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College Students and Natural Disasters: What to Know and Do 10/14/2024 08:00pm • Natural disasters can cause devastation and major disruptions for cities, and that sometimes includes college campuses. Hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes and other natural disasters can displace college students from residence halls, force class cancelations and render university services inaccessibl Fairfax Co. police release body camera footage of shooting that left woman dead 10/14/2024 05:54pm • Fairfax County police have released body camera footage of a shooting in Reston, Virginia, last month that left a woman dead after she apparently slashed an officer in the face with a knife. On the morning of Sept. 16, the officer reported to the woman's apartment complex on Sunrise Valley Drive Trump's protests aside, his agenda has plenty of overlap with Project 2025 10/14/2024 12:19am • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Donald Trump insists that Project 2025, a nearly 1,000-page blueprint for a hard-right turn in American government and society, does not reflect his priorities for a White House encore. ���I haven���t read it. I don���t want to read it ��� purposefully,��� the Republican presidentia Obama���s callout to Black men touches a nerve among Democrats. Is election-year misogyny at play? 10/12/2024 06:21pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Barack Obama had frank words for Black men who may be considering sitting out the election. ���Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren���t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you���re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that,��� h Marital rape is still not outlawed in India. Changing that would be ���excessively harsh,��� government argues 10/12/2024 08:00am • New Delhi (CNN) ��� Criminalizing marital rape would be ���excessively harsh,��� the Indian government has said, in a blow to campaigners ahead of a long-awaited Supreme Court decision that will affect hundreds of millions of people in India for generations. In India, it is not considered rape if Montgomery Co. loses hundreds of thousands of dollars in 'lax administration' of short term rentals, IG report finds 10/12/2024 07:41am • More than three quarters of short-term residential rentals being offered in Montgomery County, Maryland, are unregistered, according to a report from the county���s Office of the Inspector General. The findings in the latest report from Inspector General Megan Davey Limarzi show that more than 85 Middle East latest: UN mission in Lebanon is hit again by explosions 10/11/2024 10:43pm • The United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon said new explosions hit its headquarters Friday, injuring two peacekeepers a day after Israeli forces targeted the same position and struck central Beirut. Earlier Friday, cross-border fire from Lebanon killed a man from Thailand who was wor The UN says that aid entering Gaza is at its lowest level in months 10/11/2024 04:29pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� U.N. humanitarian officials say aid entering Gaza is at its lowest level in months and warn that critical lifelines in the territory's north, where Israel has renewed its military offensive, have been cut off. U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq delivered the grim news Friday, s Nobel Peace Prize given to Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo for its work against nuclear weapons 10/11/2024 02:31pm • The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons. J��rgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said the award was made as the ���taboo aga Harris viewed more positively by Hispanic women than by Hispanic men: AP-NORC poll 10/11/2024 02:03pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A solid majority of Hispanic women have a positive opinion of Vice President Kamala Harris and a negative view of former President Donald Trump, but Hispanic men are more divided on both candidates, according to a recent poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affai Obama urges Black men to show up for Harris as he campaigns in critical Pennsylvania 10/11/2024 10:28am • PITTSBURGH (AP) ��� Former President Barack Obama gave a blistering critique of his White House successor Donald Trump and urged Black men to show up for Kamala Harris as he opened a swing-state tour for the Democratic ticket. At a campaign field office to thank volunteers, Obama said Thursday he wa Harris rips Trump for his criticism of federal storm response and calls for 'dignity' 10/10/2024 11:34pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� Vice President Kamala Harris and the White House criticized Donald Trump for his attacks on the federal response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton and suggested he was wrongly trying to turn the deadly storms to his political advantage. Attending a town hall sponsored by Univision Pink Tax: What Does Price Discrimination Cost Women? 10/10/2024 08:00pm • The pink tax refers to gender-based price discrimination. Originally used to describe the sales taxes women pay for feminine hygiene products, the term has expanded. Now it refers to the practice of charging women more than men for consumer items and services that are essentially the same -- althoug No. 9 Ole Miss and No. 13 LSU matchup headlined by accomplished coaches and prolific QBs 10/10/2024 01:36pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) ��� LSU coach Brian Kelly seems more amused than anything by Mississippi counterpart Lane Kiffin's penchant for mocking and trolling opponents. At least, Kelly didn't sound offended while offering his impressions of Kiffin as a communicator in advance of Saturday night's high-s Middle East latest: Dozens killed as Israeli troops pound central and northern Gaza 10/10/2024 12:46am • Israel���s bombardment of central and northern Gaza has killed dozens of people and trapped thousands in their homes, Palestinian officials said Wednesday, as the death toll in the yearlong war passed 42,000. Gaza���s Health Ministry said it recovered 40 bodies from Jabaliya from Sunday until Tuesda