Prince Georges County's library system is helping thousands of students celebrate their culture this Hispanic Heritage Month through their favorite books.

MANILA (AP) Shooting at a school in southern Philippines leaves at least 3 dead.

Today is Friday, Sept. 18, the 261st day of 2026. There are 104 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 18, 2020, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a towering champion of womens rights who became the courts second female justice, died at her home in Washington at age 87 of complications...

Most near misses involving pedestrians and cyclists in Fairfax County, Virginia, happen near schools, a traffic safety group found.

NEW YORK (AP) For more than two decades, truck driver Joe Macken spent his free time building a massive scale model of his native New York City out of balsa wood and foam board. When he finished, his daughter convinced him to show off the sprawling basement creation encompassing over 800,000 structures ...

September is Suicide Prevention Month, and there are things parents can do to help their kids, but they have to be willing to be proactive.

Russians on Friday began three days of voting in the countrys first wartime parliamentary election, which features virtually no opposition and is all but certain to secure the Kremlins political dominance. Authorities spread the election over the weekend in a bid to boost turnout among the 111 million eligible voters and even allowed electronic balloting....

TOKYO (AP) Asian shares mostly rose in early Friday trading, getting a lift from a rally on Wall Street as well as declining oil prices. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 gained 0.8% in early trading to 64,662.11, as the Bank of Japan ends a two-day monetary policy meeting to decide on interest rates. South Korea’s...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) Indonesia welcomed its first aircraft carrier Friday, a former Italian warship that the government says will strengthen the archipelago nation’s maritime security and disaster response capabilities. The 41-year-old former ITS Giuseppe Garibaldi, with capacity for short takeoff and vertical landing aircraft and helicopters, was ...

TOKYO (AP) Japans central bank on Friday raised the benchmark interest rate to 1.25% from 1.0%, a 31-year-high. The move Friday, coming at the end of the two-day monetary policy board meeting, was expected, widely figured into recent global markets. The raise by 0.25 percentage points to the policy rate comes after the Federal...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) The deadly collapse of a multistory building in Gaza has drawn new attention to the hardships facing Palestinians there nearly a year after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas promised to kickstart reconstruction. But as talks faltered, plans for rebuilding stalled. Many residents have since moved back into some...

Iran says it has struck an oil tanker trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz. And South Korea says it is considering expanding the operations of a naval operation in the Gulf of Aden off the Arabian Peninsula to protect its ships and oil routes. Heres a look at the latest news in the Middle...

Virginians head to the polls starting Friday in the Nov. 3 general election.

Gardeners have noticed their flower beds are getting more visits from monarch butterflies this time of year. D.C.-area experts are providing tips to help them.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Virginia’s attorney general said Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security may have violated several state laws after a whistleblower accused its employees of misrepresenting themselves on voter lookup tools to hunt for noncitizen voters. In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, Attorney General Jay Jones demanded that DHS ...

Anthropic’s Claude is helping the company develop the next, more intelligent version of the model, the artificial intelligence lab said in an announcement Thursday. Claude is leading 26% of Anthropic’s model research and development, which the company said means it can complete most of a given task end-to-end from a high-level prompt” while still ...

MUAR, Malaysia (AP) Its been 52 years since Goh Khuay Par carved his first Mei Hua coffin. The traditional Chinese design takes its name from the plum blossom, or mei hua in Mandarin, and has been part of his familys trade in Malaysia for three generations. My father was my master, said Goh, now...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) A Louisiana jury convicted a woman of negligent homicide on Thursday in the death of a Telemundo television reporter who had been visiting New Orleans to cover the Super Bowl, according to the Jefferson Parish district attorney’s office. Danette Colbert, 49, was also convicted of racketeering, as was her accomplice, 35-year-old...

NEW YORK (AP) Prize-winning author Phil Klay has been named the new president of PEN America, taking on the role as the literary and free expression organization continues to be torn by disagreements stemming from the Israel-Hamas war. Klay succeeds Dinaw Mengestu, who resigned in July in the wake of a PEN report that...

On the third day of Ward 8 D.C. Council member Trayon Whites federal bribery trial, much of the testimony came down to one big question: Could jurors believe Allieu Kamara?

UNITED NATIONS (AP) The world is deeply divided and the U.N.s most powerful body is paralyzed when it comes to ending conflicts. But theres a way forward. So says the United Nations top official. On his way out of office at year’s end after nearly a decade, U.N. Secretary-General Antnio Guterres known for...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) Alabama carries out execution of Jeffery Lee for 1998 double murder at pawnshop.

On May 24, 1993, 10-year-old George "Junior" Burdynski rode his bike from his family's home in Brentwood, Maryland, to meet a friend. He was never seen again.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned on Thursday that Russia is planning hybrid strikes with drones or rockets on European countries supporting Ukraine, among them Poland. Russia will pretend the attacks are accidental in order to paralyze or at least weaken the motivation of NATO countries” to rush to the defense...