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As Kate announces her treatment for cancer, a look at recent events that have fueled rumors 03/22/2024 02:43pm • LONDON (AP) ��� On Friday, Kate, the Princess of Wales, said she is undergoing chemotherapy for cancer ��� an announcement that comes amid what hasn't been a good year for Britain's royals so far. First came the ���royal health shock��� headlines when palace officials announced that King Charles II DC approves financial literacy standards to help prep kids for life after high school 03/22/2024 12:20pm • D.C.'s school board this week approved financial literacy standards, paving the way for some students to learn about taxes, credit and investing to help prepare them for life after high school. The D.C. State Board of Education approved the standards unanimously. The final standards were put toge Haji Wright scores twice in extra time, US beats Jamaica 3-1 to reach CONCACAF Nations League final 03/22/2024 12:07pm • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ��� Haji Wright was at an airport in England last weekend about to leave for Dubai during the international break when his phone rang. U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter asked him to replace injured Josh Sargent on the American roster. ���My whole family���s here. My agent���s already UN agencies fear about 70 missing or dead from capsized Rohingya��refugee��boat 03/22/2024 11:53am • MEULABOH, Indonesia (AP) ��� About 70 Muslim Rohingya refugees are feared missing or dead from a boat that made a grueling sea voyage from Bangladesh and sank off Indonesia���s coast this week with 75 survivors, U.N. agencies said. A statement issued jointly by U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Viewpoint: Child care challenges don't just impact children and parents. They hurt businesses and taxpayers, too. 03/22/2024 11:45am • At the D.C. Chamber of Commerce, we hear many anecdotes about the challenges D.C. parents face in finding reliable, affordable child care that enables them to work. Our staff meetings and neighborhood listservs are regularly filled with sentiments such as "I'm due next month and can't find child car Japanese emperor and empress visit towns hit by Jan. 1 quake and console thousands of homeless 03/22/2024 09:31am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Friday visited towns in the north-central region of Noto to pray for victims of the deadly New Year's Day earthquake and console thousands of homeless living in evacuation centers. The magnitude 7.6 quake killed 241 people. Four are still In one Ukrainian city, ballet in a bomb shelter is an escape from the horrors of war 03/22/2024 07:15am • KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� In a dance studio that doubles as a bomb shelter in northeast Ukraine, the little girls in pink tutus prance in like gusts of air. Timed to classical music, the 9-year olds jump and glide. Occasionally, they misbehave, prompting a curt rebuke from Marina Altukhova, their in Movie Review: A remake of 'Road House' with Jake Gyllenhaal turns into a muscular, Florida romp 03/21/2024 11:12pm • Elwood P. Dalton is a classy sort of bouncer. While five tough guys circle him outside a bar looking to bash his skull in, he has a question for them: ���Before we start, do you have insurance?��� And after savagely beating each up, he kindly drives them to the hospital. Dalton ��� played by a muscu Women and Credit: A Look at the History 03/21/2024 08:00pm • This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974, which protected women's right to access to credit. Before the law, women needed their husbands, fathers or brothers to co-sign for a loan or credit card. Gaining access to credit was critical for women to take ownershi Oregon's Couisnard drops 40 points on old school in 87-73 March Madness win over South Carolina 03/21/2024 07:52pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) ��� Jermaine Couisnard swears it wasn't personal and he wasn't seeking revenge against South Carolina. He got some anyway. Couisnard scored a career-high 40 points ��� the most for an Oregon player in NCAA Tournament history ��� and he haunted his former team while leading the Ducks Need to 'borrow' miles from your kid to get that free flight? A big airline will let you do that 03/21/2024 05:52pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Don't have enough airline miles for that free flight? United Airlines is now letting people pool and share their frequent-flyer points with family and friends, a feature currently offered by some smaller carriers. United said Thursday that a ���pool leader��� can pick up to four oth FAFSA delays prompt California lawmakers to extend deadline for student financial aid applications 03/21/2024 05:38pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� The California Legislature on Thursday voted to give prospective college students more time to apply for two of the state's largest financial aid programs after a glitch in the federal government's application system threatened to block up to 100,000 people from getting h Georgia lawmakers advance bills targeting immigrant-friendly policies 03/21/2024 05:01pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� The Georgia Senate on Thursday pushed through bills aimed at forcing local governments to help deport immigrants instead of sheltering them, part of a continuing political response to the killing of a nursing student on the University of Georgia campus allegedly by a Venezuelan man. Reddit, the self-anointed 'front page of the internet,' soars in Wall Street debut 03/21/2024 04:37pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Reddit's stock soared in its Wall Street debut as investors pushed the value of the company close to $9 billion seconds after it began trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Reddit, which priced its IPO at $34 a share, debuted Thursday afternoon at $47 a share. At the close of tra Prince Harry says tabloids intercepted phone calls of mother, the late Princess Diana, and father 03/21/2024 02:24pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Prince Harry alleged Thursday that the publisher of The Sun tabloid unlawfully intercepted phone calls of his late mother, Princess Diana, and father, now King Charles III, as he sought to expand his privacy invasion lawsuit against News Group Newspapers. The Duke of Sussex is seekin