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Ukrainian refugees celebrate Purim in Berlin as war drags on 03/07/2023 02:15pm • BERLIN (AP) ��� Hundreds of refugees from Ukraine celebrated the Jewish holiday of Purim in Berlin Tuesday dressed in colorful costumes and dancing to loud Israeli music. They danced, drank and ate together with hundreds of other members of the German capital's Chabad community that organized the pa Metro will now allow your baby to stay in stroller when you board the bus 03/07/2023 02:05pm • If you are a new parent and are pushing that stroller around all day, it will now be a lot easier to hop on a Metrobus. Metro announced changes to its policy for strollers on buses Monday, aiming to make it easier for parents riding with babies or toddlers. Instead of folding strollers, Metrob Editorial Roundup: United States 03/07/2023 01:38pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: March 6 The Washington Post on support for Ukraine Russia���s invasion of Ukraine did not catch the West���s intelligence agencies unaware. But no one in Washington or Europe anticipated the scale at which they would need to provide Ky Juice shop South Block comes to McLean (and its smoothies might be good for your skin) 03/07/2023 12:33pm • Home-grown South Block ��� which started as a juice bar on the George Washington University campus called Campus Fresh in 2006 ��� has opened its 14th location in the D.C. area in McLean, Virginia. South Block is one of several new tenants at Federal Realty's Chesterbrook Shopping Center, which i Teachers protest over suspected Iran schoolgirl poisonings 03/07/2023 12:32pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� Iranian teachers protested Tuesday over suspected poisonings targeting schoolgirls, as a prominent lawmaker and an activist group put the number of those reporting symptoms into the thousands across hundreds of schools. The new figures dramatically escalate the o Texas energy company paying $3.4B for nuclear plant owner 03/07/2023 11:27am • AKRON, Ohio (AP) ��� Amid a federal corruption case, a company that owns nuclear plants in Pennsylvania and northern Ohio will be sold for more than $3.4 billion to an Irving, Texas-based company. Under the deal announced Monday, Ohio-based Energy Harbor will become part of a newly formed Vistra sub Woman arrested in gruesome killing of Hong Kong model 03/07/2023 10:14am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� A woman accused of assisting a suspect in the gruesome killing and dismemberment of model Abby Choi in Hong Kong has been arrested in mainland China and charged, Hong Kong police said Tuesday. The arrest of the 29-year-old woman brought the total number of people allegedly involv What we know about the 4 Americans kidnapped in Mexico 03/07/2023 09:45am • CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) ��� Four Americans who traveled to Mexico last week to seek health care got caught in a deadly shootout and were kidnapped by heavily armed men who threw them in the back of a pickup truck, officials from both countries said Monday. The four were traveling Friday in a wh Former Prince George's Co. schools librarian faces child porn charges 03/07/2023 05:00am • A former Prince George's County, Maryland, public school librarian arrested on vandalism and hate crime charges last year is now also charged with possessing child pornography. Charles Sutherland, 31, of Takoma Park, was arrested last June after police said he was caught on video spray painting t Iran leader: Those who poisoned schoolgirls deserve death 03/06/2023 08:33pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� Iran's supreme leader said Monday that if a series of suspected poisonings at girls' schools is proven to be deliberate the culprits should be sentenced to death for committing an ���unforgivable crime.��� It was the first time Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamen Artificial Intelligence Stocks: The 10 Best AI Companies 03/06/2023 07:00pm • AI stocks may be excellent long-term investments.Virtually every industry is being disrupted by artificial intelligence, automation and robotics. In 2022, the world got a firsthand look at the remarkable advances in AI technology, including the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT AI chatbot and expanded publ 10 Things Your College Professors Won't Tell You 03/06/2023 07:00pm • College professors are people. And like most people, they have their secrets. Many professors are transparent with their students on matters like attendance policies, grading systems and course goals. But they may be less willing to divulge other information, such as ways to get on their good side. Republicans issue subpoenas to former school board officials 03/06/2023 06:38pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� House Republicans issued another series of subpoenas Monday as part of an ongoing investigation into what they contend is the mistreatment of parents who protested ���woke��� school board policies. Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, demanded documents and In 'junk fee' fight, US details airline family seating rules 03/06/2023 05:51pm • The Transportation Department is rolling out a ���dashboard��� to let travelers see at a glance which airlines help families with young children sit together at no extra cost. The announcement Monday comes as the department works on regulations to prevent families from being separated on planes. It� Street near Miami named for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson 03/06/2023 02:00pm • CUTLER BAY, Fla. (AP) ��� U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson came home to South Florida on Monday to celebrate the renaming of a street in her honor in the community where she grew up. "I hope that this street naming will also serve as a testament to what is possible in this great coun