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How Moscow grabs Ukrainian kids and makes them Russians 03/17/2023 04:45pm • Olga Lopatkina paced around her basement in circles like a trapped animal. For more than a week, the Ukrainian mother had heard nothing from her six adopted children stranded in Mariupol, and she was going out of her mind with worry. The kids had spent their vacation at a resort in the port city, a Family seeks jailer punishments after beaten inmate's death 03/17/2023 03:53pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� The parents of a Black man who was having a psychotic episode and died in custody last fall after Memphis jailers punched, kicked and kneeled on his back during a confrontation are seeking answers for their son and punishments against the jail staff. At a news conference in 20 years after U.S. invasion, young Iraqis see signs of hope 03/17/2023 02:28pm • BAGHDAD (AP) ��� On the banks of the Tigris River one recent evening, young Iraqi men and women in jeans and sneakers danced with joyous abandon to a local rap star as a vermillion sun set behind them. It���s a world away from the terror that followed the U.S. invasion 20 years ago. Iraq 's capital Scientists create mice with cells from 2 males for 1st time 03/17/2023 12:51pm • For the first time, scientists have created baby mice from two males. This raises the distant possibility of using the same technique for people ��� although experts caution that very few mouse embryos developed into live mouse pups and no one knows whether it would work for humans. Still, ���It���s Rural Missouri sheriff, 2 deputies arrested in kidnap plot 03/17/2023 12:08pm • A rural Missouri sheriff and two deputies are jailed and facing charges accusing them of helping a man in a parental kidnapping plot. Officers with the Missouri State Highway Patrol on Thursday arrested Iron County Sheriff Jeff Burkett, deputies Matthew Cozad and Chase Bresnahan, and the father of t Posthumous album set from 'Gangsta���s Paradise' rapper Coolio 03/17/2023 10:04am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The estate of rapper Coolio plans to release a studio album later this year that the Grammy-winning hitmaker had been working on in the days before he died. ���Long Live Coolio��� will be the first posthumous album release from the ���Gangsta���s Paradise��� star and the first sing SVB Financial Group, parent of Silicon Valley Bank seized by the US, files for bankruptcy protection 03/17/2023 08:23am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� SVB Financial Group, parent of Silicon Valley Bank seized by the US, files for bankruptcy protection. DC doctor explains why pregnancy deaths rates among Black women increased since pandemic 03/17/2023 06:50am • A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that Black women had a maternal mortality rate nearly three times the rate of white women during the pandemic in 2021. The mortality rate for Black women in 2021 was 69.9 deaths per 100,000 live births, 2.6 times the rate for New Zealand lawmakers banned from TikTok amid data use fears 03/17/2023 12:40am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) ��� New Zealand lawmakers and other workers inside the nation's Parliament will be banned from having the TikTok app on their government phones, officials said Friday. The ban, which takes effect at the end of the month, follows similar moves in many other countries. Ho Why TikTok's security risks keep raising fears 03/16/2023 10:14pm • TikTok is once again fending off claims that its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, would share user data from its popular video-sharing app with the Chinese government, or push propaganda and misinformation on its behalf. China���s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday accused the United States itself of s How Prince William Co. schools is addressing rise in post-pandemic absences 03/16/2023 09:59pm • Almost a quarter of Prince William County Public Schools' 91,000 students missed 10% or more of the first 90 days of the school year, prompting leaders to craft innovative ways to address a rise in chronic absenteeism. In a presentation to the school board Wednesday night, Dr. Michael Neall, the Kentucky lawmakers pass ban on youth gender-affirming care 03/16/2023 08:17pm • FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) ��� Republican lawmakers in Kentucky passed a measure Thursday to ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors, completing whirlwind voting on a repackaged proposal that triggered outrage and tears among opponents unable to stop the sweeping policymaking on a culture wars iss Paris Hilton is ready to reclaim her story, share ups, downs 03/16/2023 04:04pm • Paris Hilton is adding her voice to the chorus of women speaking out to reclaim their narrative from the media and the public. This week she released ���Paris: The Memoir,��� sharing what it was like for her growing up a Hilton ��� being sent away to programs for troubled teens but finding mental an New Hampshire Senate passes GOP-backed parents' rights bill 03/16/2023 03:24pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� A ���parents��� bill of rights��� that critics say is designed to target transgender youth passed New Hampshire's Republican-led Senate on Thursday. Much of the debate among lawmakers focused on provisions to require school officials, when asked by parents, to disclose that a Italy retrial ordered for Americans in killing of officer 03/16/2023 03:05pm • ROME (AP) ��� Italy���s highest court has ordered a retrial for two American citizens convicted in the slaying of an Italian police officer during a sting operation gone wrong. The Court of Cassation late Wednesday threw out the guilty verdicts against Finnegan Lee Elder, now 23, and Gabriel Natale-