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Turbulent Honolulu flight illustrates phenomenon's risks 12/20/2022 06:03pm • The latest injuries from airplane turbulence were on flights to Honolulu and Houston, leading to a total of 41 people being hurt or receiving medical treatment in just two days — Sunday and Monday. Back in July, severe turbulence led to at least eight minor injuries on a flight to Nashville, Tenn Amazon to make big business changes in EU settlement 12/20/2022 05:50pm • Amazon will make major changes to its business practices to end competition probes in Europe by giving customers more visible choices when buying products and, for Prime members, more delivery options, European Union regulators said Tuesday. The EU's executive Commission accepted the legally bindin Review: Sarah Polley’s ‘Women Talking’ is a revelation 12/20/2022 05:32pm • What happens when your home no longer feels like a home? When the rules of your life no longer make sense? When your body is not your own? When your children are not safe and neither are you? Do you look for justice? Revenge? Apologies? Do you make amends to keep the peace? Or do you search for some Tad Boyle on cusp of eclipsing Colorado's all-time wins mark 12/20/2022 04:16pm • BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Tad Boyle really felt like his arrival in Boulder was going to pay big dividends. Not at first as a basketball coach, either, but as an investment advisor. That was his line of work a while back, before coaching entered the picture. Fast-forward a few decades: Boyle's on the Duke Ellington parents, students protest DCPS takeover 12/20/2022 03:46pm • Dozens gathered outside D.C. School Chancellor Lewis Ferebee’s office along First Street Northeast on Tuesday morning to protest D.C. Public Schools' plans to take complete control of the hybrid institution's operations. (WTOP/Luke Lukert) Students and parents from Duke Ellington School of the Cheer groups move to dismiss abuse case, racketeering claims 12/20/2022 03:12pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A series of lawsuits beginning in South Carolina have detailed the alleged sexual abuse of at least 20 cheerleaders across six states. The anonymous plaintiffs have accused coaches, choreographers and others of illicit drug provision, child pornography solicitation and rape. Broadway musical 'Kimberly Akimbo' creates upside-down world 12/20/2022 03:10pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The seed for one of the best musicals on Broadway this season sprang from an off-hand comment. Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire asked a friend about his newborn niece and was told she was like a wise old woman trapped in a baby's body. “I thought, that’s peculiar. So the literal Review: ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ is purrfectly fun 12/20/2022 02:59pm • Quick, without looking, guess how long it’s been since there’s been a Shrek movie or even a Shrek-adjacent one. Over a decade seems too long for such a popular franchise, right? And yet here we are, 11 years later, welcoming back Antonio Banderas’s swashbuckling feline in “ Puss in Boots: Th Congress moves to ban TikTok from US government devices 12/20/2022 02:53pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — TikTok would be banned from most U.S. government devices under a spending bill Congress unveiled early Tuesday, the latest push by American lawmakers against the Chinese-owned social media app. The $1.7 trillion package includes requirements for the Biden administration to prohi Pole killed fighting in Ukraine buried as hero of 2 nations 12/20/2022 02:35pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish man who died fighting in Ukraine was buried in his native soil Tuesday as weeping mourners praised him as a hero of two nations. The body of Daniel Sztyber, 35, of Warsaw, lay in a coffin covered in Poland's white-and-red flag. Young Ukrainians draped in their nation Wartime Ukraine erasing Russian past from public spaces 12/20/2022 12:32pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — On the streets of Kyiv, Fyodor Dostoevsky is on the way out. Andy Warhol is on the way in. Ukraine is accelerating efforts to erase the vestiges of Soviet and Russian influence from its public spaces by pulling down monuments and renaming hundreds of streets to honor its own a Survivor found from Thai navy ship that sank Sunday 12/20/2022 09:03am • BANGKOK (AP) — Rescuers found a survivor and recovered five bodies from a Thai warship that sank over the weekend in the Gulf of Thailand, navy officials said Tuesday, as hopes faded for two dozen people still missing. Officials acknowledged there were not enough life jackets for all those aboard. App for bus tracking, free AP testing and extended school year calendar in proposed MCPS budget 12/20/2022 07:24am • As she unveiled a new budget proposal for Montgomery County Public Schools, Superintendent Monifa McKnight said Monday that the Maryland school system had a piece of technology in the works. "We will be investing in an app for families to track their child's bus, so that they know where it is Larry Hogan looks back at time as Md. governor 12/20/2022 05:05am • In less than one month, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan will leave the only elected office he’s ever held, and the Republican will do it with an approval rating that continues to hover near 70%. Hogan spoke with WTOP about his time in office and what the future holds. Maryland’s next compt Asian markets follow Wall St lower amid gloomy outlook 12/19/2022 10:51pm • BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets extended their losses Tuesday amid gloom about weaker global economic growth as central banks raise interest rates to cool inflation. Shanghai, Hong Kong and Sydney declined. Tokyo advanced. Oil prices rose almost $1 per barrel. Markets are sliding after the U.S.