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Movie Review: 'Miller's Girl' with Jenna Ortega is an airless, cold affair that fails to spark 01/24/2024 01:25pm • Jenna Ortega's stark rise as Gen Z's goth-glam princess takes a pointless, awkward turn in ���Miller���s Girl,��� a new romantic horror movie about cerebral people that's simply tiresome. Written and directed by newcomer Jade Halley Bartlett, the movie retells the classic story of a teenage girl smi Oklahoma superintendent faces blowback for putting Libs of TikTok creator on library panel 01/24/2024 01:16pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ��� Oklahoma's new Republican superintendent of public schools is facing bipartisan criticism for appointing a right-wing social media influencer from New York to a state library advisory committee. Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters announced Chaya Raichik's appoin Greece faces growing opposition from the Orthodox Church over plans to legalize same-sex marriage 01/24/2024 12:37pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� Greece���s center-right government is speeding up its timetable to legalize same-sex marriage despite growing opposition from the powerful Orthodox Church. Government officials said Wednesday that the draft legislation would be put to a vote by mid-February. Greece would beco England cricketer's visa issues for India tour prompt British government to call for fair treatment 01/24/2024 11:03am • An England cricketer���s problems obtaining a visa for the team���s test series in India have prompted the British government to call for fair treatment for any of its citizens seeking to enter the Asian country. Shoaib Bashir, a 20-year-old British Muslim of Pakistani heritage, was the only member Book Review: Iranian-born Kaveh Akbar pens an unforgettable portrait of the poet as a young man 01/24/2024 10:53am • A martyr is someone willing to die for a cause. It is a provocative title for any book, let alone one by an Iranian American author. But as Kaveh Akbar so ably demonstrates in his debut work of fiction, he is after a different kind of martyrdom, one that involves sacrificing everything for his art. New member of Mormon church leadership says it must do better to help sex abuse victims heal 01/23/2024 11:45pm • The newest member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' top governing body said every faith ��� including his ��� must do more to protect victims of sexual abuse and help facilitate a healing process. Last month, Patrick Kearon, 62, became the first new member since 2018 named to the Q 7 Best Small-Cap Growth Stocks to Buy 01/23/2024 07:00pm • Investors had plenty of cause for concern last year, but the S&P 500 index of the largest U.S. companies finished 2023 up about 26% despite these worries. And now that investors are starting to get some swagger back and there is less concern about inflationary pressures or interest rates, it cou 'Nothing more important in the community': Montgomery Co. Council hearing from parents on concerns over MCPS leadership 01/23/2024 06:20pm • Montgomery County Council President Andrew Friedson said he's hearing from parents who are concerned over the apparent conflict between Superintendent Monifa McKnight and the Board of Education. "There's nothing more important in the community than our public school system," Friedson said. "Obvio Martin Luther King's daughter recalls late brother as strong guardian of their father's legacy 01/23/2024 06:06pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter remembered her late brother on Tuesday as a fierce and visionary steward of their father's legacy. The Rev. Bernice King choked back tears at times as she shared memories of her childhood and recent visits with Dexter Scott King, who died M Lily Gladstone, first Native American actress nominee, travels to Osage country to honor Oscar nod 01/23/2024 04:02pm • Lily Gladstone knew she wanted to be somewhere special when the Oscar news came. And that somewhere was not home, watching on TV, but in Oklahoma with the Osage community, where the real-life version of her character lived and where Martin Scorsese���s ���Killers of the Flower Moon��� is centered. � Music Review: Green Day are once again political pop-punk 'Saviors' on new album 01/23/2024 03:58pm • Twenty years ago, the Grammy Award winning pop-punk trio Green Day released ���American Idiot��� ��� their ambitious rock opera, a treatise on a world power in decline written by a band with cultural clout and consequently, political power. (It was angry and smart, and most importantly, hook-heavy � Michigan school shooter's mother to stand trial for manslaughter in 4 student deaths 01/23/2024 03:32pm • PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) ��� The mother of a teenager who committed a mass school shooting in Michigan is headed to trial on involuntary manslaughter charges in an unusual effort to pin criminal responsibility on his parents for the deaths of four students. Jennifer and James Crumbley are not accused of Businessman Bernie Moreno, Trump's Senate pick in Ohio, faced discrimination lawsuits, the AP finds 01/23/2024 03:28pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� Bernie Moreno, a Trump-backed candidate for Ohio's crucial U.S. Senate seat who touts his success in business, faced multiple lawsuits alleging discrimination against employees in the run-up to the sale of his high-end Cleveland car dealership, an Associated Press review has It may be January ��� but some summer camps in Montgomery Co. are already filling up 01/23/2024 03:16pm • The D.C. region is still in the thick of winter ��� but it's time for parents to start planning for summer. Carmen Berrios is the communications and public outreach manager with Montgomery County Recreation, which offers hundreds of summer camp options. The Maryland county opened enrollment on Ja Greek Church blasts proposed same-sex civil marriages, will present its views to congregations 01/23/2024 02:47pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� Greece's influential Orthodox Church on Tuesday voiced strong opposition to the center-right government's plans to legalize same-sex civil marriages, and said it would present its views to lawmakers and congregations nationwide. A statement by the Church's governing body, the