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Bessent will meet Chinese officials in Spain for trade and TikTok talks 09/12/2025 11:11am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will travel to Madrid this weekend for negotiations with his Chinese counterparts over tariffs and national security issues related to the ownership of social media platform TikTok. Bessent is slated to meet Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in College football traditions: 'Hawkeye Wave' bonds everyone in stadium with kids in adjacent hospital 09/12/2025 10:30am • When Iowa is playing at home and the first quarter comes to an end, the football game suddenly is out of sight and out of mind for a few minutes for everyone inside Kinnick Stadium and the kids watching from the nearby Stead Family Children���s Hospital in Iowa City. The 70,000 fans along with playe Here's how to help kids deal with current events ��� and the sometimes violent imagery they bring 09/12/2025 10:06am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� In hardly any time at all, the footage of the horrifying moment when a bullet hit conservative activist Charlie Kirk in the neck cascaded across the internet. Whether seeing it inadvertently or seeking it out, onlookers far from the crowd at a Utah college could be exposed to distu Israeli soldiers, and their mothers, increasingly reject calls to return to Gaza 09/12/2025 07:41am • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) ��� As Israel calls up tens of thousands of reservists for its invasion of Gaza City, a growing number of soldiers ��� and their mothers ��� are saying no. There are no official figures, but newly formed groups are broadcasting their refusal to serve despite the risk of impriso 'Turning tragedy into purpose���: Longtime DC-area basketball coach holds networking clinic to honor son killed in 2023 09/12/2025 05:25am • It's been over two years since Blake Bozeman was shot and killed in Northeast D.C. And, only recently has his father, longtime college basketball coach Todd Bozeman, been able to have more than just a brief conversation about it. "We miss Blake. We miss him every day," admitted Todd Bozeman. "We No TikTok, no Instagram: Chilean school blocks phones and students rediscover real-world connections 09/12/2025 01:08am • SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) ��� Volleyball, basketball, ping pong, dancing rehearsals or simple chats. Dozens of teens are rediscovering how to reconnect to the real world after a school in Santiago, Chile, implemented a pioneering program in the country that blocks cell phones signals. Now, instead of com Fans bid farewell to beloved California octopus Ghost as she cares for eggs in final stage of life 09/12/2025 12:10am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� A dying octopus in a Southern California aquarium is receiving an outflowing of love and well wishes as she spends her final days pouring her last energy into caring for her eggs ��� even though they will never hatch. Many on social media have reminisced about seeing the giant P A US Orthodox influencer spoke against Russia's war. Then she was ousted as a nun 09/11/2025 11:09pm • Before 2022, Sister Vassa Larin was best known as an Orthodox nun who taught thousands on YouTube about saints and holy days. She became one of the most prominent female intellectuals in Orthodoxy ��� widely respected within the highly patriarchal religion where all clergy and bishops are male. Then How should you talk to your kids after seeing violent news online? 09/11/2025 09:52pm • News stories about violence ��� especially those that include graphic images of an event caught in real time, such as the shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk ��� may not be fully understood by children, but they are often more aware of current events than adults realize. From ne Judge temporarily blocks US effort to remove dozens of immigrant Guatemalan and Honduran children 09/11/2025 08:39pm • TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) ��� A federal judge in Arizona temporarily blocked the Trump administration from removing dozens of Guatemalan and Honduran children living in shelters or foster care after coming to the U.S. alone, according to a decision Thursday. U.S. District Judge Rosemary M��rquez in Tucson Authorities say student who had been radicalized fired revolver at Colorado school, wounding 2 09/11/2025 08:27pm • DENVER (AP) ��� A 16-year-old boy who had been radicalized by an unspecified ���extremist network��� fired a revolver multiple times during an attack at a suburban Denver high school that wounded two students, authorities said Thursday. Some students ran and others locked down during Wednesday���s s Oklahoma school bus carrying softball team crashes and injures 7 people 09/11/2025 07:35pm • MINCO, Okla. (AP) ��� A school bus carrying softball team members in Oklahoma crashed into a deer and overturned, ejecting some passengers and injuring seven people, the state highway patrol said. The crash happened Monday night on State Highway 152 near Minco in Grady County, about 40 miles (64 kil Arlington testing pilot program to get kids excited about reading 09/11/2025 05:55pm • Arlington Public Schools is searching for volunteers to read to elementary-aged kids for an hour each week, as part of a push to improve literacy skills and get kids excited about reading. The pilot program, called "Readers Rise: Empowering Young Minds Through Reading," is scheduled to start in m FTC launces inquiry into AI chatbots acting as companions and their effects on children 09/11/2025 05:22pm • The Federal Trade Commission has launched an inquiry into several social media and artificial intelligence companies about the potential harms to children and teenagers who use their AI chatbots as companions. The FTC said Thursday it has sent letters to Google parent Alphabet, Facebook and Instagra Disputed charter school funding measure gets a pivotal hearing before the Kentucky Supreme Court 09/11/2025 04:52pm • School choice resurfaced Thursday as a hotly debated issue in Kentucky, where the state's highest court heard arguments in a bitter dispute over the constitutionality of a measure to publicly fund charter schools. The measure, known as House Bill 9, was enacted by the state's GOP-dominated legislatu