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3 hospitalized after bus crashes through Washington, D.C. restaurant

April 04, 2026
3 hospitalized after bus crashes through Washington, D.C. restaurant

Three women were taken to the hospital after a bus and vehicle collided in Washington, D.C., sending the bus crashing into a closed restaurant, according to first responders.

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It's not clear what led to the collision.CBS affiliate WUSAreported that the bus, part of Washington, D.C.'s public transit system, hit the vehicle. First responders were dispatched to the site around 7:13 a.m., the D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department told CBS News.

The restaurant was closed when the bus crashed through its facade, the departmentsaid on X. Photos show the front of the bus surrounded by debris.Another imageshows a dark-car van with significant damage on the rear driver's side.A videoshows the first responders breaking up the concrete at the restaurant's entrance to facilitate the bus's removal.

Four patients were evaluated, the department said on X, and three adult female patients were transported to a local hospital with minor injuries. Metro Transit Policesaid on Xthat the bus driver sustained minor injuries. A photo shows one person being wheeled towards an ambulance on a stretcher.

WUSA reported that the restaurant, called Ambar, was empty at the time of the crash, but was set to open for brunch at 9:20 a.m.Ambarserves Balkan food and has two locations in Washington, D.C., one in Virginia, and one in Chicago, Illinois. The crash occurred at the 7th St. & Q St. NW location, according to the department.

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Firefighters searched the building as a precaution and secured its utilities, said the D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department. The department said crews are still working to get the bus out of the building. Once it is removed, the building's structural integrity will be assessed. An initial evaluation found no significant structural issues, the department told CBS News.

The crash is being investigated by the department and by police, WUSA reported.

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'Price is Right' producer defends show after Bob Barker allegations

April 04, 2026
'Price is Right' producer defends show after Bob Barker allegations

Roger Dobkowitz, a longtime producer on"The Price is Right,"is speaking out after a recent documentary series featured allegations against hostBob Barker.

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Dobkowitz, who had a 36-season run on the Daytime Emmy-winning show from 1972 to 2008, weighed in on E!'s"Dirty Rotten Scandals,"a show that pulls back the curtain on classic television series through behind-the-scenes exposés.

The series' two-part segment on "The Price is Right," which aired on March 18, included allegations from several of the game show's former models, whodescribed a culture of sexual harassmentthat pervaded production during the show's early years.

In a March 29Facebook post, Dobkowitz said he initially "avoided commenting" on the docuseries because he "didn't want to add any social traction to such an obvious 'hit piece.'"

"Price is Right" host Bob Barker, right, and producer Roger Dobkowitz appear on set during the taping of the show's 34th season premiere at CBS Television City in Los Angeles on June 9, 2005.

'Price is Right' allegations:Game show models allege harassment during Bob Barker era

"The 'documentary' should just quietly disappear into the bottom of a TV equivalent of a waste basket along with all the other forgotten so-called 'exposés,'" Dobkowitz, 80, continued. "There are some people in this world who will happily exaggerate and create falsehoods in order to justify a personal hateful vendetta against a person in order to draw attention to themselves."

USA TODAY has reached out to Dobkowitz and the E! network for comment.

Former 'Price is Right' producer says Bob Barker accusers are not 'brave'

Holly Hallstrom, who was a "Barker's Beauties" model from 1977 to 1995,alleged on "Dirty Rotten Scandals"that Barker often silenced women who complained about incidents of sexual harassment on set.

"If anyone had gone to Bob because Bob was in charge of the show and said, 'I have a problem. I have a complaint.' He would have told her to get over it or look for a new job," said Hallstrom, who also accused the game show host of having an affair with fellow model Dian Parkinson.

Barker, who retired as "Price of Right" host in 2007, died in 2023.

"Making the situation worse is the fact that the accused is deceased, and therefore, making it impossible for the accused to defend himself," Dobkowitz wrote on Facebook. "The adjective 'brave' should never be used in reference to a person attacking a dead person."

