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Fairfax Co. adding 7 early release Mondays for elementary schoolers so teachers can finish required trainings 06/15/2024 07:39am • Fairfax County Public Schools is adding seven early release days to its elementary school calendar for the 2024-25 school year so teachers have enough time to finish required Virginia trainings. At Thursday's school board meeting, Superintendent Michelle Reid unveiled the plan to add the three-ho What we know about the fight between conspiracist Alex Jones and Sandy Hook families over his assets 06/15/2024 12:14am • HOUSTON (AP) ��� Bombastic conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to liquidate his personal assets as he owes $1.5 billion for his false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, which killed 20 first graders and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut, was a hoax. But the i On its 12th anniversary, DACA is on the ropes as election looms 06/15/2024 12:11am • ▶ Watch Video: ACLU sues Biden admin over asylum executive action Monarch butterflies, passionate activists, and "we're here to stay" signs have all become emblematic of marches and protests calling on presidential administrations to defend DACA recipients from Alex Jones��� personal assets to be sold to pay $1.5B Sandy Hook debt. Company bankruptcy is dismissed 06/14/2024 11:06pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� A federal judge on Friday ordered the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones��� personal assets but dismissed his company���s separate bankruptcy case, leaving the immediate future of his Infowars media platform uncertain as he owes $1.5 billion for his false claims that the Opal Lee gets keys to her new Texas home 85 years after a racist mob drove her family from that lot 06/14/2024 09:53pm • FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) ��� Opal Lee, the 97-year-old Texan known for her push to make Juneteenth a national holiday, was given the keys Friday to her new home, which was built on the same tree-lined corner lot in Fort Worth that her family was driven from by a racist mob when she was 12. ���I'm so h Annandale man raises more than $1M to feed starving people in Gaza 06/14/2024 08:20pm • A man in Northern Virginia is using an online fundraiser and personal connections to raise money and feed people who are starving in the war-torn city of Gaza. While Hani Almadhoun now lives in Annandale, he grew up in Gaza. His parents and siblings still live there. "We worry for their safety Trooper with checkered FBI past convicted of child rape in Alabama 06/14/2024 06:50pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ��� A former FBI agent was convicted Friday of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl while serving as an Alabama state trooper ��� a law enforcement job he landed even after he was kicked out of the FBI amid earlier claims that he raped a co-worker at knifepoint. Christopher Who is Alex Jones? The conspiracist and dietary supplement salesman built an empire over decades 06/14/2024 06:24pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� Alex Jones has pushed many conspiracy theories over the last three decades, including that the U.S. government was behind or failed to stop the Oklahoma City bombing and the 9/11 attacks. As the outlandish nature of his false claims grew, so did his media empire, with annual revenu Decomposed remains of an infant found in Kentucky are likely missing 8-month-old girl, police say 06/14/2024 06:23pm • REYNOLDS STATION, Ky. (AP) ��� Kentucky State Police detectives found the decomposed body of a baby Friday that they believe is an 8-month-old girl who has been missing for weeks. State police found ���an infant's body consistent with Miya Rudd��� in an Ohio County residence in western Kentucky. The Lynn Conway, microchip pioneer who overcame transgender discrimination, dies at 86 06/14/2024 06:16pm • Lynn Conway, a pioneer in the design of microchips that are at the heart of consumer electronics who overcame discrimination as a transgender person, has died at age 86. Her June 9 death was announced by the University of Michigan, where Conway was on the engineering faculty until she retired in 199 Holly Bobo murder case returns to court, 7 years after a Tennessee man's conviction 06/14/2024 06:02pm • SAVANNAH, Tenn. (AP) ��� Seven years after a man was convicted of killing nursing student Holly Bobo, the case has returned to the Tennessee courtroom where his intense, highly publicized murder trial unfolded. With Bobo's parents sitting in the courtroom, a judge heard legal arguments Friday as par Demolition of the Parkland classroom building where 17 died in 2018 shooting begins 06/14/2024 04:41pm • PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) ��� A large excavator stretched to the top floor of the three-story building where 17 people died in the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, punching its first hole Friday into the classroom where teacher Scott Beigel perished saving students. Beginning a Google CEO testifies at trial of collapsed startup Ozy Media and founder Carlos Watson 06/14/2024 03:54pm • Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified briefly Friday at the federal financial conspiracy trial surrounding buzz-to-bust startup Ozy Media, countering founder Carlos Watson's alleged claims that the search giant once sought to buy Ozy. Google did consider hiring Watson for a high-level news executive jo WTOP's Neal Augenstein: No Father's Day presents, please 06/14/2024 03:41pm • I don't wear ties much these days. My backyard grill is still working. Our cupboard is overflowing with coffee mugs, including one that reads "Grill Sergeant." Like a lot of us, I was lucky to have a terrific dad. Stanley Augenstein was smart, funny, friendly, involved -- I loved listening to sto Muslims start the Hajj against the backdrop of the devastating Israel-Hamas war 06/14/2024 02:44pm • MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) ��� In sweltering temperatures, Muslim pilgrims in the Saudi city of Mecca converged on a vast desert tent camp Friday, officially starting the annual Hajj pilgrimage. Earlier, they circled the cube-shaped Kaaba in the Grand Mosque, Islam���s holiest site. More than 1.5 milli