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French league files lawsuit after Ajaccio fans attack boy with cancer 06/06/2023 06:28am • An attack on an eight-year-old Marseille supporter with advanced cancer and his family during a match against Ajaccio in Corsica has prompted a complaint filed by the French soccer league. Ajaccio prosecutor Nicolas Septe said in a statement quoted by L'Equipe newspaper on Tuesday that the league jo Virginia plane crash investigators ask when pilot became unresponsive and why aircraft flew its path 06/06/2023 06:05am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The pilot of a business jet that flew over Washington and crashed in a remote part of Virginia appeared to be slumped over and unresponsive, three U.S. officials said Monday, recounting observations by fighter pilots who intercepted the wayward flight. The revelations came as DC bill aims to require health insurers to cover costly fertility treatments 06/05/2023 10:07pm • The D.C. Council will vote on a bill on Tuesday that would require insurance companies to cover fertility treatments. Infertility can be emotionally difficult and tough to navigate, and it's also incredibly costly. At-large Council member Christina Henderson's bill requires both private insure Microsoft will pay $20M to settle U.S. charges of illegally collecting children's data 06/05/2023 09:48pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Microsoft will pay a fine of $20 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it illegally collected and retained the data of children who signed up to use its Xbox video game console. The agency charged that Microsoft gathered the data without notifying parents or Louisiana Senate passes bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender youths 06/05/2023 09:08pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) ��� A controversial bill ��� that at one point had been presumed dead ��� banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender youths in Louisiana was passed by the Senate on Monday and is likely to reach the governor's desk in the coming days. The bill, which passed in the Se 'We need to make sure that they���re nourished': Free breakfast program expanding in Md. schools this fall 06/05/2023 08:00pm • Currently, teachers, administrators and parents are all worried about finishing this school year strong. Classes are almost over and summer is drawing near, but planning and funding is already underway for the next school year now, too. Last month. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore approved increased fundi How to talk about money with family -- and why it's important 06/05/2023 08:00pm • No matter how great your relationship is with your family, there are some topics you just don't enjoy talking about with them. At the top of that list for many families is money. Money is an inherently emotional topic, and when you layer in family dynamics, it's easy for disagreements to get blow Commission: Florida judge should be reprimanded for conduct during Parkland school shooting trial 06/05/2023 07:00pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) ��� The Florida judge who oversaw the penalty trial of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz should be publicly reprimanded for showing bias toward the prosecution, failing to curtail ���vitriolic statements��� directed at Cruz's attorneys by the victims' families and somet Oklahoma school board approves what would be the 1st taxpayer-funded religious school in US 06/05/2023 06:15pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ��� A state school board in Oklahoma voted Monday to approve what would be the first publicly funded religious school in the nation, despite a warning from the state's attorney general that the decision was unconstitutional. The Statewide Virtual Charter School Board voted 3-2 to Mother of 6-year-old who shot teacher will plead guilty to federal felony charges in deal with prosecutors 06/05/2023 05:44pm • (CNN) — The mother of a 6-year-old boy who brought a gun to school and shot his first-grade teacher in January in Newport News, Virginia, will plead guilty to new federal felony charges as part of a deal with prosecutors, her attorney said Monday.Deja Taylor, the 26-year-old mother, was charge Memorial for Las Vegas mass shooting takes shape as 5 potential designs revealed 06/05/2023 05:43pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� A series of white angel wings rise up from the earth bathed in a warm glow of light, their sweeping forms creating a long covered pathway surrounded by trees in a possible centerpiece for the memorial to modern America's deadliest mass shooting. It's one of five potential designs CNN chief apologizes to employees for distracting from work 06/05/2023 05:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Chris Licht, the embattled chief executive of CNN, apologized to network employees on Monday for distracting from their work and promised to ���fight like hell��� to earn their trust amid criticism of his year at the helm. Licht's tenure hit a low point last week with publication o Woman was killed, dismembered by daughter and granddaughter, prosecutors say 06/05/2023 05:07pm • Words such as "mind boggling" were used in court to describe a murder that the chief of the unit that prosecutes many of the worst crimes in Prince George's County, Maryland, described as among the worst murders in memory. At the moment, 71-year-old Margaret Craig, of the Landover area, is still Education reform efforts include a focus on college and career readiness standards. Here���s how each school district proposes to do it 06/05/2023 02:34pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP���s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters��� free email subscription today. The Maryland State Department of Education released an interim report last month to assess what hundreds of thousands of state students did Book Review: Isabel Allende's 'The Wind Knows My Name' explores lives of 2 children adrift alone 06/05/2023 12:46pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� "The Wind Knows My Name" by Isabel Allende (Ballantine Books) Prolific Latin American-born author Isabel Allende skillfully braids the traumatic stories of two young children separated from each other by decades and thousands of miles in her latest novel, ���The Wind Knows My Name.