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U.S. confirms 22 Americans dead during the Hamas attacks on Israel 10/11/2023 05:11pm • ▶ Watch Video: Israel continues to pummel Gaza with airstrikes At least 22 U.S. citizens have been killed during the Hamas attacks on Israel, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said at a news conference Wednesday. Kirby couldn't confirm deta Voting begins in Ohio in the only election this fall to decide abortion rights 10/11/2023 04:19pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� In-person voting for a November ballot measure over abortion rights began Wednesday in Ohio, the latest state where voters will decide the issue after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a nationwide right to the procedure last year. Ohio is the only state to put an abortion ri Lions LB Alex Anzalone's parents in Israel among group of 50+ people from church in Naples, Florida 10/11/2023 02:59pm • ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) ��� Detroit Lions linebacker Alex Anzalone���s parents are among about 50 people affiliated with a Naples, Florida-based church that is praying for their safe return from Israel this week. Israel has vowed an unprecedented offensive against Hamas after the Islamic militant gr Chevy Chase father describes 'fear and terror' of his son being in the Israeli army 10/11/2023 12:58pm • Mitchell Bard, who lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, said he has been having sleepless nights lately after his 26-year-old son, an Israeli army reservist, was called up to serve. Mitchell Bard says he's fearful for his son's safety after he was called up from the Israeli army reserves. (Courtesy M Making music is a family affair for Alisa Weilerstein and Rafael Payare 10/11/2023 10:13am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� When cellist Alisa Weilerstein and conductor Rafael Payare fly for work, they need six plane tickets: one each for mom and dad, two for daughters Ariadna and Elina, one for the nanny and one for the cello. ���On all companies but one,��� Weilerstein said, ���the cello has to go wit St. Louis launches program to pay $500 a month to lower-income residents 10/11/2023 09:52am • ST. LOUIS (AP) ��� St. Louis is launching a program that seeks to help low-income families by providing them with $500 monthly payments for 18 months. The program is a signature priority for Mayor Tishaura Jones, who said Tuesday that the money will go to hundreds of city households, the St. Louis P Editorial Roundup: United States 10/11/2023 07:05am • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Oct. 7 The Washington Post on U.S. interest rates Borrowing is expensive again, as anyone who has tried to buy a car or home lately can tell you. The interest rate on 10-year Treasury bonds, the benchmark for home loans, is hovering ar Some Israelis abroad desperately try to head home ��� to join reserve military units, or just to help 10/11/2023 05:31am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� At the most harrowing of times, some Israeli citizens living overseas aren't running from the war at home, but to it. From Athens to New York, they're rushing to airports and diving into online chat groups for help, desperate to make their way to the country after Hamas militant Bone Thugs-N-Harmony chats with WTOP ahead of tour stop with LL Cool J, Queen Latifah, The Roots 10/11/2023 04:07am • Hear our full chat on my podcast ���Beyond the Fame with Jason Fraley.��� It may not be the first of the month, but it's time to "wake up, wake up" and buy some hip-hop tickets! Bone Thugs-N-Harmony perform live at Capital One Arena on Sunday in D.C. for "The F.O.R.C.E. Tour��� in a collab Live updates | Day 4 of the latest Israel-Palestinian war 10/10/2023 11:32pm • Israel stepped up its offensive on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday in response to an unprecedented attack by Hamas, pounding neighborhoods with airstrikes and expanding the mobilization of reservists to 360,000. The military said it had regained effective control over the Gaza border and areas Hamas attac Fairfax Co. considers renaming W.T. Woodson High School 10/10/2023 10:51pm • Fairfax County Public Schools is scheduled to vote Thursday night on whether to move forward with a plan to rename W.T. Woodson High School in Fairfax, Virginia. The school is named after Wilbert Tucker Woodson, the second-longest serving superintendent in the school system, the county said. He w Michigan coach Juwan Howard, in recovery mode, has a heart surgery friend in Nebraska's Fred Hoiberg 10/10/2023 10:38pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� The college basketball coaching fraternity runs deep, a collegiality among competitors that's stronger than in most other sports. Here's yet another example: Nebraska head coach Fred Hoiberg recently connected with his Michigan counterpart, Juwan Howard, to offer advice and e Prince Harry and Meghan Markle say social media is harming kids' and teens' mental health 10/10/2023 07:07pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on Tuesday called for social media platforms to adopt better content-moderation policies and other fixes, saying modifications need to be made to addictive apps that can harm young people's mental health. The couple spoke at a panel discussion coordi The ABCs of teaching kids to read: Maryland's continued shift to the 'Science of Reading' 10/10/2023 06:33pm • Maryland's approach to reading instruction for the state's youngest children has been evolving over the past few years. In the 2020-2021 academic year, the state's "Ready to Read Act" went into effect. It required screening of all incoming kindergarten students to check whether a student could be Florida's Republican attorney general will oppose putting abortion rights amendment on 2024 ballot 10/10/2023 05:35pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� Florida's Republican attorney general will oppose putting a proposed amendment protecting the right to an abortion on next year's ballot, she told the state Supreme Court when she advised justices Monday that a petition has reached enough signatures to trigger a language r