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Airbnb profit jumps to $650 million in 2Q, as bookings increase and rental rates hold steady 08/03/2023 07:42pm • Airbnb said Thursday its second-quarter profit jumped more than 70% over last summer, to $650 million, as revenue rose on strong bookings for summer-vacation rentals. The San Francisco company said bookings grew 11% over the same period last year. Still, they were a bit lighter than analysts expecte Delaware county agrees to pay more than $1 million to settle lawsuit over fatal police shooting 08/03/2023 03:46pm • DOVER, Del. (AP) — Officials in Delaware’s largest county have agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle a lawsuit stemming from a fatal police shooting in 2021. The settlement, obtained from New Castle County on Thursday by The Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act request, c Cape Cod Baseball League celebrates 100 years as pathway from college to majors 08/03/2023 02:01pm • BOURNE, Mass. (AP) — Pete Alonso didn’t hit a home run the summer he played in the Cape Cod Baseball League. He made a different kind of connection. On a day off during his time with the Bourne Braves during the summer of 2015, Alonso headed out to Provincetown, at the tip of the New England su FBI looks for more possible victims after woman escapes from cinder block cell in Oregon 08/02/2023 06:51pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A man who posed as an undercover police officer kidnapped a woman in Seattle, drove her hundreds of miles to his home in Oregon and locked her in a cinder block cell until she bloodied her hands breaking the door to escape, the FBI said Wednesday. Negasi Zuberi, 29, faces fed The spread of rented lounge chairs on Greece's beaches brings a pledge to increase inspections 08/02/2023 04:33pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's finance minister promised Wednesday to intensify inspections of beach bars and other businesses renting out seaside chaise lounges and umbrellas, following complaints that non-paying island beachgoers can't find a spot on the sand. Finance Minister Costis Hadzidakis New transformer installed as Manassas power problems mount 08/02/2023 08:45am • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner, InsideNoVa.com, and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. Manassas city officials are hoping a second-hand transformer will fix its electrical woes — at least for now. A used transformer Prosecutors in Gilgo Beach killings are giving Rex Heuermann's defense a vast trove of evidence 08/01/2023 05:51pm • RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — Weeks after charging a Long Island architect in a string of killings known as the Gilgo Beach murders, prosecutors said Tuesday that they've begun providing his lawyer with reams of evidence including autopsy findings, DNA reports and crime scene photos. Suffolk County prose Apple TV app - Top Movies 08/01/2023 12:11pm • Top Movie Purchases and Rentals (US): 1. The Little Mermaid (2023) 2. The Super Mario Bros. Movie 3. The Flash 4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 5. John Wick: Chapter 4 6. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts 7. Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken 8. Sisu 9. Joy Ride (2023) 10. Guy Ritchie’s The Co 'I was running around for help': Restaurant owner speaks out after screwdriver attack in Northeast DC 07/31/2023 10:00pm • Every weekday at 4 a.m., Charles Oguh can be seen unloading supplies for his restaurant Brookland Grill in Northeast D.C. It’s a restaurant he’s owned for more than 20 years, and every morning starts like all others, even last Wednesday. As he unloaded a rental car that morning, a group of Avis Budget: Q2 Earnings Snapshot 07/31/2023 04:13pm • PARSIPPANY, N.J. (AP) — PARSIPPANY, N.J. (AP) — Avis Budget Group Inc. (CAR) on Monday reported second-quarter net income of $435 million. The Parsippany, New Jersey-based company said it had profit of $11.01 per share. The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four Eviction filings surpass pre-pandemic levels in some parts of Northern Virginia 07/31/2023 12:50pm • Eviction filings have been on the rise across parts of Virginia and, in some areas, have surpassed pre-pandemic levels. In Fairfax County, eviction filings in the first quarter of this year rose by nearly 3% compared to the first quarter of 2020, before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. That's 35 Top Glamping Resorts in the U.S. 07/30/2023 08:00pm • If you're enticed by the idea of camping but don't want to deal with the inevitable grunt work that comes with it, glamping (or glamorous camping) is the perfect compromise. Read on to discover the most unique glamping resorts in California, Florida, Tennessee and other destinations across the U.S. Record heat waves illuminate plight of poorest Americans who suffer without air conditioning 07/30/2023 06:56pm • DENVER (AP) — As Denver neared triple-digit temperatures, Ben Gallegos sat shirtless on his porch swatting flies off his legs and spritzing himself with a misting fan to try to get through the heat. Gallegos, like many in the nation’s poorest neighborhoods, doesn’t have air conditioning. Th Record heat waves illuminate plight of poorest Americans who suffer without air conditioning 07/30/2023 06:55pm • DENVER (AP) — As Denver neared triple-digit temperatures, Ben Gallegos sat shirtless on his porch swatting flies off his legs and spritzing himself with a misting fan to try to get through the heat. Gallegos, like many in the nation's poorest neighborhoods, doesn't have air conditioning. The 68-ye Some renters may get relief from biggest apartment construction boom in decades, but not all 07/30/2023 04:01pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — When viewed through a wide lens, renters across the U.S. finally appear to be getting some relief, thanks in part to the biggest apartment construction boom in decades. Median rent rose just 0.5% in June, year over year, after falling in May for the first time since the pande