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Craving a unique frozen treat? Here’s the scoop on 14 supercool DC-area ice cream spots 07/06/2024 10:35am • Mother Nature is turning up the temps, so of course, it's about that time for us to all scream for ice cream. For foodies and lovers of culinary variety, though, it can be a rocky road to finding an ice cream treat or flavor that has yet to dazzle and delight your summertime taste buds. Plain va How an Oscar-winning filmmaker helped a small-town art theater in Ohio land a big grant 07/06/2024 12:09am • YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (AP) — When the Little Art Theatre set out to land a $100,000 grant to fund a stylish new marquee, with a nod to its century-long history, the cozy Ohio arthouse theater had some talented help. Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Steve Bognar is a resident of Yellow S British PM’s 1st day at 10 Downing St. will stretch from nuclear weapons briefing to Larry the cat 07/05/2024 09:19am • LONDON (AP) — After a few hours of sleep to shake off a night of celebration and an audience with the king, Keir Starmer stepped through the front door of 10 Downing St. for the first time as prime minister on Friday. When he did, he entered the alternate reality of a man who meets regularly with Beach volleyball (and pickleball soon) in the middle of Crystal City 07/05/2024 05:00am • Developer JBG Smith has partnered with Baltimore, Maryland-based Volo Sports for outdoor beach volleyball courts on land in Crystal City that JBG Smith eventually plans to redevelop as part of several new office and residential high rises. For now, the space at 223 Crystal Street is a pop-up publ 'We have to be wacky.' With suggestive poses and pets, election campaigning tests Tokyo's patience 07/05/2024 02:39am • TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo elects a new governor this weekend, but residents say personal publicity stunts have overtaken serious campaigning to a degree never seen before, with nearly nude women in suggestive poses, pets, an AI character and a man practicing his golf swing. It's impossible to ignore. Wit Afghanistan has been through everything. Now it wants to dust off its postal service and modernize 07/05/2024 12:32am • KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — In parts of Afghanistan where there are no street names or house numbers, utility companies and their customers have adopted a creative approach for connecting. They use mosques as drop points for bills and cash, a “pay and pray” system. Now the national postal servic Parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue to buy Neiman Marcus for $2.65 billion 07/04/2024 04:34pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue has signed a deal to buy upscale rival Neiman Marcus Group, which owns Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman stores, for $2.65 billion, with online behemoth Amazon holding a minority stake. The new entity will be called Saks Global, creating a Going where they get a bang for their bucks: Marylanders cross border for holiday fireworks 07/04/2024 11:06am • It’s the evening before the Fourth of July, and the parking lot of the Phantom Fireworks store is crawling with SUVs and pick-up trucks trolling for a parking spot. Based on the number of Maryland flag and Chesapeake Bay license plates coming in and out of the parking lot, it might appear this Despite hardships brought by war, flowers fill Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities 07/04/2024 08:01am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — On his way to the Kyiv train station to greet his wife and daughter returning from Poland to Ukraine, Oleksander Tryfonov made a stop. He bought two red roses from one of a half-dozen flower shops lining a dimly lit underpass — something beautiful for the two most precious Election anxiety curbs Olympic enthusiasm among Parisians ahead of the Summer Games 07/04/2024 05:17am • PARIS (AP) — Just three weeks before the Olympics, the excitement that was building up in the host city is now mingled with anxiety about France’s political future. The far-right National Rally’s strong results in the first round of a rushed election has darkened the ambience for many in Paris Russian missiles and drones strike eastern Ukraine's Dnipro in a daylight attack that kills 5 07/03/2024 10:16pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian missile and drone attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Wednesday killed five civilians and injured 47 others, including a 14-year-old girl, authorities said. Blasts blew out some windows of a shopping mall, raining shards onto the street, photos publishe Migrants pause in the Amazon because getting to the US is harder. Most have no idea what lies ahead 07/03/2024 09:00pm • ASSIS BRASIL, Brazil (AP) — Dozens of migrants sleep in a mosquito-infested six-bedroom wooden shelter in the Brazilian Amazon, their dreams of a better life in the U.S. on hold because of President Joe Biden’shalt on asylum. Johany “Flaca” Rodríguez, 48, was ready to leave behind the stru The Latest | Israel kills a top Hezbollah commander in Lebanon; group retaliates with rocket attacks 07/03/2024 06:27pm • Israel killed a senior commander in the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah on Wednesday, the second top field leader killed in less than a month, and the group said it retaliated by firing scores of rockets at Israeli military positions near the border. The Israeli military estimated that around 100 For 'Love Island USA' superfan Ariana Madix, hosting the show 'does not feel like work' 07/03/2024 03:19pm • There was a scene in Season 10 of Bravo's “Vanderpump Rules" — before the real-life cheating fiasco dubbed Scandoval was revealed — where Ariana Madix and her then-boyfriend Tom Sandoval acknowledged they weren't spending enough quality time together. Sandoval wanted to party like a rock star Movie Review: Hollywood, sleazy 80s-style, in ‘MaXXXine’ 07/03/2024 02:19pm • If anything, “MaXXXine” is a love letter to the Los Angeles movie. The third film in this unlikely trilogy (following “X” and “Pearl”) finds Mia Goth’s Maxine Minx in Hollywood in the 1980s. This is not a glamorous existence. She’s living in a rundown apartment on Hollywood Boulevard