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What Is Memory Care? 08/20/2024 08:00pm • Erin Schneider, a St. Louis-based care guide supervisor at Homethrive, witnessed firsthand the progression of dementia and its ripple effects to caregivers. "My mother-in-law was the primary caregiver for her husband, who passed away from vascular dementia. She never seemed to recover after his deat 7 Diabetes and Weight Loss Drug Stocks for 2024 08/20/2024 08:00pm • Wall Street analysts can barely keep up with the pace of the diabetes and weight loss drug markets -- and for good reason. Thanks to ample customer demand, production increases and an improving global supply chain for drug transport and delivery, the worldwide diabetes and weight loss drug market is How to Transfer a High Number of College Credits 08/20/2024 08:00pm • There are two major misconceptions about transferring from one college to another, according to admissions experts. The first is that the process is too complicated to be worthwhile. The second is that highly selective colleges don't even accept transfer students. While it used to be more complicate When Is It Time to Move From Independent to Assisted Living? 08/20/2024 08:00pm • We all age at a different rates and face different health challenges as the years march on. That means that navigating health care decisions later in life isn't always a straightforward journey. One of those decisions may be trying to decide when it's time to move from independent living to assisted How to Know Your Loved One Is Getting the Senior Care They're Paying For 08/20/2024 08:00pm • With senior care costs at an all-time high, how do you know if your loved one is getting the quality care they've been promised? Investigations and media reports over the past few years have highlighted troubling gaps between care that senior facilities advertise and the actual services delivered. I Western Alaska Yup'ik village floods as river rises from a series of storms 08/20/2024 07:46pm • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ��� Storm-battered residents in the western Alaska village of Napakiak were preparing for the third storm in a week Tuesday, days after a minister had to use a front loader to free people from flooded homes. Napakiak, a Yup���ik village of about 350 residents in the Yukon-Kus Canadian freight trains could stop moving Thursday. If they do, many businesses will be hurt 08/20/2024 07:12pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� Businesses across a variety of industries are bracing for freight trains to stop moving Thursday at both major Canadian freight railroads if they can���t resolve a contract dispute with the union that represents engineers, conductors and dispatchers. The impact will be widespread be Throwing the book: Democrats enlarge a copy of the 'Project 2025' blueprint as an anti-GOP prop 08/20/2024 07:12pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic allies have turned Project 2025 into one of their most consistent tools against the campaign of former President Donald Trump. Now, they've taken the fight over the conservative-written handbook to a bigger new scale. Mallory McMorrow, a 3 Back on the bus for back to school: Prince George's County's drivers talk transportation 08/20/2024 07:00pm • From vaping, the cost of school supplies to cellphone policies, the WTOP team is studying up on hot-button topics in education across the D.C. region. Follow on air and online in our series�����WTOP Goes Back to School��� this August and September. School bus drivers are getting ready f What is known about the sinking of a luxury yacht off the coast of Sicily and those aboard 08/20/2024 06:59pm • PORTICELLO, Sicily (AP) ��� Specialist cave divers working in 12-minute underwater shifts were searching Tuesday for six missing passengers and crew, including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, believed to be in the submerged wreck of a luxury yacht that was slammed by a powerful storm and swiftly san New York's mail-in voting law upheld by the state's top court 08/20/2024 06:56pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ��� A New York law allowing all registered voters to cast their ballots by mail was upheld Tuesday by the state���s highest court, which rejected a Republican challenge to the legislation. The 6-1 ruling from the state Court of Appeals affirmed lower courts in finding that the voti Georgia lawmaker urges panel to consider better firearms safety rules to deter child gun deaths 08/20/2024 06:35pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� A Georgia state senator is trying to change the terms of an entrenched partisan debate, saying he's not interested in restricting gun ownership but in preventing the fatal shooting of children. The statement Tuesday by Decatur Democrat Emanuel Jones reflects the strategies of those Final report outlines missed opportunities to stop Maine's deadliest shooting 08/20/2024 06:35pm • LEWISTON, Maine (AP) ��� Both the Army Reserve and police missed opportunities to intervene in a gunman���s psychiatric crisis and initiate steps to seize weapons from the spiraling reservist responsible for the deadliest shootings in Maine history, according to the final report released Tuesday by Israel-Hamas war latest: Blinken visits Gaza mediators in pursuit of cease-fire deal 08/20/2024 06:32pm • U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited fellow mediators Egypt and Qatar as he pressed ahead Tuesday with the latest diplomatic mission to secure a cease-fire in the war in Gaza, even as Hamas and Israel signaled that challenges remain. Hamas in a new statement called the latest proposal pres Editorial Roundup: United States 08/20/2024 06:13pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Aug. 18 The Washington Post says the new FAFSA is still a problem It���s a depressingly familiar Washington story: A well-meaning update of a single Education Department college form turned into a massive policy blunder, harming th