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Fewer Americans file for jobless benefits last week 01/19/2023 09:02am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The number of people seeking unemployment benefits in the U.S. reached a four-month low last week, a sign that employers are holding on to their workers despite the Federal Reserve���s efforts to slow the economy and tamp down inflation. U.S. jobless aid applications for the week Virginia gov calls for legislation on delayed school awards 01/19/2023 07:18am • In response to widening concerns about how some northern Virginia school districts handled recognizing student achievements on a standardized test, Gov. Glenn Youngkin called Wednesday for legislation to require student and parental notification about certain scholastic awards. Youngkin asked two DC youth express concerns, offer solutions to city leaders 01/19/2023 05:19am • From more support for students suffering from mental illness, to making the streets safer, some D.C. youth groups joined forces Wednesday night in Northwest to express their concerns and offer solutions for city leaders ���I'm tired of losing people I love the most,��� said Andre Wilson, a studen She has perfect tennis name: Katie Volynets -- "Volley Nets" 01/19/2023 02:16am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� When she was younger, Katie Volynets used to fake stomach aches so she could get out of swimming. She was much more focused on improving her tennis. It worked. At the Australian Open on Thursday, the 21-year-old American qualifier beat the No. 9-seeded Veronika Kudermet In Pakistan, trans men search for inclusion, visibility 01/19/2023 02:05am • LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) ��� Aman, a 22-year-old transgender man from the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, says he was always close to his father. When he was little and it was cold out, his father held his hands to warm them. When he was at university, his father would wait until he got home to eat d Mother, 1-year-old son killed in Alaska polar bear attack 01/18/2023 10:38pm • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ��� A polar bear chased several residents around a tiny, isolated Alaska Native whaling village, killing a mother and her 1-year-old son in an extremely rare attack before another community member shot and killed the bear, authorities said. The fatal mauling, the first in more Transgender youth reemerge as statehouse focal point in Utah 01/18/2023 08:47pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ��� Utah lawmakers wasted no time this week before returning to an issue that has become a popular topic in GOP-led statehouses: Trying to limit medical options doctors are allowed to provide transgender youth. On the second day of the legislative session, a committee began co Anger grows in Virginia city where first-grader shot teacher 01/18/2023 08:27pm • NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) ��� When a 6-year-old shot and wounded his first-grade teacher in this shipbuilding city near Virginia���s coast, the community reacted with collective shock. But the sentiment has percolated into rage from parents and particularly from teachers, with many lambasting school Job cuts in tech sector spread, Microsoft lays off 10,000 01/18/2023 07:46pm • Microsoft is cutting 10,000 workers, almost 5% of its workforce, joining other tech companies that have scaled back their pandemic-era expansions. The company said in a regulatory filing Wednesday that the layoffs were a response to ���macroeconomic conditions and changing customer priorities.��� Th DeSantis seeks details on transgender university students 01/18/2023 07:13pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is asking state universities for the number and ages of their students who sought gender dysphoria treatment, including sex reassignment surgery and hormone prescriptions, according to a survey released Wednesday. Why he's conducting th 2 treated for likely fentanyl exposure at Oregon school 01/18/2023 07:05pm • WILLAMINA, Ore. (AP) ��� A student and a deputy were treated at a hospital Tuesday after they likely were exposed to fentanyl at an Oregon middle school, authorities said. The Yamhill County Sheriff���s Office said in a statement Wednesday that one of their deputies on Tuesday went to Willamina Mid Player awarded back pay from Lyon over maternity leave 01/18/2023 06:31pm • Midfielder Sara Bj��rk Gunnarsd��ttir has been awarded more than $88,000 in back pay that was withheld by her French club team, Lyon, in violation of FIFA's rules protecting maternity rights. Gunnarsd��ttir, who now plays for Juventus in Italy, wrote her account of the salary dispute for The Player Auditors wary of child health, safety in Nevada care centers 01/18/2023 06:13pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� A yearlong inspection of child care centers across Nevada in 2022 uncovered a pattern of lax oversight and weak policies at five facilities, according to a report released this month. The review comes just three months after a U.S. Justice Department investigation that found Neva Justices seem to lean toward deaf student in education case 01/18/2023 05:10pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed sympathetic to the arguments of a deaf student who sued his public school system for providing an inadequate education, a legal challenge important for other disabled students and their families. The question for the justices involves a feder Historic inauguration: Wes Moore pledges 'bold' steps for Md. as he takes oath of office 01/18/2023 04:05pm • Wes Moore was sworn-in Wednesday, becoming Maryland's first Black governor in a historic inauguration at the state capitol in Annapolis. Moore took the oath of office twice ��� first during a ceremony in the Maryland state Senate chamber and later in a public ceremony outside the state house