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Editorial Roundup: United States 04/26/2023 12:31pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: April 21 The Washington Post on the politicization of the education system The old-fashioned way states craft learning standards for grade-school students is slow and sure: Committee upon committee of stakeholders, from teachers to mat How millennial women can overcome savings barriers 04/26/2023 11:49am • From the wage gap to the pink tax, it's no secret women face additional financial barriers. And for millennial women, managing to save or invest their money is a particular challenge. "Millennial women are generally between the ages of 28 and 42 so they are in the thick of young adult life and al Cosmetic to critical: Blue states help trans health coverage 04/26/2023 11:14am • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� For most of her life in New Mexico, Christina Wood felt like she had to hide her identity as a transgender woman. So six years ago she moved to Oregon, where she had readier access to the gender-affirming health care she needed to live as her authentic self. Once there, Wood, Company seeks first-time restart of shuttered nuclear plant 04/26/2023 11:05am • TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) ��� A company that tears down closed nuclear power plants wants to do in Michigan what has never been done in the U.S.: restore a dead one to life. Holtec Decommissioning International bought the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station last June for the stated purpose of disma Review: Judy Blume goes Hollywood in ���Are You There God?...��� 04/26/2023 11:04am • There is not a cynical molecule in the big-screen adaptation of ��� Are You There God? It���s Me, Margaret,��� a sweet, playful and reverential adaptation of Judy Blume���s famed coming-of-age novel about the everyday problems of an 11-year-old girl. Perhaps it shouldn���t have been earthshattering Gender-neutral bathroom plans at Loudoun County schools face backlash 04/26/2023 10:38am • Loudoun County Public Schools is seeing push back from parents around a new pilot program that would renovate several school bathrooms in the Northern Virginia school system to make them gender-neutral. According to plans released by the school district in March, several staff bathrooms at Loudoun Bud Light fumbles, but experts say inclusive ads will stay 04/26/2023 10:20am • Bud Light may have fumbled its attempt to broaden its customer base by partnering with a transgender influencer. But experts say inclusive marketing is simply good business ��� and it���s here to stay. ���A few years from now, we will look back on this ���controversy��� with the same embarrassment t Taliban kill mastermind of suicide bombing at Kabul airport 04/26/2023 08:12am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A ground assault by the Taliban killed the Islamic State militant who spearheaded the August 2021 suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that left 13 U.S. troops and about 170 Afghans dead during the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, U.S. officials said. Initially, neither CME: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 04/26/2023 07:07am • CHICAGO (AP) ��� CHICAGO (AP) ��� CME Group Inc. (CME) on Wednesday reported first-quarter net income of $883.8 million. The Chicago-based company said it had net income of $2.43 per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were $2.42 per share. The results beat Wall Street expectatio Coalition taps DOJ in fight over possible historic cemetery in Prince William Co. 04/26/2023 04:56am • The Department of Justice is being asked to step into a battle over land that one organization says is home to the final resting place of people who lived in the Broad Run, Virginia, community of Thoroughfare. Frank Washington said his family was buried in a cemetery on the land now owned by a br Sudanese abroad try to extend a lifeline and aid back home 04/26/2023 02:52am • LONDON (AP) ��� With her homeland now a conflict zone, rest does not come easily for Dr. Sara Abdelgalil. She is anxious about family still in Sudan that she can't reach. Her sleepless mother paces the floor above her with worry. And her phone buzzes at all hours with text messages seeking medical a First reactions to ���The Flash,��� starring Ezra Miller 04/25/2023 10:47pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� The words ���impressive��� and ���awesome��� were common refrains from a group of entertainment reporters who were among the first to see the upcoming DC superhero movie ���The Flash.��� Warner Bros. screened the film for the first time at CinemaCon Tuesday for theater owners, exh Harry Belafonte mourned by entertainment world, Biden, Obama 04/25/2023 10:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Reaction poured in Tuesday from heads of state, civil-rights leaders and the entertainment world following the death of Harry Belafonte at age 96. As a prominent activist, charismatic singer, Hollywood leading man, Broadway star and trailblazing Black entertainer, Belafonte's loss Fairfax Co. hospitals experiencing surge in fentanyl emergency room visits among teenagers 04/25/2023 09:23pm • Like other communities in the D.C. region and across the nation, Fairfax County, Virginia, is in the grips of the opioid epidemic driven by fentanyl; and sadly, teenagers are increasingly caught up in the crisis. Concerned parents gathered at Woodson High School Monday night for a briefing by sch Ex-New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to join Harvard 04/25/2023 08:56pm • CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) ��� Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who led her country through a devastating mass shooting, will be temporarily joining Harvard University later this year, Kennedy School Dean Douglas Elmendorf said Tuesday. Ardern, a global icon of the left and an inspira