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After pandemic child care shortage, Loudoun Co. seeks input from parents, providers 02/23/2024 08:46am • After the COVID pandemic sparked a national and local child care crisis, Loudoun County, Virginia is trying to make sure parents can find affordable, high-quality care. The county has launched its first Child Care Needs Assessment Survey, which will be open through March 14. In addition, focus gr France honors foreign Resistance fighters as WWII hero Manouchian is inducted into the Panth��on 02/23/2024 07:56am • PARIS (AP) ��� When France hosts grandiose ceremonies commemorating D-Day, the heroic role of Missak Manouchian and other foreigners among French Resistance fighters in World War II is often overlooked. French President Emmanuel Macron sought to change that Wednesday by inducting Manouchian into the After losing his son to suicide, a Maryland father turns his grief into something good 02/23/2024 07:00am • This is part of WTOP���s continuing coverage of people making a difference from our community authored by Stephanie Gaines-Bryant.��Read more of that coverage. The night before Brandon DeAundrea Britton took his own life, his father Anthony Britton says his son asked him, "Dad, do you think I'm b Rebel Just for Kicks: Portugal. The Man rocks The Anthem, 'one of the raddest venues in the country' 02/23/2024 04:21am • Do you consider yourself a rebel just for kicks? Did you ever feel that way? Or do you feel it still? The Grammy-winning band Portugal. The Man performs live at The Anthem in D.C. on Saturday night. "It's kind of one of the raddest venues in the country, honestly," founder and frontman John Go Relatives of hostages in Gaza endure a nightmare, but dream their loved ones will be freed 02/23/2024 12:18am • KIBBUTZ BE'ERI, Israel (AP) ��� Gillian and Pete Brisley are picking up the pieces of their shattered lives. They are cleaning up the house where their daughter and granddaughters were killed by Hamas on Oct. 7 in hopes that their son-in-law ��� believed to be held captive in Gaza ��� may have somet Stock market today: Asian stocks are mixed after Nvidia sets off a rally on Wall Street 02/22/2024 11:15pm • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Asian markets were mixed on Friday after Nvidia delivered stunning results, setting off a rally in other technology companies that carried Wall Street to another record high. Tokyo���s markets were closed for a holiday, a day after they surged to an all-time high. U.S. futures r More Alabama IVF providers pause treatment after court ruling on frozen embryos 02/22/2024 10:45pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ��� Additional in vitro fertilization providers in Alabama paused services Thursday, sending patients scrambling to make other plans in the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling that said frozen embryos could be considered children under state law. Doctors and patients have bee HIV/AIDS activist Hydeia Broadbent, known for her inspirational talks as a young child, dies at 39 02/22/2024 09:00pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� Hydeia Broadbent, the HIV/AIDS activist who came to national prominence in the 1990s as a young child for her inspirational talks to reduce the stigma surrounding the virus she was born with, has died. She was 39. Broadbent's father announced on Facebook that she had died ���afte Atlanta is the only place in US to see pandas for now. But dozens of spots abroad have them 02/22/2024 08:50pm • SAN DIEGO (AP) ��� It will still be months before the San Diego Zoo gets new pandas, the first such bears sent to the United States by China in decades. For now, the only U.S. zoo left with any is in Atlanta. But globally there are many places to check out the cuddly black-and-white bundles of fur a Georgia bill aims to protect religious liberty. Opponents say it's a license to discriminate 02/22/2024 08:11pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Georgia lawmakers are revisiting a nearly decade-old fight over whether the state needs to protect religious rights from being trampled by state and local governments in a measure opponents say would provide a legal shield for people and groups to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people What's next after the Alabama ruling that counts IVF embryos as children? 02/22/2024 07:01pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ��� The Alabama Supreme Court ruled last week that couples who were trying in vitro fertilization and lost frozen embryos in an accident at a south Alabama storage facility can sue under the state���s wrongful death law. Since then, three providers have paused the often-used fe Black Investors Rise in Market Participation, But Hurdles Remain 02/22/2024 07:00pm • People of color in the U.S. are becoming investors at a faster rate than white people, and are much younger when they decide to enter the stock market, according to a new report from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's (FINRA) Investor Education Foundation. The findings were based on an an Georgia board upholds firing of teacher for reading a book about gender identity to students 02/22/2024 06:44pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� The firing of a Georgia teacher who read a book on gender fluidity to her fifth grade class was upheld Thursday by the Georgia Board of Education. Katie Rinderle had been a teacher for 10 years when she got into trouble in March for reading the picture book ���My Shadow Is Purple��� A Michigan toddler's shooting highlights new gun storage law and other states' strategies 02/22/2024 06:34pm • A Michigan man is the first person to face charges under the state's new law requiring gun owners to keep weapons in locked storage containers around minors. The case is bringing attention to similar state laws across the U.S. and prosecutors' determination of when to bring criminal charges using t Montgomery Co. virtual classes narrowly missed the chopping block 02/22/2024 06:17pm • When the Montgomery County Board of Education hammered out the details of a new budget plan, it took�� a closer look at whether virtual classes should be cut. The "Montgomery Virtual Academy" is a virtual learning program that largely came about due to the pandemic, with parents and teachers conc