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1 killed in Southeast DC triple shooting that left man, teenage boy injured 03/28/2024 02:00pm • A man is dead and two others, including a teenager, were injured in a shooting Wednesday night in Southeast D.C. Police said, around 7:45 p.m., they responded to the 3400 block of Stanton Road SE near the Children's National Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus (THEARC) hospital for reports Brazil's Bolsonaro requests court permission to accept Netanyahu's invite to Israel 03/28/2024 01:44pm • SAO PAULO (AP) ��� Brazil���s former President Jair Bolsonaro has requested federal authorities return his passport and authorize travel to Israel so he can accept an event invitation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit in May, Bolsonaro���s lawyers said Thursday in a statement. The atto Md. Senate President Ferguson promises aid for affected port workers 03/28/2024 01:02pm • House and Senate leaders say they will draft emergency legislation to help workers at the Port of Baltimore following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City), in a post on social media Wednesday, said he and other lawmakers representing the Maryland business fuels up boats and first responders in wake of Baltimore bridge collapse 03/28/2024 12:57pm • Just an hour after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in Baltimore early Tuesday morning, a nearby Dundalk business owner was awoken and minutes later rushed to help. His mission: to make sure the boats looking for the missing construction workers had enough fuel and to ensure first responde Banned Sandro Tonali has been charged by English FA for breaking betting rules 03/28/2024 12:43pm • Newcastle midfielder Sandro Tonali has been charged with breaching English soccer���s betting rules, the Football Association said on Thursday. Tonali is already serving a 10-month ban issued by the Italian soccer federation for betting on teams he played for, which has ruled him out of action sinc Driving along ... and the roadway vanishes beneath you. What's it like to survive a bridge collapse? 03/28/2024 12:37pm • You're driving along, and without warning, the roadway drops from beneath you. There are a few seconds of falling, with thoughts possibly racing about family or loved ones, followed by a jarring impact, and most likely injury. Tuesday's collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore fol Minnesota teen gets 4 years as accomplice in fatal robbery that led to police shooting of Amir Locke 03/28/2024 12:24pm • ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) ��� A teenager has been sentenced to four years for his role in a St. Paul killing that prompted police in Minneapolis to execute a search warrant that led to the fatal shooting of Amir Locke by a police officer in a case that focused scrutiny on the use of no-knock warrants. Fe Why did more than 1,000 people die after police subdued them with force that isn't meant to kill? 03/28/2024 11:23am • Carl Grant, a Vietnam veteran with dementia, wandered out of a hospital room to charge a cellphone he imagined he had. When he wouldn���t sit still, the police officer escorting Grant body-slammed him, ricocheting the patient���s head off the floor. Taylor Ware, a former Marine and aspiring college French lawmakers condemn 'bloody and murderous' 1961 massacre of Algerian protesters 03/28/2024 10:29am • PARIS (AP) ��� French lawmakers on Thursday condemned an infamous 1961 police crackdown on Algerian protesters in Paris as a ���bloody and murderous repression,��� marking another step in the country's recognition of the massacre that authorities sought to cover up for decades. The National Assembly Bahamian politician killed while fleeing from gunmen who demanded cash, police say 03/28/2024 10:03am • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� A well-known politician in the Bahamas was killed when two gunmen opened fire on a group of people while trying to rob them, police said Thursday. Don Saunders, a former parliamentarian and the deputy chairman of the Free National Movement Party, died at the scene late After bodies recovered from Patapsco River, where does Baltimore bridge recovery stand now? 03/28/2024 09:40am • Listen to WTOP online��and on the radio at 103.5 FM or 107.7 FM for our team coverage. As recovery efforts slow down and long-term investigations begin into how a large cargo ship crashed into a pillar of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on Tuesday, officials are evaluating how they can The British Museum names Nicholas Cullinan its new director as it tries to get over a rocky patch 03/28/2024 09:08am • LONDON (AP) ��� The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection. Previous director Hartwig Fi This is how reporters documented 1,000 deaths after police force that isn't supposed to be fatal 03/28/2024 06:05am • After George Floyd was killed under a Minneapolis police officer���s knee, reporters at The Associated Press wanted to know how many other people died following encounters in which law enforcement used not firearms but other kinds of force that is not supposed to be fatal. The U.S. government is sup Central American and Mexican families mourn the workers lost in the Baltimore bridge collapse 03/28/2024 02:09am • AZACUALPA, Honduras (AP) ��� The construction workers who went missing in the Baltimore bridge collapse came to the Maryland area from Mexico or Central America, including an enterprising Honduran father and husband who started a delivery business before the pandemic forced him to find other work, a Cargo ship had engine maintenance in port before it collided with Baltimore bridge, officials say 03/28/2024 01:47am • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� The cargo ship that lost power and crashed into a bridge in Baltimore underwent ���routine engine maintenance��� in port beforehand, the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday, as divers recovered the bodies of two of six workers who plunged into the water when it collapsed. The others w