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$39 million fight over school funding continues in Prince George's County 02/17/2024 11:20am • A fight over what���s essentially $39 million in an already-tight Prince George���s County, Maryland, budget continues to play out in Annapolis, after members of the county���s House delegation put off a vote on two bills involving revenue streams that go into school funding. It���s the second ti Biden's rightward shift on immigration angers advocates. But it's resonating with many Democrats 02/17/2024 12:02am • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� In his 2020 campaign, Joe Biden vowed to undo former President Donald Trump ���s immigration policies, specifically expressing frustration with a policy setting limits on the number of asylum seekers accepted each day at the southern border. This year, Biden backed a Senate propos North Carolina removes children from a nature therapy program's care amid a probe of a boy's death 02/16/2024 07:04pm • LAKE TOXAWAY, N.C. (AP) ��� North Carolina health officials said Friday that they are removing all children from the care of a nature-based therapy program nearly two weeks after the death of a 12-year-old New York boy. The Department of Health and Human Services said in a news release that while it Gun rights are expansive in Missouri, where shooting at Chiefs' Super Bowl celebration took place 02/16/2024 06:21pm • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� The shooting that killed one person and wounded nearly two dozen more during the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory celebration occurred in a state with few gun regulations and historic tension over how major cities handle crime. The shooting, which Kansas City poli Sheriff says Tennessee man tried to enroll at Michigan school to meet minor 02/16/2024 05:21pm • SCOTTVILLE, Mich. (AP) ��� A 21-year-old Tennessee man traveled to Michigan and tried to enroll at a high school after meeting a minor online, authorities said. A suspicious staff member at Mason County Central alerted a sheriff's deputy who interviewed the young man Tuesday and learned that he wasn Man who told estranged wife 'If I can't have them neither can you' gets life for killing their kids 02/16/2024 03:55pm • WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) ��� A suburban Chicago man who told his estranged wife in a note after he drowned their three young children "If I can���t have them neither can you��� was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The Lake County judge sentenced Jason Karels, of Round Tech companies sign accord to combat AI-generated election trickery 02/16/2024 02:36pm • Major technology companies signed a pact Friday to voluntarily adopt ���reasonable precautions��� to prevent artificial intelligence tools from being used to disrupt democratic elections around the world. Executives from Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and TikTok gathered at the Nikki Haley's request for Secret Service protection one step away from final approval 02/16/2024 01:41pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ��� A group of top congressional leaders has recommended that Republican candidate Nikki Haley receive protection from the U.S. Secret Service after she reported a growing number of threats during her presidential campaign, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Pr The Census Bureau is considering how to ask about gender identity. People have their opinions 02/16/2024 12:51pm • The U.S. Census Bureau is thinking about how to ask about sex. People have opinions. Dozens of health officials, civil rights groups, individuals and businesses have weighed in about how the statistical agency should ask about sexual orientation and gender identity for the first time on its most com Ford awaiting Red Bull investigation into Horner but stresses high moral values company holds 02/16/2024 12:50pm • DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) ��� Red Bull future engine supplier Ford Motor Co. said Friday it is awaiting the results of an investigation into alleged inappropriate behavior by team principal Christian Horner, but a top executive stressed that Ford holds its company and partners to very high moral stan A small business in war-time Gaza sews padded cloth diapers, creating jobs and helping weary parents 02/16/2024 11:42am • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� Their scissors move quickly, shearing pieces of white cloth to be stitched together with cotton pads and taken to market in battered cardboard boxes. Before the day is done, the Palestinian seamstresses will have sewn 500 diapers and distributed them to war-weary parents Americans divided on TikTok ban even as Biden campaign joins the app, AP-NORC poll shows 02/16/2024 11:33am • President Joe Biden���s campaign is embracing TikTok to court younger voters ahead of the presidential elections, but U.S. adults have mixed views about whether the video-sharing app should even operate in the country. A new poll by The Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research f Lawsuits ask courts to overturn Virginia's new policies on the treatment of transgender students 02/16/2024 05:55am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� The ACLU of Virginia filed two lawsuits against the state Department of Education on Thursday, asking the courts to throw out Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin���s policies on the treatment of transgender students and rule that school districts are not required to follow them. Greece becomes first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex civil marriage 02/15/2024 10:32pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� Greece on Thursday became the first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex civil marriage, despite opposition from the influential, socially conservative Greek Church. A cross-party majority of 176 lawmakers in the 300-seat parliament voted late Thursday in favor of Utah governor approves censure of school board member who questioned a student's gender 02/15/2024 07:45pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ��� Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on Thursday signed legislation censuring a conservative member of the state Board of Education whose social media post questioning the gender of a high school basketball player triggered threats against the girl and led state officials to call for the bo