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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 How to Maintain Good Mental Health During College Breaks 12/07/2023 07:00pm • College is often a stressful phase of life. For many students, that doesn't change when a semester ends and they head back home or off to a job or internship. While a break from the academic grind may be welcome, it's common for students to experience anxiety, loneliness or sadness when their colleg Lawsuit accuses NCAA of antitrust violation in college athlete transfer rule 12/07/2023 06:55pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) ��� A federal lawsuit filed by a group of states alleges the NCAA���s transfer rule for college athletes violates antitrust law. The lawsuit, filed in West Virginia���s northern district, challenges the NCAA���s authority to impose a one-year delay in the eligibility of certai Texas deputies confronted but didn't arrest fatal shooting suspect in August, a month before new law 12/07/2023 06:15pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� A man suspected of killing six people in a shooting rampage through two major Texas cities was confronted by sheriff���s deputies in August during a mental health crisis and could have been arrested on a violation for cutting off an ankle monitor. Instead, deputies left Shane Youngkin calls for increased state spending on child care programs 12/07/2023 05:40pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Thursday that the proposed budget he will soon unveil for the next two fiscal years will include an increase in state spending on early learning and child care programs. The central aim of the proposal is to ensure that the Two babies infected with dangerous bacteria sometimes found in powdered infant formula 12/07/2023 04:28pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) ��� The dangerous bacteria that sparked powdered formula recalls and shortages last year has infected two babies this year, killing a Kentucky child and causing brain damage in a Missouri infant. Federal health officials confirmed Thursday that two cases of invasive infections caused How major US stock indexes fared Thursday, 12/7/2023 12/07/2023 04:26pm • Wall Street closed higher following its first three-day losing streak since Halloween. The S&P 500 rose 0.8% Thursday and continued to hang near its highest level since March 2022. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.2%, and the Nasdaq composite added 1.4%. Big Tech pushed strongly upward Alexandria 16-year-old charged in fatal shooting of DC man 12/07/2023 03:51pm • A 16-year-old from Northern Virginia has been arrested and charged as an adult in the shooting death of a D.C. man in October, according to police. Ashton Inabinet, 16, of Alexandria, Virginia, was arrested by Fairfax County police Tuesday under an arrest warrant from the D.C. Superior Court. A s He moved into his daughter's dorm and acted like a cult leader. Abused students now suing college 12/07/2023 03:41pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Two former students are suing Sarah Lawrence College, arguing the New York school failed to protect them from Lawrence Ray, who moved into his daughter's dorm after getting out of prison and then manipulated her friends and roommates into cult-like relationships. Ray was convicted 'Oppenheimer' will get a theatrical release in Japan, after all 12/07/2023 01:34pm • ��� Oppenheimer ��� will get a theatrical release in Japan, after all. The Japanese distributor Bitters End said Thursday that the Christopher Nolan film will play in the country���s theaters in 2024. In a statement, Bitters End wrote that the decision was made, ���following months of thoughtful dia