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Women���s Day measures by Brazil���s Lula take aim at setbacks 03/08/2023 06:35pm • SAO PAULO (AP) ��� Brazil���s President Luiz In��cio Lula da Silva announced measures Wednesday seeking to promote and protect women after years of setbacks in their causes blamed in part on a rise in far-right forces. At a ceremony in the capital, Brasilia, Lula presented a package of over 25 measu 10 arrested after huge brawl at Louisiana alternative school 03/08/2023 06:12pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) ��� A brawl involving close to 200 parents and students at an alternative school Wednesday left a Baton Rouge police officer hospitalized and 10 teenagers arrested, authorities said. Casey Rayborn Hicks, a spokesperson for the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office, said deputies r How the National Park Service keeps the cherry trees looking so good 03/08/2023 06:12pm • You're not supposed to even touch D.C.'s cherry trees around the Tidal Basin. However, there are three guys who walk around them with saws, reaching up and spotting every dying limb and nub, getting rid of them before you even notice a naked branch when peak bloom hits. Alonzo McBryde and Bob Universal theme parks division gets new name in rebranding 03/08/2023 04:45pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) ��� The theme park parent company of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter and The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man is getting a new name. Officials at Universal Parks & Resorts said Wednesday the division of Comcast NBCUniversal was changing its name to Universal Destinations & Alex Jones would get $520,000 salary under bankruptcy plan 03/08/2023 04:28pm • Alex Jones' media company has proposed a plan in its bankruptcy case to pay the conspiracy theorist $520,000 a year while leaving $7 million to $10 million annually to pay off creditors, including relatives of Sandy Hook shooting victims. The Sandy Hook families won nearly $1.5 billion in lawsuits l 'I don't wanna die': Jurors hear 911 call from daughter in Veronica Youngblood murder trial 03/08/2023 02:51pm • Jurors in the murder trial of a Fairfax County, Virginia, woman charged with killing her two daughters��heard the harrowing 911 call made by one of the girls after being shot and mortally wounded in August 2018. Prosecutors with the Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney's Office played the recor Public money for private school tuition bill advances 03/08/2023 02:11pm • LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) ��� Nebraska could join 48 other states in offering public money for private school tuition under a bill advanced by the state Legislature on Wednesday, even as some lawmakers expressed concern about taxpayer dollars going to private schools allowed to turn away students based on As Kyle Kuzma���s philanthropy grows, so does his mother Karri's pride 03/08/2023 01:13pm • As Kuzma���s philanthropy grows, so does his mother���s pride originally appeared on NBC Sports Washington   Besides being a guy who can put up 20 points and propel his team to wins, Washington Wizards forward Kyle Kuzma���s impact has stunned even those closest to him. Kuzma���s grea TikTok renews push to ease fears over European data security 03/08/2023 10:25am • LONDON (AP) ��� TikTok unveiled new measures Wednesday to protect European user data as it takes steps to head off further government bans on employees using the Chinese-owned video-sharing app on their work phones. The company aims to create ���a secure enclave for European TikTok user data," Theo All-female ensemble set for broadcast of NBA game on ESPN 03/08/2023 06:00am • On the court, it will be the Dallas Mavericks and New Orleans Pelicans. Taking center stage, an all-female ensemble that will produce the broadcast. It's the second straight year ESPN has orchestrated an NBA game led by an all-female broadcast crew, with this version being held on International Wome Pau Gasol gets emotional as Lakers retire his No. 16 jersey 03/08/2023 05:42am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� When Pau Gasol joined the Los Angeles Lakers just over 15 years ago, the Spanish 7-footer banished his ego, redoubled his work ethic and immediately turned this team into contenders who eventually became champions. Gasol and Kobe Bryant did it all together, and their numbers now Fairfax Co. schools to offer free virtual mental health services to high schoolers 03/08/2023 05:01am • Virginia's largest school system will be offering free virtual mental health services to all high school students. Fairfax County Public Schools has partnered with Hazel Health, giving some 61,000 students access to the service, according to the county's contract with the group. WTOP obtained the Indian army mortar shell kills 3 in training misfire 03/08/2023 03:14am • PATNA, India (AP) ��� An Indian army mortar shell fired during a training session fell short of its target and exploded in a village house in the country's east on Wednesday, killing a young couple and a neighbor, a government official said. The couple was visiting Gulvared, a village in Gaya distri Review: 'Scream VI' goes to the big city and strikes out 03/08/2023 03:03am • In ���Scream VI,��� the psychotic, knife-wielding serial killer known as Ghostface is set loose on the streets of New York City. Yawn. The former terror of the fictional California town of Woodsboro has made the cross-country trip to the City That Never Sleeps, bringing his creepy mask, black cloak Fox chair Murdoch says 2020 election was fair: court filings 03/07/2023 11:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said under oath that he believes the 2020 presidential election was free, fair and not stolen, according to court filings released Tuesday in a lawsuit over Fox News��� coverage of former President Donald Trump���s unfounded election fraud claims.