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Number of Americans applying for jobless claims remains historically low 05/02/2024 12:21pm • The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits was unchanged last week and remains historically low as the labor market continues to show resiliency in the face of high interest rates and elevated inflation. The Labor Department reported Thursday that unemployment claims for the week end 'There are children out there in need': Nationwide drop in willing foster parents hits DC area 05/02/2024 09:39am • There���s a foster care crisis brewing nationwide and advocates say it's hitting Virginia particularly hard. The number of people willing to be foster parents is down significantly in both the Commonwealth and across the U.S. Shaneen Alvarez, regional director of the nonprofit United Methodist Fa DC chefs changing perceptions of Vietnamese cuisine and winning awards while doing it 05/02/2024 05:30am • All throughout May, WTOP is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with stories about the people and places shaping the D.C. region. For decades, Vietnamese food could be described in many ways, but words such as fancy or high-end were rarely used. But two award-winning Georgian lawmakers move closer to passing 'Russian law' targeting the media. Protesters gather again 05/02/2024 03:23am • TBILISI, Georgia (AP) ��� Georgia���s Parliament moved a step closer Wednesday to passing a law that critics fear will stifle media freedom and endanger the country���s European Union membership bid, as police used water cannons, tear gas and pepper spray against the tens of thousands of protesters Judge denies bail to teen charged with terror-related offenses after stabbings at Sydney church 05/02/2024 02:45am • SYDNEY (AP) ��� A judge denied bail Thursday to a 15-year-old boy alleged to be in a network planning terrorist acts and who claimed to be a friend of another teen accused of stabbing a Sydney bishop last month. The attack on the bishop triggered an investigation that led to the arrests of six teens Serbia prepares to mark school shooting anniversary. A mother says 'everyone rushed to forget' 05/02/2024 02:21am • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) ��� Ninela Radicevic still can't comprehend that her daughter is never coming back. The 11-year-old Ana Bozovic had just arrived to her school in central Belgrade last year when another pupil, 13 at the time, came in and opened fire at anyone standing in his way. Bozovic, two Police killed student outside Wisconsin school after reports of someone with a weapon, official says 05/01/2024 11:16pm • MOUNT HOREB, Wis. (AP) ��� Police shot and killed a student outside a Wisconsin middle school Wednesday after receiving a report of someone with a weapon, the state's attorney general said in the first law enforcement briefing on gunshots that sent children fleeing and prompted an hourslong lockdown Ex-Nickelodeon producer Schneider sues 'Quiet on Set' makers for defamation, sex abuse implications 05/01/2024 10:56pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Former Nickelodeon producer and writer Dan Schneider sued the makers of ���Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV��� on Wednesday, alleging the makers of the documentary series wrongly implied that he sexually abused the child actors he worked with. Schneider filed the defama How Medical Schools Are Improving Access for Underrepresented Minorities 05/01/2024 08:00pm • As the U.S. faces a growing doctor shortage, medical schools are struggling to meet the shortfall. They're also struggling to matriculate student bodies that reflect the nation's racial diversity -- so while the shortage of doctors is grave, it's even worse with underrepresented minorities. Accordin Florida's 6-week abortion ban takes effect as doctors worry women will lose access to health care 05/01/2024 07:47pm • BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) ��� Florida's ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, before many women even know they are pregnant, went into effect Wednesday, and some doctors are concerned that women in the state will no longer have access to needed health care. The start of the new ban also br A year after tragedy and Kentucky Derby banishment, trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. is back with Catalytic 05/01/2024 06:43pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� Saffie Joseph Jr. embraces this year���s hectic preparation for the milestone 150th Kentucky Derby a little more than usual because he didn���t know if such a moment would happen again after last spring���s tragic events here. Losing two horses after racing just days apar A list of mass killings in the United States this year 05/01/2024 06:26pm • The latest mass killing in the U.S. happened Monday, April 29, in Charlotte, North Carolina, where four officers were fatally shot in the deadliest attack on U.S. law enforcement since 2016. The officers were killed when a task force made up of officers from different agencies arrived in the reside South Carolina Senate takes up ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors 05/01/2024 05:16pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ��� South Carolina's Senate is debating a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors with just days left in a 2024 session where they have largely avoided social hot-button issues. The bill, passed by the state House in January during the General Assembly's opening days, Ethan Hawke and Maya Hawke have a running joke about ���Wildcat,��� their Flannery O���Connor movie 05/01/2024 04:45pm • Ethan Hawke and his daughter Maya Hawke have a running joke about their Flannery O���Connor movie. ���Wildcat,��� which Ethan directed and Maya stars in as O���Connor, was made with complete sincerity. It���s a deeply creative investigation into the Southern Catholic novelist and short story writer Paul Auster, prolific and experimental man of letters and filmmaker, dies at 77 05/01/2024 04:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Paul Auster, a prolific, prize-winning man of letters and filmmaker known for such inventive narratives and meta-narratives as ���The New York Trilogy��� and ���4 3 2 1,��� has died at age 77. Auster's death was confirmed by his wife and fellow author, Siri Hustvedt, who said that