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Review: In ���Chevalier,��� an erased figure gets a lush biopic 04/19/2023 11:11am • Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, was an extraordinarily accomplished man in Marie Antoinette���s France. He was a scholar, a fencer, a virtuoso violinist and a famous and sought-after composer who wrote string quartets, symphonies and operas. His influence was vast, but he was all but Long after heyday, soda fountain pharmacies still got fizz 04/19/2023 10:58am • KENOVA, W.Va. (AP) ��� The jukebox plays Chubby Checker's ���The Twist��� as Malli Jarrett and Nathaniel Fornash take turns at the Griffith & Feil Drug food counter preparing old-fashioned, soda-fountain phosphate drinks. Soda fountains like this were hugely popular a century ago. Often located How to ease your kids into estate planning 04/19/2023 10:51am • When parents talk with their kids at the dinner table, estate planning probably doesn���t come up. But considering we aren���t immortal, it should. It���s worth having age-appropriate conversations to introduce children to the idea of estate planning. As children grow older, parents can provide more You can now apply for your share of a $725 million Facebook data privacy settlement. Here's how 04/19/2023 09:18am • Facebook users who had an active account at any point between May 2007 and December 2022 can now apply to receive a piece of parent company Meta's $725 million settlement related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Meta in December agreed to the payment to settle a longstanding class action lawsu Madagascar faces 'catastrophic' hunger after 3 cyclones 04/19/2023 09:12am • MANANJARY, Madagascar (AP) ��� Battered by three intense cyclones in the space of a year, southeast Madagascar is experiencing the knock-on effect of those climatic disasters: ���catastrophic��� hunger in remote, inaccessible areas that is gaining little international attention, humanitarian groups How to create and maintain a family budget 04/19/2023 08:30am • Your money shouldn't be a mystery, but it is to many people. In fact, 65% of Americans don't know what they spent last month, according to a 2020 survey conducted by budgeting app Mint. "People are always more optimistic about their finances than they should be," says Howard Dvorkin, a certified Charges put focus on Jehovah's Witnesses' handling of abuse 04/19/2023 08:15am • YORK HAVEN, Pa. (AP) ��� A Pennsylvania grand jury in recent months accused nine men with connections to the Jehovah's Witnesses of child sexual abuse in what some consider the nation's most comprehensive investigation yet into abuse within the faith. The sets of charges filed in October and Februar Parents, schools face increasing scrutiny after shootings 04/19/2023 01:13am • NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) ��� In many school shootings, the person who pulled the trigger ��� often a current or former student ��� is the only one blamed for the crime. But the arrest last week of a mother, whose 6-year-old son shot his teacher, and a related investigation of school employees shows ho Ralph Yarl armed only with 'Black skin,' family lawyer says 04/18/2023 10:32pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� As Ralph Yarl struggled to come to grips with being shot after going to the wrong house to pick up his younger brothers, the white Kansas City, Missouri, homeowner who shot the Black teenager turned himself in and was released on bond Tuesday. Andrew Lester, 84, surrendered J-Hope becomes 2nd BTS member to join South Korean army 04/18/2023 09:23pm • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� J-Hope, a member of K-pop sensation BTS, entered a South Korean boot camp Tuesday to start his 18-month compulsory military service, becoming the group���s second member to join the country's army. There was heated public debate in 2022 over whether to offer special ex After Alabama birthday shooting, hope and frustration 04/18/2023 09:23pm • DADEVILLE, Ala (AP) ��� Three days after gunfire at a Sweet 16 birthday party killed four young people and injured 32 more, some critically, victims��� relatives and officials expressed hope that investigators may be nearing an arrest and also frustration about police silence on the case. The Alaba Tennessee moves to shield gun firms after school shooting 04/18/2023 09:06pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� In the wake of a deadly school shooting last month, Republican lawmakers in Tennessee awarded final passage Tuesday to a proposal that would further protect gun and ammunition dealers, manufacturers and sellers against lawsuits. The Senate's 19-9 vote sends the bill to Repu Fox, Dominion reach $787M settlement over election claims 04/18/2023 08:32pm • WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) ��� Fox News agreed Tuesday to pay Dominion Voting Systems nearly $800 million to avert a trial in the voting machine company's lawsuit that would have exposed how the network promoted lies about the 2020 presidential election. The stunning settlement emerged just as opening st Restored Tennessee Rep. Pearson charts progressive path 04/18/2023 07:48pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Tennessee Rep. Justin Pearson never guessed he'd be expelled for leading a gun control protest on the House floor after a deadly school shooting. Nor did he predict that he'd be propelled into the national spotlight, placing his state at the forefront of the conversation on Transgender girls go to court over Arizona school sports ban 04/18/2023 07:21pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� The parents of two transgender girls in Arizona filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a year-old state law banning trans girls from participating in school sports. Attorneys for the families, whose names are concealed in court documents out of fear for their childrens' safety, filed