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A realistic way to protect kids from social media? Find a middle ground 06/06/2024 12:00am • Ahmed Othman isn't on TikTok and doesn't want to be. He and his younger sister got iPhones when they were in eighth and seventh grade respectively, but with no social media, just iMessage. Their parents, who are both computer scientists, spent the next year teaching them about social media, bombardi Sen. Bob Menendez's wife is excused from court after cancer surgery 06/05/2024 11:09pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The wife of Sen. Bob Menendez was excused Wednesday from appearing in court next week after her lawyer said she’s experiencing intense and chronic pain after surgery to treat cancer. Nadine Menendez was supposed to be on trial with the Democrat for the past month, but her trial w The Latest: Court adjourns for the day in Hunter Biden's gun trial 06/05/2024 09:29pm • WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The Latest on the trial of Hunter Biden (all times local): Court adjourned for the day in Hunter Biden's gun trial, with testimony expected to resume Thursday morning. After the jurors were dismissed, Derek Hines told the judge the prosecution has six more witnesses after g New York judge seen shoving police officer will be replaced on the bench 06/05/2024 08:14pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A New York judge who was censured after being seen on video shoving a police officer during a brawl with neighbors will be replaced on the bench, authorities said Wednesday. Judge Mark Grisanti, an acting State Supreme Court justice in Buffalo, has been serving as a “holdove Hunter Biden's ex-wife and former girlfriend testify at trial about finding his drug paraphernalia 06/05/2024 08:08pm • WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden's ex-wife and a former girlfriend testified Wednesday in his gun trial about finding his crack pipes and other drug paraphernalia, and jurors saw photos of the president's son bare-chested in a bubble bath and heard about his visit to a strip club. As the first Carry a Credit Card Balance vs. Pay in Full: What's Better for Your Credit? 06/05/2024 08:00pm • Carrying a balance doesn't do your credit any favors: It just racks up interest charges. Here's why carrying a card balance to build credit is a myth and what you can do to get a good credit score. Does Keeping a Balance Help Your Credit Score?Carrying a balance does nothing to help your credit scor Jury ends second day of deliberations without reaching verdict in fraud trial roiled by bag of cash 06/05/2024 07:48pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A jury ended a second day of deliberations Wednesday without reaching a verdict in the trial of seven Minnesotans accused in a scheme to steal more than $40 million from a program meant to feed children during the coronavirus pandemic, while FBI agents try to establish who left A Colorado woman who was handcuffed in a police car hit by a train receives an $8.5M settlement 06/05/2024 05:06pm • DENVER (AP) — A Colorado woman who was seriously injured when a freight train hit the parked police vehicle in which she sat handcuffed has reached an $8.5 million settlement, a lawyer representing two of the involved police officers said Wednesday. The city of Fort Lupton and nearby town of Platt Virginia governor says state will abandon California emissions standards by the end of the year 06/05/2024 02:37pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Wednesday that Virginia will abandon California's stringent vehicle emissions rules aimed at reducing carbon pollution at the end of the year when that state’s current regulations expire, citing an attorney general opinion. In response to a r Sports on TV for Thursday, June 6 06/05/2024 02:10pm • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Thursday, June 6 AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE 7 p.m. NHLN — Eastern Conference Final: Hershey at Cleveland, Game 4 AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN’S) 5:30 a.m. (Friday) FS2 — AFL: Brisbane at Western CFL FOOTBALL 8:30 p.m. CBSSN — Mont 1 dead, 6 hurt after crash on Capital Beltway, causing delays for morning commute 06/05/2024 02:04pm • Listen to WTOP for traffic updates on the 8s. A man is dead and six others hurt after a three-vehicle crash on the inner loop of the Capital Beltway near Georgia Avenue in Montgomery County, Maryland, early Wednesday. The overnight crash investigation prompted hourslong closures on the interst Death toll from floods across southern Germany rises to 6 06/05/2024 12:38pm • BERLIN (AP) — The death toll from floods across a large part of southern Germany rose to six on Wednesday as police recovered the body of a woman missing since the weekend from a canal in Bavaria. The 79-year-old failed to return home after being seen on a bicycle in Jettingen-Scheppach, near the A member of a German far-right party stabbed and wounded in another attack on a politician 06/05/2024 07:37am • BERLIN (AP) — A member of a German far-right party was stabbed and wounded in the southwestern city of Mannheim, German news agency dpa reported Wednesday, only days after a knife attack killed one police officer and left five other people injured in the same city. Dpa reported that a candidate wi Police officers in the Philippines arrested for kidnapping 4 tourists and demanding a ransom 06/05/2024 07:09am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Four police officers assigned in the Philippine capital region have been arrested for kidnapping for ransom that victimized four foreign tourists, officials said Wednesday. Two of the officers onboard motorcycles flagged down a luxury car carrying three Chinese and a Ma In their own words: What young people wish they'd known about social media 06/05/2024 12:14am • It's dangerous. It's addictive. Get off your phone. Kids constantly hear about the downsides of social media from the adults in their lives, often in the form of dire warnings and commands. But these adults did not grow up with social media themselves. They didn't get a phone handed to them as tod