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USA Today Baseball Coaches Poll
wtop.com > sports...(31-26) 12; Northeastern (44-14) 8; Indiana (41-18) 8; North Carolina State (35-19) 7; North Carolina (35-22) 7; Texas San Antonio (38-19) 5; UNC... ...Others receiving votes: Auburn (34-21) 148; Texas Christian (37-22) 29; Oregon (37-20) 14; Texas A&M (36-25) 12; Oral Roberts (46-11) 12; Oklahoma...

How much would you pay for this piece of ’70s nostalgia?
wtop.com > tv...The Los Angeles home, made famous by exterior shots on the blended-family sitcom, is going for $5.5 million.... ...“The Brady Bunch” house has hit the market for any fan of groovy "70s pop culture, but it"ll take much more than a hunch to get your hands on it.... ...When the longtime owner died in 2018, HGTV bought the house where Mike and Carol Brady raised Greg, Marcia, Peter, Jan, Bobby and Cindy, with the... ...help of trusted maid Alice....

Exclusive secrets of the National Spelling Bee: Picking the words to identify a champion
wtop.com > lifestyle...Late in the meeting, lead pronouncer Jacques Bailly and his colleagues -- so measured in their pacing and meticulous in their enunciation during... ...This year, Scripps -- a Cincinnati-based media company -- granted The Associated Press exclusive access to the panelists and their pre-bee meeting... ...Kavya Shivashankar, the 2009 champion, an obstetrician/gynecologist and a recent addition to the panel, chimed in with an objection....

Kosovo ex-president on trial for war crimes allowed to visit his sick ...
wtop.com > national...Kosovo ex-president on trial for war crimes allowed to visit his sick mother May 29, 2023, 11:25 AM An email message from the Kosovo Specialist... ...for Hashim Thaci to meet family.”... ...Thaci is on trial alongside three other former senior leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army, or KLA, guerrilla force in Kosovo"s 1998-99 war for... ...They are each charged with offenses including murder, torture and persecution allegedly committed across Kosovo and northern Albania from 1998 to...

New temporary art exhibits coming to some of the most famous ...
wtop.com > dc...Six exhibits will be on display from artists Derrick Adams, Tiffany Chung, Ashon Crawley, Vanessa German, Paul Ramirez Jonas and Wendy Red Star.... ...told on the National Mall.... ...Other exhibits will be found near landmarks, such as the Tidal Basin, Jefferson Memorial, the Smithsonian Metro station and the Lincoln Memorial.... ...“We"ll have one exhibit on Signer"s Island, the 56 signers" memorial,” said Catherine Townsend, with the Trust for the National Mall....

Brad Smith, Microsoft president, says he believes A.I. regulation is ...
wtop.com > national...May 28, 2023, 10:54 AM ▶ Watch Video: Full interview: Brad Smith, Microsoft president and vice chair Brad Smith, the president and vice chair of... ...The European Union and China have already crafted national strategies but the U.S. has yet to do so.... ...It shows images created by artificial intelligence China invading Taiwan, businesses boarded up, and images of President Joe Biden and Vice President... ...The ad, released by the Republican National Committee, mimics a news report from 2024 after the presidential election....

Baseball Glance
wtop.com > sports...Yankees 10, San Diego 7 Kansas City 3, Washington 2 Detroit 6, Chicago White Sox 5, 10 innings Toronto 3, Minnesota 0 Houston 10, Oakland 1 Arizona... ...Tampa Bay 11, L.A. Dodgers 10 Baltimore 3, Texas 2 N.Y.... ...Tampa Bay (McClanahan 8-0) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 0-1), 8:05 p.m. Angels (Anderson 2-0) at Chicago White Sox (Giolito 3-4), 8:10 p.m.... ...Yankees (Cortes 4-2) at Seattle (Gilbert 3-2), 9:40 p.m. Angels at Chicago White Sox, 2:10 p.m. Cleveland at Baltimore, 3:05 p.m....

South America’s presidents gather in Brazil for first regional summit in 9 years
wtop.com > world...of South American Nations, or Unasur.... ...to integrate the 12 South American nations culturally, socially, politically and economically.... ...Stuenkel, an international relations professor at Getúlio Vargas Foundation, a university and think tank in Sao Paulo.... ...Tuesday"s meeting in Brasilia will bring together 11 South American presidents and the leader of the Council of Ministers of Peru, whose president...

Sudan army, rival force under pressure to extend truce after mediators show impatience with breaches
wtop.com > world...Sunday, the United States and Saudi Arabia called out Sudan"s military and its rival, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, for specific breaches... ...Abdel- Fattah Burhan, and the RSF, commanded by Gen.... ...Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo.... ...For weeks, the United States and Saudi Arabia have been mediating talks between the military and the RSF in the Saudi port city of Jeddah....

Bobrovsky’s end-of-season haircut can wait, with Panthers headed to Stanley Cup Final
wtop.com > sports...Bobrovsky"s end-of-season haircut can wait, with Panthers headed to Stanley Cup Final May 29, 2023, 12:39 PM The goaltender for the Florida Panthers... ...So, too, is the legend of Bobrovsky, who was backing up Alex Lyon when these playoffs began and now has helped carry the Panthers into the Stanley... ...“He's on another planet,” Florida forward Carter Verhaeghe said. “He's been playing so well this whole playoff run.... ...Bobrovsky led the way to ousting points-record-setting Boston in Round 1, Toronto in Round 2 and then Carolina in an Eastern Conference finals sweep...