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Woman took her dog to a Montgomery Co. shelter to be euthanized. A year later, the dog is up for adoption again 05/25/2024 10:29am • Exhausted and short on options after consulting two veterinary clinics, Kristie Pereira made the gut-wrenching decision last year to take her desperately ill puppy to a Maryland shelter to be euthanized. So she was stunned last week to find the dog up for adoption at the same pet rescue organizat Theater show spotlights the stories of those who are Asian American and Jewish 05/25/2024 08:50am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� David Chiu���s mother comes from a long line of Lithuanian Jews; his father is an immigrant from Hong Kong. For most of his life, the 42-year-old Southern Californian has felt like he ���never completely belonged in either world.��� It wasn���t until a few years ago, when he sat Stumpy, DC's famous cherry blossom tree, dead at 25 05/25/2024 06:58am • Stumpy, a crowd-favorite cherry blossom tree at D.C.'s Tidal Basin, has died at the estimated age of 25. It was the victim of failing seawalls requiring repair, according to a statement from the National Park Service. Stumpy's exact age had been unknown for years due to a lack of countable rings Older Americans often don't prepare for long-term care, from costs to location to emotional toll 05/24/2024 10:09pm • MANKATO, Minn. (AP) ��� Seven tough weeks passed with her husband in the hospital before Nancy Gag Braun found long-term care for him. From 2019 up until that point in 2022, Braun had cared for Steven at their Mankato home. A traumatic brain injury in February 2019, followed by his progressive demen Tennessee, Delaware to become first states to offer free diapers for Medicaid families 05/24/2024 08:35pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Tennessee will soon become the first state in the country to offer free diapers to families enrolled in the state's Medicaid program after receiving federal approval, state officials have confirmed. Similarly, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has also approved Young missionary couple from US among 3 killed by gunmen in Haiti's capital, family says 05/24/2024 07:22pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� A U.S. missionary couple and a Haitian man who worked with them were shot and killed by gang members in Haiti���s capital after they were attacked while leaving a youth group activity held at a local church, a family member said Friday. The attack happened Thursday eve With revenue sharing coming to college sports, are NIL collectives a problem or part of a solution? 05/24/2024 05:28pm • When the NCAA lifted its longtime ban on college athletes earning endorsement money in 2021, there was no such thing as collectives. Now the booster-funded organizations have become ubiquitous, and a common way for athletes to cash in as name, image and likeness compensation quickly evolved into a Caleb Carr, military historian and author of bestselling novel 'The Alienist,' dies at 68 05/24/2024 04:38pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Caleb Carr, the scarred and gifted son of founding Beat Lucien Carr who endured a traumatizing childhood and became a bestselling novelist, accomplished military historian and late-life memoirist of his devoted cat, Masha, has died at 68. Carr died of cancer Thursday, according to There's a 'whole life' that goes with each poppy on the wall at the National Mall 05/24/2024 03:23pm • The USAA Poppy Wall of Honor, an exhibit honoring more than half a million service members who gave the ultimate service, returns to D.C. this Memorial Day weekend. The wall features red poppy flowers for the more than 600,000 U.S. service members who have died in the line of duty since World War FIFA defaults Equatorial Guinea's World Cup qualifying wins over same ineligible player as in 2013 05/24/2024 02:26pm • GENEVA (AP) ��� For the second time, Equatorial Guinea must forfeit two World Cup qualifying games for fielding star player Emilio Nsue when he was ineligible, FIFA said Friday. The second FIFA disciplinary case involving Nsue's eligibility comes 11 years after the first and adds to a series of inel Italian teenage computer wizard set to become the first saint of the Millennial generation 05/24/2024 10:48am • ROME (AP) ��� Pope Francis paved the way for the canonization of the first saint of the millennial generation on Thursday, attributing a second miracle to a 15-year-old Italian computer whiz who died of leukemia in 2006. Carlo Acutis, born on May 3, 1991, in London and then moved with his Italian pa Russia smashes train tracks in a battered Ukrainian border region where children are being evacuated 05/24/2024 09:27am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� A nighttime Russian attack destroyed trains and tracks in Ukraine���s northeastern Kharkiv region, officials said Friday, and authorities organized the evacuation of children from the area as it is being pummeled by the Kremlin���s forces in a powerful new offensive. The overn 10 Loudoun County elementary schools to start later next school year 05/24/2024 03:30am • Ten Loudoun County elementary schools will start the school day 15 minutes later next year as the Virginia district works to address parents��� concerns about early starts and bus pickup times. During a county finance and operations committee meeting Tuesday, Director of Transportation Scott Davi Georgetown Boys and Girls Club claims DC mayor defunded program in proposed budget 05/24/2024 12:01am • A local chapter of the Boys and Girls Club of America says it's at risk of stopping the work it does to help D.C. kids after funding it has received from the city for decades has been struck from Mayor Muriel Bowser���s proposed 2025 budget. ���We need the funds to support 1,500+ kids a day. This Government sues Ticketmaster owner and asks court to break up company's monopoly on live events 05/23/2024 09:35pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Justice Department sued Ticketmaster and its parent company Thursday, accusing them of running an illegal monopoly over live events in America and asking a court to break up the system that squelches competition and drives up prices for fans. Filed in federal court in Manhatt