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2 Ukrainians were stabbed in Germany. Prosecutors are examining a possible political motive 04/29/2024 10:08am • BERLIN (AP) — The public prosecutor general's office in Munich on Monday took over the investigation into the stabbing deaths of two Ukrainian men in southern Germany because of a possible political motivation for the crime, German news agency dpa reported. The two Ukrainians, who were 23 and 36 y Millions of Afghans made Pakistan home to escape war. Now many are hiding to escape deportation 04/29/2024 12:07am • KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Born and raised in Pakistan to parents who fled neighboring Afghanistan half a century ago, an 18-year-old found himself at the mercy of police in Karachi who took his cash, phone and motorbike, and sent him to a deportation center. Scared and bewildered, he spent three da Revival of vinyl records in Brazil spares a 77-year-old singer – and others – from oblivion 04/29/2024 12:03am • SAO PAULO (AP) — It took almost a half century for Brazilian singer Cátia de França to find her audience, but she finally has — with the help of a near-obsolete audio technology. Born in Paraíba, a state in Brazil’s poor northeast region, 77-year-old de França’s blend of psychedelic rock Should You Lock In a Mortgage Rate Today? 04/28/2024 08:00pm • A mortgage rate lock allows you to keep your interest rate unchanged for a set period of time, usually between when your purchase offer is accepted and when you close on your new home. Locking in your rate can help you better plan for future mortgage costs, as rates can fluctuate widely while you're If You're Paid Biweekly, Discover the 2 Months in 2024 You'll Be Paid 3 Times -- and Learn How to Plan For It 04/28/2024 08:00pm • If you're paid biweekly there are two months in 2024 that you'll get paid three times. But which months are they? It depends on the date of your first paycheck of the year. Keep reading to find out when you'll get three checks -- and get advice on how to best spend them. 2024 Months With 2 Paychecks Pros and Cons of Using a Fee-Only Financial Planner 04/28/2024 08:00pm • If you're in the process of choosing a financial advisor, you may have seen the term "fee-only" and wondered what that means. As with many things in the financial world, the term makes perfect sense to industry insiders, but isn't necessarily clear to would-be clients. Fee-only financial advisors ch 'Fix the problems in the communities': National Harbor businesses, visitors react to emergency youth curfew 04/28/2024 06:25pm • The waterfront and Ferris wheel at National Harbor, Md. (WTOP/Shayna Estulin) There was mixed reaction to a curfew at National Harbor for children 16 and younger that went into effect on Friday at the popular waterfront boardwalk in Prince George's County, Maryland. Delores, general manager a Pope visits Venice to speak to the artists and inmates behind the Biennale's must-see prison show 04/28/2024 01:53pm • VENICE, Italy (AP) — Venice has always been a place of contrasts, of breathtaking beauty and devastating fragility, where history, religion, art and nature have collided over the centuries to produce an otherworldly gem of a city. But even for a place that prides itself on its culture of unusual e German police arrest a Russian man in connection with the fatal stabbings of 2 Ukrainian men 04/28/2024 11:16am • BERLIN (AP) — Two Ukrainian men were stabbed to death in southern Germany, police said Sunday, and a Russian man was arrested by authorities as a possible suspect in the killings. The two Ukrainians, who were 23 and 36 years old and lived in the southern German county of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, we African farmers look to the past and the future to address climate change 04/28/2024 08:09am • HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers across the heavily agriculture-reliant African continent are looking to the past and future to respond to climate change. Africa, with the world's youngest population, faces the wor The Steelers believe in building from the inside out. They took that to the extreme in the NFL draft 04/27/2024 09:09pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers spent February overhauling their offensive coaching staff, March doing the same to the quarterback room and the last week of April giving the offensive line a massive injection of youth. The huddle and the sideline will look significantly different this fa Team Penske's Power, McLaughlin lock up front row at IndyCar after controversial week 04/27/2024 06:19pm • BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Getting back in the race car was “the best medicine in the world” for Josef Newgarden. That's also Scott McLaughlin's “favorite place in the world.” Team Penske, Newgarden, McLaughlin and Will Power get to end a controversy-filled week tucked into their high-speed s Trump promised big plans to flip Black and Latino voters. Many Republicans are waiting to see them 04/27/2024 11:33am • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump says he wants to hold a major campaign event at New York’s Madison Square Garden featuring Black hip-hop artists and athletes. Aides speak of Trump making appearances in Chicago, Detroit and Atlanta with leaders of color and realigning American politics by flipping D National Prescription Drug Take Back Day: Where to safely discard your medications in the DC area 04/27/2024 09:33am • People across the D.C. area are being encouraged to remove medications no longer necessary from their homes and dispose them at a National Prescription Drug Take Back Day location between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday. The Drug Enforcement Administration's National Prescription Drug Take Back Day i Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police 04/27/2024 06:21am • Demetrio Jackson was desperate for medical help when the paramedics arrived. The 43-year-old was surrounded by police who arrested him after responding to a trespassing call in a Wisconsin parking lot. Officers had shocked him with a Taser and pinned him as he pleaded that he couldn’t breathe. Now