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Virginia Democrats again push for paid family and medical leave, advance bill 01/30/2024 12:26am • Virginia Democrats are again backing a proposal to create a universal paid family and medical leave program that would be run through the Virginia Employment Commission. The legislation carried by Sen. Jennifer Boysko, D-Fairfax, and Del. Briana Sewell, D-Prince William, would adopt the general m Ukraine's strikes on targets inside Russia hurt Putin's efforts to show the war isn't hitting home 01/30/2024 12:03am • The wail of air raid sirens is commonplace in Belgorod, a Russian border city whose residents are on edge following a Ukrainian missile attack on a New Year's holiday weekend that left dozens of people dead and injured. A spectacular explosion rocked a huge fuel export terminal on the Baltic Sea China is protesting interrogations and deportations of its students at US border 01/29/2024 10:24pm • BEIJING (AP) ��� The Chinese government has protested to the United States over the treatment of Chinese arriving to study in America, saying some have been interrogated for hours, had their electronic devices checked and in some cases were forcibly deported from the country. Xie Feng, the Chines Under bombing in eastern Ukraine and disabled by illness, an unknown painter awaits his fate 01/29/2024 08:16pm • SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) ��� Mykola Soloviov, 88, is a painter the world does not know. His landscapes of eastern Ukraine, records of a lost time, lie tucked away in a modest home under threat of Russian attack. Soloviov can���t hear or walk and barely speaks. Disabled since a 2017 stroke, he spends Discover Is Exiting the Student Loan Business 01/29/2024 07:00pm • Discover Financial Services will no longer accept student loan applications as of Feb. 1, 2024, after announcing in November 2023 that it was going to sell its student loans portfolio and transfer the servicing of these loans to a third-party provider. For now, current Discover Student Loans custome Counselor says parents chose work over taking care of teen before Michigan school shooting 01/29/2024 05:18pm • A counselor testified Monday that he was ���caught off guard��� when the parents of a Michigan teenager refused to voluntarily take the boy home from school when confronted with a violent drawing their son made hours before he opened fire and killed four students. Shawn Hopkins said Oxford High Scho TKO Group, iRobot fall; SoFi Technologies, McGrath rise, Monday, 1/29/2024 01/29/2024 04:16pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Monday: iRobot Corp., down $1.49 to $15.50. Amazon abandoned its proposed acquisition of the Roomba vacuum maker. SoFi Technologies Inc., up $1.54 to $9.16. The personal finance company and online bank beat analysts' fo N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winner and giant of Native American literature, dead at 89 01/29/2024 03:08pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� N. Scott Momaday, a Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller, poet, educator and folklorist whose debut novel "House Made of Dawn" is widely credited as the starting point for contemporary Native American literature, has died. He was 89. Momaday died Wednesday at his home in Santa Fe, Ne Trial opens in Serbia for parents of a teenager who fatally shot 10 people at a school last year 01/29/2024 01:59pm • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) ��� A trial started Monday in Serbia for the parents of a teenager who is accused of killing 10 people and injuring six in a mass shooting at his school last May that left the Balkan nation in shock. The suspected shooter, 13-year-old Kosta Kecmanovic, has been held in a mental Soccer fans in Greece will need cellphones to buy tickets in government crackdown on violence 01/29/2024 11:34am • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� Soccer fans in Greece will have to use a state-run digital identification app on their cellphones to buy tickets for games after a security ban on supporters expires next month. The measure is part of a crackdown on sports-related violence that forced soccer clubs to close st The UK will ban disposable vapes and curb candy-flavored e-cigarettes that attract children under 18 01/29/2024 09:53am • LONDON (AP) ��� Britain's government will ban the sale of disposable vapes and limit their cornucopia of flavors to prevent children from becoming addicted to nicotine, officials said Monday. It also plans to stick to a contentious proposal to ban today���s young people from ever buying cigarettes. Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb. 4-10 01/29/2024 09:43am • Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb. 4-10: Feb. 4: Actor Jerry Adler (���The Good Wife,��� ���The Sopranos���) is 95. Actor Gary Conway (���Burke���s Law���) is 88. Drummer John Steel of The Animals is 83. Singer Florence LaRue of the Fifth Dimension is 82. Singer Alice Cooper is 76. Actor Micha Sierra Bancorp: Q4 Earnings Snapshot 01/29/2024 08:44am • PORTERVILLE, Calif. (AP) ��� PORTERVILLE, Calif. (AP) ��� Sierra Bancorp (BSRR) on Monday reported fourth-quarter profit of $6.3 million. The Porterville, California-based bank said it had earnings of 43 cents per share. The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four With child care increasingly unaffordable, Virginia lawmakers propose long-term fixes 01/29/2024 07:34am • As federal relief funds dry up, Virginia policymakers are increasingly looking for solutions to residents��� problems in securing affordable child care. Jess Mullins Fullen, a mother of two children in Southwest Virginia, said she and her husband work full-time to pay for their most expensive cos 5 Ways Parents Can Do College Financial Planning 01/28/2024 07:00pm • It's never too early to start college financial planning. The college search and application process may wait until later in high school, but saving money for college should start much earlier -- even when children are infants, experts say. "That might not be a ton of money early on, but doing a lit