Search

7 Ways to Prepare for an Unpaid Maternity Leave 06/14/2023 08:00pm • Welcoming a new child to the family is exciting, but it can also bring financial stress. That's particularly true if you are planning to take an unpaid maternity or paternity leave. Then, not only do you have the extra expenses that come with a new person in the household, but you'll have to contend Parents of girl who drowned at Kansas City water park file lawsuit 06/14/2023 07:07pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� The parents of a 6-year-old girl who drowned at a popular Kansas City water park last year allege in a lawsuit that the park repeatedly hires young, inexperienced lifeguards and does not adequately train them. Therron and Debra Stewart, of Grandview, Missouri, filed the law Federal judge hears bid to block Indiana's ban on gender-affirming care for minors 06/14/2023 05:13pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Indiana���s Legislature trampled upon the rights of young transgender patients and their parents with a new law aiming to ban them from accessing puberty blockers, hormones and gender-affirming surgeries, an attorney told a federal judge Wednesday. A federal judge in Indianapol Mexican diver Diego Balleza opens OnlyFans account to pay for Olympics training 06/14/2023 03:58pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� As a prominent 10-meter diver, Diego Balleza is used to wearing small swimsuits that show off his body. Now, desperate because of a lack of financial resources ahead of next year's Paris Olympics, the Mexican is making a leap to a different platform in which he also wears few cl Moore nominates three ��� including outgoing Prince George���s schools chief ��� to State Board of Education 06/14/2023 03:25pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP���s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters��� free email subscription today. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) announced appointments Wednesday to the state���s Board of Education, including a high-profile local schools lea Clint Dempsey says the US Soccer Federation is taking too long to hire a coach 06/14/2023 01:15pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Clint Dempsey thinks the U.S. Soccer Federation hurt the men���s national team by delaying its decision on a coach leading up to the 2026 World Cup. Gregg Berhalter���s contract expired Dec. 31 and the USSF appointed Anthony Hudson as interim coach while it investigated a decades-o In blow to Russian LGBTQ+ community, lawmakers weigh a bill banning gender transitioning procedures 06/14/2023 12:53pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� Russian lawmakers gave initial approval Wednesday to a bill that would outlaw gender transitioning procedures in yet another blow to the country's beleaguered LGBTQ+ community. Senior lawmaker Pyotr Tolstoy, who is among the bill���s sponsors, has said it is intended to ��� UK police hunt motive in Nottingham attack as friends mourn 2 students and a school caretaker 06/14/2023 12:45pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Police worked Wednesday to piece together details and the motive of a knife and van attack that killed two 19-year-old students and a 65-year-old man in the English city of Nottingham, leaving three families grieving and a university city in shock. University of Nottingham students B Loudoun Co. schools change how SROs handle sexual assaults 06/14/2023 10:53am • The Loudoun County school system in Virginia is changing how its school resource officers handle sexual assault cases under an agreement with law enforcement approved on Tuesday. The Loudoun County School Board unanimously approved a new Memorandum of Understanding with the county's sheriff's off An Amazon rainforest rite of passage in threatened territory 06/14/2023 09:57am • ALTO RIO GUAMA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil (AP) ��� The Indigenous adolescents danced in a circle under the thatched-roof hut from nearly dawn to dusk while parents looked on from the perimeter. Some of the adults smoked tobacco mixed with the wood from a local tree in Brazil���s Amazon rainforest. Movie Review: Americana, told Wes Anderson-style, in star-filled ���Asteroid City��� 06/14/2023 09:23am • Wes Anderson gets back to the heart of things in ���Asteroid City,��� a film about grief, performance, storytelling, the cosmos and, well, everything. Or, as one character, a playwright played by Edward Norton, says when asked what his work is about: ���It���s about infinity and I don���t know what Australian prosecutors drop murder charge over German backpacker's death in 2005 06/14/2023 05:12am • CANBERRA, Australia (AP) ��� The wife of a man accused of killing his German backpacker girlfriend 18 years ago welcomed Australian prosecutors dropping all charges Wednesday, while the dead woman's father described the decision as a stab in the heart. Charges against German immigrant Tobias Moran, Today in History: June 14, Continental Army is created 06/14/2023 12:01am • Today in History Today is Wednesday, June 14, the 165th day of 2023. There are 200 days left in the year. This is Flag Day. Today���s Highlight in History: On June 14, 1775, the Continental Army, forerunner of the United States Army, was created. On this date: In 1777, the Second Continental Con In court, Trump faced charges with no cameras present. Outside, he campaigned for all to see 06/13/2023 11:09pm • MIAMI (AP) ��� Former President Donald Trump gave a wave and a thumbs-up to crowds outside the federal courthouse in downtown Miami after pleading not guilty to criminal charges. He then headed to a Cuban restaurant where he warmly greeted waiting supporters in a camera-ready scene that resembled a 5 of the Best Travel Stocks to Buy for Travel Season 06/13/2023 08:00pm • Summer travel season is here, and industry experts expect a year of booming travel demand in 2023. In fact, 26% of Americans planned to increase leisure travel spending in the next three months, up from 19% in the first quarter, according to an April consumer survey by the U.S. Travel Association. T