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Today in History: September 7, Nazi Germany begins air blitz on London 09/07/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Thursday, Sept. 7, the 250th day of 2023. There are 115 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 7, 1940, Nazi Germany began its eight-month blitz of Britain during World War II with the first air attack on London. On this date: In 1901, the Peac Movie Review: Pinochet as a vampire in surreal, frightening ‘El Conde’ 09/06/2023 04:03pm • The Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is not dead in Pablo Larraín’s “El Conde.” He is instead a 250-year-old vampire living in semi-exile and wishing for death in this audacious allegory about history’s tendency to repeat itself, shot in sublime, otherworldly black and white. It is fitting A half-century after Gen. Augusto Pinochet's coup, some in Chile remember the dictatorship fondly 09/05/2023 02:07am • SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The world remembers Gen. Augusto Pinochet as the dictator whose regime tortured, killed and disappeared 3,065 people in the name of fighting communism. But as Chile marks the 50th anniversary next Monday of the coup that brought Pinochet to power for almost 17 years, many in After Jacksonville shootings, historically Black colleges address security concerns, remain vigilant 08/31/2023 12:03am • Before the fatal shootings of three Black residents in Jacksonville, Florida, over the weekend, the gunman, a young white man with swastikas painted on his rifle, pulled into a parking lot at Edward Waters University and began putting on tactical gear. Students reported him, a campus police officer Biden will observe 9/11 in Alaska instead of the traditional NYC, Virginia or Pennsylvania events 08/28/2023 05:02pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will observe next month's 22nd anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil at an Alaska military base with service members and their families, the White House announced. Biden will not participate in any of the observances at 9/11 memorial sites in Biden will visit Hanoi next month as he seeks to strengthen US-Vietnam relations 08/28/2023 04:11pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is heading to Vietnam next month to meet with General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and other Vietnamese leaders, the White House announced on Monday. The president will travel to Hanoi on Sept. 10, tacking on the one-day visit to the Vietnamese capital after att Plea negotiations could mean no 9/11 defendants face the death penalty, the US tells families 08/23/2023 01:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The suspected architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and his fellow defendants may never face the death penalty under plea agreements now under consideration to bring an end to their more than decadelong prosecution, the Pentagon has advised families of some of the thousands ki Rep. Ocasio-Cortez calls on US to declassify documents on Chile's 1973 coup 08/17/2023 11:27pm • SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday in Chile that it was imperative for the United States to declassify documents that could shed light on Washington's involvement in the South American country’s 1973 coup. “The transparency of the United States could present an A year ago, an Iranian woman's death sparked hijab protests. Now businesses are a new battleground 08/10/2023 01:30am • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — For months, Iranian authorities did little to enforce the law on women covering their hair but now the country’s theocracy is pushing to make businesses the new battleground over the mandatory headscarf. The effort comes ahead of the first anniversary of nationwide protests Total US Open prize money and player compensation hits a record $65 million 08/08/2023 11:31am • Total prize money and player compensation at this year’s U.S. Open tennis tournament will reach a record $65 million, the U.S. Tennis Association said Tuesday, noting that the number is boosted by increases in the amount of expenses covered. Last year’s total payout was about $60 million. Play i US Supreme Court Justice Jackson to speak at church bombing anniversary in Birmingham 08/02/2023 05:38pm • BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, will speak in Alabama next month at an event marking the 60th anniversary of a church bombing that killed four girls in 1963. Jackson will give the keynote address at 16th Street Baptis Why does Sweden allow Quran burnings? Like much of West, it has no blasphemy laws 07/20/2023 10:42pm • STOCKHOLM (AP) — A recent string of public desecrations of the Quran by a handful of anti-Islam activists in Sweden has sparked an angry reaction in Muslim countries and raised questions – including in Sweden – about why such acts are allowed. In the latest such incident, an Iraqi living in Sw Superman is not flying in to save your life: It's these medevac crews 06/28/2023 04:56pm • Former patients met with a flight crew on Wednesday. (WTOP/Luke Lukert) Medstar Health is celebrating their Transport Air Medical Service’s 40th anniversary. If you have been on death's door over the past four decades, there’s a good chance they picked you up. What started as a single he AP Exclusive: Guerlain preserves cosmetics history in new 'warehouse of wonders' 06/09/2023 05:11pm • PARIS (AP) — The world’s first lipstick. The first modern perfume. A pivoting toothbrush. The original Nivea cream and serum. Not to mention the intimate secrets of Queen Elizabeth II. These are some of the treasures held in Guerlain's first archive, which brings stories from the iconic French c Democrats and Republicans are skeptical of US spying practices, an AP-NORC poll finds 06/08/2023 06:30am • WASHINGTON (AP) — As it pushes to renew a cornerstone law that authorizes major surveillance programs, the Biden administration faces an American public that's broadly skeptical of common intelligence practices and of the need to sacrifice civil liberties for security. Congress in the coming mont