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What parents should know about young kids getting the new COVID booster 09/23/2023 05:06am • The new COVID-19 booster shot is safe for young kids and infants, according to Dr. Sarah Combs with the Children's National Hospital in D.C. "We are seeing a lot of children coming through the doors with respiratory illnesses, so I will say top of mind for a lot of parents right now is 'how can I CDC recommends Pfizer's RSV vaccine during pregnancy 09/22/2023 11:01pm • ▶ Watch Video: CDC recommends first-ever RSV vaccine during pregnancy An advisory panel for the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention on Friday recommended that a vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, be given during pregnancy, providing an extra level of protection Tampa Bay Rays call up 20-year-old infield prospect Junior Caminero 09/22/2023 10:16pm • ST. PETERSBURG. Fla. (AP) ��� The playoff-bound Tampa Bay Rays have called up 20-year-old minor league prospect Junior Caminero from Double-A Montgomery. The Rays announced before Friday night's game against Toronto that they had selected Caminero to the major league roster. Montgomery had earlier a Video of Elijah McClain's stop by police shown as officers on trial in Black man's death 09/22/2023 08:51pm • BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) ��� Elijah McClain's mother left a Colorado courtroom in tears Friday after prosecutors showed video footage of the 23-year-old Black man pinned down by police officers during a fatal 2019 confrontation, which rose to prominence during nationwide protests over racial discriminat A list of mass killings in the United States since January 09/22/2023 08:24pm • The latest mass killing in the U.S. happened at a suburban Chicago home, where a couple, their two children and three dogs were found fatally shot on Sunday evening. Officers were asked to check on the family at their home in Romeoville, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southwest of Chicago after one Business Highlights: UAW strike expands to 20 states; Wall Street's worst week in 6 months 09/22/2023 04:59pm • ___ Stock market today: Wall Street closes its worst week in six months with more losses NEW YORK (AP) ��� Wall Street wheezed to more losses as it limped to the finish of its worst week in six months. The S&P 500 slipped 0.2% Friday after a late-day swoon erased a modest gain it had held for mo Hollis Watkins, who was jailed multiple times for challenging segregation in Mississippi, dies at 82 09/22/2023 04:43pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� Hollis Watkins, who started challenging segregation and racial oppression in his native Mississippi when he was a teenager and toiled alongside civil rights icons including Medgar Evers and Bob Moses, has died. He was 82. Watkins ��� who also sometimes went by Hollis Watkins Director of migration drama denounced by right-wing leaders as film opens in Poland 09/22/2023 04:34pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) ��� Right-wing Polish leaders denounced a new feature film by director Agnieszka Holland as it premiered in the country Friday, accusing the work of defaming Poland with its exploration of a migration crisis along the border with Belarus. ���Green Border��� won the Special Jury P Review: Not even Kaitlyn Dever can save Hulu's alien-invasion flick 'No One Will Save You' 09/22/2023 02:40pm • Around this same time last year, 20th Century Studios released the excellent "Predator" prequel "Prey" (2022), providing a near-perfect example of a rugged hero battling an alien invader for a badass Hulu Original Film. This Friday, the same studio-to-streamer team drops a less effective exam NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 09/22/2023 02:40pm • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ___ Viral video shows flamethrower-wielding Missouri Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 09/22/2023 01:38pm • Here���s a look at how AP���s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP���s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov Both parties rally supporters as voting begins in Virginia's closely watched legislative elections 09/22/2023 01:23pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� Early voting started Friday in Virginia's costly, high-stakes and closely watched legislative elections after a week in which elected officials and candidates rallied their supporters across the state. All 140 General Assembly seats are on the ballot, with candidates runnin Parents who want Youngkin's transgender policies enacted sue the Virginia Beach school board 09/22/2023 12:52pm • Two Virginia Beach parents have filed a lawsuit seeking to force their local school system to adopt Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin���s new policies on transgender students, including one that would exclude transgender girls from participating on girls��� sports teams. The lawsuit, filed on Improving school readiness in Prince George's Co. children, through song 09/22/2023 12:49pm • Every Friday morning at the Hyattsville Branch Library, more than a dozen kids who are roughly around preschool age gather for story time. Each half-hour session starts and ends not with books, but songs. There's also movement and interaction, too, because the effort to get children ready to lear Author Javier Zamora explores his immigrant journey to the US as a 9-year-old boy in 'Solito' 09/22/2023 06:02am • In 1999, Javier Zamora began his journey to the U.S. at 9 years old. The young boy from La Herradura, El Salvador, lived with his grandparents after his mother and father fled the country at different stages of his early childhood. His parents wanted to reunite with their son, but the journey was no