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10 Retirement Lifestyles Worth Trying 04/30/2023 08:00pm • Retirees finally have the freedom to choose how to spend their time. While some people want to relax after a lengthy and stressful career, others are ready to move on to the next adventure. Many people will cycle through periods of leisure and creation at various points in their retirement. While yo 13 high school graduation gift ideas 04/30/2023 08:00pm • Gifts for graduates With the school year winding down, many families are preparing to celebrate the graduation of their high school seniors. Whether the student is college-bound, taking a gap year or entering the workforce, mark this milestone with a thoughtful or practical graduation gift. Here Montgomery Co. resources to help you avoid 'being ripped off' at the car mechanic 04/30/2023 04:33pm • Summer is ahead, and for many, so are long road trips. Last summer, 97% of vacations were taken by car, according to AAA. These long road trips take a toll on vehicles — which end up in the mechanic's shop sooner or later. In Montgomery County, officials are reminding drivers to look out for ‘Woolly delinquents’ celebrate Charles’ coronation in yarn 04/30/2023 09:37am • LONDON (AP) — Heather Howarth tugged at King Charles III’s ears and tittered with satisfaction. The other ladies who gather to knit and natter in her small English village thought the ears should be bigger. But when creating a crocheted likeness of the new king, she was determined not to cause o As battle for Sudan continues, civilian deaths top 400 04/29/2023 02:11pm • CAIRO (AP) — Gunfire and heavy artillery fire persisted Saturday in parts of Sudan’s capital Khartoum, residents said, despite the extension of a cease-fire between the country’s two top generals, whose battle for power has killed hundreds and sent thousands fleeing for their lives. With ordin DC bookworms get to indulge during Independent Bookstore Day 04/29/2023 01:02pm • Book lovers will need to exercise some "shelf" control this Saturday as local independent bookstores celebrate their own holiday. The 10th annual Independent Bookstore Day has people cracking some spines and getting out with a bookstore "crawl" between Big Planet Comics on U Street in D.C. around Inflation pressures remain persistent as consumers pull back 04/29/2023 07:46am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Key measures of prices and wages remained high in March, keeping the Federal Reserve on track to raise interest rates next week for the 10th time since March of last year in its drive to defeat high inflation. An index that is closely followed by the Fed, which excludes volatile Sanders praises shop workers, Ben & Jerry's on union effort 04/28/2023 05:25pm • BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Workers seeking to unionize at a Ben & Jerry's retail shop in Burlington, Vermont, the city where the ice cream brand was founded announced Friday that the company has signed the fair election principles. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont Independent who has been a voc Heavy clashes rock Sudan’s capital despite truce extension 04/28/2023 03:59pm • CAIRO (AP) — Heavy explosions and gunfire rocked Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, and its twin city of Omdurman early Friday, residents said, despite the extension of a fragile truce between the county’s two top generals whose power struggle has killed hundreds. After two weeks of fighting that has Queen Elizabeth’s coronation lifted Britain’s post-war gloom 04/28/2023 03:41pm • LONDON (AP) — In 1953, London was still recovering from World War II. The city was pockmarked with bomb damage, food supplies were tight and life was dull for children who had never eaten anything so exotic as a banana. But the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II helped lift the gloom. Central Tech-rooted groups seek to shake up San Francisco politics 04/28/2023 03:04pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The tech entrepreneurs who flocked to San Francisco two decades ago bringing jobs and wealth, and also soaring housing prices and gentrification, are becoming a rising political force in a city they say is woefully off track. They are forming advocacy organizations — among t A NJ pastor-politician is gunned down, and a community reels 04/28/2023 10:57am • SAYREVILLE, N.J. (AP) — Nicole Teliano used to play games on her phone in the mayor’s office while her mother worked down the hall several evenings a month, tending to the tedious, often acrimonious task of serving in local government. The 11-year-old girl didn’t mind sharing her mother, Sayr Hong Kong's economy is recovering, but its freedoms are not 04/28/2023 04:24am • HONG KONG (AP) — Like most people in Hong Kong, taxi driver Leung Tat-chong says it feels like the city is recovering after years of protests, crackdowns and pandemic restrictions, while it also has changed forever. He’s earning almost as much as he did before the pandemic. But, Leung said, the Death sentence upheld for ex-school principal who killed 3 04/28/2023 02:45am • BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Supreme Court upheld a death sentence for an ex-elementary school principal convicted of killing three people, including a toddler, during an armed gold shop robbery in 2020. The court ruled Wednesday that Prasitthichai Khaewkao did not deserve a reduction in his origin California passes 1st-in-nation emission rules for trains 04/27/2023 11:40pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California approved Thursday a first-in-the-nation, ambitious rule limiting rail pollution to aggressively cut greenhouse gas emissions in the state's latest move to establish itself as a global leader in the fight against climate change. The rule will ban locomotive e