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Operator of a Thai bus that caught fire and killed 23 is charged, as investigators suspect gas leak 10/04/2024 05:47am • BANGKOK (AP) 鈥� Police in Thailand on Friday said they have filed criminal charges against a bus operator in connection with a bus fire that killed 23 young students and teachers on a school trip earlier this week, as investigations suggested a gas leak may have caused the blaze. The owner of the b Israel-Hamas war latest: Israel strikes Houthi targets in Yemen 10/04/2024 05:37am • Hezbollah on Sunday confirmed the death of high-ranking official Nabil Kaouk in an Israeli airstrike, a day after the Lebanese militant group acknowledged the killings of multiple commanders, including longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah. Israel struck Houthi targets in Yemen in response to the militan Californians' crime concerns put pressure on criminal justice reform and progressive DAs 10/04/2024 12:01am • LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥� Ten years ago, Alley Bean joined 3.7 million Californians in voting for a measure that downgraded many nonviolent felony crimes to misdemeanors, such as petty shoplifting and drug use, hoping it would lead to a more equitable criminal justice system and help end mass incarcerati This German church is the tallest in the world. Until Spain's La Sagrada Familia is done, anyway 10/03/2024 11:09pm • ULM, Germany (AP) 鈥� The Ulmer M眉nster in southern Germany is the world's tallest church. For now, anyway. The Gothic-style Lutheran church's reign 鈥� begun in May 31, 1890 鈥� could end in 2025, when La Sagrada Familia Basilica's 鈥淭ower of Jesus Christ鈥� in Spain is set to be completed. At an Dockworkers' union to suspend strike until Jan. 15 to allow time to negotiate new contract 10/03/2024 09:33pm • DETROIT (AP) 鈥� The union representing 45,000 striking U.S. dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports reached a deal Thursday to suspend a three-day strike until Jan. 15 to provide time to negotiate a new contract. The union, the International Longshoremen鈥檚 Association, is to resume working immed 5 Best Short-Term Investments for Generating Income 10/03/2024 08:00pm • Certainly, keeping cash in a checking account is both liquid and safe. There's the added benefit of federal deposit insurance, and it allows easy access to your money whenever you need it with the assurance it's protected. However, the downside is that it's not earning any interest. Given a long-ter How Special Interest Rate CDs Work 10/03/2024 08:00pm • Financial institutions offer a variety of certificates of deposit with different interest rates. 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The brake wouldn't work, he couldn't shift into neutral, and before long, the runaway SUV was speeding into the western Minnesota countryside w Striking port workers to return to work Friday as negotiators reach an agreement on wages 10/03/2024 06:28pm • New York (CNN) — Striking members of the International Longshoremen鈥檚 Association (ILA) will be back to work on Friday, the union announced Thursday evening, as it reached a tentative deal with the management group representing shipping lines, terminal operators and port authorities.The agre Manslaughter case in fatal police shooting outside Virginia mall goes to jury 10/03/2024 05:04pm • FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) 鈥� A jury began deliberations Thursday on whether a former police officer who fatally shot a shoplifting suspect last year outside a busy northern Virginia shopping mall should be convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Wesley Shifflett testified that he shot Timothy McCree Johnson Amazon, Target and other retailers are ramping up hiring for the holiday shopping season 10/03/2024 09:53am • Retailers are ramping up hiring for the holiday season, but fewer seasonal employees are expected to be taken on this year to help customers in stores and assemble online orders in warehouses. E-commerce giant Amazon said Thursday it will hire 250,000 full, part-time and seasonal workers for the cr Raising Cane's brings its chicken fingers to Seven Corners 10/03/2024 08:55am • Chicken finger restaurant chain Raising Cane's, which only recently began opening locations in the D.C. region, has opened its newest restaurant in Falls Church, Virginia, at the Seven Corners Shopping Center. Grand openings attract long lines of customers, in part for the chicken, and in part fo Forget the Met. Forget the Louvre. The world's most unique museum is right here in DC at the USDA building 10/03/2024 05:34am • At first glance, D.C.'s U.S. Department of Agriculture headquarters, with its vast corridors (measuring 7 miles in total) and looming facade, give off the same vibes as many other massive government buildings in the heart of downtown: imposing, impossibly large and mysterious. At one time, th Prosecutors' closing argument prompts mistrial request from lawyers for Fairfax Co. officer accused of manslaughter 10/03/2024 05:25am • FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) 鈥� Defense lawyers say they will seek a mistrial for a former police officer on trial in the fatal shooting a shoplifting suspect outside a busy northern Virginia mall after prosecutors鈥� closing argument Wednesday included evidence that was never introduced at trial. The jury Middle East latest: UN ponders how to calm the conflict as Israel battles militants on two fronts 10/03/2024 12:29am • The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting Wednesday to address the spiraling conflict in the Middle East. Iran鈥檚 ambassador to the U.N. said his country launched nearly 200 missiles at Israel on Tuesday as a deterrent to further Israeli violence, while his Israeli counterpart