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Move on from COVID? Child care disruptions continue 01/03/2023 08:34am • Forty-seven. That���s how many days of child care Kathryn Anne Edwards��� 3-year-old son has missed in the past year. RSV, COVID-19 and two bouts of the dreaded preschool scourge of hand, foot and mouth disease struck one after another. The illnesses were so disruptive that the labor economist quit Boy born at Maryland hospital may be 1st baby of 2023 in the DC area 01/03/2023 04:08am • Baby Lael is born at 12:03 a.m. on New Year's Day. (Courtesy Holy Cross Health) At 12:03 a.m. New Year's Day, Maryland couple Brenda and Reynauld Sabuni welcomed their third son, Lael. He may have been their third, but hospital officials believe he's the first baby of the new year. He was bor Democrat Katie Hobbs takes office as Arizona governor 01/02/2023 07:07pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� Katie Hobbs took the oath of office Monday to become Arizona���s 24th governor and the first Democrat to hold the office since 2009. Hobbs was sworn in during a private ceremony at the state Capitol as she formally took over from Republican Doug Ducey. A public inauguration for the Best Diets to Prevent and Manage Diabetes 01/02/2023 07:00pm • Diets for diabetesAn estimated 34 million people in the U.S. -- or just over 1 in 10 -- have diabetes. Diet is a crucial tool for managing the disease, and weight loss can help people who are overweight prevent Type 2 diabetes. Prevention is particularly important when you consider that diabetes bri 9 Upgraded Stocks to Buy in January 01/02/2023 07:00pm • Analysts recommend these upgraded stocks for January.The S&P 500 dropped more than 5% in December to finish a brutal 2022 down 19.4%, its worst year since 2008. The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by another 0.5% in December as it continues to battle inflation. The higher interest rates ri Gov. Walz pledges to bolster education as he begins 2nd term 01/02/2023 04:42pm • Democratic Gov. Tim Walz pledged Monday to make the largest investments in public education in Minnesota history as he took the oath of office for his second term. Minnesota has a ���historic opportunity��� with its $17.6 billion projected budget surplus to become the best state in the country for c Transgender woman's scheduled execution would be US first 01/02/2023 04:10pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) ��� Unless Missouri Gov. Mike Parson grants clemency, Amber McLaughlin, 49, will become the first transgender woman executed in the U.S. She is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for killing a former girlfriend in 2003. McLaughlin���s attorney, Larry Komp, said there are no court a Idaho slayings suspect's family voices sympathy for victims 01/02/2023 01:57pm • STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) ��� Relatives of a man arrested in Pennsylvania in the slayings of four University of Idaho students expressed sympathy for the victims' families but also vowed to support him and promote ���his presumption of innocence." Bryan Kohberger, 28, is eager to be exonerated and plans Floods in Philippines leave 51 dead, over a dozen missing 01/02/2023 08:37am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) ��� Thousands of people in the Philippines remained in emergency shelters in the wake of devastating Christmas flooding, as the death toll climbed to 51 with 19 missing, authorities said Monday. Images showed residents in southern Misamis Occidental province sweeping away t French-born artist finds inspiration on remote Easter Island 01/01/2023 04:00pm • RAPA NUI, Chile (AP) ��� Rapa Nui ��� the remote Chilean territory in the mid-Pacific widely known as Easter Island ��� is home to a Catholic church featuring artwork that reflects that islanders��� ancestral culture as well as Christian beliefs. Among the eye-catching works are stained glass window TikTok is 'digital fentanyl,' incoming GOP China committee chair says 01/01/2023 12:43pm • TikTok is an addictive drug China's government is providing to Americans, says the incoming chairman of a new House select committee on China.GOP Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin told NBC's "Meet The Press" in an interview that aired Sunday that he calls TikTok "digital fentanyl" because "it's highl Jump scores 20 points, leads No. 2 Stanford by Arizona State 12/31/2022 11:52pm • STANFORD, Calif. (AP) ��� Stanford's appreciative guards love how they can draw their offensive players into the paint and leave the rest to their opportunistic posts to help out whenever needed. Cameron Brink is a one-woman swat crew. ���Our bigs are really talented,��� Hall of Fame coach Tara VanD Suspect in Idaho killings plans to waive extradition hearing 12/31/2022 06:39pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) ��� A suspect arrested in connection with the slayings of four University of Idaho students plans to waive an extradition hearing so he can be quickly brought to Idaho to face murder charges, his defense attorney said Saturday. Bryan Kohberger, a 28-year-old Ph.D. student and te Iowa posts 1st Music City Bowl shutout, tops Kentucky 21-0 12/31/2022 05:38pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Joe Labas threw for 139 yards and a touchdown in his first start and Iowa posted the first shutout in the Music City Bowl's 24-year history by beating Kentucky 21-0 Saturday. Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz capped his 24th season by matching the late Joe Paterno for the most bowl v Believers gather at Bavarian pilgrimage town to mourn pope 12/31/2022 02:14pm • ALTOETTING, Germany (AP) ��� Mourners lined up quietly in the gold-adorned Collegiate Church of Altoetting in Pope Benedict XVI���s Bavarian homeland to pay condolences to one of this German region's most famous sons, who died on Saturday. Parents held their children's hands tightly, older couples a