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Principal resigns after complaints on 'David' statue nudity 03/24/2023 04:38pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� A Florida charter school principal has been forced to resign after a parent complained sixth graders were exposed to pornography during a lesson on Renaissance art that included Michelangelo���s ���David��� sculpture. The Tallahassee Democrat reported that the principal, March Madness: Low-cut sneakers gain traction on court 03/24/2023 04:00pm • DENVER (AP) ��� The squeaks from the sneakers on the court sound the same. But these are far from your classic Chuck Taylors or vintage Air Jordans. Or any version of high tops at all. The iconic shoe designed to extend slightly over the ankle has pretty much fallen out of favor in the lanes across Kentucky governor vetoes sweeping GOP transgender measure 03/24/2023 03:35pm • FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) ��� Kentucky's Democratic governor issued an election-year veto Friday of a sweeping Republican bill aimed at regulating the lives of transgender youths that includes banning access to gender-affirming health care and restricting the bathrooms they can use. The bill also bans dis U.S. bishops' new guidelines aim to limit trans health care 03/24/2023 02:13pm • United States Catholic bishops have issued guidelines that seek to stop Catholic hospitals from providing gender transition care, a move LGBTQ advocates say could harm the physical and emotional health of transgender people within the church. The 14-page doctrinal note, titled ���Moral Limits to the NY's power to regulate religious schools trimmed by judge 03/24/2023 02:10pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ��� Parents cannot be required to pull their children from private schools in New York that fail to meet state-designated standards, a judge decided, striking down a key provision of rules recently passed to strengthen oversight of such schools, including those specializing in reli Florida teen gets life in prison for killing young classmate 03/24/2023 01:10pm • ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) ��� A Florida judge sentenced a 16-year-old Florida boy to life in prison on Friday for fatally stabbing a 13-year-old classmate on Mother's Day in 2021. Aiden Fucci, 16, was 14 when he stabbed Tristyn Bailey at least 114 times in the woods near where the teens lived in nort House GOP passes parents' rights bill in clash over schools 03/24/2023 12:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� House Republicans on Friday narrowly passed legislation that would fulfill a campaign promise to give parents a role in what's taught in public schools. It has little chance in the Democrat-run Senate and critics said it would propel a far-right movement that has led to book bans Pedal-powered party boats expand to The Wharf, Navy Yard 03/24/2023 12:50pm • Potomac Paddle Club launches from Navy Yard and The Wharf this month, with its boats powered by passenger pedal power. (Courtesy Sea Suite Cruises) Potomac Paddle Club launches from Navy Yard and The Wharf in March, with its boats powered by passenger pedal power. Parent company Sea Suite Cru UN decries torture, killing of Ukrainian and Russian POWs 03/24/2023 12:31pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� U.N. human rights monitors have documented dozens of summary killings of Ukrainian and Russian prisoners of war, as well as other possible war crimes such as the use of torture, human shields and other abuses against POWs since Russia invaded its neighbor, according to a repor Player of the Week: Wootton High's Aidan Wang 03/24/2023 08:48am • This week���s WTOP Player of the Week is senior Aidan Wang of Thomas S. Wootton High School in Maryland. 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 senior Aidan Wang of Thomas S. Wootton Hig 'A step ahead': DC students graduate from special Trinity Washington University program 03/24/2023 06:46am • Families gathered at Trinity Washington University in Northeast D.C. on Thursday to celebrate Coolidge Senior High School students graduating from a new, innovative program. The Trinity-Coolidge High School Early College Program is one the initiatives the college created in partnership with D Utah social media law means kids need approval from parents 03/24/2023 01:37am • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ��� Children and teens in Utah would lose access to social media apps such as TikTok if they don���t have parental consent and face other restrictions under a first-in-the-nation law designed to shield young people from the addictive platforms. Two laws signed by Republican Go How a Fairfax Co. elementary school is teaching parents to support their students 03/24/2023 12:28am • Parents at Lutie Lewis Coates Elementary School in Virginia take a class that teaches them how to connect with their children and their education. (WTOP/Scott Gelman) On a large screen in the front of the library at Lutie Lewis Coates Elementary School in Fairfax County, Virginia, an instructor Review: John Wick gets even more stylish in fourth episode 03/23/2023 11:47pm • A trip to Paris should be on everyone���s bucket list, even John Wick. The Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre ��� what better way to refresh your soul, even as you kick everyone else���s bucket? The un-retired assassin does indeed dive into the City of Lights in the inventive and thrillin After Denver school shooting, an outcry erupts over security 03/23/2023 10:17pm • DENVER (AP) ��� Outraged Denver students and parents demanded better school security and pushed for tighter firearm controls Thursday, a day after a 17-year-old student shot and wounded two administrators at a city high school beset with violence. More than 1,000 students rallied at the Colorado Cap