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Ian Tyson, half of Ian & Sylvia folk duo, dies at age 89 12/29/2022 06:35pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� Ian Tyson, the Canadian folk singer who wrote the modern standard ���Four Strong Winds��� as one half of Ian & Sylvia and helped influence such future superstars as Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, died Thursday at age 89. The native of Victoria, British Columbia, died at his ranch Mira las nuevas leyes que entrar��n en vigor en Maryland, Virginia y DC a partir del 2023 12/29/2022 04:12pm • Con el nuevo a��o llegan nuevas leyes que podr��an afectar su dinero, atenci��n m��dica y m��s. Sigue leyendo para ver las nuevas medidas que entrar��n en vigor en DC, Virginia y Maryland el 1 de enero de 2023. Nuevas leyes en Washington, DC Salario m��nimo: El salario m��nimo en el Distrito a Women, kids among 1,200 Afghan migrants jailed in Pakistan 12/29/2022 12:20pm • KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) ��� Pakistani police in multiple raids detained at least 1,200 Afghan nationals, including women and children, who had entered the southern port city of Karachi without valid travel documents, officials said Thursday. The arrests brought criticism from around Afghanistan after College scandal middleman blames 'winning at all costs' 12/29/2022 11:40am • The consultant at the center of the nationwide college admissions scandal blamed his ���winning at all costs��� attitude, which he said was caused in part by suppressed childhood trauma, for his actions in a letter to the judge scheduled to sentence him next week. William ���Rick��� Singer, 62, w Parents of 2 among 3 dead after fall in icy Arizona lake 12/29/2022 11:28am • FOREST LAKES, Ariz. (AP) ��� A mother and father of two as well as another parent, all Indian nationals, were the drowning victims recovered from a frigid Arizona lake. The Coconino County Sheriff���s Office confirmed the identities of 49-year-old Narayana Muddana and his wife, Haritha Muddana, and WTOP���s LEDO PIZZA TEAM PARTIES SWEEPSTAKES 12/29/2022 11:11am • WTOP���s LEDO PIZZA TEAM PARTIES SWEEPSTAKES Official Rules �� NO DONATION NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN; A DONATION WILL NOT IMPROVE CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. �� BY ENTERING THE SWEEPSTAKES, EACH ENTRANT AGREES TO THESE OFFICIAL RULES. �� Eligibility: No purchase nec Prayers for ailing Benedict in retired pope's native Bavaria 12/29/2022 11:08am • MARKTL AM INN, Germany (AP) ��� People in Pope Benedict XVI���s Bavarian homeland prayed Thursday for the retired pontiff, a favorite son of the region even 40 years after he left Germany for the Vatican and nearly a decade after his resignation stunned the world. At the St. Oswald church in the sma 'Not just the ramp.' Worship spaces need more accessibility 12/29/2022 10:12am • NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) ��� Jerry Lamb could not maneuver his wheelchair into the rows of pews at his church. It wouldn���t fit. Nor could he sit in the aisles without awkwardly blocking the way. So he adapted. It���s a regular part of his new life with limited mobility that requires near-const Maria Bakalova wants to make you feel something 12/29/2022 08:34am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� When it comes to acting, Maria Bakalova considers herself to be a person of extremes. ���Cinema is supposed to be provoking. It���s not supposed to be, I think, something that is somewhere in the middle,��� the Oscar-nominated actor said in a recent interview with The Associate ���I think of them���: Abducted Nigerian schoolgirls remembered 12/29/2022 04:55am • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) ��� Margret Yama���s phone screensaver is a picture of her cousin, Rifkatu Galang, who is still held by Boko Haram extremists nearly nine years after she and 275 other girls were seized from their school in northeastern Nigeria. Yama was among those taken but later freed. Dozens Massachusetts' anti-Trump GOP governor ends time in office 12/28/2022 08:06pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, an anti-Trump Republican who easily won reelection four years ago, learned his earliest political lessons listening to his Democratic mother and Republican father hashing out the issues of the day. ���My parents were married for 60 years before my mo Retiring J.J. Watt grateful for fans, teammates, team staff 12/28/2022 06:19pm • TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) ��� J.J. Watt has always had a love for the common man, even though he looks more like Superman. So it's fitting that the funniest anecdote from the retirement news conference of one of the best defensive players in NFL history featured a little-known Arizona Cardinals teammate, r Argentina group IDs another baby stolen during dictatorship 12/28/2022 05:53pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ��� DNA tests have confirmed that a man was snatched from his mother as a baby during Argentina's last military dictatorship and was illegally adopted by a family in a northern province, a human rights group said Wednesday. It was the second such case announced in less t DC announces $950K settlement in suit against Washington Hebrew Congregation 12/28/2022 05:32pm • D.C. has settled its lawsuit against Washington Hebrew Congregation. D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine on Wednesday announced the $950,000 settlement of the suit, which he brought in 2020, claiming the WHC���s preschool violated child care regulations and consumer protection laws. ���Instead o In Venezuela, Maduro-like Christmas toy stirs controversy 12/28/2022 05:10pm • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ��� Every year, Venezuela���s socialist government hands out thousands of Christmas presents to the nation���s poorest children, including bicycles, Barbie dolls and plastic trucks imported from China. This holiday season, officials added a new item to their list: an action