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Femicides in Mexico: Little progress on longstanding issue 12/27/2022 01:56am • ECATEPEC, Mexico (AP) ��� On a November afternoon, M��nica Citlalli D��az left home in a sprawling suburb of Mexico���s capital and headed to the school where she���d been teaching English for years. It seemed an ordinary day, but on this one, she never arrived at work. Her absence was an immediate Kim Kardashian describes challenges of co-parenting with Kanye West 12/26/2022 09:27pm • Kim Kardashian is speaking out for the first time since her divorce from Kanye West became finalized last month. In a previously recorded interview with Angie Martinez on her "IRL" podcast published Monday, Kardashian described how she does her best to parent her four young children with West, w What Should Parents Know About Vitamin E? 12/26/2022 07:00pm • Vitamin E is an essential micronutrient that has an important role in your child's diet. Micronutrients are vital components of our diet but are only required in very small amounts. Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin, which means it's absorbed with fats in your diet, along with vitamins A, K and D. 12 Ways to Avoid the IRA Early Withdrawal Penalty 12/26/2022 07:00pm • Keep your 10%.Distributions from individual retirement accounts before age 59 1/2 typically trigger a 10% early withdrawal penalty. However, the IRA withdrawal rules contain several exceptions to the penalty if you meet certain circumstances or spend the money on specific purchases. Here are 12 ways Md. CEO emphasizes the importance of children having both parents, especially during the holidays 12/26/2022 08:01am • This is part of WTOP���s continuing coverage of people making a difference from our community authored by Stephanie Gaines-Bryant. Read more of that coverage. When Lesa Britt was growing up in North Carolina, she said she felt like there was always something missing. She was the youngest o What Is the Tomato Flu Virus? 12/25/2022 07:00pm • Earlier this summer, a team of scientists reported a "new virus" in India that affected more than 100 children across three states. In the wake of COVID-19, monkeypox and the re-emergence of polio, the tomato flu outbreak stoked fear of yet another communicable disease that threatened the public's s DC Attorney General says 'Don't Say Gay' bill is unconstitutional 12/25/2022 03:41pm • D.C.'s Attorney General is taking the lead in a fight against Florida's so-called "Don't Say Gay" law. Karl Racine is leading a pack of 18 attorneys general who has filed a federal brief saying the law is unconstitutional. They also contend that the Florida Act is causing, by example, signific Rapper Meek Mill pays bail for 20 women so they can spend the holidays at home 12/25/2022 12:44pm • Rapper Meek Mill has paid bail for 20 women so that they can spend the holidays at home, according to the REFORM Alliance, an organization he launched in 2019 alongside Jay-Z. The women were incarcerated at Riverside Correctional Facility in Philadelphia and were unable to afford bail, according Prosecutors: Paris shooting suspect wanted to kill migrants 12/25/2022 10:35am • PARIS (AP) ��� The man suspected of fatally shooting three Kurds in Paris ahead of Christmas weekend told investigators that he had set out that morning aiming to kill migrants or foreigners and then himself, according to prosecutors. The 69-year-old man killed three people outside a Kurdish cultura 'Fascinating and rare': Baby pygmy hippo born at Va. zoo 12/25/2022 09:30am • Do you want a hippopotamus for Christmas? Well, a zoo in Virginia released cute pictures of a new rare hippo just in time for the holidays. A baby pygmy hippopotamus ��� native to West Africa and with just a few thousand of its kind left in the wild ��� was born on Dec. 6 at the Metro Richmond Zo Children's National brings the Christmas spirit to kids spending the holiday at the DC hospital 12/24/2022 04:36pm • While some kids will have to spend Christmas hospitalized, those staying at Children's National will at least get some presents and holiday cheer, thanks to a special toy shop within the hospital. For the last few days, Dr. Bear's Holiday Toy Shoppe was open for families of children staying in th In Mexico, posadas bring early Christmas spirit, community 12/24/2022 08:37am • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� For Miguel Zadquiel, the secret to staying in step as he dances at the front of the annual Christmastime procession through his neighborhood is in the bass drum. ���For every sound it makes, I move one foot, then another one, then I jump around, then I move my shoulders,��� he Military children grapple with parents being deployed over the holidays 12/24/2022 08:10am • Twenty-two-month-old Leo hits me playfully with his pillow."Daddy pillow!" he says proudly.Daddy pillows -- or mommy pillows, if it's mom who's deployed -- are depictions of mom or dad in portable, squeezable and, most importantly, washable form. My kids have one -- lots of military kids do -- becau Ovechkin moves to 2nd in NHL goals with 802, passing Howe 12/23/2022 11:08pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Alex Ovechkin barely looked at the empty net when he shot the puck into it and set off a wild celebration with his teammates and among Washington Capitals fans. With a no-look empty-net goal, Ovechkin made more history and moved another step closer to breaking one of hockey's mos Massive winter storm brings rolling blackouts, power outages 12/23/2022 07:36pm • MISSION, Kan. (AP) ��� Tens of millions of Americans endured bone-chilling temperatures, blizzard conditions, power outages and canceled holiday gatherings Friday from a winter storm that forecasters said was nearly unprecedented in its scope, exposing about 60% of the U.S. population to some sort o