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Recruitment of children by armed groups in Syria is on the rise, even as fighting subsides 06/28/2023 10:54am • QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) ��� A 13-year-old Kurdish girl went missing on her way home from a school exam last month, after being approached by a man from an armed group. Her parents immediately feared the worst ��� that she had been persuaded to join the group and was taken to one of its training camps. Man who tried to have his child-porn victim killed is headed to prison 06/28/2023 09:15am • CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) ��� A New Jersey man has been sentenced to more than six years in federal prison after exchanging sexually explicit videos and images with a 13-year-old New York girl and later paying $20,000 in bitcoin to have her killed, eventually calling it off. John Michael Musbach, 34, of Had Families worry over the future of Medicaid caregiver payments that were expanded during the pandemic 06/28/2023 09:15am • Nathan Hill started receiving $12.75 an hour from a state Medicaid program to help care for his severely disabled son during the pandemic, money he said allowed his family to stop using food stamps. The program was designed to provide a continuation of care and ease a home health worker shortage tha National Women's Soccer League experiencing youth movement as teenagers take the field 06/28/2023 06:00am • When Olivia Moultrie was just 13, her family moved from California to Oregon so she could train with the Portland Thorns. The National Women's Soccer League had a rule at the time that all players had to be at least 18, so Moultrie could only practice with the team. On game days, she watched the Th Threatened by shortages, electric car makers race for supplies of lithium for batteries 06/28/2023 02:10am • BEIJING (AP) ��� Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the once-obscure ���white gold��� in a politically and environmentally fraught competition from China to Nevada to Chile. General Motors Co. and the parent company of Threatened by shortages, electric car makers race for supplies of lithium for batteries 06/27/2023 11:58pm • BEIJING (AP) ��� Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the once-obscure ���white gold��� in a politically and environmentally fraught competition from China to Nevada to Chile. General Motors Co. and the parent company of 'We will never surrender our children!': Groups protest Montgomery Co. schools' book opt-out provision 06/27/2023 11:14pm • Protesters gathered outside the Montgomery County Public School system���s Board of Education office Tuesday afternoon to press the school board to reverse its decision barring an opt-out provision over the use of LGBTQ+ books for children from pre-K through fifth grade. Before Tuesday afternoon� Former Laurel police chief sentenced to 8 full life terms on arson charges 06/27/2023 10:18pm • The former police chief of Laurel, Maryland, will spend the rest of his life behind bars for setting fire to several homes and a car, all of which belonged to people he believed slighted him. A judge in Howard County sentenced David Crawford, 71, of Ellicott City, to eight life terms in prison pl Thousands of unauthorized vapes are pouring into the US despite the FDA crackdown on fruity flavors 06/27/2023 09:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The number of different electronic cigarette devices sold in the U.S. has nearly tripled to over 9,000 since 2020, driven almost entirely by a wave of unauthorized disposable vapes from China, according to tightly controlled sales data obtained by The Associated Press. The surge Paul McCartney's rediscovered photos show Beatlemania from the inside 06/27/2023 08:56pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Is there really a new way to look at The Beatles, one of the most filmed and photographed bands in history? Yes, says Britain���s National Portrait Gallery, which is providing a fresh perspective with an exhibition of band���s-eye-view images that Paul McCartney captured as the group Woman loses bid to sue prosecutor over sexual abuser's light sentence 06/27/2023 08:13pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� A Louisiana woman who watched a man who coerced her into a sex act when she was 16 walk free in a plea deal has lost a legal battle to sue the prosecutor in the case. Louisiana���s Supreme Court had ruled earlier this year that the assistant district attorney in the case was im Canadian wildfires are causing the worst air in the US in cities like Chicago and Detroit 06/27/2023 08:00pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Drifting smoke from the ongoing wildfires across Canada is creating curtains of haze and raising air quality concerns throughout the Great Lakes region and in parts of the central and eastern United States. The Environmental Protection Agency���s AirNow.gov site showed parts of Illi The 26 Best Fall Festivals in the U.S. for 2023 06/27/2023 08:00pm • Fall brings relief from months of sweltering heat, as people are eager to don their flannel shirts and sweaters to greet the cooler temperatures and crisp air. The season also ushers in plenty of once-a-year activities from apple picking and pumpkin carving to cider sipping and leaf peeping. With au Financial Pros and Cons of Living With Your Parents 06/27/2023 08:00pm • Living with your parents is nothing new, but in recent years there has been an uptick in the number of people staying at home. A Pew Research Center study from 2020 found the percentage of young adults from 18 to 29 living with their parents at an all-time high. Even in the years following this spik Extortion trial delayed until fall for suspect in Natalee Holloway���s disappearance 06/27/2023 07:42pm • BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) ��� A U.S. judge on Tuesday agreed to delay Joran Van der Sloot's extortion trial until the fall to give him more time to prepare a defense or decide if he wants to enter a guilty plea. Van der Sloot's attorney Kevin Butler had asked for the continuance from the July 31 trial d