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The Hip-Hop Block Party returns to the National Mall this summer

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:12:28 GMT

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture announced Friday that its Hip-Hop Block Party is returning this August.According to the museum’s news release, the party on the National Mall will “honor 50 years of hip-hop’s artistry, innovation and global transcendence.” It will take place at the intersection of Madison Drive NW and 14th Street on August 12.The event will include performances by some of hip-hop’s most influential DJs and artists. There will also be interactive games for attendees to enjoy, including graffiti art and break dancing.The NMAHHC will also be installing an outdoor panel exhibition highlighting new hip-hop artifacts from the museum’s collection. Within the NMAAHC itself, there will be hip-hop focused tours of galleries and the return of Club Café, with a hip-hop inspired menu.Celebrate 50 years of hip-hop’s artistry, innovation and global transcendence with our museum’s Hip-Hop Block Party, retu...

Archbishop of Canterbury crowns King Charles III, placing St. Edward’s Crown on monarch’s head

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:12:28 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Archbishop of Canterbury crowns King Charles III, placing St. Edward’s Crown on monarch’s head.Source

Police: Dorchester man found with crack cocaine, arrested for drug trafficking

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:12:28 GMT

A Dorchester man was arrested without incident in Roxbury on Thursday and charged with drug trafficking, according to the Boston Police. Trae Pendleton, 43, will be charged after officers found 22 grams of crack cocaine. Officers observed multiple people entering a residence in the area of 39 Roxbury Street beginning at 7 a.m. until Pendleton was arrested around 2:45 p.m. BPD also said they recovered a pack of razors, a digital scale, a knife, an undisclosed amount of USC, and a plastic bowl containing a white powdery substance.Pendleton is expected to be arraigned in Roxbury District Court.

Charles III crowned in ancient rite at Westminster Abbey

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:12:28 GMT

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III was crowned Saturday at Westminster Abbey, receiving the bejeweled St. Edward’s Crown in a ceremony built on ancient traditions at a time when the monarchy is striving to remain relevant in a fractured modern Britain.Trumpets sounded inside the medieval abbey and the congregation shouted “God save the king!” at a ceremony attended by more than 2,000 guests, including world leaders, aristocrats and celebrities. Outside, thousands of troops, tens of thousands of spectators and a smattering of protesters converged.It was the culmination of a seven-decade journey for Charles from heir to monarch.To the royal family and government, the occasion — code-named Operation Golden Orb — was a display of heritage, tradition and spectacle unmatched around the world. The rite was expected to by watched by millions, though the awe and reverence the ceremony was designed to evoke are largely gone — and many greeted the day with a shr...

Bob Raissman: Brian Cashman forced to start selling hope as his battered Yankees sink in standings

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:12:28 GMT

The effectiveness of Brian Cashman’s afternoon attempt to sell hope to the pinstriped masses, during a Stadium chat with notebooks and cameras, will ultimately be decided on the field and in a doctor’s office.Like most baseball impresarios, Cashman knows even if the stage is collapsing, the show must go on. No grand revelation there. Cashman must have realized the Knicks playoff run and the coming of high-profile Aaron Rodgers couldn’t provide cover for the Bombers inept play.“Don’t count us out,” Cashman, while selling inspiration too, told the assembled media seals. “Don’t give up on us …. It’s a championship-caliber operation.”The GM, in the first year of a four-year contract extension, also is the de facto producer, director, casting agent, promoter, of this Bombers production. A production that falls under the creative auspices of the Yankees Entertainment & Sports Network.If the product YES is “selling...

One dead in 2 vehicle crash in Bolton

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:12:28 GMT

One person is dead following a two-vehicle crash in Caledon early Saturday morning. Provincial police say they were called Queen Street between Willow Street and Sterne Street in Bolton just after 2 a.m. for reports of a crash. Police say two drivers were transported to hospital where one of them was later pronounced dead.

Profits jump at Buffett’s company ahead of annual meeting

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:12:28 GMT

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett’s company said its first-quarter profits soared along with the paper value of its investment portfolio — giving the thousands of shareholders who will fill an arena Saturday to listen to the billionaire and several other top executives at the conglomerate answer questions for hours some good news to start the day.“It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity,” said Chloe Lin, who traveled from Singapore to attend the meeting for the first time and learn from Buffett and his longtime investing partner Charlie Munger.Berkshire’s shareholders meeting always attracts throngs of people who admire the two investors and want to hear whatever wisdom they have to offer about recent events and life lessons. And with both men in their 90s this year, some in the crowd feel the urgency to attend now while both men are still here. “Charlie Munger is 99. I just wanted to see him in person. It’s on my bucket list,” Wu said. “I have to attend while I can.”Berkshire Hathawa...

Burials held in Serbia for some victims of mass shootings

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:12:28 GMT

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Heart-wrenching cries echoed as funerals were held in Serbia on Saturday for some of the victims of two mass shootings that happened just a day apart this week, leaving 17 people dead and 21 wounded, many of them children.The shootings on Wednesday in a school in Belgrade and on Thursday in a rural area south of the capital city have left the nation stunned with grief and disbelief.Though Serbia is awash with weapons and no stranger to crisis situations following the wars of the 1990s, a school shooting like the one on Wednesday has never happened before. The most recent previous mass shooting was in 2013 when a war veteran killed 13 people.The shooter on Wednesday was a 13-year-old boy who opened fire on his fellow students, killing seven girls, a boy and a school guard. A day later, a 20-year-old man fired randomly in two villages in central Serbia, killing eight people. Classmates and hundreds of other people cried unconsolably as one of the girls killed i...

All northbound lanes of Hwy. 400 closed at Major Mackenzie for incident

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:12:28 GMT

Provincial police have shut down the Highway 400 northbound lanes at Major Mackenzie in Vaughan due to an incident.Officers closed the highway for “police investigation purposes” just after 8 a.m.OPP say the highway is expected to be remain closed until noon or the early afternoon.Heavy backups on the highway have been reported as traffic is diverted off at Major Mackenzie.

W.Va. politicos keep fighting over 2020; voters, not so much

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:12:28 GMT

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Some Republican officeholders in West Virginia are already revving up campaigns for governor in 2024. But first, they have to sort out what happened in 2020.Years after Democrat Joe Biden was declared the White House winner, Secretary of State Mac Warner and Attorney General Patrick Morrisey say they remain concerned his victory was not legitimate. They persist in those views despite repeated investigations, audits and court cases concluding there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud or improper counting that could have changed the results in Donald Trump’s favor.Warner, who runs elections in West Virginia, toed the line for more than two years before going on a talk show this week to say he can “now firmly say” he believes the election was stolen. “That election was thrown, it was stolen, and we should not rest easy,” he said on Talk Radio WRNR in the state’s Eastern Panhandle. Asserting that the 2020 presidential race was stole...