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Emergency room doctor unveils the most dangerous toys this season 12/24/2023 06:10am • In less than 24 hours kids everywhere will begin tearing into toys from their wish list. But before that happens, one D.C.-area doctor suggested some ways to play it safe and avoid a Christmas trip to the emergency room. Dr. Sarah Ash Combs, an emergency medicine physician and director of outreac Rudolph hits Pickens for 2 long touchdowns, Steelers end 3-game skid with 34-11 win over Bengals 12/23/2023 09:20pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) ��� Mason Rudolph isn't afraid to admit his mind would drift toward the future as the seasons passed and he remained at the bottom of the Pittsburgh Steelers' depth chart. ���You have confidence in yourself as a player,��� the longtime backup quarterback said. ���But I'm kinda thinki Tampa settles lawsuit with feds over parental leave for male workers 12/23/2023 04:29pm • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ��� The city of Tampa has reached an agreement with the federal government to resolve a discrimination lawsuit alleging that male workers didn't receive the same parental leave as female workers. Under the proposed settlement reached Thursday, Tampa will pay $300,000 and credit 240 Americans beg for help getting family out of Gaza. "I just want to see my mother again,' a son says 12/23/2023 12:13pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Fadi Sckak has already lost his father to the violence in Gaza. He wants to help his mother escape that fate. ���I just want to see my mother again, that���s the goal,��� said Sckak, a university student in Sunnyvale, California. The 25-year-old is one of the Palestinian couple's In Mexico, pi��atas are not just child's play. They're a 400-year-old tradition 12/23/2023 12:04am • ACOLMAN, Mexico (AP) ��� Mar��a de Lourdes Ortiz Zacar��as swiftly cuts hundreds of strips of newsprint and colored crepe paper needed to make a pi��ata, soothed by Norte��o music on the radio while measuring pieces by feel. ���The measurement is already in my fingers,��� Ortiz Zacar��as says with a ���Pray for us���: Eyewitnesses reveal first clues about a missing boat with up to 200 Rohingya refugees 12/22/2023 11:12pm • PIDIE, Indonesia (AP) ��� Their screams and sobs could be heard from the ailing boat soon after it emerged into view amid the vastness of the Andaman Sea. Crowded on board were tiny babies and children, alongside mothers and fathers begging to be saved. The passengers were ethnic Rohingya Muslims w 'A grassroots community effort': DC chef carries on tradition of providing meals to community on Christmas 12/22/2023 09:48pm • A D.C. chef aims to give back to the city's homeless population by cooking for them this Christmas as part of an inspiring grassroots community effort. Bren Herrera said it all started 8 years ago when she set out to cook 100 meals for the homeless on Christmas. "It all starts by fundraising. Bidens make traditional pre-Christmas visit to children's hospital 12/22/2023 08:12pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden joined his wife, first lady Jill Biden, on Friday for a Christmas season visit to Children's National Hospital to meet young patients and their families. The first lady read the children ���'Twas the Night Before Christmas��� as the president waved and flas San Francisco jury finds homeless man not guilty in beating of businessman left with brain injury 12/22/2023 07:02pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� A San Francisco jury on Friday found a homeless man not guilty after being accused of using a metal pipe to beat a businessman who suffered a broken jaw, fractured skull and traumatic brain injury in an attack caught on video that fueled debate about crime and homelessness in TV sitcom 'Extended Family' inspired by real-life relationship of Celtics owner, wife and her ex 12/22/2023 05:45pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� When Boston Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck felt like his life could be the premise for a television sitcom, he knew just where to turn: His friend Tom Werner, a Red Sox owner and TV veteran who was behind megahits like ���The Cosby Show,��� ���Roseanne��� and ���That ���70s Show.��� The Mexico's president is willing to help with border migrant crush but wants US to open talks with Cuba 12/22/2023 05:44pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Mexico���s president said Friday that he is willing to help out with a surge of migrants that led to the closure of border crossings with the United States, but he wants the U.S. government to open talks with Cuba and send more development aid to migrants' home countries. The c Seattle hospital says Texas attorney general asked for records about transgender care for children 12/22/2023 03:15pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked a Seattle hospital to hand over records regarding gender-affirming treatment potentially given to children from Texas, according to court filings that appear to show the Republican going beyond state borders to investigate transgender he Across the US, friends and advocates remember homeless Americans who died this year 12/22/2023 02:43pm • nazarethman/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Kenneth Gonzalez died last spring, but he never had a funeral. Instead, his friend Richard Jarrett stood in front of a room of mostly strangers in the basement of Congregation Rodeph Sholom in New York City Wednesday night and, speaking slowly from a piece of p Missouri school board that previously rescinded anti-racism resolution drops Black history classes 12/22/2023 02:30pm • O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) ��� A conservative-led Missouri school board has voted to drop elective courses on Black history and literature, five months after the same board rescinded an anti-discrimination policy adopted in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd. The Francis Howell School Board voted Century mark: NBC's Stark will work 100th game from NFL sideline Saturday night 12/22/2023 01:44pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Melissa Stark has reported from sidelines in 39 stadiums on three networks and in two countries. The veteran NFL reporter adds another numeric milestone during Saturday night's game between the Buffalo Bills and Los Angeles Chargers when she covers her 100th regular-season game.