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Biden and Modi working in 'warmth and confidence' to build ties as Chinese leader skips G20 09/08/2023 01:47pm • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� President Joe Biden opened his visit to India on Friday by meeting privately with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Indian leader's home in a session the White House said was marked by ���undeniable warmth and confidence��� in one another going into the annual Group of 20 summit 5 teens charged with robbery, assault following Montgomery Co. football game brawl 09/08/2023 01:30pm • Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, have arrested and charged five teens with assault and robbery following a post-football game brawl outside of the Bethesda Metro station last week. The incident took place after the Bethesda-Chevy Chase and Walter Johnson football game on Sept. 1. The teens Country music star Zach Bryan says he was arrested and jailed briefly in northeastern Oklahoma 09/08/2023 10:45am • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ��� Country music star Zach Bryan was arrested by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and jailed briefly Thursday in northeastern Oklahoma, according to a video posted on his account on the social media site X, formerly Twitter. Bryan said he was driving through Vinita, about 55 miles (88 Online gig work is growing rapidly, but workers lack job protections, a World Bank report says 09/08/2023 10:17am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Online gig work is growing globally, particularly in the developing world, creating an important source of employment for women and young people in poorer countries where jobs are scarce, according to a World Bank report released Thursday. The report estimates the number of globa A look at the uranium-based ammunition the US is sending to Ukraine 09/07/2023 08:06pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The U.S. has announced it's sending depleted uranium anti-tank rounds to Ukraine, following Britain's lead in sending the controversial munitions to help Kyiv push through Russian lines in its grueling counteroffensive. The 120 mm rounds will be used to arm the 31 M1A1 Abrams ta Artificial Intelligence Stocks: The 10 Best AI Companies 09/07/2023 08:00pm • Virtually every industry is being disrupted by artificial intelligence, automation and robotics. In recent months, the world has gotten a firsthand look at the remarkable advances in AI technology, including expanded public access to OpenAI's DALL-E 2 AI image and art generator and the public launch How to Retire as a Teacher Without Social Security 09/07/2023 08:00pm • For millions of retirees, monthly Social Security payments provide predictable, guaranteed income. But in a handful of states, teachers won't be among those receiving benefits. "It's definitely surprising for some people," says Andrew Katz-Moses, a former teacher and current financial planner with K Presidential centers from Hoover to Bush and Obama unite to warn of fragile state of US democracy 09/07/2023 06:30pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Concern for U.S. democracy amid deep national polarization has prompted the entities supporting 13 presidential libraries dating back to Herbert Hoover to call for a recommitment to the country's bedrock principles, including the rule of law and respecting a diversity of beliefs. Film festival season carries on in Toronto, despite a star-power outage 09/07/2023 04:11pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� When the Hollywood actors union announced a strike this summer, Cameron Bailey, the longtime chief executive of the Toronto International Film Festival, dusted off his COVID-19 playbook. For two years, TIFF, the largest film festival in North America, had maneuvered through pandemic Search for escaped murder suspect continues as GWU returns to normal; $25k reward being offered 09/07/2023 03:10pm • Following a shelter-in-place order at George Washington University that lasted into the late evening Wednesday, District and federal law enforcement continue their search for a fugitive murder suspect 24 hours after he made his escape. That shelter-in-place order was issued around 3 p.m. Wednesda Former Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin, who was one of Europe's youngest leaders, quits politics 09/07/2023 10:28am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� Former Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin, who was one of Europe���s youngest leaders and a strong voice in supporting Ukraine, said Thursday she's quitting Finnish politics and will join a London-based non-profit organization. Marin, who was 37 years old when she took o No students charged following Montgomery Co. football game brawl 09/07/2023 10:23am • No students involved in the post-football game brawl in Bethesda last week were charged with a crime, Montgomery County officials said. Word came in a joint statement released Wednesday evening by Superintendent of Montgomery County Schools Monifa McKnight and police Chief Marcus Jones. On Fri Polish director demands apology from justice minister for comparing her film to Nazi propaganda 09/07/2023 07:33am • WARSAW, Poland (AP) ��� Film director Agnieszka Holland demanded an apology from Poland's justice minister after he compared her latest film, which explores the migration crisis at the Poland-Belarus border, to Nazi propaganda. Holland said Wednesday that she planned to bring defamation charges agai Fantasy football: Back and bigger than ever 09/06/2023 10:00pm • Jamal Bowens said he had no idea what he was doing at the beginning. "My ex came home one day and said, 'I'm in a fantasy football league with my co-workers, but I don't know what I'm doing, and I need you to run it,'" he told WTOP. "But I'm sitting there thinking to myself: 'I don't know what I' Mexico decriminalizes abortion, extending Latin American trend of widening access to procedure 09/06/2023 08:23pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Mexico���s Supreme Court threw out all federal criminal penalties for abortion Wednesday, ruling that national laws prohibiting the procedure are unconstitutional and violate women���s rights in a sweeping decision that extended Latin American���s trend of widening abortion acce