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French police search for a 17-day-old baby abducted from maternity ward 10/22/2024 05:44am • PARIS (AP) ��� French authorities were hunting Tuesday for a 17-day-old prematurely born baby boy who was abducted from the maternity ward of a Paris-region hospital, with his parents identified as the chief suspects. Police issued an alert with appeals for information broadcast on radio, television Prince William Co. students say cellphone restrictions are helping them focus in class 10/22/2024 05:39am • During lunch at Unity Reed High School in Manassas, Virginia, senior Alaa Rashed often notices some of her friends calling their parents. Usually, they're coordinating with them or siblings to figure out who needs to be picked up and when. Another friend nearby, who has a job when the school day The Latest: Trump and Harris make final pushes in key battleground states 10/21/2024 11:41pm • With just over two weeks to go before the 2024 presidential election and the race in a dead heat, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are hitting the campaign trail in strategic battleground states. The Republican nominee made three North Carolina stops Monday, including a visit to see storm damage in As Court decisions in Michigan and North Carolina deny GOP challenges to overseas voters 10/21/2024 10:45pm • Courts in Michigan and North Carolina on Monday rejected attempts by Republicans to disqualify the ballots of certain overseas voters. Both cases targeted people who have never lived in the state but were born overseas to parents who were residents of the state. The Michigan case also targeted the s DC takes step to end child marriage, aiming to protect minors from trafficking 10/21/2024 08:40pm • In a significant move to protect minors and align with neighboring states, the D.C. Council held a legislative hearing Monday on the Child Marriage Prohibition Amendment Act of 2024. The proposed legislation, introduced by Ward 2 Council member Brooke Pinto, aims to address the alarming reality t Brazil environmental disaster victims take case against mining giant BHP to UK court 10/21/2024 08:36pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Victims of Brazil���s worst environmental disaster took their case for compensation to a UK court Monday, almost nine years after tons of toxic mining waste poured into a major waterway, killing 19 people and devastating local communities. The class action lawsuit at the High Court i Georgia county says it's suing company over chemical fire 10/21/2024 08:34pm • CONYERS, Ga. (AP) ��� A Georgia county is preparing a federal lawsuit that aims to shut down the BioLab chemical factory where a fire sent a toxic chemical cloud over Atlanta's suburbs last month, the latest in a series of hazardous incidents that have forced many to evacuate. ���We want them gone,� Judge hears arguments to block Louisiana's Ten Commandments displays in schools 10/21/2024 07:45pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) ��� A federal judge heard arguments at a hearing Monday on whether he should temporarily block a new Louisiana law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom by Jan. 1. Louisiana, a reliably Republican state in the Bible Belt, is the onl In Nevada, immigration is a nuanced issue. But the politics of it is painted in black and white 10/21/2024 07:25pm • BAKER, Nev. (AP) ��� Few things say America like Janille and Tom Baker's ranch, with its grazing cattle, scrub brush-dotted desert and snow-capped mountains. If only they could get American citizens to work on it. The ranch in remote eastern Nevada produces around 10,000 tons of hay annually, and Some Jewish voters in presidential swing states reconsider their longtime devotion to Democrats 10/21/2024 02:56pm • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ��� For Rona Kaufman, the signs are everywhere that more Jews feel abandoned by the Democratic Party and may vote for Republican Donald Trump. It's in her Facebook feed. It's in the discomfort she observed during a question-and-answer at a recent Democratic Party campaign event Husband-and-wife food bloggers show how two chefs can navigate the home kitchen and stay happy 10/21/2024 02:04pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Husband-and-wife food bloggers and podcasters Sonja and Alex Overhiser have a new cookbook that uses a simple step to keep the kitchen a less heated place for two chefs: clear, alternating roles. ���A Couple Cooks: 100 Recipes to Cook Together��� lays out ingredients and directions Book Review: 70-year-old psychiatrist takes to the road in Anna Montague's beguiling new novel 10/21/2024 01:43pm • Americans love road trips. Or at least American writers love them as metaphors of self-discovery. In Anna Montague���s beautiful, beguiling and slightly bonkers debut novel, ���How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?��� the main character does indeed jump into a car and head out on the highway to Book Review: Richard Chizmar tells a creepy occult tale in ���Memorials' 10/21/2024 11:50am • Richard Chizmar, who co-wrote parts of the ���Gwendy��� trilogy with Stephen King from 2017-2022 (���Gwendy���s Button Box��� and ���Gwendy���s Final Task���), has written his longest novel yet and readers should not be surprised that it reads, at least somewhat, like something from the mind of Step Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 27-Nov. 2 10/21/2024 11:00am • Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 27-Nov. 2 Oct. 27: Actor-comedian John Cleese is 85. Country singer Lee Greenwood is 82. Country singer-guitarist Jack Daniels (Highway 101) is 75. Bassist Garry Tallent of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band is 75. Author Fran Lebowitz is 74. Guitarist K BuyBuy Baby is closing all of its stores ��� again 10/21/2024 08:32am • New York (CNN) — BuyBuy Baby is once again saying goodbye to its stores less than a year after the bankrupt retailer tried to reopen some locations under a new parent.As part of a ���strategic reset,��� the retailer will shift to an online-only business model, and its 10 locations will close b