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Mexican chef and promoter of local ingredients celebrated 05/05/2023 07:05pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Years ago, chef Elena Reygadas of the restaurant Rosetta wondered why Mexican cuisine was not more popular internationally and concluded it was due to the ingredients. Now a proud defender of those same ingredients, she has been recognized as the World���s Best Female Chef 2023. Berkeley professor apologizes for false Indigenous identity 05/05/2023 05:59pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� An anthropology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, whose identity as Native American had been questioned for years apologized this week for falsely identifying as Indigenous, saying she is ���a white person" who lived an identity based on family lore. Elizabe Texas investigates hospital over care for transgender minors 05/05/2023 05:21pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� A Texas hospital's care for transgender minors is being investigated by state Attorney General Ken Paxton, who said Friday he's seeking evidence of alleged ���potentially illegal activity��� but did not elaborate. Texas law does not currently ban gender-affirming care for min States add laws on pronouns, sports for transgender students 05/05/2023 04:29pm • Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb this week signed into a law a requirement that schools notify a parent when their student asks to be called a different name or uses pronouns that correspond with their gender, not their sex. It's the latest law to emerge from a focus in Republican-controlled states on res 'No child deserves that,' says godmother of slain 6-year-old 05/05/2023 04:14pm • KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) ��� Relatives are demanding justice for a 6-year-old boy who was killed outside his Kansas home in a drive-by shooting that police said doesn't appear to be random. Kansas City, Kansas, police spokeswoman Nancy Chartrand confirmed Friday that the boy was Sir���Antonio Brown a Russia jails artists amid crackdown on dissent 05/05/2023 03:25pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� A Russian court on Friday ordered pretrial detention for a theater director and a playwright facing charges of justifying terrorism, the latest move in a relentless crackdown on dissent in Russia that spiked to unprecedented levels since the start of the war in Ukraine. Th Virginia parents can now get state grants for student tutoring 05/05/2023 01:59pm • One-on-one tutoring for students can be downright unaffordable, but Virginia has launched a $30 million grant program that is meant to help families pay for those services. Through the program, families can apply for a $1,500 grant per student that would go toward tutoring in English, math, s Biden taps WH aide Neera Tanden as domestic policy adviser 05/05/2023 12:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden announced Friday that he has chosen Neera Tanden, a veteran Washington insider who currently serves as White House staff secretary and senior adviser, to be his new domestic policy adviser. Tanden will be the first Asian American to lead any of the three majo DeSantis celebrates wins at end of busy legislative session 05/05/2023 11:27am • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� On the day he took office, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vowed to pursue an agenda that would heal the state's political divisions. In an op-ed, he pledged to prioritize environmental protection, the economy, education. He highlighted the ���diverse, bipartisan group of qualif Kidnapped Nigerian girls freed, return to Chibok with babies 05/05/2023 08:26am • MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) ��� Two Nigerian women abducted as schoolgirls by a jihadi militant group nine years ago have been rescued, the West African nation���s military has said. One had a year-old baby while the second gave birth to her second child days after her freedom. Hauwa Maltha and Esther Nathalie Stutzmann, contralto now conductor, to debut at Met 05/05/2023 07:44am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� While singing on the world���s great stages, Nathalie Stutzmann thought about blond lager. ���In Europe it���s very common to have the conductor getting a beer right backstage. I was so thirsty when I came offstage after a performance, I was always dreaming: It would be nice to be Frontier Communications: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 05/05/2023 07:04am • NORWALK, Conn. (AP) ��� NORWALK, Conn. (AP) ��� Frontier Communications Parent Inc. (FYBR) on Friday reported profit of $3 million in its first quarter. The Norwalk, Connecticut-based company said it had profit of 1 cent per share. The telecommunications company posted revenue of $1.44 billion in th Player of the Week: Clarksburg's Genevieve Gleason 05/05/2023 04:00am • Each week, WTOP is picking one student athlete to be featured on air and online as our Player of the Week. This week's WTOP Player of the Week is Genevieve Gleason of Clarksburg High School in Maryland. Genevieve has excelled on and off the field this year as a senior at Clarksburg. As a softball GOP boycott in Oregon halts bills on guns, abortion and more 05/05/2023 12:52am • SALEM, Ore. (AP) ��� Most Republican members of the Oregon Senate failed to show up for the second straight day Thursday, delaying action by the majority Democrats on bills on gun safety, abortion rights and gender-affirming health care. The stayaway prevented a quorum, with Senate President Rob Oakland teachers union on strike; schools open without them 05/04/2023 10:52pm • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ��� More than 3,000 teachers and other workers in the Oakland Unified School District went on strike Thursday, saying the district failed to bargain in good faith on a new contract that asks for more resources for students and higher pay for employees. The district's 80 schoo