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What to Bring to a Water Park: 18 Items You Can't Forget 06/17/2024 08:00pm • My family and I recently visited our first indoor water park resort: Kalahari Resort in the Poconos (highly recommend, by the way). While I packed many of the essentials, there were a few times I found myself saying, "Wow, I wish we had brought that." Based on my experience, I put together a compreh How to Prepare for Dramatically Higher Federal Student Loan Interest Rates 06/17/2024 08:00pm • When federal student loan interest rates increase again in July 2024, undergraduate students taking out direct loans for the 2024-2025 academic year will see some of the highest rates in over a decade. Meanwhile, graduate and professional degree students and parents taking out direct Grad PLUS or Pa 8 Top Nancy Pelosi Stocks to Buy 06/17/2024 08:00pm • Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in 2022 that the Senate would soon vote on a bill banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks. However, nearly two years later, Pelosi is no longer House Speaker, and members of Congress are still allowed to buy and sell individual stocks as long Some Fairfax Co. community members call for overhaul to sex education lessons 06/17/2024 07:40pm • Some parents and community members are calling for an overhaul of Fairfax County Public Schools' sex education curriculum, about a month after the committee that works on it presented its latest recommendations to the school board. During the public comment portion of Thursday's school board meet Nashville court grapples with details on school shooter that were leaked to media 06/17/2024 07:25pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Attorneys fighting over the release of documents involving a 2023 Nashville elementary school shooting pleaded with a judge Monday to finally issue a ruling settling the matter, their request taking on a more desperate tone amid the recent publication of leaked records abou California Senate approves ban on requiring schools to notify parents of child's pronoun change 06/17/2024 06:39pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� School districts in California would be barred from requiring teachers to notify parents if their child asks to go by a new pronoun at school under a bill the state Legislature is weighing amid legal battles over the rights of parents and gender-nonconforming students. T Tonys moments: Hillary Clinton and (sort of) Jay-Z in the house, strides for women and a late upset 06/17/2024 06:18pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� ���People, stop texting me!��� pleaded Kecia Lewis, with comic exasperation. The veteran Broadway performer had just won her first Tony award in a 40-year career, for the Alicia Keys musical ���Hell���s Kitchen,��� and was trying to read her acceptance speech off her phone. But she Tobacco-like warning label for social media sought by US surgeon general who asks Congress to act 06/17/2024 05:09pm • The U.S. surgeon general has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms and their effects on young people's lives, similar to those now mandatory on cigarette boxes. In a Monday opinion piece in the The New York Times, Dr. Vivek Murthy said that social media is a contribu 'Taking advantage of the community': DC council chair says some families getting short end of stick during a school renovation 06/17/2024 05:01pm • Some D.C. parents and the council chair are pushing back on a plan to use the green space in their children's school to set up trailers while another elementary school is getting renovated. The "swing space" for Drew Elementary School is being set up on one of the fields at J.C. Nalle Elementary, A woman may be freed after 43 years for a grisly murder. Was a police officer the real killer? 06/17/2024 04:16pm • A Missouri woman has spent 43 years in prison for a grisly 1980 murder that her lawyers say was actually committed by a police officer with ties to the murder scene. Now, Sandra Hemme is waiting to learn if she���ll regain her freedom, after a judge overturned her conviction last week. He ruled Hemm 'The Outsiders' wins best musical and 'Stereophonic' best play as women make strides at Tony Awards 06/17/2024 07:46am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� ���The Outsiders,��� a gritty adaptation of the classic young adult novel, became the essence of a Broadway insider on Sunday, winning the Tony Award for best new musical on a night when women made strides. The musical based on the beloved S. E. Hinton book is about rival gangs of Keeping children safe on social media: What parents should know to protect their kids 06/17/2024 07:29am • At what age should kids be on social media? Should they be on it at all? If they aren't, will they be social pariahs? Should parents monitor their conversations? Do parental controls work? Navigating social media as a parent ��� not to mention a child ��� is not easy. Using social media platforms i US-born Tonga kitefoiler chosen for Paris Olympics dies in diving accident at age 18 06/17/2024 07:00am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) ��� United States-born kitefoiler J.J. Rice, who was to represent Tonga at the Paris Olympics, has died in a diving accident. He was 18. Rice���s father Darren Rice confirmed his son���s death Monday to the Matangi Tonga newspaper. Jackson James Rice was set to become th Too much caffeine? Doctor alerts parents and teens to the dangers 06/17/2024 05:45am • Do you know what your teen is drinking? If they���re enjoying coffee, energy drinks and bubble teas, they might be drinking too much caffeine. ���I see teens going on group dates to coffee shops and they have a favorite coffee drink that they enjoy,��� said Dr. Christina Brown, a pediatrician wit Takeaways from the AP investigation into the Palestinian families being decimated in Gaza 06/17/2024 01:21am • BEIRUT (AP) ��� To a degree never seen before, Israel���s air and ground campaign in Gaza is killing entire Palestinian families. Entire bloodlines, sometimes four generations from the same family, have perished in single airstrikes or a series of airstrikes on members of the same family sheltering