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A family run workshop keeps the legacy of the Mexican fireworks alive despite the danger 03/09/2024 03:54pm • TULTEPEC, Mexico (AP) — Every year, in the first week of March, hundreds of giant papier-mâché bulls stuffed with fireworks are erected in the front yards of the Mexican town of Tultepec. Thousands of restless fingers carefully cut, pasted and painted the colorful patterns that brought the †A surge of illegal homemade machine guns has helped fuel gun violence in the US 03/09/2024 02:54pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Eleven-year-old Domonic Davis was not far from his mom's Cincinnati home when a hail of gunfire sprayed out from a passing car. Nearly two dozen rounds hurtled through the night at a group of children in the blink of an eye. Four other children and a woman were hurt in the Novem On eve of Ramadan, Jerusalem’s Old City offers little festivity as Gaza war rages 03/09/2024 12:17pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — On the eve of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Jerusalem’s Old City bears few of its usual hallmarks of festivity. Nearly half of the grotto-shaped gift shops are sealed behind metal shutters. The narrow streets that run toward Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third-holiest site, a Bill allowing undocumented Maryland residents to more easily buy health care clears hurdle in Annapolis 03/09/2024 08:38am • Members of Maryland's immigrant population and their advocates are celebrating the Senate approval of legislation that would allow undocumented residents to more easily purchase private health care coverage off of the state's insurance marketplace. On Friday, the Maryland Senate approved the "Acc Kenyan activists are on a mission to end gender-based violence as attacks on women surge 03/09/2024 12:24am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Njeri Migwi’s phone buzzes incessantly. Phone calls and messages keep coming in from women seeking help to escape life-threatening situations. A mother and her remaining child are looking for a place to stay after her partner allegedly raped and killed her two other childre Michigan residents urged not to pick up debris from explosive vaping supplies fire that killed 1 03/08/2024 11:16pm • CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities investigating a fire and explosions that rocked a suburban Detroit building filled with vaping industry supplies, killing one man as gas canisters soared up to 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) away, urged residents Friday not to pick up any debris because they st Man convicted of 2 killings in Delaware and accused of 4 in Philadelphia gets 7 life terms 03/08/2024 06:26pm • DOVER, Del. (AP) — A suspected serial killer convicted of murdering two people in Delaware and accused of killing his mother and three others in Philadelphia in 2021 was sentenced to seven life terms Friday by a Delaware judge. Superior Court Judge Ferris Wharton also sentenced Keith Gibson, 41, t Michigan school shooter's dad insisted to police that gun, ammunition were hidden at home 03/08/2024 04:31pm • PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The father of a Michigan school shooter told police shortly after the fatal attack that a gun and ammunition used by his son had been hidden at the family's home, according to a video seen by jurors Friday. James and Jennifer Crumbley were interviewed in a small room at a she This 21-year-old Republican beat a 10-term incumbent. What's next for Wyatt Gable? 03/08/2024 03:32pm • While his college friends celebrated the end of midterm exams with a spring break trip to Florida, 21-year-old Wyatt Gable entered the home stretch of his bid to oust a 10-term Republican from the North Carolina House. Weeks spent phone banking after class and driving about an hour home on the weeke Andretti has crash-tested an F1 car even after series rejection, still interested in NASCAR 03/08/2024 02:53pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Michael Andretti shied away from discussing his rejection by Formula 1 on Friday in his first interview since the European series denied his application to join the grid as a true American team. “We're in the process of doing things, so we're still feeling very good Data Doctors: How to calculate your bandwidth needs 03/08/2024 01:53pm • Q: When searching for an alternative internet service provider, how do I determine how much bandwidth I need? A: You can make an educated guess of your needs based on the number of devices connecting, what they will be doing, and how often they’re used at the same time. ISP packages are usua Who will win at the Oscars? See full predictions from AP's film writers 03/08/2024 01:17pm • Ahead of Sunday's Academy Awards, Associated Press Film Writers Jake Coyle and Lindsey Bahr are offering their complete list of predictions. Coyle and Bahr offered their thoughts on the actors and films likely to win Oscars in top categories last week. But here are their picks in all 23 categories, DC’s first nonalcoholic liquor store is open 03/08/2024 12:52pm • The growing nonalcoholic beverage industry has led stores that sell beer, wine and liquor to start stocking up on nonalcoholic beverages. But now D.C.'s first and only store that sells exclusively nonalcoholic drinks is up and running at Union Market on a temporary basis — though this is a It's not just Israeli bombs that have killed children in Gaza. Now some are dying of hunger too 03/08/2024 10:24am • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — It’s not just Israeli bombs that have killed children in war-ravaged Gaza — now some are dying of hunger. Officials have been warning for months that Israel’s siege and offensive were pushing the Palestinian territory into famine. Hunger is most acute in northe Va. bill to allow marijuana sales in peril after breakdown on Alexandria arena deal 03/08/2024 08:57am • Hopes that Gov. Glenn Youngkin might sign a bill legalizing retail sales of marijuana in Virginia faded fast this week as Democrats blocked one of the governor’s top priorities: the plan to bring a professional sports arena to Northern Virginia. As recently as Wednesday, according to multiple C