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Algeria's government pushes staples to subsidized markets to stave off Ramadan shortages 03/28/2024 10:48am • ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) â Algeria's government has flooded newly opened markets selling subsidized goods with pantry staples to stave off shortages during Islam's holy month of Ramadan, when demand typically increases in Muslim-majority countries and prices tend to rise. Authorities have moved to in Republican-passed bill removes role of Democratic governor if Senate vacancy occurs in Kentucky 03/28/2024 10:28am • FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) â Kentucky lawmakers gave final approval Thursday to a bill stripping the state's Democratic governor of any role in picking someone to occupy a U.S. Senate seat if a vacancy occurred in the home state of 82-year-old Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. The legislation cal China's latest EV is a 'connected' car from smart phone and electronics maker Xiaomi China's latest EV is a 'connected' car from smart phone and electronics maker Xiaomi 03/28/2024 10:15am • BEIJING (AP) â Xiaomi, a well-known maker of smart consumer electronics in China, is joining the country's booming but crowded market for electric cars with a sporty high-tech sedan. The tech company said it would begin accepting orders in China via an app on Thursday night, after founder Lei Jun Palestinian Authority announces a new Cabinet as it faces calls for reform Palestinian Authority announces a new Cabinet as it faces calls for reform 03/28/2024 09:42am • RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) â The Palestinian Authority has announced the formation of a new Cabinet as it faces international pressure to reform. President Mahmoud Abbas, who has led the PA for nearly two decades and remains in overall control, announced the new government in a presidential decree o VP Harris says US agencies must show their AI tools aren't harming people's safety or rights VP Harris says US agencies must show their AI tools aren't harming people's safety or rights 03/28/2024 09:30am • U.S. federal agencies must show that their artificial intelligence tools aren't harming the public, or stop using them, under new rules unveiled by the White House on Thursday. âœWhen government agencies use AI tools, we will now require them to verify that those tools do not endanger the rights an No joke: UK comedian told to remove hot dog from subway poster over junk food ban No joke: UK comedian told to remove hot dog from subway poster over junk food ban 03/28/2024 07:54am • LONDON (AP) â On the London Underground, hot dogs are no joking matter. Comedian Ed Gamble has been ordered to change a subway station poster campaign for his new standup show because the image of a hot dog violated the transit networkâs ban on junk food advertising. The poster for the show, ✠Why did more than 1,000 people die after police subdued them with force that isn't meant to kill? 03/28/2024 07:23am • Carl Grant, a Vietnam veteran with dementia, wandered out of a hospital room to charge a cellphone he imagined he had. When he wouldnât sit still, the police officer escorting Grant body-slammed him, ricocheting the patientâs head off the floor. Taylor Ware, a former Marine and aspiring college Md. congressman wants to cut the red tape so new Baltimore bridge can be built faster Md. congressman wants to cut the red tape so new Baltimore bridge can be built faster 03/28/2024 06:05am • Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., urged federal and state officials Wednesday to take a fresh look at environmental requirements that he said could slow down reconstruction of a new Francis Scott Key Bridge. Harris said a new round of environmental studies related to a new span of the bridge could add yea 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 officerâs 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 Biden is announcing a new rule to protect consumers who purchase short-term health insurance plans Biden is announcing a new rule to protect consumers who purchase short-term health insurance plans 03/28/2024 05:03am • President Joe Biden on Thursday announced new steps to protect consumers who buy short-term health insurance plans that critics say amount to junk. A new rule finalized by the Democratic president's administration will limit these plans to just three months. And the plans can only be renewed for a Top Chinese official says green, high tech development key as nation seeks to spur economy 03/28/2024 03:50am • BOAO, China (AP) â China is committed to reforms that will upgrade the technological level of its largely manufacturing-based economy and exploit green technologies expected to drive around $1.4 trillion in annual revenues, a senior Communist Party official said Thursday. âœWe sincerely welcome Russia strikes Ukraine's Kharkiv with aerial bombs for the first time since 2022 Russia strikes Ukraine's Kharkiv with aerial bombs for the first time since 2022 03/27/2024 11:04pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) â Russia struck the northeastern city of Kharkiv with aerial bombs Wednesday for the first time since 2022, killing at least one civilian and wounding 16 others, local officials said. The airstrikes caused widespread damage, hitting several residential buildings and damaging the Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, Democrats’ VP pick in 2000, dead at 82 Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, Democratsâ VP pick in 2000, dead at 82 03/27/2024 10:37pm • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) â Former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who nearly won the vice presidency on the Democratic ticket with Al Gore in the disputed 2000 election and who almost became Republican John McCain's running mate eight years later, has died, according to a statement issued by h How shipping companies will navigate around the Port of Baltimore after bridge collapse How shipping companies will navigate around the Port of Baltimore after bridge collapse 03/27/2024 09:24pm • Cargo ships can't enter or exit the Port of Baltimore following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, but that doesn't mean the port is closed. Trucks are still picking up cargo and taking it to its final destination, but that only applies to cargo already at the port. Eventually those ro The Hunt: Investigating the Crocus City Hall attack The Hunt: Investigating the Crocus City Hall attack 03/27/2024 08:48pm • Russia is continuing to blame the U.S. and Ukraine for the terror attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue last Friday that killed 137 people. On this episode of "The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent JJ Green," Dr. Hans Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism P
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