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Stock market today: Wall Street ends mixed in half-day session, marks fourth straight winning week 11/24/2023 03:38pm • Stocks drifted to a mixed finish Friday after a half-day trading session capped a holiday shortened week that left the major indexes with their fourth straight winning week. The S&P 500 inched up 0.1% after wavering between small gains and losses much of the day. The Dow Jones Industrial Averag Alexandria's Small Business Saturday is a 'vital time,' mayor says 11/24/2023 03:33pm • After Black Friday comes Small Business Saturday. Alexandria, Virginia, Mayor Justin Wilson joined WTOP's Anne Kramer on Friday to talk about how important that is. Anne Kramer: The holiday shopping season has started. People stood in line early this morning for Black Friday deals and they're DC could ban cars in 3 corridors and create pedestrian zones 11/24/2023 03:00pm • Cars could be banned in three corridors of the District in favor of creating pedestrian zones if a recently introduced D.C. Council bill is successful. The "Public Life and Activity Zones Amendment ('PLAZA') Act of 2023," introduced by Ward 6 Council member Charles Allen would establish three ped 'Travel Tuesday' emerges as a prime day for holiday, winter travel deals 11/24/2023 12:29pm • ▶ Watch Video: Travel experts detail some of the Black Friday and Travel Tuesday deals As the holiday shopping frenzy grips the nation, with over 180 million Americans poised to shop from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, the travel industry is carving out its niche with "Travel Tuesd Worries over high rent, discrimination kill bill to limit cannabis dispensary locations in Prince George's Co. 11/24/2023 08:53am • In Maryland, the Prince George's County Council couldn't agree on tightening the rules for cannabis dispensaries on Wednesday. A bill was in front of the council that would have limited where cannabis dispensaries could be located in the county to industrial areas and business parks. The bill Black Friday shoppers out hunting for deals in the DC area 11/24/2023 08:42am • Black Friday shopping is already underway in the D.C. area early Friday morning after shoppers filled their stomachs with Thanksgiving food. Inside the Tysons Corner Center mall in Virginia, there was a long line in front of a Lululemon store with more than 100 people when the gates opened at 6 a Make noise! A murder and a movie stir Italians to loudly demand an end to violence against women 11/24/2023 07:55am • ROME (AP) — After the latest, horrifying killing of a college student allegedly by her resentful and jealous ex-boyfriend, students from Turin to Palermo have taken to pounding on classroom desks in unison to demand a stop to the slaying of women in Italy at the hands of men. Just days before the Old Town Alexandria preps for big Small Business Saturday 11/24/2023 05:20am • The turkey is done and now is the time to shop. However, you might want to skip out on Black Friday or Cyber Monday and instead spend during Small Business Saturday. This year, it is expected to be a busy Saturday to shop in Alexandria, Virginia. "Old Town Alexandria really comes alive during Violent clashes break out in Dublin after knife attack that injured 3 children, one seriously 11/24/2023 12:11am • LONDON (AP) — Violent clashes broke out in central Dublin on Thursday evening, with vehicles torched and riot police attacked, after a 5-year-old girl was seriously injured in a knife attack earlier in the day that also saw a woman and two other young children hospitalized. Irish police said the g Officials begin clearing debris while 3 remain missing in Alaska landslide that left 3 dead 11/23/2023 04:58pm • WRANGELL, Alaska (AP) — Searchers looking for three people who remain missing after a massive landslide that killed three others and injured a fourth have changed their strategy from holding an active search to a reactive search that will involve methodically clearing the highway, officials said T Business Highlights: Retailers prepare for Black Friday; world stocks mixed 11/23/2023 04:00pm • ___ Retailers are ready to kick off Black Friday just as shoppers pull back on spending NEW YORK (AP) — Retailers are kicking off the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season on Friday with a bevy of discounts and other enticements. But executives are growing concerned with a spending slowd El Niño-worsened flooding has Somalia in a state of emergency. Residents of one town are desperate 11/23/2023 02:28pm • MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — First, some families fled drought and violence. Now they say they have nowhere to hide from intense flooding as rainfall exacerbated by the weather phenomenon El Niño pummels large parts of Somalia. Floods have killed at least 96 people, the country’s Council of Minist Amazon and NFL hoping to establish a tradition with the first Black Friday game 11/23/2023 12:36pm • It is not a stretch to say the Black Friday game between the Miami Dolphins and New York Jets is Amazon’s Super Bowl. Not only does it mean an additional game on Prime Video that Amazon hopes to make into a yearly tradition, but it comes on the busiest shopping day of the year. “When we talked w Pilot tried to pull out of landing before plane crashed on the doorstep of a Texas mall 11/23/2023 12:15pm • PLANO, Texas (AP) — A pilot who died when the small plane he was flying crashed and burned on the doorstep of a strip mall in Texas was aborting a landing, according to an incident report released Wednesday. Plano police on Wednesday identified the pilot of the single-engine Mooney M20 as 87-year- Portraits of those held hostage after Hamas attack on Israel 11/23/2023 09:31am • A temporary cease-fire deal that would facilitate the release of dozens of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza offers a glimmer of hope to families and friends of those who have been held captive since their abduction from southern Israel by militants on Oct. 7. In all, roughly 240 people were taken to G