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The return of schedules: How parents can make the most of back-to-school energy 08/17/2023 09:53am • Olivia Dreizen Howell has spent the summer running her online business, Fresh Starts Registry, from her Long Island home while caring for her two sons. At ages 9 and 7, they are full of energy. ���So many times,��� Howell says, ���I���ll be on a radio interview that���s live and my kids are banging Veto overridden: Ban on gender-affirming care for minors takes effect in North Carolina 08/17/2023 06:22am • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� Transgender youth in North Carolina lost access Wednesday to gender-affirming medical treatments after the Republican-led General Assembly overrode the governor���s vetoes of that legislation and other bills touching on gender in sports and LGBTQ+ instruction in the classroom. Virginia determined to honor the legacies of slain teammates as it returns to the field 08/17/2023 05:35am • CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) ��� Moving forward, not moving on. That will be one of the mantras for Virginia this season as the Cavaliers return to the field after three players were fatally shot and another was wounded last November. While some players chose to transfer to other programs, many o A nation of new Matildas fans salutes Australia's run to the Women's World Cup semifinals 08/17/2023 02:11am • SYDNEY (AP) ��� Sam Kerr looked up at the Stadium Australia crowd for the last time at this Women's World Cup, and it just compounded the gnawing disappointment that she and her Matildas had fallen one game before the final. In what has been an immense shift in the Australian public���s sporting con Stock market today: Asia follows Wall Street lower after Fed's notes dent hopes of rate hikes ending 08/16/2023 10:49pm • BEIJING (AP) ��� Asian stocks followed Wall Street lower Thursday after notes from a U.S. Federal Reserve meeting dented hopes interest rate hikes are finished. Hong Kong and Tokyo lost more than 1%. Shanghai, Seoul and Sydney also retreated. Oil prices declined. Wall Street's benchmark S&P 500 Alexandria to join Arlington, Fairfax counties with school zone speed cameras 08/16/2023 09:55pm • School zone speed cameras, a longtime fixture on the Maryland landscape, are now popping up in Northern Virginia. The City of Alexandria is joining Fairfax and Arlington counties in activating school zone speed cameras for the upcoming school year. The Alexandria cameras will be installed near DC leaders honor 'amazing' lifeguards for heroism at city pools 08/16/2023 09:00pm • Since Memorial Day, hundreds of thousands of people have walked into one of the many neighborhood pools around the District to take a dip and cool off. A handful of times, those swimmers couldn't make it out of the water themselves, and instead needed help from a lifeguard who was on duty. During Cuba welcomed at Little League World Series and holds Japan to a run but gets no-hit in 1-0 loss 08/16/2023 08:17pm • SOUTH WILIAMSPORT, Pa, (AP) ��� A long way from home and playing in its first Little League World Series game ever, Cuba allowed just one hit Wednesday, but got no-hit in a 1-0 loss to Japan in an opening round game. The Cuban team received a polite reception from the nearly 8,000 people in Voluntee When Your Adult Children Launch: What to Do With the Money You Aren't Spending on Them 08/16/2023 08:00pm • You took care of your children into adulthood, most likely at no minor cost. A 2022 Brookings Institute report found the projected average outlay from birth to age 18 for a child born in 2015 to a middle-class family with two children will be $310,605. Now that your adult children are on their own, Investing for Teens: How to Invest Money as a Teenager 08/16/2023 08:00pm • Most investors wish they had gotten started at a younger age, to let the magic of compounding work for them. Typically, investors are advised to begin salting away money in a 401(k) retirement account in their 20s, as they settle into the workforce.But what about beginning even earlier? Getting star How to Pay for Medical School 08/16/2023 08:00pm • Medical school is expensive, and for most future doctors, the burden of major debt may seem inevitable. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, 71% of medical students in 2022 graduated with education debt, averaging more than $200,000 per student. High medical school debt forces Devastated Tuohys ready to end conservatorship for Michael Oher, lawyers say 08/16/2023 06:25pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ��� A prominent Memphis couple with a longstanding relationship to former NFL player Michael Oher want to end a conservatorship that he���s challenging in court, their lawyers said. Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy intend to enter into a consent order to end the conservatorship, lawyer Illinois will provide burial for migrant toddler who died on bus 08/16/2023 05:59pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) ��� Illinois will provide for Thursday's funeral and burial for the migrant toddler who died last week on a bus headed to Chicago from Texas, officials said. Jismary Alejandra Barboza Gonz��lez, who would have turned 4 next week, died Aug. 10 while on a chartered bus, part of Buffalo shooting survivors say social media companies and a body armor maker enabled the killer 08/16/2023 05:14pm • YouTube, Reddit and a body armor manufacturer were among the businesses that helped enable the gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist attack at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket, according to a pair of lawsuits announced Wednesday. The complementary lawsuits filed by Everytown Law in state cou Okoye's journey: Chargers defensive lineman from Nigeria records a sack in his first football game 08/16/2023 04:32pm • COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) ��� Imagine never having played cricket before and then taking a wicket in an Indian Premier League match your first time out, or never seeing a rugby match in person and scoring a try in Australia���s National Rugby League. That might give you a better understanding of what