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US applications for unemployment benefits fall again despite recent layoff announcements 02/08/2024 05:30pm • The number of Americans filing for jobless claims fell last week despite more layoff announcements from high-profile companies recently. Applications for unemployment benefits fell by 9,000 to 218,000 for the week ending Feb. 3, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The four-week average of claims A criminal actor is to blame for a dayslong cyberattack on a Chicago hospital, officials say 02/08/2024 05:27pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� A large children's hospital in Chicago remains hobbled by a cyberattack that began more than a week ago, cutting doctors and nurses off from digital patient records and limiting parents' ability to communicate with their kids' caregivers. Officials at Lurie Children's Hospital said Google rebrands its AI services as Gemini, launches new app and subscription service 02/08/2024 01:10pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Google on Thursday introduced a free artificial intelligence app that will enable people to rely on technology instead of their own brains to write, interpret what they're reading and deal with a variety of other task in their lives. With the advent of the Gemini app, named af Zyn nicotine pouches are flying off shelves. Critics say they���re dangerous for kids 02/08/2024 12:06pm • New York (CNN) ��� Move over vapes, Americans appear to have a new addiction: Zyn, a tobacco-free nicotine pouch product, that has exploded in sales over the past year. Philip Morris International announced Thursday that it shipped about 350 million cans of Zyn in 2023, a whopping 62% growth comp More Republicans back spending on child care, saying it's an economic issue 02/08/2024 11:55am • Like a lot of mothers, North Dakota state Rep. Emily O'Brien struggled to find infant care when her daughter Lennon was born in 2019. So O'Brien, a Republican who represents the Grand Forks region, brought Lennon along to meetings with local leaders and constituents. O'Brien had her second daughter, Northwestern's Izzy Scane is approaching an NCAA lacrosse record. This is news to Scane 02/08/2024 11:15am • EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) ��� Izzy Scane knows all about Charlotte North, another dynamic attacker and one of the biggest names in women's lacrosse. She just had no idea she was on pace to break North's NCAA scoring record, insisting she had no clue. ���I didn't actually know that,��� a smiling Scane said Beltway Basketball Beat: Eagles beginning to soar with first-year pilot 02/08/2024 10:01am • What do they say, you never get a second chance to make a first impression? Twenty-four games into his first season as head coach, Duane Simpkins has American (13-11, 7-4 Patriot League) in position to post just its second winning conference record since 2014. And it's been an interesting transit Turkey's new central bank chief assures that work to combat inflation will press on 02/08/2024 06:47am • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ��� The work to tame inflation in Turkey ��� namely through interest rate hikes ��� will continue ���with determination,��� the country���s new central bank chief said Thursday, offering some certainty about efforts to right the battered economy following his precedessor's surpri UEFA urged by French minister to protect soccer from risk of owners investing in multiple clubs 02/08/2024 05:34am • PARIS (AP) ��� European soccer leaders were urged to protect soccer from the risk of owners taking control of multiple clubs, in a speech by France���s sports minister on Thursday. Am��lie Oud��a-Cast��ra warned the UEFA annual congress of a scenario where ���a small number of investors would have c Takoma Park woman hopes to break stigma around single-needle tattoos with her works of art 02/08/2024 05:04am • A 26-year-old tattoo artist from Takoma Park, Maryland, first picked up the needle during the COVID-19 pandemic. But a few short years later, Bibi Etienne has already grown her business to the point where she���s becoming more selective about the projects she takes on. ���I just need a challenge, Medical examiner rules death of baby decapitated during delivery was a homicide 02/07/2024 10:46pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� The death of a Georgia couple's baby that was decapitated during delivery has been classified by a medical examiner as a homicide, their attorneys announced Wednesday. Treveon Taylor Jr.'s parents have sued the hospital and the doctor who delivered the baby in July. Both have denied Raptors overcome 45-point game from Miles Bridges to beat Hornets 123-117 02/07/2024 10:44pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� RJ Barrett scored 23 points, Jakob Poeltl had two big plays in the final 90 seconds and the Toronto Raptors overcame a career-high 45 points from Miles Bridges to beat Charlotte 123-117 and hand the Hornets their ninth straight loss on Wednesday night. Scottie Barnes, who le One year later, student singled out by Md. Gov. Wes Moore talks about his future 02/07/2024 10:35pm • In his State of the State speech Wednesday, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore singled out Marylanders who are making a difference in their communities as leaders and volunteers. Last year, he put the spotlight on Montgomery College student Jefferson Vasquez-Reyes, an 18-year-old with dreams of becoming a d What���s in Loudoun County schools��� $1.8 billion budget? 02/07/2024 09:50pm • Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia has approved a $1.8 billion budget for fiscal year 2025 that includes funding for special education and plans to expand a preschool program for students from low-income families. The school board approved its budget at a meeting Tuesday night. It���ll be Actor Gina Carano sues Lucasfilm and Disney over her firing from 'The Mandalorian' 02/07/2024 08:06pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Actor Gina Carano on Tuesday sued Lucasfilm and its parent The Walt Disney Co. over her 2021 firing from ��� The Mandalorian,��� saying she was let go for expressing right-wing views on social media. The lawsuit Carano filed with help from X, formerly Twitter, in federal court