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South Dakota governor calls for eliminating grocery tax 01/10/2023 07:15pm • Gov. Kristi Noem called Tuesday for using the state���s surplus to eliminate the tax charged on groceries and lower other taxes in a State of the State address that steered clear of the hot-button topic of abortion. The Republican governor, who is seen as a potential contender for the 2024 White Ho The School Board, Explained 01/10/2023 07:00pm • Behind each of the nearly 14,000 public school districts in the United States there's a small group of individuals who play an important, high-level role in deciding in deciding how schools are run: the school board. School boards have been around longer than America itself. According to the Nationa Artificial Intelligence Stocks: The 10 Best AI Companies 01/10/2023 07:00pm • AI stocks may be excellent long-term investments.Virtually every industry is being disrupted by artificial intelligence, automation and robotics. In 2022, the world got a firsthand look at the remarkable advances in AI technology, including the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot and expanded public After years of surpluses, California headed toward a deficit 01/10/2023 06:11pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� From a budget perspective, the first four years of California Gov. Gavin Newsom's time in office has been a fairy tale: A seemingly endless flow of money that paid to enact some of the country's most progressive policies while acting as a bulwark against a tide of conserv Sarah Huckabee Sanders sworn in as Arkansas governor 01/10/2023 05:59pm • LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) ��� Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders took aim at conservatives' favorite targets, including critical race theory and the federal government, as she was sworn in Tuesday as Arkansas' 47th governor and the first woman in the state to hold the office. Th Birth control ruling to see fresh scrutiny at Texas Capitol 01/10/2023 04:51pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� Samantha Sorsby-Jones watched friends at her Texas high school go to great lengths to get birth control: Secretly arranging rides to clinics that didn���t require parental consent and hiding phones in bushes in case parents were tracking them. Starting Tuesday, access to repro House Republicans launch investigations into FBI, China 01/10/2023 04:34pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� House Republicans moved Tuesday to swiftly establish the marquee investigations of their new majority, voting to create panels focused on China and what they assert is rampant abuse of power in the federal government. Newly empowered, GOP lawmakers are vowing to bring accountabi Romanian court upholds arrest of influencer Andrew Tate 01/10/2023 04:21pm • BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) ��� A court in Romania's capital Bucharest has upheld the 30-day arrest of divisive social media personality and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate on charges of organized crime, human trafficking and rape, an official said late Tuesday. Ramona Bolla, a spokesperson for Ro Doctors: Bills' Hamlin in good spirits, undergoing testing 01/10/2023 03:52pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) ��� An upbeat Damar Hamlin said Tuesday he is ���not home quite just yet,��� as the Bills safety spent his second day in a Buffalo hospital undergoing a series of tests to determine why he went into cardiac arrest on the field last week and when he can be discharged. ���Special th 'Shark Tank' alum CertifiKid of Potomac acquires New Jersey's Hulafrog 01/10/2023 03:28pm • Family-focused digital media company CertifiKid has acquired a��New Jersey competitor, Hulafrog ��� its second acquisition in three years ��� to expand its reach to new markets. Founded by married couple Jamie and Brian Ratner, Potomac-based CertifiKid functions as a deals website akin to Groupon, 7 Virginia men arrested in 'online predator' sting 01/10/2023 02:07pm • Police have arrested and charged seven Virginia men as part of a sting operation targeting online predators. The Fairfax County-led operation was carried out in December and involved law enforcement officers posing as children online. Police said the seven men initiated explicit conversations and Closed Illinois plant's ex-operator settling suits for $408M 01/10/2023 01:29pm • WILLOWBROOK, Ill. (AP) ��� The former operator of a suburban Chicago medical equipment cleaning plant has agreed to pay $408 million to settle hundreds of lawsuits alleging that the now-shuttered facility exposed residents to a toxic industrial gas and caused illnesses. Sterigenics announced Monday As Starbucks unionizing slows, some strike, others skeptical 01/10/2023 11:44am • Labor organizers hope this will be the year that Starbucks' U.S. workers finally negotiate a union contract. But with bargaining at a standstill and thousands of employees still unconvinced of the union's value, that outcome is uncertain. A little more than a year after a Starbucks in Buffalo, New Y Disney CEO Bob Iger orders workers to return to the office 4 days a week 01/10/2023 09:18am • Disney CEO Bob Iger is clamping down on remote workers.Iger, who recently returned to Disney's helm after a brief hiatus, ordered employees to return to corporate offices four days a week beginning March 1. In an email sent to employees obtained by CNN, he said that employees work better together in Chief: 6-year-old shot Virginia teacher during class lesson 01/10/2023 06:45am • NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) ��� In the moments before a 6-year-old Virginia boy shot his teacher, there was no fight, no physical struggle and no warning, authorities said Monday. ���What we know today is that she was providing instruction. He displayed a firearm, he pointed it and he fired one round,