March and first quarter of the year, feats that looked questionable just a couple weeks ago when Wall Street was tumbling in turmoil. The S&P 500 rose 1.4% to cap a 3.5% gain for the month. It also locked in a second winning quarter Business Highlights: Inflation; JetBlue-Spirit 03/31/2023 04:18pm • ___ A key inflation gauge tracked by the Fed slowed in February WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Federal Reserve���s favored inflation gauge slowed sharply last month, an encouraging sign in the Fed���s yearlong effort to cool price pressures through steadily higher interest rates. Friday���s report from the US Marine's adoption of Afghan war orphan voided 03/31/2023 03:50pm • CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) ��� In a highly unusual ruling, a state court judge on Thursday voided a U.S. Marine���s adoption of an Afghan war orphan, more than a year after he took the little girl away from the Afghan couple raising her. But her future remains uncertain. For now, the child will stay Oscar Pistorius stays in prison after his parole is denied 03/31/2023 12:12pm • PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) ��� Former Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was denied parole Friday and will have to stay in prison for at least another year and four months after it was decided that he had not served the ���minimum detention period��� required to be released following his murder convict National Museum of the American Indian celebrates Cherokee tribes 03/31/2023 11:23am • Through Sunday, the National Museum of the American Indian in D.C. is celebrating the contributions of Cherokee tribes across the U.S. with Cherokee Days, which celebrates and highlights Cherokee culture. Chuck Hoskin Jr. is the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation. He said that he hopes people