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Judge hears from experts to decide whether to block Georgia's ban on gender-affirming care 08/10/2023 06:10pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� A federal judge in Atlanta heard conflicting testimony Thursday about the safety and benefit of hormone therapy to treat adolescents struggling with their gender identity. Judge Sarah Geraghty held a hearing to gather evidence before deciding whether to block a Georgia law that bans Supreme Court blocks, for now, OxyContin maker bankruptcy deal that would shield Sacklers 08/10/2023 04:50pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily blocked a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would shield members of the Sackler family who own the company from civil lawsuits over the toll of opioids. The justices agreed to a request from the Biden administr A Georgia teacher wants to overturn her firing for reading a book to students about gender identity 08/10/2023 04:49pm • MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) ��� A Georgia public school teacher took the stand Thursday trying to reverse her firing after officials said she improperly read a book on gender fluidity to her fifth grade class. Katie Rinderle had been a teacher for 10 years when she got into trouble in March for reading the p Virginia Daybook 08/10/2023 04:31pm • Associated Press Virginia Daybook for Thursday, Aug. 10. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. To see your Daybooks and events for Virginia and other St New school bus routes a 'disaster,' Kentucky superintendent admits. Last kids got home at 10 pm 08/10/2023 03:28pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� Kentucky's largest school system cancelled the second and third day of classes after a disastrous overhaul of the transportation system that left some children on buses until just before 10 p.m. on opening day. Jefferson County Public Schools Superintendent Marty Pollio call Prosecutors won't seek death penalty for woman accused of killing, dismembering parents 08/10/2023 03:12pm • NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) ��� A suburban Philadelphia woman accused of fatally shooting her parents and dismembering their bodies with a chainsaw in the home they shared will not face a death sentence, prosecutors said Thursday. The announcement came during an arraignment hearing for Verity Beck, 44, of Hip-hop turns 50, reinventing itself and swaths of the world along the way 08/10/2023 12:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� It was born in the break, all those decades ago ��� that moment when a song's vocals dropped, instruments quieted down and the beat took the stage. It was then that hip-hop came into the world, taking the moment and reinventing it. Something new, coming out of something familiar. A Robbie Robertson, lead guitarist and songwriter of The Band, dies at 80 08/10/2023 12:08pm • Robbie Robertson, The Band���s lead guitarist and songwriter who in such classics as ���The Weight��� and ���Up on Cripple Creek��� mined American music and folklore and helped reshape contemporary rock, died Wednesday at 80. Robertson died surrounded by family in Los Angeles ���after a long illness Movie Review: The movie version of a beach read arrives in Amazon's ���Red, White & Royal Blue��� 08/10/2023 12:02pm • ��� Red, White & Royal Blue ��� is a harmlessly enjoyable fantasy rom-com. It���s not Nora Ephron or Nancy Meyers, nor is it really trying to be. It���s more in line, aesthetically, tonally, emotionally (in other words not really emotional at all), with one of those early aughts trifles where a 'Time is of the essence': Police make another plea for information about missing Md. teacher 08/10/2023 11:58am • Greenbelt Police Chief Richard Bowers holds a news conference Aug. 10, 2023, on the disappearance of Mariame Toure Sylla. (WTOP/John Domen) The concern surrounding a missing teacher from Greenbelt, Maryland, is only growing nearly two weeks since she was last seen. The last time anyone saw 59 Lego Discovery Center opens at Springfield Town Center 08/10/2023 11:45am • LEGO's newest Discovery Center officially opens to the public August 14 at Springfield Town Center in Virginia after an official ribbon-cutting and preview on August 9. The LEGO Discovery Center will also be open August 10 through August 13 for a First Play Days preview. The 32,000-square-foot New school year means new free SmarTrip cards for DC students 08/10/2023 11:38am • The District is once again making getting to school a little easier, and free, for local students. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is encouraging parents to plan ahead for the new school year and how students get to school every day, encouraging them to take advantage of the Kids Ride Free program. Big fashion is getting bigger. Parent of Coach will buy Versace owner Capri in $8.5 billion deal 08/10/2023 10:52am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Tapestry, the parent company of luxury handbag and accessories retailer Coach, is buying the owner of fashion brands including Michael Kors, Versace and Jimmy Choo, Capri Holdings. Big fashion has been getting even bigger through a spate of acquisitions as U.S. players seek more s 'Big Brother' contestant removed from house after using N-word 08/10/2023 09:30am • Reality TV contestant Luke Valentine has been removed from "Big Brother" after using the N-word on camera, violating the show's policy, CBS said Wednesday. "Luke violated the BIG BROTHER code of conduct and there is zero tolerance in the house for using a racial slur," the network and show produc Children's author Dav Pilkey has shameless title for next 'Dog Man' book, 'The Scarlet Shedder' 08/10/2023 08:00am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� With apologies to Nathaniel Hawthorne and admirers of ���The Scarlet Letter,��� Dav Pilkey has a shameless name for the next installment of his multi-million selling ���Dog Man��� children's books series about a canine superhero: ���Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder," to be published Ma