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A temple to a top Hindu deity was built over a destroyed mosque in India. Here is why it matters 01/22/2024 08:03am • AYODHYA, India (AP) — About 80 chartered flights have landed at the new international airport of India's holy city of Ayodhya for Monday’s partial opening of the controversial grand temple for one of Hinduism’s most revered deities, Lord Ram. Ayodhya’s airport can barely accommodate the infl New DC law allows women to bypass doctor's approval for birth control prescription 01/22/2024 05:42am • A new law in the District makes it easier for women to get a hormonal birth control prescription without visiting a doctor first. The move is part of a growing national trend. Nearly 30 states and D.C. have approved laws that allow a woman to walk into a local drugstore and get a birth control pr How to Become a Commercial Real Estate Agent 01/21/2024 07:00pm • If you're interested in a career in real estate with a high-earning opportunity, you may want to focus on commercial properties. The exact numbers vary by source, but according to National Association of Realtors data, the median residential real estate agent made $34,100 in gross income in 2020. Co Lauren Boebert switched districts in a bid to stay in Congress. Winning over voters won't be easy 01/21/2024 11:37am • LAST CHANCE, Colo. (AP) — Fleeing a tough reelection bid in the district where she lives, Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert is moving from the mountains to the plains, in the hopes of finding conservative pastures green enough to salvage her place in Congress. To win, she'll have to convince Small-town Colorado newspapers stolen after running story about rape charges at police chief's house 01/21/2024 12:07am • Nearly all the copies of a small-town Colorado newspaper were stolen from newspaper racks on the same day the Ouray County Plaindealer published a story about charges being filed over rapes alleged to have occurred at an underage drinking party at the police chief's house while the chief was asleep, Air pollution and politics pose cross-border challenges in South Asia 01/20/2024 10:02pm • LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — The air smells burnt in Lahore, a city in Pakistan’s east that used to be famous for its gardens but has become infamous for its terrible air quality. Toxic smog has sickened tens of thousands of people in recent months. Flights have been canceled. Artificial rain was de Nikki Haley has spent 20 years navigating Republican Party factions. Trump may make that impossible 01/20/2024 09:52pm • When Nikki Haley was a South Carolina legislator, she backed budgets boosted by federal aid. Running for governor, she criticized a “bailout culture” and dependence on Washington. She once called the Confederate battle flag a heritage symbol and sidestepped calls to remove it from statehouse gr Judge orders release of 'Newburgh Four' defendant and blasts FBI's role in terror sting 01/20/2024 05:47pm • A man convicted in a post-9/11 terrorism sting was ordered freed from prison by a judge who criticized the FBI for relying on an "unsavory” confidential informant for an agency-invented conspiracy to blow up New York synagogues and shoot down National Guard planes. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMa An Israeli airstrike on the Syrian capital killed at least 5 Iranian advisers, officials say 01/20/2024 04:42pm • DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — An Israeli strike on the Syrian capital on Saturday destroyed a building used by the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, killing at least five Iranians, Syrian and Iranian state media reported. The Syrian army said the building in the tightly guarded western Damascus A diverse coalition owed money by Rudy Giuliani meets virtually for first bankruptcy hearing 01/20/2024 12:05pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A group of people and businesses who say they are owed money by Rudy Giuliani gathered virtually Friday for the first court hearing since he declared bankruptcy last month after losing a defamation suit to two Georgia election workers. During a two-hour Zoom hearing, an attorney fo Roxanna Asgarian's 'We Were Once a Family' and Amanda Peters' 'The Berry Pickers' win library medals 01/20/2024 11:09am • NEW YORK (AP) — In the childhood home of author Roxanna Asgarian, there were restrictions on how often the television could be on and which programs could be watched. Books were placed under a much looser set of rules. “Mom would take us to the library and gave us totally free reign,” says Asg When a deep freeze puts your heating system on ice: What you need to know 01/19/2024 08:28pm • Frigid temperatures put a lot of strain on home heating systems, and homeowners need to know what to do if their system — whether a furnace or heat pump — stops working in the cold. Kevin Brasler, the executive editor with Washington Consumer’s Checkbook, told WTOP that with air conditionin California officials warn people to not eat raw oysters from Mexico which may be linked to norovirus 01/19/2024 07:26pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Health officials in Southern California are warning people to avoid eating raw oysters from parts of Mexico after more than 200 people recently fell ill with suspected cases of norovirus. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has reported more than 150 suspected cas Guatemala's new government makes extortion its top security priority 01/19/2024 06:53pm • GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo’s new administration says it will make addressing widespread extortion its top security priority. Interior Minister Francisco Jiménez, a security expert who has previously held the position, explained that Guatemala’s extortion prob Dior puts on a daytime fashion ballet under the Parisian stars 01/19/2024 05:36pm • PARIS (AP) — Dior's menswear maestro Kim Jones transformed a sunny afternoon in Paris into a starlit evening of balletic grandeur at Paris Fashion Week, in a display of fashion theatrics. Inspired by the legendary ballet icons Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, Jones delivered an exuberant spectac