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Report of suspect carrying what looked like 'long gun' prompts lockdown at Bowie High 06/07/2023 09:22pm • One person is in custody after a report of a suspect with a firearm led to a lockdown at a Prince George's County, Maryland, high school. It happened near Bowie High School Wednesday around 1 p.m. A person was seen with what appeared to be a long barrel rifle, police said. The suspect was reporte MLB, WNBA postpone games due to smoke from Canadian wildfires 06/07/2023 08:41pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� With the stench of smoke permeating Yankee Stadium and wafting through its walkways, Major League Baseball postponed games in New York and Philadelphia on Wednesday night because of poor air quality caused by Canadian wildfires. A National Women's Soccer League game in New Jersey a CNN ousts CEO Chris Licht after a brief, tumultuous tenure 06/07/2023 06:41pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The chief executive CNN pushed out of a job on Wednesday faced mounting problems in his first year leading the struggling network: viewership and profits were declining, programming blunders were growing and the network���s journalists were losing confidence by the day. Chris Licht Utah district's Bible ban spurs protest by parents, Republicans 06/07/2023 05:44pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ��� Republican lawmakers rallied with more than one hundred Bible-toting parents and children at Utah's Capitol on Wednesday to protest a school district's decision to remove the Bible from middle and elementary school libraries in the wake of a GOP-backed ���sensitive materials� Business Highlights: Fed likely to hold rates steady; CNN ousts Licht after tumultuous tenure 06/07/2023 04:44pm • ___ Is it a ���skip��� or a ���pause���? Federal Reserve won���t likely raise rates next week but maybe next month WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Don���t call it a ���pause.��� When the Federal Reserve meets next week, it is widely expected to leave interest rates alone ��� after 10 straight meetings in which Review: 'Platonic' fills comedy void of 'Ted Lasso' on Apple TV+ 06/07/2023 04:06pm • Are you looking for a new comedy to watch now that "Ted Lasso" is over? You might try the new series "Platonic," which drops Episode 5 this Wednesday on Apple TV+. Set in modern-day Los Angeles, the story follows a restless middle-aged housewife named Sylvia (Rose Byrne), who re-connects w Wide disagreement reigns in trial of deputy accused of not stopping Parkland killer 06/07/2023 04:00pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) ��� The prosecution and defense in the trial of a Florida sheriff's deputy accused of not preventing some of the Parkland school shooting murders gave wildly divergent opening statements Wednesday, setting the stage for a trial that is the first of its kind in U.S. history Belarus' leader pardons woman arrested with her dissident journalist boyfriend in plane incident 06/07/2023 03:57pm • The president of Belarus has pardoned the girlfriend of a dissident journalist arrested in 2021 after being pulled off a commercial flight that was diverted to the country, a Russian governor reported Wednesday. President Alexander Lukashenko signed a decree freeing Sofia Sapega, Primorsk Gov. Oleg Platonic co-parenting offers an alternate model for family building 06/07/2023 03:36pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Nick Farrow wanted what a lot of people do: a child, and a parenting partner. At 45, after a long-term romance didn't work out, he decided to take matters into his own hands, entering into a platonic open arrangement that has flourished for nine years, since daughter Milly was born BBC, British Airways, Novia Scotia among first big-name victims in global supply-chain hack 06/07/2023 03:23pm • U.S. and British cybersecurity officials warned Wednesday that a Russian cyber-extortion gang's hack of a file-transfer program popular with corporations could have widespread global impact. Initial data-theft victims include the BBC, British Airways and Nova Scotia's government. ���This is poten Editorial Roundup: United States 06/07/2023 01:31pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: June 5 The Washington Post on social media's harm to young minds The U.S. surgeon general released an advisory this past month warning that the country���s children ���have become unknowing participants in a decades-long experiment��� Senators call on TikTok CEO to explain 'inaccurate' statements about how company manages US data 06/07/2023 01:20pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Two U.S. senators are asking TikTok to explain what they called ���misleading or inaccurate��� responses about how it stores and provides access to U.S. user data after recent news reports raised questions about how the Chinese-owned social media platform handles some sensitive inf Movie Review: Flamin��� Hot Cheetos get a loaded origin story, one that's worth the crunch 06/07/2023 12:10pm • Flamin��� Hot Cheetos get an origin story worthy of any Marvel superhero with Hulu���s totally engrossing ���Flamin' Hot.��� It's the tale of how a struggling Mexican American janitor came up with the idea of adding spice to the cornmeal, forever saving after-school snacking. Is it true? Probably n As conservatives target schools, LGBTQ+ kids and students of color feel less safe 06/07/2023 11:48am • NOLENSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� The first encounter with racism that Harmony Kennedy can remember came in elementary school. On a playground, a girl picked up a leaf and said she wanted to ���clean the dirt��� from Harmony���s skin. In sixth grade, a boy dropped trash on the floor and told her to pick Amanda Gorman addresses book bans in 1st interview since poem was restricted 06/07/2023 11:08am • ▶ Watch Video: Poet and author Amanda Gorman on "The Hill We Climb" being restricted in a Florida school Poet Amanda Gorman appeared on "CBS Mornings" Wednesday for her first interview since her poem and book, "The Hill We Climb," was restricted in a Florida schoo