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For transgender youth in crisis, hospitals sometimes compound the trauma 12/29/2023 12:24am • CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Four days of waiting under the flickering fluorescent lights of UNC Hospitals' emergency room left Callum Bradford desperate for an answer to one key question. The transgender teen from Chapel Hill needed mental health care after overdosing on prescription drugs. He was ab A tax increase, LGBTQ+ youth protections and more sick leave highlight California's new laws in 2024 12/29/2023 12:03am • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Doctors in California who mail abortion pills to patients in other states will be protected from prosecution. Workers will receive more paid sick leave on the heels of a big year for labor. And companies can't fire employees for using marijuana outside of work. These a Democrats in Prince George’s County select appointee to vacant state house seat 12/28/2023 11:37pm • The Prince George’s County Democratic Central Committee selected Denise Roberts on Thursday to fill a vacant seat in the House of Delegates. The central committee will forward Roberts’ name to Gov. Wes Moore (D), who has up to 15 days to confirm the appointment. Roberts, who worked as comm Flag football gives female players sense of community, scholarship options and soon shot at Olympics 12/28/2023 11:26pm • DENVER (AP) — There were times when Jo Overstreet felt all alone as a standout flag football player on boys teams growing up in Texas. Sure, she was accepted. Considered just one of the boys. She longed for something more — a sense of sisterhood. These days, the 40-year-old receiver for Team USA DC city administrator speaks on combating 'stubborn' spike of violent crime 12/28/2023 11:00pm • As a new year approaches, the District is set to end 2023 with a 39% increase in violent crime — and the numbers, according to D.C. police, would include the highest number of homicides the city has seen in 20 years. A total of 199 homicides took place in D.C. in 2022; as of December 28 of this Man shot his mother then led Vegas police on chase as he carjacked bystanders, killing father of 7 12/28/2023 09:17pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man who authorities say fatally shot his mother two days after Christmas led police officers on a chase through the suburbs of Las Vegas and, along the way, stole a police vehicle and carjacked bystanders at gunpoint, shooting and killing one of them. The victim killed in what L The year of social media soul-searching: Twitter dies, X and Threads are born and AI gets personal 12/28/2023 08:01pm • We lost Twitter and got X. We tried out Bluesky and Mastodon (well, some of us did). We fretted about AI bots and teen mental health. We cocooned in private chats and scrolled endlessly as we did in years past. For social media users, 2023 was a year of beginnings and endings, with some soul-searchi How to Navigate Student Loan Repayment in 2024 12/28/2023 07:00pm • After three years of COVID-19 forbearance expired in October 2023, transitioning millions of Americans back into student loan repayment has been a logistical nightmare. More than 14 million borrowers had their loans transferred to a new servicer during the pandemic payment pause, according to the Co Missouri school board to reinstate Black history classes with new curriculum 12/28/2023 06:46pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) — Students at a suburban St. Louis school district can continue to take elective Black history courses, school leaders announced Thursday in a reversal of a vote last week by the conservative-led school board to end the classes. But the Francis Howell School District board first mus 'Really scary': Families brace for impact of transgender youth care ban in Ohio 12/28/2023 05:19pm • Courtesy of Alicia Burke(NEW YORK) -- Astrid Burkle, a 10-year-old transgender girl who lives in Ohio, said she wishes she "could have a normal life." Her desire for normalcy -- a life of baking cookies with her grandmother, singing with her friends in the local choir, and going on field trips -- i Fairfax Co. police sting operation catches 10 accused child predators 12/28/2023 02:23pm • Ten men are in custody in Fairfax County, Virginia, after meeting with undercover detectives with the intent to commit an illegal sex act with a minor, according to police. Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said in the three-day operation conducted in early December, detectives from the dep Meet Alexia Rivera, a Long Island model with Down syndrome who is redefining beauty 12/28/2023 01:57pm • Click here for updates on this story    HUNTINGTON STATION, New York (WCBS) -- Her face can be seen on a giant holiday ad billboard near the Midtown Tunnel and in storefronts across the nation.She is a young woman from Long Island who is being recognized for her beauty inside an Gypsy Rose Blanchard out of prison years after persuading boyfriend to kill her abusive mother 12/28/2023 11:09am • Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the Missouri woman who persuaded an online boyfriend to kill her mother after she had forced her to pretend for years that she was suffering from leukemia, muscular dystrophy and other serious illnesses, was released Thursday from prison on parole. Blanchard was released early US companies are picky about investing in China. The exceptions? Burgers and lattes 12/28/2023 09:29am • WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s been no shortage of tough news for China’s economy as some of the world’s biggest brands consider or take action to shift manufacturing to friendlier shores at a time of unease about security controls, protectionism and wobbly relations between Beijing and Washingto Mourinho, Lukaku and Dybala set for different receptions when Roma visits Juventus in Serie A 12/28/2023 07:52am • MILAN (AP) — Three people will get a special welcome when Roma visits Juventus in Serie A on Saturday. Roma coach José Mourinho and forward Romelu Lukaku will likely face a hostile reception in Turin while there will be a much warmer welcome for former Juventus striker Paulo Dybala — if the Arg