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Protest being filed over medical marijuana shop opening near DC charter school 01/10/2024 05:57am • A formal protest is being lodged with the city over plans to open a medical marijuana dispensary in downtown D.C. across the street from a charter school. Retailers filed with the city's Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration with the plan to open "DC Smoke" at 8th and D streets NW near t CES 2024 updates: Car companies unveil new tech and Robert Downey Jr. targets scammers 01/10/2024 05:55am • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� Welcome to opening day of CES 2024. This multi-day trade event put on by the Consumer Technology Association is expected to bring some 130,000 attendees and more than 4,000 exhibitors to Las Vegas. The latest advances and gadgets across personal tech, transportation, health care, Virginia high school marching band wins $15,000 worth of instruments in national Metallica contest 01/10/2024 04:04am • Exit light, enter night, take my hand ��� off to congratulate a Virginia high school marching band! The��Oakton High School Marching Cougars just won Metallica's Inaugural Marching Band Contest, announced this past Sunday night on ESPN. "It feels pretty awesome," band director Jamie VanValkenb Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds focuses on education, health care in annual address 01/09/2024 09:29pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ��� Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds focused on education and health care in an expansive agenda laid out for legislators Tuesday evening, calling for substantial revisions to how special education is provided in schools and how mental health and substance use are treated across the stat California faculty at largest US university system could strike after school officials halt talks 01/09/2024 09:01pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� Faculty at California State University, the largest public university system in the U.S., could stage a systemwide strike later this month after school officials ended contract negotiations Tuesday with a unilateral offer of a 5% pay raise, far below what the union is dem 9 Growth Stocks That Also Pay Dividends 01/09/2024 07:00pm • With the Federal Reserve moving up key interest rates over the last year or so, bond markets and CDs are now yielding much better than they did in years past. For instance, the 10-year Treasury bond -- one of the most secure assets on that planet -- now yields roughly 4%. Considering T-notes have su 7 Best Semiconductor Stocks to Buy for 2024 01/09/2024 07:00pm • The semiconductor sector stacked cash for investors in 2023, with the benchmark PHLX Semiconductor Index (SOX) up 65% for the year. The index piled on 30% in the last two months of 2023. That's a good year's work for the semiconductor sector. If you had plopped $10,000 down on the SOX on Jan. 1, 202 8 Top Nancy Pelosi Stocks to Buy 01/09/2024 07:00pm • Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in 2022 that the Senate would soon vote on a bill banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks. But nearly two years later, Pelosi is no longer House Speaker, and members of Congress are still allowed to buy and sell individual securities as long Family of British tourist among 5 killed in 2018 Grand Canyon helicopter crash wins $100M settlement 01/09/2024 06:25pm • RENO, Nev. (AP) ��� A Nevada judge has approved a $100 million cash settlement to the parents of a British tourist who was among five killed ��� including his newlywed wife ��� when a helicopter crashed and burst into flames in the Grand Canyon in 2018. Under the settlement approved in Las Vegas on Meta to hide posts about suicide, eating disorders from teens' Instagram and Facebook feeds 01/09/2024 06:13pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Meta said Tuesday it will start hiding inappropriate content from teenagers' accounts on Instagram and Facebook, including posts about suicide, self-harm and eating disorders. The social media giant based in Menlo Park, California, said in a blog post that while it already aim Gov. Kristi Noem touts South Dakota's workforce recruitment effort 01/09/2024 05:42pm • PIERRE, S.D. (AP) ��� South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem touted her state's economic success and employment opportunities Tuesday, highlighting her workforce recruitment campaign to lawmakers who are beginning their legislative session. In her State of the State address, the second-term Republican govern No charges to be filed in death of toddler who fell into cistern during day care at Vermont resort 01/09/2024 05:36pm • CAMBRIDGE, Vt. (AP) ��� No criminal charges will be filed in the death of a 3-year-old boy who fell into an underground cistern and was seriously injured in July while attending a day care program at Smugglers' Notch Resort, Vermont State Police said Tuesday. Police said they have completed their i A judge has temporarily halted enforcement of an Ohio law limiting kids��� use of social media 01/09/2024 04:28pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� A federal judge issued an order Tuesday temporarily halting enforcement of a pending Ohio law that would require children to get parental consent to use social media apps. U.S. District Court Judge Algenon Marbley's temporary restraining order came in a lawsuit brought Friday Aaron Rodgers denies implying comic Jimmy Kimmel was tied to Epstein and condemns those who do 01/09/2024 03:31pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers denied he implied comic Jimmy Kimmel was a pedophile and condemned those who do, but he stopped short of apologizing for his role in escalating their burgeoning feud. Rodgers returned to ESPN's ���The Pat McAfee Show��� on Tuesday for his Ex-Green Beret stands with Venezuelan coup plotter ahead of U.S. sentencing on terror charges 01/09/2024 02:52pm • MIAMI (AP) ��� A U.S. veteran who plotted to overthrow Venezuela���s president is proudly standing with a former Venezuelan army general who pleaded guilty in New York on terrorism charges, describing his would-be comrade-in-arms as a patriot and dedicated family man worthy of a reduced prison sente