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Life as a teen without social media isn't easy. These families are navigating adolescence offline 06/05/2024 09:48am • WESTPORT, Conn. (AP) — Kate Bulkeley's pledge to stay off social media in high school worked at first. She watched the benefits pile up: She was getting excellent grades. She read lots of books. The family had lively conversations around the dinner table and gathered for movie nights on weekends. Director Damiano Michieletto invigorates opera with stagings that astonish some, appall others 06/05/2024 09:34am • PARIS (AP) — Damiano Michieletto sat in the last row of the Opéra Bastille's front section alongside his production colleagues, watching opening night of Massenet’s rarely performed “Don Quichotte.” They bolted at the final note to get backstage for curtain calls and were met with cheers � France hurries to let New Caledonia vote in European elections after its deadly unrest. Few want to 06/05/2024 08:28am • NICE, France (AP) — Days after France lifted emergency measures in New Caledonia to quell the worst unrest in decades in its Pacific territory, it is hurrying to ensure that residents of the troubled archipelago can vote in the upcoming European elections. But many, especially among the Indigenous Montana US Sen. Jon Tester to face GOP newcomer Tim Sheehy in election key to Senate control 06/05/2024 08:26am • HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Three-term incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester and Republican newcomer Tim Sheehy cruised to victory in Montana’s primary election Tuesday, setting up a contentious November election that could tip the balance of power in the closely divided U.S. Senate. Sheehy is a former Biden rolls out asylum restrictions, months in the making, to help 'gain control' of the border 06/05/2024 08:13am • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled plans to enact immediate significant restrictions on migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border as the White House tries to neutralize immigration as a political liability ahead of the November elections. The long-anticipated preside A Russian cyber gang is thought to be behind a ransomware attack that hit London hospitals 06/05/2024 07:31am • LONDON (AP) — A Russian cyber gang is believed to be behind a ransomware attack that disrupted London hospitals and led to operations and appointments being canceled, the former head of British cybersecurity said Wednesday. A group known as Qilin is most likely behind the attack on Synnovis, which How internet addiction may affect your teen’s brain, according to a new study 06/05/2024 04:57am • (CNN) — Teens who spend lots of time on social media have complained of feeling like they can’t pay attention to more important things like homework or time with loved ones. A new study has possibly captured that objectively, finding that for teens diagnosed with internet addiction, signaling Canines on Capitol Hill push legislation to help working dogs 06/05/2024 04:34am • For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller at Today on the Hill. A four-legged military veteran and other tail-wagging everyday heroes came to Capitol Hill this week to highlight the important role that dogs play in the armed services After crackdown on Hong Kong, overseas communities carry the torch to keep Tiananmen memories alive 06/05/2024 01:10am • HONG KONG (AP) — As the 35th anniversary of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown neared, Rowena He, a prominent scholar of that bloody chapter of modern China's history, was busy flying between the United States, Britain and Canada to give a series of talks. Each was aimed at speaking out for th Asylum-seekers looking for shelter set up encampment in Seattle suburb 06/04/2024 10:58pm • BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Asylum-seekers who have been looking for shelter in Washington state, mainly from Angola, Congo and Venezuela, have set up an encampment in a Seattle suburb. The asylum-seekers moved to the site next to an empty motel south of Seattle in Kent, on Saturday, The Seattle Tim Washington parental rights law criticized as a 'forced outing' measure is allowed to take effect 06/04/2024 08:15pm • SEATTLE (AP) — A new Washington state parental rights law derided by critics as a “forced outing” measure will be allowed to take effect this week after a court commissioner on Tuesday declined to issue an emergency order temporarily blocking it. The civil liberties groups, school district, yo 6 Elon Musk Investments That Are Good Bets Today 06/04/2024 08:00pm • Entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk has a unique, self-disciplined mindset about money. In short, he claims he doesn't want to dig into investors' cash unless he sets the table first. "I always invest my own money in the companies that I create," Musk has been quoted as saying. "I don't believe i 9 of the Best Bond ETFs to Buy Now 06/04/2024 08:00pm • Just like how stock investors can slice and dice their portfolios, bond investors can too. Examples of the former may include investors who prefer value stocks, dividend stocks, small-cap stocks, growth stocks, international stocks or a particular sector like technology. Similarly, a bond investor f AT&T resolves outage that left some customers without service across the US 06/04/2024 05:02pm • (CNN) — AT&T says it has resolved an outage that left some customers in the dark on Tuesday.Earlier, the company said a problem prevented many AT&T customers from completing calls between carriers.“The interoperability issue between carriers has been resolved,” an AT&T spokespe Police ID woman killed after stolen SUV crashes into DC building; suspect charged with murder, kidnapping, carjacking 06/04/2024 05:01pm • A woman is facing charges after police say she carjacked an SUV with a passenger inside from in front of a D.C. hospital and then crashed into a building Monday afternoon. The 55-year-old passenger, Leslie Marie Gaines, of Northeast D.C., died following the incident, police said. The suspect,