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Where the jobs are: Strong hiring in most industries has far outpaced high-profile layoffs 02/03/2024 01:32pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Blockbuster job growth in the past several months has coincided with high-profile layoff announcements by a number of large companies. So, how are both occurring at the same time? It's not as contradictory as it might seem. Recent job cuts have been concentrated mainly in just a Mayorkas is driven by his own understanding of the immigrant experience. Many in GOP want him gone 02/03/2024 12:34pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� To his supporters, Alejandro Mayorkas is a thoughtful, driven secretary who brings a prosecutor's tenacity and his personal understanding of the immigrant experience in America to running his sprawling agency. To his detractors, he personifies everything that has gone wrong at th Mayorkas is driven by his own understanding of the immigrant experience. Many in GOP want him gone 02/03/2024 10:47am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� To his supporters, Alejandro Mayorkas is a thoughtful, driven secretary ��� a ���Boy Scout��� ��� who brings a prosecutor's tenacity and his personal understanding of the immigrant experience in America to running his sprawling agency. To his detractors, he personifies everything Turkish Central Bank Governor resigns months into her tenure after claims of improper use of power 02/03/2024 06:10am • ISTANBUL (AP) ��� The governor of Turkey���s central bank has resigned only months after taking office amid allegations of improper use of power and family interference in the workings of the financial institutions. Hafize Gaye Erkan who took over as central bank governor in June was the bank���s f Will Congress force Big Tech to do more to protect children online? 02/03/2024 04:13am • For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller at��Today on the Hill. Members of Congress are growing increasingly frustrated with Big Tech and what many lawmakers believe is lip service to concerns about how social media sites are impactin Lawsuit says Tennessee hospital shouldn't have discharged woman who died, police should have helped 02/02/2024 09:31pm • KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� A federal lawsuit says a woman who died last February shouldn't have been discharged from a Tennessee hospital, forced to leave despite her pleas for more help and unassisted by security guards and police during a medical emergency. The son of 60-year-old Lisa Edwards on Th Dog rescued after more than a week trapped inside shipping container in Texas port 02/02/2024 08:13pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� It was just another routine day of inspecting shipping containers at the Port of Houston for U.S. Coast Guard officer Ryan McMahon when he and his team thought they heard barking coming from inside one of the thousands of containers that surrounded them. ���Oh, it���s scratching, d Hand over heart, Biden joins grieving families of US troops killed in Jordan as remains arrive home 02/02/2024 07:30pm • DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. (AP) ��� Standing solemnly under gray skies, President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden joined grieving families at Dover Air Force Base on Friday to witness the return of three American service members killed in last weekend's drone attack in Jordan. It's a ritual hon Testimony, closing arguments conclude in manslaughter trial of Michigan school shooter's mother 02/02/2024 06:40pm • PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) ��� A prosecutor urged jurors on Friday to convict the mother of a Michigan school shooter in a groundbreaking trial that centered on whether she should be held responsible for the deaths of four students, especially when confronted with her son���s violent drawing ahead of the t Theo Epstein to return to Red Sox as adviser and part-owner of parent company, Fenway Sports Group 02/02/2024 06:31pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� Theo Epstein, the architect of two World Series championships with the Red Sox, is returning to the organization as a minority owner and part-time senior adviser to its parent company, Fenway Sports Group. The Brookline, Massachusetts, native, who also helped the Chicago Cubs win the Monifa McKnight, Montgomery Co. Public Schools part ways 02/02/2024 05:04pm • Montgomery County Public Schools and Superintendent Monifa McKnight have parted ways. The Board of Education held a closed-door meeting Friday afternoon. Last week, McKnight said in a statement that Board of Education members indicated they wanted her to "step away" from her job as superin Apple, Skechers fall; Amazon, Deckers Outdoor rise, Friday, 2/2/2024 02/02/2024 04:16pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Friday: Apple Inc., down $1.01 to $185.85. The company issued a lukewarm forecast for its current quarter that indicated iPhone sales will slip from last year. Amazon.com Inc., up $12.53 to $171.81. The online retail g Chiefs' Travis Kelce says he is ready for the Super Bowl circus to begin next week 02/02/2024 03:47pm • Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce insisted Friday that he is ready for the circus that comes with the Super Bowl. He's been through it three times, after all, and has two rings to show for it. It has never been quite like this, though. Kelce's profile has never been higher than it is now, as Why Apple is pushing the term 'spatial computing' along with its new Vision Pro headset 02/02/2024 03:33pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� With Apple's hotly anticipated Vision Pro headset hitting store shelves Friday, you're probably going to start to see more people wearing the futuristic googles that are supposed to usher in the age of ���spatial computing.��� It's an esoteric mode of technology that Apple exe Federal authorities investigate suspected arson at offices of 3 conservative groups in Minnesota 02/02/2024 02:53pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� Federal authorities in Minnesota are investigating a suspected arson fire that heavily damaged the offices of three conservative groups, which are calling the blaze an act of political terrorism. The fire happened early Sunday in the Minneapolis suburb of Golden Valley at the of