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Meta posts sharp profit, revenue increase in Q4 thanks to cost cuts and advertising rebound 02/01/2024 05:58pm • Meta Platforms Inc. tripled its profit and posted sharply higher revenue in the final quarter of 2023, boosted by a rebound in digital advertising as well cost cutting and layoffs in what CEO Mark Zuckerberg called the ���year of efficiency.��� "The company can talk all it wants to about AI and the A child's body was found encased in concrete in Colorado as the search for 2 other kids continues 02/01/2024 05:51pm • PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) ��� A child���s body was found encased in concrete in a Colorado storage unit, and officers in Pueblo announced this week they are searching for two other children as part of the homicide investigation to determine if they are safe. The remains were discovered on Jan. 10 when the Old Silver Spring Library to transform into child development center focused on low-income, immigrant families 02/01/2024 05:06pm • At the end of the summer, CentroN��a Martha Gudelsky Child Development Center will open at the old Silver Spring Library in Montgomery County, Maryland. The library operated for nearly 60 years, but will now provide early learning opportunities to nearly 130 children up to age 5. CentroN��a���s P Two Native American boys died at a boarding school in the 1890s. Now, the tribe wants them home 02/01/2024 04:46pm • When two Native American boys from Nebraska died after being taken to a notorious boarding school hundreds of miles away in Pennsylvania, they were buried there without notice. Nearly 130 years later, the tribe wants the boys' remains back home. So far, the Army has refused to return to the Winnebag UCLA's Laiatu Latu goes from medically retired player to hot NFL prospect 02/01/2024 03:59pm • MOBILE, Ala. (AP) ��� Laiatu Latu writes the three letters above his notes from class and football meetings: LYL. ���Like your last��� has become a mantra for Latu to do everything like it���s the last time he's going to do it, without regrets that he didn���t give it his best, every time. It carrie Corey Glover joins WTOP as Living Colour rocks Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races 02/01/2024 02:06pm • "More Than Words" meets "Cult of Personality" as Extreme joins Living Colour to rock��Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races in Charles Town, West Virgina on Friday night. WTOP caught up with Living Colour frontman Corey Glover, who joked that the Feb. 2 concert falls on Groundhog Day. "We'll More Americans apply for unemployment benefits but layoffs still historically low 02/01/2024 10:11am • The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose last week to the highest level in 11 weeks, though layoffs remain at historically low levels. Applications for unemployment benefits climbed to 224,000 for the week ending Jan. 27, an increase of 9,000 from the previous week, the Labor Departm Deadly school bus crash in Ohio yields safety, training guidance ��� but no seat belt mandate 02/01/2024 09:51am • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� After a deadly school bus crash last summer, a task force convened by Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine recommended Wednesday more training, driver benefits and safety features ��� but not a seat belt mandate. How and when safety upgrades are made would be up to individual sch FIA-commissioned report takes aim at social media companies for not curbing online abuse in sports 02/01/2024 04:00am • An FIA-commissioned report on online abuse in sports released Thursday suggests social media companies should do more to curb targeted attacks toward athletes, officials and even fans. The United Against Online Abuse Campaign surveyed 22 global sporting federations, among them FIFA, World Athletics, Stock market today: Asian stocks are mixed after Wall Street slips to its worst loss in 4 months 02/01/2024 01:30am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Asian shares were mixed on Thursday after Wall Street fell to its worst loss since September as the Federal Reserve indicated cuts to interest rates are not imminent. U.S. futures and oil prices rose. Hong Kong���s Hang Seng advanced, but ceded much of its early gains. It was up 0 Meta, TikTok and other social media CEOs testify in heated Senate hearing on child exploitation 01/31/2024 08:26pm • Sexual predators. Addictive features. Suicide and eating disorders. Unrealistic beauty standards. Bullying. These are just some of the issues young people are dealing with on social media ��� and children's advocates and lawmakers say companies are not doing enough to protect them. On Wednesday, the Nevada attorney general launches go-it-alone lawsuits against social media firms in state court 01/31/2024 07:32pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� Nevada's state attorney general has launched a go-it-alone legal fight against five popular social media platforms, alleging they have created, in one instance ���an addiction machine,��� and that they deliberately exploit children too young to have a capacity for self-control. A What Students Can Use Scholarship Money For 01/31/2024 07:00pm • From textbooks to a spring break trip to Canc��n, if you've won some scholarship money, you may be trying to figure out what you can spend it on. The answer depends. Just as colleges and scholarship organizations have application requirements, many also have rules covering how to spend an award. Tui What Does a College President Do? 01/31/2024 07:00pm • Becoming a college president is not for everyone. The demands -- including long work hours and crisis management -- and increasing public visibility of the job may be why many college presidents are serving shorter terms than in recent decades, some experts say. According to a 2023 report from the A Kentucky House committee passes bill requiring moment of silence in schools 01/31/2024 06:52pm • FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) ��� The Kentucky House overwhelmingly passed a bill on Wednesday instructing public schools to set aside time for a moment of silence at the start of each school day. The measure easily cleared the House on a 79-17 vote and moves on to the Senate. Republicans have supermajorities