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The 20 Most Stressful Jobs 05/19/2024 08:00pm • Stressful jobs can be fulfilling because they make a difference -- in people's health, public safety or a company's bottom line. And high-stress jobs often come with high pay. Find out whether your job is among the most stressful careers, according to experts, and how it compares with other high-str The 10 Best Apps for Finding Your Next Apartment 05/19/2024 08:00pm • When you start looking for a new apartment, chances are you have a finite amount of time before you need to move. It can be challenging to find the right place to call your next home, and securing it before it gets snapped up by another renter makes the search even more pressing. In a competitive ma Kevin Pillar has a poetic moment, gets 1,000th career hit in Angels' win at Texas with parents there 05/19/2024 07:37pm • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ��� Kevin Pillar tucked a keepsake ball into his bag from his 1,000th career hit that meant even more to him than just putting the Los Angeles Angels ahead to stay in a series-clinching victory over the reigning World Series champions. While Pillar is a California native, his Family coach says changing kids' attitudes around chores is key 05/19/2024 06:23pm • Summer is fast approaching, and kids will be spending a lot more time at home. The end of the school year is a great time to have a conversation with kids about the work that goes into keeping homes flowing, family coach Lori Sugarman-Li told WTOP. "Having them around gives us the opportunity to Ohio voters approved reproductive rights. Will the state's near-ban on abortion stand? 05/19/2024 02:05am • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� A county judge could rule as early as Monday on Ohio's law banning virtually all abortions, a decision that will take into consideration the decision by voters to enshrine reproductive rights in the state constitution. The 2019 law under consideration by Hamilton County Comm Jaime Torres wins the Preakness with Seize the Grey 2 years after starting to ride horses 05/18/2024 08:38pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� Jaime Torres was watching horse racing on television in his native Puerto Rico in 2019 when he decided he wanted to be a jockey. Less than five years later and just two since he began riding, Torres won the Preakness Stakes on Saturday aboard Seize the Grey. To add even more to Prince George's Co. schools investigate teacher after students unbraid his hair, paint his nails in viral videos 05/18/2024 04:53pm • School officials in Prince George's County, Maryland, are investigating a teacher after viral TikTok videos showed students unbraiding his hair and painting his nails in the classroom. In a statement to WTOP, Prince George's County Public Schools said it has reassigned teacher Marquise White Even with school choice, some Black families find options lacking decades after Brown v. Board 05/18/2024 03:21pm • Since first grade, Julian Morris, 16, has changed schools six times, swinging between predominantly white and predominantly Black classrooms. None has met all his needs, his mother said. At predominantly white schools, he was challenged academically but felt less included. At predominately Black sc The stuff that Coppola���s dreams are made of: The director on building ���Megalopolis��� 05/18/2024 03:03pm • CANNES, France (AP) ��� Of the many quotations and slogans that flitter through Francis Ford Coppola���s idea-stuffed, open-hearted, unabashedly optimistic ���Megalopolis,��� one that particularly resonates with the director is: ���When we leap into the unknown, we prove that we���re free.��� ���Tha Dead or alive? Parents of children gone in Sri Lanka's civil war have spent 15 years seeking answers 05/18/2024 03:02pm • MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka (AP) ��� For 15 years, Rasalingam Thilakawathi has been trying to find out what happened to her daughter at the end of Sri Lanka���s bloody civil war. Or if she might still be alive. The last evidence she has is a photo from a newspaper that shows her daughter, who was 19, sitt Fewer bus routes and longer walks: Prince William school system making some transportation tweaks 05/18/2024 02:17pm • Prince William County Public Schools will be making several changes to transportation for the 2024-25 school year in hopes of improving on-time arrivals and bus routing. In response to challenges with student transportation, the school division contracted a third-party transportation consultant exp A man in Malaysia who killed 2 police officers acted on his own, a minister says 05/18/2024 05:15am • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) ��� The man who attacked a Malaysian police station and killed two officers was a recluse and is believed to have acted on his own despite suspected links to the Jemaah Islamiyah extremist group, the country's home minister said Saturday. The man stormed the police statio For decades, states have taken foster children's federal benefits. That's starting to change 05/18/2024 12:16am • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� By the time Jesse Fernandez turned 18, the federal government had paid out thousands of dollars in Social Security survivor's benefits because of the death of his mother. But Jesse's bank account was empty. The money had all been used by Missouri's foster care system or Youngkin vetoes bills on skill games, contraception and Confederate heritage tax breaks 05/17/2024 10:33pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin took action on a final batch of bills from the year's regular legislative session Friday, signing seven but vetoing 48, including closely watched measures that would have ended a tax break for a Confederate heritage organization and allowed small Getting into Valhalla during the PGA isn't easy on a good day. Then came a perfectly imperfect storm 05/17/2024 06:57pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� Will Zalatoris urged his parents Richard and Catherine to stay home this weekend and not follow him around at the PGA Championship. It's not worth the trouble, Zalatoris told them. The headaches involved in getting in and around Valhalla Golf Club were simply too great. And