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Mexican government puts grammatical 'errors' into textbooks 03/27/2023 06:24pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Mexico���s president on Monday defended the apparent insertion of what teachers have long considered grammatical errors into school textbooks. Copies of the new textbooks posted on social media show them using words like ���dijistes,��� long considered an incorrect or uneducate Black, Hispanic investors struggle with faith in crypto 03/27/2023 05:42pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A software developer twice invested his savings in cryptocurrencies, only to lose it all. But he still promotes it to the Black community and would like to get back in himself. A recent college graduate and a single mom are dabbling hopefully in bitcoin after attending a crypto wo Silicon Valley Bank collapse concerns founders of color 03/27/2023 05:22pm • In the hours after some of Silicon Valley Bank���s biggest customers started pulling out their money, a WhatsApp group of startup founders who are immigrants of color ballooned to more than 1,000 members. Questions flowed as the bank���s financial status worsened. Some desperately sought advice: Cou Wisconsin school bans Miley, Dolly duet from class concert 03/27/2023 04:43pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� Administrators at a Wisconsin elementary school stopped a first-grade class from performing a Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton duet promoting LGBTQ acceptance because the song "could be perceived as controversial." Students at Heyer Elementary School in Waukesha had prepared a ren Mass school shootings kill 175 from Columbine to Nashville 03/27/2023 04:42pm • Mass shooters have killed hundreds of people throughout U.S. history in realms like stores, theaters and workplaces, but it is in schools and colleges where the carnage reverberates perhaps most keenly ��� places filled with children of tender ages, older students aspiring to new heights and the tea Biden's moves on Alaska drilling, TikTok test young voters 03/27/2023 04:36pm • TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) ��� Recent moves by President Joe Biden to pressure TikTok over its Chinese ownership and approve oil drilling in an untapped area of Alaska are testing the loyalty of young voters, a group that���s largely been in his corner. Youth turnout surged in the three elections since Donal DeSantis signs bill expanding school voucher program 03/27/2023 04:17pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed legislation to allow all K-12 students in the state to get taxpayer-funded vouchers for private schools, continuing a focus on education as he prepares to launch an expected Republican presidential campaign. The law expands Flo Supreme Court skeptical of man who offered adult adoptions 03/27/2023 03:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Supreme Court seemed inclined Monday to rule against a man convicted of violating immigration law for offering adult adoptions he falsely claimed would lead to citizenship. Attorneys for Helaman Hansen told the justices during approximately 90 minutes of arguments that the Bowser lays out plan to get more kids into child care 03/27/2023 03:32pm • More children in the nation's capital would be eligible to receive financial assistance for child care programs under a plan rolled out by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday. Bowser said she wants to raise the eligibility for the District's child care subsidy program from 250% to 300% of the fede Foes of Kentucky transgender bill push back with radio ads 03/27/2023 02:35pm • FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) ��� A well-known Kentucky Republican on Monday blasted the GOP's push for transgender legislation, calling it ���a bad look for the party of Abraham Lincoln��� in a radio ad coming days before lawmakers could vote to override the Democratic governor's veto of the bill. Former lon Fairfax Co. jury recommends 78 years for woman in 2018 shooting, killing of two daughters 03/27/2023 02:15pm • A Fairfax County, Virginia, jury on Monday recommended a sentence of 78 years in prison, for the woman convicted of shooting and killing of her two daughters at their McLean home in 2018. Veronica Youngblood was convicted of two counts of first degree murder, and two counts of felony firearm use Spiking violence strains sectarian ties in Iraqi province 03/27/2023 11:28am • MUQDADIYAH, Iraq (AP) ��� Hussein Maytham and his family were driving past the palm tree grove near their home after a quiet evening shopping for toys for his younger cousins when their car hit a bomb planted on the moon-lit road. ���I only remember the explosion,��� Maytham, 16, said weakly from hi Flyers' chairman Scott to retire; Hilferty becomes successor 03/27/2023 10:46am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� Dave Scott will retire as chairman of the Philadelphia Flyers' parent company Comcast Spectacor and be replaced by Dan Hilferty. Hilferty, who was recently named CEO of Comcast Spectacor, will succeed Scott as chairman of the company on April 17 and as the team's governor on Ju Supreme Court rejects case of Oklahoma teen killed by police 03/27/2023 10:33am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Supreme Court won't hear a civil rights case brought by the parents of a teenager who was naked and unarmed when he was fatally shot by an Oklahoma police officer in 2019. The high court on Monday rejected without comment the lawsuit bought by the parents of Isaiah Lewis. Pol Elizabeth Warren running for 3rd US Senate term in 2024 03/27/2023 07:03am • BOSTON (AP) ��� Massachusetts Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced Monday that she will seek a third term in 2024. Warren, a prominent voice for the liberal wing of the Democratic Party and a failed 2020 presidential contender, said she's running for reelection to end corruption in Was