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WATCH: Take your kids to work day at WTOP 04/27/2023 05:50pm • WTOP welcomed the next generation into the newsroom Thursday, as part of Take Your Kids to Work Day. Children of WTOP employees got a look at the studios, participated in fun activities, had a pizza party and heard from some of the best journalists in the D.C. region. The kids even put together the $2.3B awarded in sex abuse lawsuit that named Mormon church 04/27/2023 05:42pm • RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A woman who was molested for years by her stepfather has been awarded $2.28 billion by a California jury in a lawsuit that also implicated her mother and the local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in which both parents were active, her attorneys announced. The Microsoft's 'good guy' approach frays in UK gaming battle 04/27/2023 04:48pm • Microsoft's charm offensive with the world's governments is starting to lose some of its luster as the software giant is confronting its toughest antitrust scrutiny since co-founder Bill Gates was in charge. A blow came this week when British regulators said they would block Microsoft's planned $69- Business Highlights: Amazon results; CinemaCon 04/27/2023 04:45pm • ___ Amazon stocks surge after Q1 revenue, profit wins NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon on Thursday reported a slowdown in its cloud computing unit AWS, but stronger-than-expected revenue and profits for the first quarter sent its stocks higher in after-hours trading. The Seattle-based company said it pulled Jerry Springer, politician turned TV ringmaster, dies at 79 04/27/2023 04:42pm • CINCINNATI (AP) — Jerry Springer, the onetime mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show featured a three-ring circus of dysfunctional guests willing to bare all — sometimes literally — as they brawled and hurled obscenities before a raucous audience, died Thursday at 79. At its peak, “The North Dakota sends transgender pronoun bill to governor 04/27/2023 04:41pm • Public school teachers in North Dakota would be allowed to ignore the pronouns their transgender students use, under a bill that state Senate lawmakers passed Thursday with a veto-proof majority. The bill would also allow employees of government entities to ignore the pronouns their transgender col Virginia Daybook 04/27/2023 04:30pm • Associated Press Virginia Daybook for Thursday, Apr. 27. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. To see your Daybooks and events for Virginia and other St Meta, Hasbro rise; United Rentals, Wolfspeed fall 04/27/2023 04:24pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Meta Platforms Inc., up $29.16 to $238.56. Facebook's parent company raised its revenue forecast for the current quarter after reporting strong financial results. KLA Corp., up $27.28 to $384.64. The maker of equ How major US stock indexes fared Thursday 4/27/2023 04/27/2023 04:18pm • Wall Street steamed to its best day since January after Meta Platforms became the latest Big Tech company to blow past profit forecasts. The S&P 500 rose 2% Thursday. The Dow rose 1.6% and the Nasdaq added 2.4%. Facebook’s parent company did the heaviest lifting with an increase of 13.9%. Ex Stew Leonard Sr., founder of a regional grocer, dies at 93 04/27/2023 04:10pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Stew Leonard Sr., who founded more than 50 years ago a dairy store that became a regional grocery powerhouse under his name with locations in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey, died Wednesday at a New York hospital after a brief illness. Leonard Sr. was 93 years old, according Washington, Minnesota become trans refuges, shield abortions 04/27/2023 03:56pm • SEATTLE (AP) — Washington and Minnesota won't cooperate with attempts to prosecute out-of-state patients seeking reproductive or gender-affirming procedures and treatment, under new laws signed Thursday by the two states’ Democratic governors. They're the latest liberal states to enact legal saf Pandemic sent high school sex to new low, survey finds 04/27/2023 03:47pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The first years of the pandemic saw a huge decline in high school students having sex, according to a government survey. Teen sex was already becoming less and less common before COVID-19. About three decades ago, more than half of teens said they'd had sex, according to a large go Indiana bill could make book banning in schools easier 04/27/2023 03:47pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana lawmakers on Thursday gave their final approval to a bill that could make it easier to ban books from public school libraries. The bill would require school libraries to publicly post a list of books they offer and provide a complaints process for community members. Sch Contee says DC police chief job 'weighs on me every day' 04/27/2023 03:27pm • Speaking frankly and in personal terms, D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee addressed the public Thursday, explaining his decision to step down from the police department after more than 30 years on the force, including two years as chief. "The job weighs on me every day," Contee said. "You carry Alabama governor defends dismissal of cabinet member 04/27/2023 01:22pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama's governor replaced a Cabinet member who oversaw the state's award-winning prekindergarten program because of a teacher training book with language about inclusion and combatting structural racism, she said Thursday. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey defended her decision anno