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Utah attorney general drops reelection bid amid scrutiny about his ties to a sexual assault suspect 12/08/2023 09:47pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ��� Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes, who is facing scrutiny for his decadelong friendship with the embattled founder of an anti-child-trafficking organization, announced Friday that he will not seek reelection in 2024. The Republican had announced in September that he would seek Nashville Police investigation into leak of Covenant School shooter's writings is inconclusive 12/08/2023 07:39pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Nashville Police have ���exhausted all available investigative avenues��� in the hunt for the person who leaked pages from a school shooter���s journals to a conservative commentator, the department announced in an email sent to media late on Friday. The writings are part o Free toy store in Nashville gives families the dignity of choice while shopping for holiday gifts 12/08/2023 06:35pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� When country music star Brad Paisley and his wife, actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley, helped create a free grocery store in Nashville, Tennessee, their goal was to give families in need the ability to choose their own food in a place that felt like a normal store. This yea Federal judge prohibits separating migrant families at US border for 8 years 12/08/2023 06:30pm • SAN DIEGO (AP) ��� A federal judge on Friday prohibited the separation of families at the border for purposes of deterring immigration for eight years, preemptively blocking resumption of a lightning-rod, Trump-era policy that the former president hasn���t ruled out if voters return him to the White Six French teens convicted over their roles in an Islamic extremist's killing of a teacher 12/08/2023 06:03pm • PARIS (AP) ��� A French juvenile court on Friday convicted six teenagers for their roles in the 2020 beheading of a teacher by an Islamic extremist, an attack that shocked the country and shone a light on the real-world dangers of online hate speech. Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, was Report: Deputies were justified when they fired at SUV that blasted through Mar-a-Lago checkpoint 12/08/2023 05:54pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) ��� Two Florida sheriff's deputies were justified when they fired numerous shots at a Connecticut opera singer whose speeding SUV blasted through a checkpoint outside then-President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club almost four years ago, an internal affairs investigation con Stock market today: Wall Street hits 2023 high as it mulls whether economy is too warm or just right 12/08/2023 05:47pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Wall Street climbed back to its best level in 20 months on Friday following a stronger-than-expected report on the U.S. job market. The S&P 500 rose 0.4%, enough to clinch a sixth straight winning week for the index, which is its longest such streak in four years. Wall Street�� Pregnant woman in Kentucky sues for the right to get an abortion 12/08/2023 04:45pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� A pregnant woman in Kentucky filed a lawsuit Friday demanding the right to an abortion, the second legal challenge in days to sweeping abortion bans that have taken hold in more than a dozen U.S. states since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year. The suit, filed in state cou Judge orders 8-year ban on policies to separate children from parents who cross the US border illegally, ending lawsuit 12/08/2023 04:32pm • SAN DIEGO (AP) ��� Judge orders 8-year ban on policies to separate children from parents who cross the US border illegally, ending lawsuit. Loudoun Co. updates absence policy over post-pandemic attendance 12/08/2023 04:03pm • The number of students missing 18 or more school days a year is declining in Loudoun County Public Schools, but Superintendent Aaron Spence said the Virginia school system has updated its absence policy in response to absenteeism in a WTOP exclusive interview. Spence, in his first year leading th Johnny Depp among stars paying tribute at funeral of The Pogues singer Shane MacGowan 12/08/2023 02:44pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Thousands of people lined the streets of Dublin on Friday to say goodbye to The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan as his coffin wound through the Irish capital before a small-town funeral attended by family, neighbors and friends including Johnny Depp and Nick Cave. MacGowan died Nov. 3 Texas judge grants pregnant woman permission to get an abortion despite state���s ban 12/08/2023 09:09am • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� A Texas judge on Thursday gave a pregnant woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis permission to get an abortion in an unprecedented challenge over bans that more than a dozen states have enacted since Roe v. Wade was overturned. The lawsuit by Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of Stock market today: Wall Street rises ahead of Friday's jobs report to snap a 3-day losing streak 12/07/2023 11:11pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Wall Street rose Thursday to snap its first three-day losing streak since Halloween. The S&P 500 climbed 36.25 points, or 0.8%, to 4,585.59. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 62.95, or 0.2%, to 36,117.38, and the Nasdaq composite jumped 193.28, or 1.4%, to 14,339.99. Big T How a Fairfax Co. community is responding to teenager's deadly overdose 12/07/2023 10:35pm • A Fairfax County, Virginia, high school community is in mourning after a student���s deadly overdose earlier this week. Fairfax County police said they are investigating the overdose, which happened in Seven Corners on Monday. When they got to an apartment in the 2900 block of John Marshall Drive Man fires shotgun outside Jewish temple in upstate New York as Hanukkah begins, no one injured 12/07/2023 08:04pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ��� A man fired a shotgun twice outside a Jewish temple in upstate New York, hours before the start of Hanukkah on Thursday, then said ���Free Palestine��� as he was taken into custody, police said. No one was injured. The episode in the state capital of Albany took place amid risi