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2 DC natives tackling food insecurity in Philadelphia with a new grocery store 11/27/2023 08:42am • Two D.C. natives are helping to tackle food insecurity in Philadelphia with a new type of community grocery store. They hope the idea will catch on around the country, including in their hometown. During the pandemic, Eli Moraru and Alexandre Imbot, founders of the Community Grocer, were voluntee New documentary details the over 30-year legal battle DC's family services faced 11/27/2023 05:25am • A D.C. agency shares how it turned trouble into triumph in a new documentary film called "Resilience: DC Child and Family Services Agency's 32 Years of Reform." The documentary is based on the 1989 class action lawsuit LaShawn v. Bowser after a four-year-old in the agency was placed in emergency 2 DC finance whiz kids honored for their money sense 11/27/2023 04:51am • Last Christmas, 13-year-old Lavinia Pitts and her twin brother, Hatcher, received access to a money management app from their parents. Their mother, Mary Pitts, kept forgetting to give them their weekly $12 allowance. The family got the app because it was an easy way to shell out weekly spending Hamas releases a third group of hostages as part of truce, and says it will seek to extend the deal 11/27/2023 12:44am • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� The fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hamas was back on track Sunday as the militants freed 17 more hostages, including 14 Israelis and the first American, in a third exchange under a four-day truce that the United States said it hoped would be extended. In tur Court document claims Meta knowingly designed its platforms to hook kids, reports say 11/26/2023 11:14pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Facebook parent Meta Platforms deliberately engineered its social platforms to hook kids and knew ��� but never disclosed ��� it had received millions of complaints about underage users on Instagram but only disabled a fraction of those accounts, according to a newly unsealed Federal judges warn of violence ahead of 2024 presidential election 11/26/2023 09:52pm • Judge Randolph Moss rocked slightly in his chair as he looked out over a particularly crowded courtroom last week. He then turned to face the young woman at the podium, who was clutching a piece of paper with both hands. Moss told the woman, Cassandra Buteau, that her letter to the court might have Schools in Portland, Oregon, reach tentative deal with teachers union after nearly month-long strike 11/26/2023 08:38pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� Oregon���s largest school district said late Sunday it had reached a tentative agreement with its teachers union and roughly 45,000 students would be back in school Monday after more than three weeks without classes. The agreement must still be voted on by teachers who have Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter were not only a global power couple but also best friends and life mates 11/26/2023 07:53pm • PLAINS, Ga. (AP) ��� Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter could not remember their first meeting. She was a newborn. He wasn't long out of diapers himself, a would-be U.S. president peering down at the future first lady his mother had delivered a few days earlier. What flourished in the near-century to follow Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter were not only a global power couple but also best friends and life mates 11/26/2023 07:52pm • PLAINS, Ga. (AP) ��� In spring 1955, Rosalynn Carter was doing what she had sworn to avoid when she married an ambitious Naval officer: keeping house and raising children in the same tiny town where they grew up. Then Jimmy Carter called for help from his family���s peanut farming warehouse. The fu What to Know About Buying the Worst House in the Best Neighborhood 11/26/2023 07:00pm • Every neighborhood seems to have one: a tired, worn-down house. Perhaps the home is abandoned, with an overgrown yard, a broken window or two, and a sagging front porch in need of paint and TLC. These properties have any number of backstories, such as an aging homeowner, lack of funds due to illness Girl, 11, confirmed as fourth victim of Alaska landslide, two people still missing 11/26/2023 05:29pm • WRANGELL, Alaska (AP) ��� Authorities recovered the body of an 11-year-old girl Saturday evening from the debris of a landslide in southeast Alaska that tore down a wooded mountainside days earlier, smashing into homes in a remote fishing village. The girl, Kara Heller, was the fourth person confir Biden says 4-year-old Abigail Edan was released by Hamas. He hopes more U.S. hostages will be freed 11/26/2023 04:21pm • NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) ��� President Joe Biden confirmed Sunday that Abigail Edan, a 4-year-old American girl held hostage by Hamas after her parents were killed, was released as part of the cease-fire deal in the Israel-Hamas war. ���Thank God she���s home,��� Biden said told reporters. ���I wish I Meta collected children���s data from Instagram accounts, unsealed court document alleges 11/26/2023 03:12pm • (CNN) — Since at least 2019, Meta has knowingly refused to shut down the majority of accounts belonging to children under the age of 13 while collecting their personal information without their parents��� consent, a newly unsealed court document from an ongoing federal lawsuit against the soci Riverdale community mourns 2 children struck, killed outside school 11/25/2023 10:58pm • Members of the Riverdale community in Prince George's County, Maryland, came together on the grounds of Riverdale Elementary School at sunset Saturday for a candlelight vigil in memory of the two children struck and killed outside their school Monday morning. Shalom Mbah, 10, and Sky Sosa, 5, wer Lebanese residents of border towns come back during a fragile cease-fire between Hamas and Israel 11/25/2023 05:30pm • KFAR KILA, Lebanon (AP) ��� With a cautious calm prevailing over the border area in south Lebanon on Saturday, the second day of a four-day cease-fire between Hamas and Israel, villages that had emptied of their residents came back to life ��� at least briefly. Shuttered shops reopened, cars moved t