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Bidens visit patients at Children's National Hospital 12/23/2022 06:48pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden and his wife, first lady Jill Biden, visited Children's National Hospital on the Friday before Christmas to visit with patients and read a story. Sitting in front of a towering Christmas tree, the president helped hold the book while the first lady read ��� Judge kept FTX execs' plea deals secret to get founder to US 12/23/2022 06:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A judge kept secret that two of Sam Bankman-Fried���s closest associates had turned against him so the cryptocurrency entrepreneur wouldn���t get spooked and fight extradition from the Bahamas, according to court transcripts made public Friday. U.S. prosecutors in New York waited u Facebook parent Meta will pay $725M to settle user data case 12/23/2022 06:20pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Facebook���s corporate parent has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the world���s largest social media platform allowed millions of its users��� personal information to be fed to Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump���s victorious presi How a Prince William Co. school uses Visible Learning to help close achievement gap 12/23/2022 04:16pm • During a recent lesson about the Revolutionary War at Kerrydale Elementary in Woodbridge, Virginia, students learned about taxation without representation. To help them understand exactly what it means when something is taxed, the fourth graders were given a handful of M&Ms. Each time they wa A trio of standout roles reveals Hong Chau's boundless range 12/23/2022 02:05pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The seemingly limitless range of Hong Chau is on display in three films this year, in roles so different that they hardly seem the work of one actor. In Darren Aronofsky's ���The Whale,��� she plays best friend and nurse to Brendan Fraser's obese shut-in professor, his most regula Meta agrees to pay $725 million to settle lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica data leak 12/23/2022 11:45am • Facebook parent company Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a longstanding class action lawsuit accusing it of allowing Cambridge Analytica and other third parties to access private user information and misleading users about its privacy practices.The proposed settlement would end the lega Thom Bell, an architect of 1970s Philadelphia soul, dies 12/23/2022 11:04am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Thom Bell, the Grammy-winning producer, writer and arranger who helped perfect the ���Sound of Philadelphia��� of the 1970s with the inventive, orchestral settings of such hits as the Spinners��� ���I���ll Be Around��� and the Stylistics��� ���Betcha by Golly, Wow,��� has died at a Group urges feds to investigate Snapchat over fentanyl sales 12/23/2022 09:13am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� As the U.S. deals with its deadliest overdose crisis to date, a national crime-prevention group is calling on the Justice Department to clamp down on social media's role in the spread of fentanyl, the drug largely driving a troubling spike in overdose deaths among teenagers. T Va. high school athletes push for girls' wrestling league 12/22/2022 10:57pm • There���s a growing movement in Virginia high schools to create a girls' wrestling league. Teenage wrestlers in Alexandria shared why for many coed teams that have multiple-time champions who are ready to compete, it's past time for a change. Senior Emma Cox wrote about her experience with Alex Jones' motion to set aside Sandy Hook verdict denied 12/22/2022 10:54pm • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) ��� A Connecticut judge on Thursday denied Infowars host Alex Jones' motion seeking a new trial and the overturning of a jury verdict requiring him to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. The ruling found the Microsoft will fight US over $68.7B Activision Blizzard deal 12/22/2022 10:19pm • Microsoft is headed for a battle with the Federal Trade Commission over whether the U.S. will block the tech giant's planned takeover of video game company Activision Blizzard. Microsoft on Thursday filed a formal response to the FTC���s claims that the $68.7 billion deal is an illegal acquisitio Boras: Giants wouldn't seal Correa deal, so he called Mets 12/22/2022 09:31pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Carlos Correa was in the St. Regis San Francisco with his parents, brother and in-laws, ready to head to Oracle Park for his introductory news conference. That's when agent Scott Boras asked the prized player to meet him in room 1212. Farhan Zaidi, the Giants' president of baseball Russia scrubs Mariupol's Ukraine identity, builds on death 12/22/2022 08:45pm • Throughout Mariupol, Russian workers are tearing down bombed-out buildings at a rate of at least one a day, hauling away shattered bodies with the debris. Russian military convoys are rumbling down the broad avenues of what is swiftly becoming a garrison city, and Russian soldiers, builders, adminis Transgender lawmaker hopes her presence brings understanding 12/22/2022 07:46pm • HELENA, Mont. (AP) ��� Zooey Zephyr worked behind the scenes during Montana���s 2021 legislative session to oppose an ultimately unsuccessful effort to ban transgender minors from receiving gender-affirming health care, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery. When the 2023 sessi Pageantry evoking Churchill greets Zelenskyy in Washington 12/22/2022 07:12pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� At a time of grave consequence, a wartime leader crossed the Atlantic to arrive at a White House decked in holiday decor to consult with the American president about a war in Europe. The moment was Dec. 22, 1941, as British Prime Minister Winston Churchill landed near Washington