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LGBTQ+ advocacy group sues Texas AG, says it won't identify transgender families 02/29/2024 03:51pm • A national LGBTQ+ advocacy group is suing the Texas Attorney General's office rather than hand over information about its support of transgender children receiving gender-confirming medical care. According to the lawsuit filed Wednesday in Texas court, PFLAG National says Republican Attorney Genera Practice in Bahrain starts marathon F1 year after a dramatic offseason 02/29/2024 03:23pm • SAKHIR, Bahrain (AP) ��� After the most dramatic offseason in recent Formula 1 history comes its longest ever season. The season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix will be the first of 24 race weekends. Champion Max Verstappen ��� sixth in the first practice Thursday ��� is among several drivers raising con US applications for jobless benefits rise but remain historically low despite recent layoffs 02/29/2024 12:57pm • More Americans applied for jobless benefits last week, but layoffs remain historically low even as more high-profile companies have announced job cuts this year. Applications for unemployment benefits rose by 13,000 to 215,000 for the week ending Feb. 24, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Last The jobs market is hot, but layoffs keep coming in a shifting economic environment 02/29/2024 12:44pm • The U.S. economy is humming and there are hundreds of thousands of jobs being added every month. In a stunning burst of hiring to start the year, the nation added 353,000 jobs in January, shrugging off the highest interest rates in two decades that have been put in place by the U.S. Federal Reserve DC Housing Authority police officer shot in Navy Yard 02/29/2024 10:41am • Two people have been arrested after a D.C. Housing Authority police officer was shot in the Navy Yard area of Southeast D.C. Thursday morning. D.C. Housing Authority police chief Michael Reese said during a news conference that police responded just before 6 a.m. to reports of "unwanted guests" a Sally Rooney has a new novel, 'Intermezzo,' coming out in the fall 02/29/2024 08:58am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Sally Rooney will have a new novel out this fall, ���Intermezzo,��� a story of love, family and grief centered around two brothers. Farrar, Straus and Giroux announced Thursday that the novel, the Irish author's fourth, will be published Sept. 24. "Since I began work on this novel Israel-Hamas war brings back pain to Argentine Jewish community decades after major bombing attack 02/29/2024 08:24am • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ��� On Oct. 7, when Hamas militants attacked numerous targets in Israel, killing hundreds and abducting others, Marina Degtiar felt she had traveled back in time, to July 18, 1994. What happened in Buenos Aires 30 years ago broke her apart. A bomb-laden van exploded insi Stock market today: Asian shares are mixed after Wall Street slips lower and bitcoin bounces higher 02/28/2024 10:22pm • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Shares were mixed in Asia on Thursday after a lackluster day on Wall Street, where selling of technology stocks pulled benchmarks lower. U.S. futures were flat and oil prices fell. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index fell 0.7% to 38,953.49 after data showed factory output falling in January Norway's King Harald, Europe's oldest monarch, in hospital in Malaysia after falling ill on vacation 02/28/2024 07:57pm • LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) ��� King Harald V of Norway remained hospitalized with an infection on Malaysia's northern resort island of Langkawi on Wednesday as officials said that his condition was improving. Harald, Europe's oldest monarch at age 87, became ill while he was on vacation. His son, Crown School voucher ideas expose deep GOP divisions in Tennessee Legislature 02/28/2024 06:38pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� With a supermajority grip over the Tennessee Statehouse, there are very few things Republicans can't push through even with the harshest of criticism and public opposition. Yet, after weeks of working behind closed doors on a sweeping school voucher plan that would give cov Larry David, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Stiller pay tribute to comedian Richard Lewis after death at 76 02/28/2024 06:16pm • Fellow comedians, famous fans, co-stars and friends react to the death of Richard Lewis, who died Wednesday at age 76. ���Richard and I were born three days apart in the same hospital and for most of my life he���s been like a brother to me. He had that rare combination of being the funniest person Republicans block Senate bill to protect nationwide access to IVF treatments 02/28/2024 06:14pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Senate Republicans have blocked legislation that would protect access to in vitro fertilization, objecting to a vote on the issue Wednesday even after widespread backlash to a recent ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that threatens the practice. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Mississ Humorously morose comedian Richard Lewis, who recently starred on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' dies at 76 02/28/2024 05:20pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Richard Lewis, an acclaimed comedian known for exploring his neuroses in frantic, stream-of-consciousness diatribes while dressed in all-black, leading to his nickname ���The Prince of Pain,��� has died. He was 76. Lewis, who revealed he had been diagnosed with Parkinson���s diseas West Virginia House OKs bill doctors say would eliminate care for most at-risk transgender youth 02/28/2024 04:45pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) ��� West Virginia's Republican-controlled House of Delegates passed a bill on Wednesday that doctors treating transgender youth in the state say would prevent the prescription of certain medical interventions like hormone therapy to patients at risk for self-harm or suicide. T DC mom takes matters into her own hands to keep kids crossing the street safe 02/28/2024 04:27pm • In the fall of 2022, Allison McGill started spending time along the streets near Tyler Elementary School in Southeast D.C. She's not a paid crossing guard, but she has a vest to make sure drivers can see her as she helps kids walking to school cross the street. She's been dedicating about 30 minu