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Why some families are calling for pedestrian safety upgrades near several Reston schools 04/28/2023 04:58am • Several families and Fairfax County, Virginia, school board member Melanie Meren are urging county and state governments to take steps to increase pedestrian safety near several Reston schools. In a memo addressed to Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeff McKay and obtained by WTOP, Me Player of the Week: Fauquier's Cassidy Scott 04/28/2023 04:27am • This week's WTOP Player of the Week is junior Cassidy Scott of Fauquier High School in Virginia. 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 junior Cassidy Scott of Fauquier High School in Warre Packers take pass-rusher Van Ness at No. 13 in NFL draft 04/28/2023 12:36am • GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) ��� The Green Bay Packers��� lack of pass-rushing depth was apparent when they struggled to get to opposing quarterbacks after Rashan Gary tore his anterior cruciate ligament last November. They are confident Iowa edge rusher Lukas Van Ness can help change that. Rather than gett Stock market today: Asia shares gain, tracking Wall St rally 04/28/2023 12:25am • Shares advanced in Asia on Friday after Wall Street rallied to its best day since January. Gains in Asian markets were more modest as traders waited to see what the Bank of Japan would do in its first policy meeting since Kazuo Ueda took the helm. The central bank kept its ultra-lax policy unchang Culture war clash gives Kansas new medication abortion law 04/28/2023 12:15am • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ��� Kansas clinics will be required to tell patients that medication abortions can be stopped using a drug regimen that the providers consider ineffective and potentially dangerous after a key legislative vote Thursday in the nation's ongoing partisan culture war. The Republican-co Today in History: April 28, Mussolini is executed 04/28/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Friday, April 28, the 118th day of 2023. There are 247 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On April 28, 1994, former CIA official Aldrich Ames, who had passed U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and then Russia, pleaded guilty to espionage and tax evasion 'Stop just reacting': How Montgomery Co. is responding to rise in school hate and bias incidents 04/27/2023 11:20pm • Monifa McKnight on April 27, 2023. (WTOP/Scott Gelman) In a nearly hourlong speech in front of Montgomery County parents, students and community members Thursday night, Superintendent Monifa McKnight strongly condemned a significant increase in hate and bias incidents that have been reported acr Smotherman posts 63 for one-shot lead in Mexico, Rahm 4 back 04/27/2023 09:18pm • VALLARTA, Mexico (AP) ��� Austin Smotherman already has his name on the Mexico Open trophy. He finished his round Thursday as though he'd love to see it on there again, closing with four straight birdies for an 8-under 63 and a one-shot lead over Erik van Rooyen and Tano Goya. Masters champion Jon R Kansas sets trans athlete rule; gender-affirming care saved 04/27/2023 08:45pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ��� A Kansas board decided Wednesday that high schools and middle schools must see transgender athletes' first birth certificates to decide what teams they can join, while an effort in the Legislature to end gender-affirming care for transgender minors failed. The Kansas State High Amazon Q1 revenue, profit grow but cloud unit a concern 04/27/2023 08:02pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Amazon on Thursday reported stronger-than-expected revenue and profits for the first quarter, sending its stocks higher in after-hours trading. But its prices took a dip in the evening amid concerns about a continued slowdown in the company's profitable cloud computing unit AWS. The Pink Tax Costs Women Thousands of Dollars Over Their Lifetimes 04/27/2023 08:00pm • The "pink tax" refers to gender-based price discrimination. Originally used to describe the sales taxes women pay for feminine hygiene products, the term has expanded. Now it refers to the practice of charging women more than men for consumer items and services that are essentially the same -- altho How Schools Serve Homeless Students 04/27/2023 08:00pm • Homeless families are often invisible in the communities where they live, though more than 50,000 families with children experienced homelessness last year and over 1 million school-age children were identified as homeless in 2020, according to the National Center for Homeless Education. The homeles The vet bill is $5,000. Now you have decisions to make 04/27/2023 08:00pm • As a pet owner, some of the most agonizing decisions you're faced with involve medical procedures for your beloved companion. Vet bills are expensive -- and getting more so. In 2022, government data shows their prices have increased by 10%, the biggest spike in two decades. When costs are extreme Bebe Rexha ignites a '70s disco inferno with album ���Bebe��� 04/27/2023 06:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Bebe Rexha���s eyes welled with tears after hearing Dolly Parton on her song ���Seasons��� for the first time. Recruiting the music icon for the record, which Rexha initially thought was a ���shot in the dark,��� was now reality. ���The first time listened to it, I cried,��� said t Rihanna, Martin Scorsese hype Paramount movies at CinemaCon 04/27/2023 06:19pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� Paramount Pictures, still riding high on the success of ���Top Gun: Maverick���s��� nearly $1.5 billion in worldwide ticket sales, brought a slew of stars from Rihanna to Martin Scorsese to CinemaCon for its presentation to theater owners Thursday. Paramount has fewer releases th