Barker faced his fair share of legal troubles during his stint on the iconic game show. In 1994, Parkinson filed an $8 million sexual harassment lawsuit, though Barker denied the charges, and Parkinson withdrew the suit a year later.

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Say it isn't so! These TV shows are ending in 2026

It's hard to say goodbye, but fans of these TV shows will have to do just that in 2026. From fantasy epics like Starz's "Outlander" (starring Sam Heughan, left, andCaitriona Balfe, pictured) to talk shows like "The Kelly Clarkson Show" and "Late Night With Stephen Colbert," these 20 shows are ending this year.

Barker later sued Hallstrom for libel and slander after she told news outlets that she was fired because she gained weight through medication. He eventually dropped the lawsuit 48 hours before trial, and Hallstrom later countersued him for wrongful termination and malicious prosecution.

"Most people in society and individuals move on with their lives, especially after courtrooms have settled disputes and they are closed," Dobkowitz continued. "When someone feels the compulsion to constantly bring it up for another 30 years is a sign that something could be wrong with their capacity to reason maturely."

'Price is Right' producer Roger Dobkowitz says game show was a 'happy place'

Bob Barker attends The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce & The Hollywood Sign Trust's 90th Celebration of the Hollywood Sign at Drai's Hollywood on Sept. 19, 2013.

Dobkowitz isn't the only one standing by Barker and "The Price is Right."

In a March 18 statement to USA TODAY, Barker's longtime representative, Roger Neal, denied any allegations of sexual misconduct against Barker or the show.

"Barker was and is beloved, and people to this day love him," Neal said at the time.  "He was part of the fabric of American pop culture. He was the greatest MC in TV history. I was honored to have represented him."

Dobkowitz echoed the sentiment in his Facebook post, saying the game show was a "happy place."

"Our working environment was the envy of other shows," Dobkowitz wrote. "Staff rarely quit…the dozens of women who were in our repertoire of models came back year after year, happy to be on our show."

"Price of Right" producer Roger Dobkowitz poses with his award backstage at the 31st annual Daytime Emmy Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on May 21, 2004.

He added, "The only unhappy people, as would be found in any company, were the ones that didn't get the raise they wanted, the ones that didn't get the promotion they thought they deserved and the ones that were terminated for not doing their job."

Dobkowitz joined the production staff of "The Price is Right" in 1972 and became a producer in 1984. During his decadeslong tenure, he created 18 of the show's pricing games and won five Daytime Emmy Awards.

"Someday, when I write my book, (if anyone still cares by then), my 36 years of observations with Bob, the models and the staff will clear up lots of misconceptions and dismiss many wrongful accusations," Dobkowitz concluded. "I was there for 36 years. I was on that stage."

Contributing: Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:'Price is Right' producer defends show after Bob Barker documentary

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Russia again claims to have taken an eastern Ukrainian region. The real picture is very different

April 04, 2026
Russia again claims to have taken an eastern Ukrainian region. The real picture is very different

This week, for the third time since its full-scale invasion ofUkraine,Russiaclaimed it fully occupied Ukraine's Luhansk region.

CNN This week, Russia once again claimed it has fully occupied Ukraine's Luhansk region. - Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters

TheRussian militaryhas held almost all of Luhansk – one of four eastern regions that Moscow has illegally sought to annex - since the first year of the conflict.

It's unclear why Russia felt the need to announce -again - that its forces had "completed the liberationof the entire territory of the Luhansk People's Republic," as it calls the region.

Analysts note that the Russia Defense ministry has a habit of exaggerating advances when the frontlines are scarcely changing.

Russian gains in Ukraine slowed in the first three months of this year to about five km (three miles) a day, compared to 11 kilometers in the first quarter of 2025, war monitors, including the Washington-basedInstitute for the Study of War(ISW),report. And in some parts of the battlefield, the Ukrainians have made gains.

Ukraine scoffed at the claim that all of Luhansk was now under Russian control.

"The front line hasn't moved much at all over the past six months. It's like some kind of April Fools' Day prank on their part," said a Ukrainian military spokesman, Victor Tregubov.

