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Montgomery County families protest plans to shut down virtual learning program 06/03/2024 04:30pm • Dozens of parents and kids staged a sit-in outside Montgomery County Public Schools' Board of Education headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, on Monday to demand the school system continue its virtual learning program. The school system announced last week that it would be shutting the Montgom Judge rejects call to immediately shut down Alex Jones' Infowars in bankruptcy dispute 06/03/2024 04:19pm • After a weekend in which conspiracy theorist Alex Jones warned that his media company faced an imminent shutdown by the federal government because of his bankruptcy cases, a judge on Monday allowed Jones to keep operating for the next two weeks while it is decided whether his assets should be liquid Unusual mix of possible candidates line up for Chicago's first school board elections this fall 06/03/2024 04:15pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� A Grammy-winning rapper, progressive activists and a leader of an afterschool squash program are part of the eclectic mix of possible candidates lining up for Chicago���s first school board elections this fall. America's third-largest city has long been an outlier with a mayor-appo Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 9-15 06/03/2024 09:28am • Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 9-15: June 9: Sports commentator Dick Vitale is 85. Guitarist Mick Box of Uriah Heep is 77. Film composer James Newton Howard is 73. Actor Michael J. Fox is 63. Actor Johnny Depp is 61. Actor Gloria Reuben (���The Agency,��� ���ER���) is 60. Singer-actor Tame German tour operator FTI is filing for insolvency and canceling future trips 06/03/2024 07:06am • BERLIN (AP) ��� German tour operator FTI said Monday that it is filing for insolvency protection from creditors, and trips that haven't yet started will be canceled or scaled back. FTI Group, which describes itself as Europe's third-biggest tour operator, said parent company FTI Touristik GmbH, was How a Maryland entrepreneur was inspired to bring this Hawaiian dish to DC 06/03/2024 06:37am • The first time Vivien Bang grilled the outside of a rice ball in a little bit of sesame oil six years ago, she knew she had struck gold. ���He was just like, ���What are you doing? You have to do something with this,������ she remembers her then-boyfriend and now husband, Luke, telling her wh Yuka Saso makes headlines in Japan as special edition papers mark her US Open win 06/03/2024 03:05am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Commuters at Tokyo's Shimbashi Station were greeted with a special edition of the Yomiuri newspaper on Monday. The big news was the victory of Yuka Saso at the U.S. Open on Sunday, the second time she has won title. Japanese papers still print special editions to mark such moments. S Yuka Saso wins another US Women's Open. This one was for Japan 06/02/2024 08:16pm • LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) ��� The first Filipina to win the U.S. Women's Open, and now the first from Japan. Sweetest of all for Yuka Saso was sharing the biggest prize in her sport with countries of both her parents. Saso delivered a masterpiece on the back nine at tough Lancaster Country Club on Sunday US Energy Secretary calls for more nuclear power while celebrating $35 billion Georgia reactors 06/02/2024 04:12pm • WAYNESBORO, Ga. (AP) ��� U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Friday called for more nuclear reactors to be built in the United States and worldwide. But the CEO of the Georgia utility that just finished the first two scratch-built American reactors in a generation at a cost of nearly $35 bill Rupert Murdoch ties the knot for the 5th time in ceremony at his California vineyard 06/02/2024 02:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Media magnate Rupert Murdoch, 93, has married for the fifth time, his corporation, News Corp, confirmed Sunday. Murdoch and Elena Zhukova, a 67-year-old Russian-born retired molecular biologist, wed Saturday in a ceremony at his vineyard estate in Bel Air, California. Photographs o Israeli siblings Ron and Leah Polonsky chase Olympics from Bay Area rivals Stanford and Cal 06/02/2024 11:18am • STANFORD, Calif. (AP) ��� With nearly identical ear-to-ear smiles, Ron and Leah Polonsky stroll through campus speaking Hebrew as they head for the Stanford pool relishing a rare chance to catch up in person given their hectic schedules. Ron swims for Stanford. Leah competes at rival California, in A growing community of breast milk donors in Uganda gives mothers hope 06/02/2024 08:09am • KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) ��� Early last year, Caroline Ikendi was in distress after undergoing an emergency Caesarean section to remove a stillborn baby and save two others. Doctors said one of the preterm babies had a 2% chance of living. If the babies didn���t get breast milk ��� which she didn���t ha Two Virginia colleges face backlash after backtracking on plans to require diversity courses 06/02/2024 06:00am • (CNN) — When the police killings of Black people, including George Floyd set off racial unrest across the country in 2020, Marie Vergamini decided she wanted to do her part to help address systemic racism.So, Vergamini, a doctoral student and adjunct instructor at Virginia Commonwealth Univers Birmingham-Southern keeps inspiring, magical season alive with walk-off win at D-3 World Series 06/01/2024 10:46pm • EASTLAKE, Ohio (AP) ��� The team with no school won't quit. Birmingham-Southern is still swinging. Now playing despite the school being closed for good, the Panthers kept their hopes of winning a national championship alive on Saturday night with a thrilling 9-7 comeback victory over Randolph-Macon Bellingham celebrates 'best night of my life' in Real Madrid's win in Champions League final 06/01/2024 07:33pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Jude Bellingham's parents arrived early at Wembley Stadium. When your son is about to complete a dream season, you don't want to miss a thing. In his first Champions League final on Saturday, the Real Madrid star received a standing ovation from the Spanish team's fans when he was su