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Virginia jury acquits school spokesman of perjury in probe that was a focus of governor���s campaign 06/22/2023 07:33pm • LEESBURG, Va. (AP) ��� A jury on Thursday acquitted the longtime spokesman for a northern Virginia school system of perjuring himself during a high-profile investigation of two school-based sexual assaults. The jury took only about two hours to deliberate before acquitting Loudoun County Public S Families detail stress, terror and sadness after Nashville school shooting in court documents 06/22/2023 06:47pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Nearly three months after a shooter killed six people at her daughter's school in Nashville, Katherine Heath watches the third-grader lie on her husband's chest whenever her child has a ���sad day.��� After losing multiple classmates, Heath's daughter is now visibly withdra First gene therapy for deadly form of muscular dystrophy gets FDA approval for young kids 06/22/2023 06:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The first gene therapy for a deadly form of muscular dystrophy received preliminary U.S. approval on Thursday despite concerns from some government scientists about the treatment's ability to help boys with the inherited disease. The Food and Drug Administration approval provides Tips for avoiding the 'summer slide' and keeping kids on track before the fall 06/22/2023 06:15pm • School officials in the D.C. region are urging parents to keep their kids reading and practicing math this summer, to avoid what they call a "summer slide" in academic performance when classes resume in the fall. Peggy Pugh, chief academic officer for Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland, Transgender sports ban heads to North Carolina governor's desk 06/22/2023 06:12pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� Transgender girls in North Carolina would no longer be allowed to play on the school sports teams that align with their gender identity under a proposal that received final legislative approval on Thursday. The GOP-controlled state House voted 62-43 to send the bill to the des TikTok's COO to step down after nearly 5 years at the popular social media company 06/22/2023 06:11pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� TikTok���s Chief Operating Officer, V Pappas, is leaving the popular social media platform after nearly five years at the company. In a note sent to employees Thursday morning and later shared on Twitter, Pappas, who uses she/her and they/them pronouns, said now that the company ha Moms for Liberty chapter apologizes for quoting Hitler in its newsletter 06/22/2023 05:04pm • An Indiana chapter of Moms for Liberty, a nonprofit that advocates for ��� parental rights ��� in education and was recently labeled as ���extremist��� by an anti-hate watchdog, is apologizing and condemning Adolf Hitler after using a quote attributed to the Nazi leader in its inaugural newsletter. Witnesses to Parkland massacre describe their confusion in pinpointing gunshots' location 06/22/2023 05:01pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) ��� The courtroom battle over whether the sound of gunshots during the Parkland school massacre should have directed a Florida sheriff's deputy to the attacker's location ramped up Thursday as defense testimony showed others also thought the thunderous blasts were coming f What's driving the rise in car thefts across the DC area? 06/22/2023 04:48pm • The number of cars being stolen continues to rise in the D.C. area. Compared to this time last year, auto thefts are up 84% in Montgomery County, with more than a thousand stolen so far this year compared 500 in 2022. In DC 3,373 stolen car cases has auto thefts up 118% and with 3,820 stolen cars In 'Every Body,' a galvanizing moment ��� and celebration ��� for the intersex community 06/22/2023 04:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Like some 260,000 Americans, Sean Saifa Wall was born with significant intersex traits. The sex on the birth certificate was checked ���ambiguous��� and then crossed out. Wall was instead labeled female on the document and, at the age of 13, after his mother was inaccurately warne Movie Review: A fantasy adventure with riot-grrrl energy in ���Nimona��� 06/22/2023 04:23pm • A powerful, shapeshifting teenage girl and a disgraced knight-in-training suspected of killing a beloved queen are at the heart of ��� Nimona,��� a vibrant and irreverent animated adventure set in a futuristic fantasy kingdom. It is a familiar story ��� a society governed by ancient rules and a crip Tech billionaires' cage match? Musk throws down the gauntlet and Zuckerberg accepts challenge 06/22/2023 01:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are ready to fight, offline. In a now-viral back-and-forth seen on Twitter and Instagram this week, the two tech billionaires seemingly agreed to a ���cage match��� face off. It all started when Musk, who owns Twitter, responded to a tweet about Meta A year after fall of Roe, 25 million women live in states with abortion bans or tighter restrictions 06/22/2023 11:04am • One year ago Saturday, the U.S. Supreme Court rescinded a five-decade-old right to abortion, prompting a seismic shift in debates about politics, values, freedom and fairness. Twenty-five million women of childbearing age now live in states where the law makes abortions harder to get than they were Weekly US applications for unemployment aid remain relatively elevated 06/22/2023 10:04am • The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits remained relatively elevated last week, potentially another signal that Federal Reserve rate hikes are beginning to cool a surprisingly resilient labor market. U.S. applications for jobless claims were 264,000 for the week ending June 17, th Teenage volleyball player who lost legs in St. Louis accident sues drivers, city 06/22/2023 09:58am • ST. LOUIS (AP) ��� A teenage volleyball player from Tennessee is suing the Missouri city of St. Louis and two drivers who struck her in February, causing her to lose both legs. The lawsuit on behalf of Janae Edmondson was filed Tuesday. The driver allegedly responsible for the wreck, Daniel Riley, w