Russian soldiers pictured before they are deployed to the Luhansk region in November 2024. - Arkadii Budnitskii/Anadolu/Getty Images

Ukraine's Third Army Corps, tasked with defending Luhansk, said the Russians had unsuccessfully launched 144 assault attempts on two villages in its attempts to complete the capture of the region.

On the same day as the defense ministry's claim, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should have already ordered Ukrainian forces out of the entire Donbas region, calling the withdrawal necessary to end the "hot phase" of the war.

TheDonbasincludes Luhansk and Donetsk, about 20% of which Ukraine still holds.

"Kremlin claims in 2025 and 2026 about seizing [Luhansk] are aggrandizing miniscule changes on the front… in order to create the false impression that Russian forces are rapidly advancing on various sectors of the battlefield," the ISW said after the latest Russian declaration.

Russia's announcement was "aimed at portraying Ukrainian defenses as on the verge of collapse to drive the United States and Ukraine's other partners into forcing Ukraine to unnecessarily cede territory that Russian forces are very unlikely to seize militarily in the medium term, if at all," ISW concluded.

The "liberation" of Luhansk was previously claimed in2022and again last June, when the Kremlin-appointed governor of Luhansk, Leonid Pasechnik said "100%" of the region was now under the control of Russian forces.

Ukrainian drones have struck Russian fuel tanks and ammunition depots 100 kilometers behind the frontlines this week. - Yan Dorbronosov/Reuters

In October, Russian President VladimirPutinsaid Russia had only 0.13% of the region left to capture.

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Over the past week, Ukrainian drones have struck Russian fuel tanks and ammunition depots some 100 kilometers (65 miles) from the front lines in Luhansk, as well as a Russian air defense system more than 130 kilometers from the region's border, according to geolocated video.

The broader picture shows that Ukrainian forces made their most significant gains over the winter since an incursion into Russia's Kursk region in 2024. Their greatest progress has been in the south, where they have taken some 400 sq km in Zaporizhzhia – another region claimed by Russia.

Ukrainian forces also retook at least 180 sq km in and around Kupyansk in the north in December and have largely held the gains, according to ISW.

Ukraine's commander-in-chief Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi said last week that Ukrainian forces are prioritizing counterattacks in areas where Russian forces are weakest.

"The enemy is currently playing by our rules. It is forced to adjust and concentrate its efforts where we are advancing," Syrskyi said.

The goal is to force the Russian military to reallocate troops to different areas to respond to attacks, just as the Russians have tried to pull Ukrainian defenses in different directions.

Late last month, a well-known pro-Kremlinmilitary blogger,Yuri Podolyaka - who has nearly three million subscribers on Telegram - expressed doubt over whether Russian forces can reverse an unfavorable battlefield situation in coming months and complained about "rather successful" Ukrainian counterattacks.

Servicemen belonging to the 154th Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces attend a military exercise on April 4. - Serhii Korovainyi/Reuters

Ukrainian forces were "surpassing" Russian forces in their ability to adapt, Podolyaka said, and the military leadership in Moscow had failed to adapt to better Ukrainian interceptor drones.

Ukraine is also trying to take advantage of the scale of Russian losses.

"Russian losses this March have reached their highest level since the start of the war,"Zelenskyclaimed Friday.

"Our drone strikes alone resulted in 33,988 Russian servicemembers killed or seriously wounded, while artillery and other strikes eliminated another 1,363 Russian occupiers."

"That means more than 35,000 Russian losses in just one month," Zelensky said.

"Russian advances have significantly slowed as Russian forces continue to suffer personnel losses and increasingly rely on poorly trained and underequipped infantry to make gains," ISW noted last week.

However, Ukraine is also facing deep personnel shortages along many parts of the frontline, and Zelensky hasexpressed concernthat the war in the Middle East may lead to there being less US weaponry available, especially air defense missiles – hundreds of which have been sentto defend Gulf countries.

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