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Social media madness gives opportunities to Edert and others 03/15/2023 11:16am • While almost everyone in March Madness wants to be this year's version of reigning national champion Kansas, almost anyone playing over the next three weeks would also love to be this year's version of Doug Edert. If that name doesn't ring a bell, maybe Edert's wispy mustache will. Edert was the re 'Quantum Leap' star Caitlin Bassett jumps from Army to TV 03/15/2023 10:41am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Caitlin Bassett plays a woman who jumps through time and space on NBC's ���Quantum Leap,��� a fitting job for an actor who has lived many lives already. Bassett, who spent seven years in the U.S. Army, then attended law school and later acting school, now finds herself on a hit TV 'They're desperate': Some Arlington parents ask courts to intervene in teen fentanyl addiction treatment 03/15/2023 09:30am • A growing number of Arlington County, Virginia, parents are looking for drug abuse treatment for their children, leading to a boom in petitions filed in juvenile court seeking the court's intervention. "A large majority of the petitions we've seen are fentanyl cases, children with severe substanc Experts say attacks on free speech are rising across the US 03/15/2023 09:01am • BOISE, Idaho (AP) ��� In Idaho, an art exhibit was censored and teens were told they couldn't testify in some legislative hearings. In Washington state, a lawmaker proposed a hotline so the government could track offensively biased statements, as well as hate crimes. In Florida, bloggers are fightin Not magic: Opaque AI tool may flag parents with disabilities 03/15/2023 03:10am • PITTSBURGH (AP) ��� For the two weeks that the Hackneys��� baby girl lay in a Pittsburgh hospital bed weak from dehydration, her parents rarely left her side, sometimes sleeping on the fold-out sofa in the room. They stayed with their daughter around the clock when she was moved to a rehab center to The pros and cons of year-round school calendars 03/15/2023 01:43am • For most children in the United States, the word "summer" evokes images of a carefree two- to three-month-long escape from the classroom. But that summer break looks different for those on year-round school calendars, also known as balanced school calendars. What Is Year-Round Schooling? School New Mexico enacts law to keep guns away from children 03/15/2023 12:19am • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) ��� New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a bill Friday that makes it a crime to store firearms in places that children could access. The new law takes effect on June 16. Earlier this year, a 6-year-old student in Virginia shot his teacher, which added to debates across t Late-winter storm pummels Northeast with heavy, wet snow 03/14/2023 10:58pm • PITTSFIELD, Mass. (AP) ��� A winter storm dumped heavy, wet snow in parts of the Northeast on Tuesday, causing tens of thousands of power outages, widespread school closings, dangerous driving conditions and a plane to slide off a taxiway. The storm's path included parts of New England, upstate N Inverse ETFs: What They Are and How to Invest in Them 03/14/2023 08:00pm • With thousands of exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, out there, it's easy for investors to pick a specific strategy and buy into it with just a single holding. Want to invest in tech stocks? There are dozens of ETFs for that. Want to invest in China? There are dozens more. There are even funds like the 8 Best Green Stocks to Buy for 2023�� 03/14/2023 08:00pm • Whether publicly traded firms are pure-play "green" companies or not, more and more of them are reporting environmental, social and governance, or ESG, criteria as a way of communicating risks and benefits to investors and the wider public. There's an argument to be made that companies that don't ta Lindsay Lohan anuncia que un beb�� "llegar�� muy pronto" 03/14/2023 07:19pm • (CNN) -- Parece que la familia de Lindsay Lohan crecer��.Este martes, la actriz public�� la foto de una camisa de beb�� con el mensaje "muy pronto" escrito sobre la tela.�����Nos sentimos bendecidos y emocionados!���, se le��a el pie de foto, junto con emoticones de manos orando, un coraz��n, una ca Former Rep. Pat Schroeder, pioneer for women's rights, dies 03/14/2023 06:34pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Former U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder, a pioneer for women���s and family rights in Congress, has died. She was 82. Schroeder's former press secretary, Andrea Camp, said Schroeder suffered a stroke recently and died Monday night at a hospital in Celebration, Florida, the city where she Biden on gun control: 'Do something, do something big' 03/14/2023 06:34pm • MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (AP) ��� The grief is still suffocating, the anger still visceral, President Joe Biden said Tuesday, in this suburban Los Angeles community where a gunman stormed a dance hall and killed 11 in January. He announced fresh federal measures to curb gun violence but emotionally dec Italian government limits parental rights of gay couples 03/14/2023 05:22pm • MILAN (AP) ��� Gay rights activists on Tuesday denounced as homophobic moves by Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni���s far-right-led government to limit recognition of parental rights to the biological parent only in families with same-sex parents. In a move that is expected to impact hundreds of famili Business Highlights: Fed's missed red flags, Meta layoffs 03/14/2023 05:20pm • ___ Fed criticized for missing red flags before bank collapse WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Federal Reserve is facing stinging criticism for missing what observers say were clear signs that Silicon Valley Bank was at high risk of collapsing into what became the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history.