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Tennessee governor pitches school voucher expansion as state revenues stagnate 02/05/2024 09:18pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Nearly five years after narrowly convincing lawmakers to allow a select number of families to use tax dollars for private schooling, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Monday stood before the GOP-dominant Legislature with a much more ambitious pitch: Make school vouchers universal Justice Department proposes major changes to address disparities in state crime victim funds 02/05/2024 09:13pm • The Justice Department proposed changes Monday to rules governing state-run programs that provide financial assistance to violent crime victims in order to address racial disparities and curb the number of subjective denials of compensation. The proposal from the Justice Department's Office for Vict Conservative Nebraska lawmakers push bills that would intertwine religion with public education 02/05/2024 08:32pm • LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) ��� Conservative lawmakers who want to intertwine religion with school curriculum in Republican-dominated Nebraska presented a slew of bills Monday to the state Legislature���s education committee. The list includes a bill that would give parents more control over their local scho A year after Syria's deadly earthquake, orphaned children adjust to the loss bit by bit 02/05/2024 08:16pm • IDLIB, Syria (AP) ��� Aya al-Sudani, a bubbly toddler with a toothy smile, will mark her first birthday on Tuesday, but there will be no celebration with cake and presents. The day also marks a dark memory. On Feb. 6, 2023, a massive earthquake hit Syria and Turkey and the baby girl was pulled alive Family of Black girls handcuffed by Colorado police, held at gunpoint reach $1.9 million settlement 02/05/2024 08:05pm • DENVER (AP) ��� The four Black girls lay facedown in a parking lot, crying ���no��� and ���mommy��� as a police officer who had pointed her gun at them then bent down to handcuff two of their wrists. The youngest wore a pink tiara as she held onto her teenage cousin���s hand. The 6-year-old Lovely w 1st Russians are fined or jailed over rainbow-colored items after LGBTQ+ 'movement' is outlawed 02/05/2024 07:05pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� The first publicly known cases have emerged of Russian authorities penalizing people under a court ruling that outlawed LGBTQ+ activism as extremism, Russian media and rights groups have reported, with at least three people who displayed rainbow-colored items receiving jail Artificial Intelligence Stocks: The 10 Best AI Companies 02/05/2024 07:00pm • Artificial intelligence, automation and robotics are changing nearly every industry. In the past year, the world got a firsthand look at remarkable advances in AI technology from OpenAI, Microsoft and Google. Whether it be machine learning, large language models, smart applications and appliances, d DC day care devastated by gas explosion is getting help from the community 02/05/2024 06:50pm • The community around the D.C. day care center destroyed in a gas explosion is pitching in to help the owner. The Agua 301 restaurant in Navy Yard donated 25% of every check between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Monday to help Baby Einstein Child Development Center get back on its feet. Traci Johnson wi Raheem Morris seeks a Super Bowl title for Atlanta after loss 7 years ago that still 'stings' 02/05/2024 05:43pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Raheem Morris wants to make the most of his second opportunity as the Atlanta Falcons' coach. That means helping the Falcons achieve something they couldn't during what he called the most painful loss of his career. Morris was named Atlanta's coach on Jan. 25. His first news confere McDonald's franchisee agrees to pay $4.4M after manager sexually assaulted teen 02/05/2024 05:22pm • A franchisee of fast food giant McDonald's has agreed to pay a teenage girl $4.4 million to settle her lawsuit over having been sexually assaulted by a Pittsburgh-area restaurant manager who was a registered sex offender, the victim's lawyers announced on Monday. The deal between the girl, who was 1 No verdict after first day of deliberations in trial of Michigan school shooter's mom 02/05/2024 05:09pm • PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) ��� A Michigan jury went home Monday after a full day of deliberations in a novel trial against a school shooter's mother who could go to prison if convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the deaths of four students in 2021. The jury will return Tuesday for a second day. Prosec Ex-Indiana day care director gets 6 months in jail for giving kids melatonin 02/05/2024 01:38pm • GREENFIELD, Ind. (AP) ��� A former suburban Indianapolis day care director has been sentenced to six months in jail after pleading guilty to giving melatonin gummies to children without their parents��� consent to get them to sleep. Tonya Rachelle Voris, 53, was sentenced Friday after pleading guilt Judge in Borgata/MGM case rules casinos have no duty to stop compulsive gamblers from betting 02/05/2024 01:07pm • ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) ��� Atlantic City's casinos have no legal obligation to stop compulsive gamblers from betting, a judge ruled, dismissing a lawsuit from a self-described problem gambler who accused the Borgata and its parent company, MGM Resorts International, of plying him with offers to ga Key moments surrounding the Michigan high school shooting in 2021 02/05/2024 12:55pm • OXFORD, Mich. (AP) ��� Jury deliberations are underway in the involuntary manslaughter trial of the Michigan mother of a teenage boy who killed four classmates and wounded others. It is the latest development in the shooting that occurred Nov. 30, 2021, in Oxford, Michigan, just north of Detroit. He The job market is humming, but layoffs are still happening in a shifting economic environment 02/05/2024 11:43am • 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