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Where to build a homeless shelter: All areas of Prince George's Co 'should shoulder this responsibility' 06/19/2023 07:15pm • Capitol Heights, Maryland, residents are rallying to speak out against a proposed homeless shelter along Addison Road — a project that’s been in the works for about 15 years that has led them to believe it was off the table — even though it’s in the same place where a shelter already exists. Kimberly Palmer: Shopping on social media the smart way 06/19/2023 10:00am • When Ziwei Cong bought some sweatpants that caught her eye during a livestream shopping event on social media, she was disappointed when they arrived and didn’t fit well. “It’s very easy for me to become irrational during these kinds of shopping events,” says the assistant professor of ma Chinese online shoppers are enticed by deep discounts, payment plans as zest for spending lags 06/19/2023 05:23am • HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese shoppers were treated to deep discounts, new products and payment plans as online merchants sought to revive their sluggish appetite for spending during China’s first major online shopping festival after the end of zero-COVID policies. For the first time, e-commerce reta Heat wave triggers big storms, power outages in US Southeast, raises wildfire concerns in Southwest 06/18/2023 08:34pm • Forecasters warned people celebrating Father's Day outdoors to take precautions as triple-digit temperatures prompted heat advisories across much of the southern U.S., triggered thunderstorms that knocked out power from Oklahoma to Mississippi and whipped up winds that raised wildfire threats in Ari Consumption soft even amid deep discounts during major China shopping festival, analysts say 06/18/2023 02:54pm • HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese consumers snapped up billions worth of items in China's first major online shopping festival after emerging from the pandemic as merchants slashed prices, but analysts say that consumer confidence still remains weak. Chinese merchants offered customers steep discounts duri 12 low-stress jobs for retirees 06/18/2023 10:00am • It can be difficult to live on a fixed income when inflation is putting pressure on your budget. To help cover expenses in retirement, you might opt for a part-time job. Finding a low-stress part-time job can be a great way to earn extra money and still enjoy flexible hours. Some part-time positions Mayor Bowser and Ward 8 leaders expand revitalization plans in Congress Heights 06/17/2023 04:18pm • Mayor Muriel Bowser and Ward 8 leaders are looking to build on the momentum from last week's ribbon cutting of a new retail village, Sycamore & Oak, in the Congress Heights area of Southeast D.C. Sycamore & Oak is made up entirely of entrepreneurs from Wards 7 and 8, many of whom are open DC man posing as immigration officer charged with sexual assault 06/17/2023 10:03am • A D.C. man has been charged with raping a woman in Oxon Hill, Maryland, while pretending to be an officer with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The incident happened Tuesday at around 8:15 p.m. in a Sunrise Shopping Center parking lot, according to a news release from Prince George's Co Some Republicans are angry about Trump's prosecution yet ready to vote for someone else in 2024 06/17/2023 08:13am • PELLA, Iowa (AP) — Kathleen Evenhouse took a break from her work in the corner of a small-town Iowa coffee shop to slam the federal criminal indictment of Donald Trump as patently political, the work of a U.S. Justice Department she says is awash in hypocrisy. “I think we're playing a game as a Fancy an afternoon full of ice cream at the National Harbor? 06/16/2023 09:50pm • How does an afternoon full of ice cream sound? The inaugural National Ice Cream Festival is taking place Saturday at National Harbor's Spirit Park. Organizer Rich Shea told WTOP that around a dozen different vendors would be offering samples, including local shops and companies like Dolci Gelati, Protesters in Senegal accuse police of using armed civilians to quell unrest 06/16/2023 08:11pm • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — As gunfire rang out at a protest in Senegal’s capital, a man wearing khaki pants and a T-shirt shot Cheikh's childhood friend in the chest. The bleeding 21-year-old slumped against a wall, displaying his wound in disbelief. “We thought tear gas and grenades would be used Chicago police sergeant acquitted of battery, misconduct for pinning teenage bike theft suspect 06/16/2023 07:26pm • SKOKIE, Ill. (AP) — A judge found a Chicago police sergeant not guilty of aggravated battery and official misconduct Friday in a case in which he pinned down a teenage boy and pressed a knee to his back when he suspected the boy of stealing his son’s bicycle. Cook County Judge Paul Pavlus acquit Pilots' confusion over which engine was failing caused 2021 cargo plane crash off Hawaii, NTSB says 06/16/2023 04:44pm • Federal investigators say a cargo plane ditched into the ocean off Hawaii in 2021 because pilots identified the wrong engine that was failing and didn’t have enough power to remain airborne. The National Transportation Safety Board also said the captain’s high workload as well as poor communicat How Trump and Johnson, divisive populists with many similarities, ended up on different paths 06/16/2023 01:24pm • At first blush, they seem so alike — two pugnacious, ideologically flexible politicians who latched onto the 2016 global explosion of populism to lead their respective countries before falling from power. But Boris Johnson and Donald Trump appear headed down different paths this week as they navig Virginia Daybook 06/16/2023 12:30pm • Associated Press Virginia Daybook for Friday, Jun. 16. 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