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A female gangster, nicknamed the "Queen of the Underworld," who ran a gambling racket in DC in the 1950s.A Black race car driver from DC who rocketed from the online world of virtual racing to the driver's seat in NASCAR's top racing series.A long-closed coffeehouse and venue on H Street that offered a reprieve for queer Black people through the height of the AIDS epidemic.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy listens to military commanders as he visits the eastern Donetsk region, an area of heavy fighting, on Tuesday.Zelenskyy and other Ukrainian officials say a major military offensive is likely to start soon.AP Major military operations are normally shrouded in secrecy.

This isn't a fog.This is life under an ice sheet.The term brain fog has everyone I meet expecting I'll be better any day now.This is what one of us (Ken) wrote in his journal about the periodic memory loss and inability to concentrate that he experienced throughout 2022, when he struggled with symptoms of long COVID.

Certain mandates in the Affordable Care Act were ruled unenforceable by a Texas federal judge on Thursday.U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor struck down stipulations that required insurers to cover preventive care services at no cost to patients, such as cancer, heart and STD screenings as well as tobacco-cessation programs.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The Taoiseach has called on Irish banks to increase savings rates in response to the latest interest rate hike across the eurozone.Leo Varadkar said the 0.5% rise announced by the European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday was not unexpected, but acknowledged it was unwelcome for mortgage holders in Ireland.

I know, I knowyou couldn't be more delighted that spring and summer are on the way.The toasty days, the warm nights, the gentle breezes and, especially, the lengthening hours of daylight, which begin Mar. 12 with the return of Daylight Saving Time.To which I say: Keep it; keep it all: the heat, the humidity, the hot wind masquerading as a warm breeze.

WASHINGTON President Biden on Friday said he would nominate Adriana Kugler for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board and would elevate Philip Jefferson, a current governor, as vice chair of the central bank.If they are confirmed by the Senate, the Fed would get its first Latina board member and its second Black vice chair, a move that could both make the Fed more diverse and build out its leadership team at a challenging economic moment.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails There can be no commemoration of the Good Friday Agreement without properly recognising the role of women, the Irish premier has said.Speakers at an event honouring women's involvement in Northern Ireland's peace process praised the work of Mo Mowlam, who served as the secretary of state for Northern Ireland at the time that the Good Friday Agreement was signed, and Hillary Clinton, who was present at the talk at Georgetown University in Washington DC.

There was a time where it seemed like an inevitability that Patrick Ewing would become the head coach of an NBA team.He had long served as an assistant coach in Washington, Houston, Orlando, and Charlotte under some very well-known coaches and that, along with his strong resume as a player lead many to believe that he'd make a fine coach.

When Bert and Ernie made their public television debut 50 years ago, the puppets and the rest of the Sesame Street crew proved revolutionary.After watching the show, preschoolers had larger vocabularies than their peers and did better in school across income levels, according to a sizeable body of research on the program.

After thirty-eight years of building, managing, and growing Sugar Bowl Bakery as a family business, Andrew Ly, co-founder and current CEO & Chairman of the Board, has stepped aside from the CEO seat and appointed current President & COO, Joel Feldman, as his successor.Feldman will lead all cross functional activity and will formulate and execute the company's long-term strategy, while Ly will continue to guide Sugar Bowl Bakery serving as an ambassador of the company culture and the face of the brand as Chairman of the Board.

These have been informed by the work of Matt Glassman, a senior fellow at the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University; the Congressional Research Service and the House historian.Do they have to vote Wednesday?Most simplistically, no, they do not.While the House is set to reconvene at noon, members-elect - technically speaking, in fact, all members are "members-elect" until a speaker is chosen - could adjourn again before taking another speaker vote.

William "Rick" Singer arrives Wednesday at the federal courthouse in Boston.He was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $19 million in restitution and forfeitures.Brian Snyder/Reuters Rick Singer, the man behind the notorious "Varsity Blues" college admissions bribery scandal, was sentenced Wednesday to 3 1/2 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $19 million about half as restitution to the IRS and the other half as forfeitures of money and assets.

Adnan Syed (center right) leaves the courthouse after a hearing on Sept. 19, 2022, in Baltimore.Syed, who was released from a Maryland prison this year after his case was the focus of the true-crime podcast "Serial," has been hired by Georgetown University as a program associate for its Prisons and Justice Initiative.