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China keeping 1 hour daily limit on kids' online games 01/19/2023 11:56pm • HONG KONG (AP) ��� As the week-long Lunar New Year holidays in China draw near with promises of feasts and red envelopes stuffed with cash, children have another thing to look forward to ���- one extra hour of online games each day. Only one hour. For years, Chinese authorities have sought to Lawyer: 6-year-old who shot teacher has 'acute disability' 01/19/2023 09:38pm • NORFOLK, Va. (AP) ��� The family of a 6-year-old boy who shot and wounded his teacher in Virginia said Thursday that the child suffered from ���an acute disability��� and that one of his parents usually accompanied him in class but did not the week the shooting occurred. Also on Thursday, the hospit How a Prince William Co. parent liaison launched English-speaking classes for parents 01/19/2023 09:29pm • Not long after Dena Hammad started her first year as parent liaison at Bennett Elementary School in Prince William County, Virginia, the school conducted a community survey. The responses indicated parents wanted to participate in a class that would help them improve their English communicati Sundance celebrates the ���magic��� of being back in-person 01/19/2023 09:16pm • PARK CITY, Utah (AP) ��� The Sundance Film Festival met the moment by going virtual for the past two years because of the coronavirus pandemic. But on Thursday, there was a palpable sense of relief from the festival���s leadership team at being in-person again. Sundance Institute CEO Joana Vicente, Prince William County superintendent apologizes for National Merit ���oversight��� 01/19/2023 08:06pm • This article was written by WTOP���s news partner��InsideNoVa.com��and republished with permission. Sign up for��InsideNoVa.com���s free email subscription��today. Prince William County Schools Superintendent LaTanya McDade said the school system was ���deeply sorry��� for what she called ���shee West Virginia ban on minors' gender-affirming care advances 01/19/2023 08:03pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) ��� A bill that would ban physicians from providing gender-affirming surgery to minors is advancing in West Virginia. West Virginia lawmakers in the House Health and Human Resources Committee greenlit the legislation after little discussion Thursday, sending it to the House Ju Reports: David Crosby, rock star and CSNY co-founder, dies 01/19/2023 07:56pm • David Crosby, the brash rock musician who evolved from a baby-faced harmony singer with the Byrds to a mustachioed hippie superstar and an ongoing troubadour in Crosby, Stills, Nash & (sometimes) Young, has died at 81, several media outlets reported Thursday. The New York Times reported, based o A College Guide for Nontraditional Students 01/19/2023 07:00pm • College students have long been thought of as recent high school graduates who live on or close to campus, participate in clubs, attend campus-related sporting events and socialize on the weekends. But today's college enrollees don't necessarily fit that mold. Many are balancing coursework with othe Flavored cannabis marketing is criticized for targeting kids 01/19/2023 06:39pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� When New York's first licensed recreational marijuana outlet opened last month, the chief of the state's Office of Cannabis Management, Chris Alexander, proudly hoisted a tin of watermelon-flavored gummies above the crowd. Outside the Manhattan shop, he displayed another purchase 2nd Mexican school hit by tranquilizer craze 01/19/2023 04:11pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� The second school in as many days was hit Thursday by the mass ingestion of tranquilizer pills that may be linked to a social media ���challenge.��� Mexico City police said eight students at a middle school had been treated by paramedics after swallowing a ���controlled medicat Ireland's WhatsApp penalty highlights EU privacy turmoil 01/19/2023 12:13pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Ireland fined WhatsApp for breaching strict European Union privacy rules in a case that has exposed divisions among EU watchdogs over how to regulate its parent company, Meta. The chat app was ordered to pay 5.5 million euros ($5.9 million) Thursday by the Data Protection Commission Ransomware shuts hundreds of Yum Brands restaurants in UK 01/19/2023 12:08pm • A ransomware attack forced the parent company of KFC and Taco Bell to close several hundred restaurants in the United Kingdom this week. A government filing posted Thursday says the attack impacted information technology systems. Yum Brands said the attackers took company data, but that there is no Amazon axes charity program amid wider cost-cutting moves 01/19/2023 09:15am • Amazon is ending a charity donation program it ran for a decade in its latest cost-cutting move. In a blog post on Wednesday, the company said the program, called AmazonSmile, will shut down by February 20 because it had ���not grown to create the impact��� the retailer had hoped. The program Cardinal says book by Benedict XVI's secretary 'unseemly' 01/19/2023 09:07am • ROME (AP) ��� The archbishop of Vienna, a longtime friend and former student of Pope Benedict XVI, has confirmed that it was he who wrote a letter to his former teacher urging him to accept election as pontiff in 2005 if the votes went his way. Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn issued a statement Wednes Instagram rolls out 'quiet mode' for when users want to focus 01/19/2023 09:05am • Instagram on Thursday announced a new feature called "quiet mode," which aims to help users focus and set boundaries with friends and followers.When the option is enabled, all notifications will be paused and the profile's activity status will change to 'In quiet mode." If someone sends a direct mes