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FLE - A statue of confederate general Stonewall Jackson is removed on July 1, 2020, in Richmond, Va. Shenandoah County, Virginia's school board voted 5-1 early Friday, May 10, 2024, to rename Mountain View High School as Stonewall Jackson High School and Honey Run Elementary as Ashby Lee Elementary four years after the names had been removed. AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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In reversal, Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to 2 schools
By MATTHEW BARAKAT - Associated Press
Fri,05/10/24-8:37AM , 75 Reads
A Virginia school board voted Friday to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high school and an elementary school, four years after the names were removed amid nationwide protests calling for a reckoning over racial injustice.
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The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is seen behind a Google sign at the company's office in San Francisco, April 12, 2023. Lawyers for both the Department of Justice and Google are presenting closing arguments in Washington, D.C., Friday, May 3, 2024, to conclude the biggest antitrust case in a quarter century. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File )

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Google, Justice Department make final arguments about whether search engine is a monopoly
By MATTHEW BARAKAT - AP Business Writer
Fri,05/03/24-9:30AM , 69 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Google's preeminence as an internet search engine is an illegal monopoly propped up by more than $20 billion spent each year by the tech giant to lock out competition, Justice Department lawyers argued at the closings of a high-stakes antitrust lawsuit.
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This late 2003 photo obtained by The Associated Press shows an unidentified detainee standing on a box with a bag on his head and wires attached to him in the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq. A trial scheduled to begin Monday, April 15, 2024, in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., will be the first time that survivors of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison will bring their claims of torture to a U.S. jury. Twenty years ago, photos of abused prisoners and smiling U.S. soldiers guarding them shocked the world. (AP Photo, File)

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20 years later, Abu Ghraib detainees get their day in US court
By MATTHEW BARAKAT - Associated Press
Thu,04/11/24-11:23PM , 91 Reads
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Twenty years ago this month, photos of abused prisoners and smiling U.S. soldiers guarding them at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were released, shocking the world.
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Authorities in a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. are investigating a massive explosion at a house where police were investigating reports of shots fired and attempted to serve a search warrant Monday. (Dec. 5)

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An explosion leveled a home in Arlington, Virginia, as officers tried to serve a search warrant
By MATTHEW BARAKAT - Associated Press
Mon,12/04/23-8:20PM , 77 Reads
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A massive explosion at a duplex where police were investigating reports of shots fired shook a Washington, D.C, suburb Monday and destroyed the home.
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