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Marcus Armstrong pays tribute to cancer patients with special paint job for Indy Grand Prix 05/10/2024 02:50pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Marcus Armstong's No. 11 Honda-powered car will come with all the usual trimmings for this weekend's Indianapolis Grand Prix ��� speed, sponsors and a shiny new paint job. The second-year driver also will be carrying a message of hope. Chip Ganassi Racing announced Thursday th ���Dashing��� his way to a few ���luxuries of life��� is how one DC resident describes working for DoorDash 05/10/2024 02:48pm • This content is sponsored by DoorDash. Washington, D.C. native, Melvin Campbell���s regular job only had him working three days a week. With all of that free time, Campbell, who served in the Marines for four years, decided to become an independent contractor. ���I saw an ad on Facebook PHOTOS: After more than 40 years, Metro will retire 2000-series trains 05/10/2024 01:56pm • Metro officially started retiring its 2000-series train on Friday after more than 40 years on the tracks. The 2000-series trains were first introduced in 1983 and had issues close to four times more often than the 7000-series trains, Metro said in a news release. “These 76 train cars helped mo Top Indian opposition leader released on bail by court enabling him to campaign in elections 05/10/2024 11:50am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� A top Indian opposition leader was freed from jail on interim bail by the Supreme Court on Friday nearly seven weeks after his arrest in a bribery case that opposition parties called a political move by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government against one of his rivals during a n Police prevent environmental activists from storming Tesla factory in Germany 05/10/2024 11:24am • German police said Friday they had prevented hundreds of demonstrators from storming Tesla���s factory near Berlin during protests against the pioneering electric carmaker over its environmental footprint. Crowds of demonstrators gathered near the Grunheide factory, Tesla���s only European productio Grupo Frontera's hybrid Mexican music went global. On a new album, their genre-melding has no limits 05/10/2024 10:24am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A lot can happen in two years. Just ask Grupo Frontera, who released their highly anticipated sophomore album, ���Jugando Que No Pasa Nada,��� Friday. The sextet began as a local band in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, playing events like quincea��eras ��� a hobby for its members who hel Off-track soap opera follows F1 into first 2024 stop in U.S. Andrettis plan to meet with series 05/10/2024 09:35am • MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) ��� Five races into the Formula 1 season, Max Verstappen and the globe-trotting series have arrived in the United States for the first of three appearances in a year the Red Bull driver already seems to have under wraps. Verstappen has four wins through five races headed in Mixing games and education, Prince Harry and Meghan arrive in Nigeria to promote mental health 05/10/2024 09:18am • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) ��� Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, arrived in Nigeria amid pomp and dancing on Friday to champion mental health for young people affected by conflicts and to promote the Invictus Games, which the prince founded to aid the rehabilitation of wounded and sick servicemembers and Storm-battered South is again under threat. A boy swept into a drain fights for his life 05/10/2024 06:40am • COLUMBIA, Tenn. (AP) ��� Dangerous storms crashed over parts of the South on Thursday even as the region cleaned up from earlier severe weather that spawned tornadoes, killed at least three people, and gravely injured a boy who was swept into a storm drain as he played in a flooded street. A heavy l 'It's very emotional': Md. man honors wife killed in bike lane as new road safety bill signed into law 05/10/2024 05:07am • The ghost bike for Sarah Langenkamp. (WTOP/Luke Lukert) Daniel Langenkamp went to Annapolis on Thursday, and from inside the Maryland State House, he texted a reporter: "I vowed to do something to make our roads safer so people like Sarah didn't have to die." In an interview with WTOP, Langen Shunned for centuries, Vodou grows powerful as Haitians seek solace from unrelenting gang violence 05/10/2024 12:10am • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� The Vodou faithful sing, their voices rising above the gunfire erupting miles away as frantic drumbeats drown out their troubles. They pause to swig rum out of small brown bottles, twirling in unison as they sing in Haitian Creole: ���We don���t care if they hate us, b Maui to hire expert to evaluate county's response to deadly wildfire 05/09/2024 11:22pm • WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) ��� Nine months after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century struck Maui, Mayor Richard Bissen says the county will hire an outside expert to assess how its emergency management agency performed during the disaster. The Aug. 8 wildfire killed 101 people and destroyed Free software updates available in Md. could shrink the odds your Hyundai is stolen 05/09/2024 09:30pm • In recent years, Hyundai and Kia vehicles have become easy targets for car thieves, thanks to a social media "challenge." The two automakers have since been giving out steering wheel locks across the country. Now, Hyundai is out with a new software update the carmaker hopes will be even more eff New Hampshire man sentenced to minimum 56 years on murder, other charges in young daughter's death 05/09/2024 09:02pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� A New Hampshire man convicted of killing his 5-year-old daughter and moving her corpse around for months before disposing of it was sentenced Thursday to a minimum of 56 years in prison on murder and other charges as relatives of the child called him a monster. That sentence 'Hours count, minutes count': Advice from the Secret Service on avoiding cyberscams 05/09/2024 08:00pm • When most people think of the U.S. Secret Service, they think about presidential protection. But the Secret Service also investigates financial crimes and is currently involved in the investigation of the theft of $220,000 from the Rockville Volunteer Fire Department. Stavros Nikolakakos, assi