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House passes a bill that could lead to a TikTok ban if Chinese owner refuses to sell 03/13/2024 07:56pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The House on Wednesday passed a bill that would lead to a nationwide ban of the popular video app TikTok if its China-based owner doesn't sell its stake, as lawmakers acted on concerns that the company's current ownership structure is a national security threat. The bill, passed Evangelical Christians are fierce Israel supporters. Now they are visiting as war-time volunteers 03/13/2024 05:47pm • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) ��� When Shawn Landis, an evangelical Christian from Pennsylvania, heard about the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel, he knew he would come to Israel to volunteer as soon as it was safe. Five months later, he was chopping vegetables in a Tel Aviv kitchen, preparing meals f Former Missouri child brides call for outlawing marriages of minors 03/13/2024 05:34pm • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� Adult women who left marriages they entered as children on Wednesday called on Missouri lawmakers to outlaw child marriage, a practice currently legal in most states. Missouri lawmakers in 2018 prohibited marriages of children 15 and younger, only allowing 16- and 17-yea Prosecutor urges jury to convict Michigan school shooter's dad, says he could have prevented tragedy 03/13/2024 05:10pm • PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) ��� A prosecutor urged jurors to convict the father of a Michigan school shooter on Wednesday, saying he ignored the "easiest, most glaring opportunities" to prevent the killing of four students, especially when confronted with his son's violent classroom drawing. Instead of taki Georgia House speaker aims to persuade resistant Republicans in voucher push 03/13/2024 05:02pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns is leaning into the push to pass a voucher plan funding private school tuition and home schooling, looking to change the minds of fellow Republican skeptics. Burns made what he said was his first-ever appearance at a House Education Committee meeting Former UFC champion Mark Coleman in the hospital after saving his parents from a house fire in Ohio 03/13/2024 12:55pm • TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) ��� UFC Hall of Famer and former champion Mark Coleman was airlifted to a hospital and was ���battling for his life��� after saving his parents from a house fire in Ohio this week, his daughter said on Instagram. Morgan Coleman posted that her father went into the burning house sev A family is shaken in Peacock's 'Apples Never Fall,' starring Annette Bening 03/13/2024 12:28pm • There's a scene in the new Peacock drama ��� Apples Never Fall ��� in which Annette Bening 's character weeps after having too much to drink at a family party. ���Nobody can break your heart like your own children," she laments. Bening, a mother of four with husband Warren Beatty, understands someth US lawmakers say TikTok won't be banned if it finds a new owner. But that's easier said than done 03/13/2024 11:24am • U.S. lawmakers are threatening to ban TikTok but also say they are giving its Chinese parent company a chance to keep it running. The premise of a bipartisan bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday is that TikTok fans in the U.S. can keep scrolling through their favorite socia Sylvester Stallone, Martha Stewart, Elon Musk to receive RBG Awards next month in DC 03/13/2024 09:00am • EDITOR���S NOTE: This event is not affiliated with the Library of Congress. It is being held there as a private event. This story has been corrected and updated.�� We now know the newest recipients of the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Awards, which will be presented by the Dwight D. Oppe After 5 principals in 12 years, parents at this Fairfax Co. school want to be included in the hiring process 03/13/2024 05:11am • Some Fairfax County parents and teachers are urging Virginia's largest school district to include more of their voices in its search for the next principal of Justice High School. Tiffany Narcisse, the current principal of the Falls Church school, is leaving for an opportunity abroad at the end o The Latest | Ship with food aid leaves for war-torn Gaza; Israel says 100 rockets fired from Lebanon 03/13/2024 12:58am • A ship carrying 200 tons of food was on its way Tuesday to the war-devastated Gaza Strip from the island of Cyprus to test-run opening a sea corridor to the besieged Palestinian territory, where hundreds of thousands of people are on the brink of starvation. The Israeli military said six aid trucks Texas parental consent law for teen contraception doesn't run afoul of federal program, court says 03/12/2024 07:14pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� Texas law requiring that minors have parental permission to get birth control does not run afoul of a federally funded pregnancy health program known as Title X, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. President Joe Biden's administration had argued that Title X preempts the Tex Active-shooter-drill bill in California would require advance notice, ban fake gunfire 03/12/2024 05:51pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� Fake gunfire would be banned from active-shooter drills in California's public schools under legislation proposed Tuesday that would also require schools to notify students, teachers and parents ahead of time whenever a drill was planned. The measure was introduced by De As TikTok bill steams forward, online influencers put on their lobbying hats to visit Washington 03/12/2024 04:59pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Lawmakers, meet your latest lobbyists: online influencers from TikTok. The platform is once again bringing influencers to Washington, this time to lobby members of Congress to reject a fast-moving bill that would force TikTok's Beijing-based parent company to sell or be banned What to know about a settlement that clarifies what's legal under Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' law 03/12/2024 03:25pm • The Florida law labeled by critics as ��� Don't Say Gay ��� is remaining in place under a settlement reached this week between the state and parents, students, teachers and advocacy groups who challenged it in court. But the fallout that gave it that nickname is nixed under the deal. Florida's 2022