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Police: 2 firefighters die in house fire; body found outside 12/08/2022 09:25pm • TAMAQUA, Pa. (AP) ��� Two firefighters died responding to a house fire Wednesday in rural eastern Pennsylvania where a man's body was found outside, state police said. The New Tripoli Fire Company members who lost their lives were identified as Assistant Fire Chief Zachary Paris, 36, and Marvin Grub Should Kids Take Multivitamins? 12/08/2022 07:00pm • The multibillion-dollar multivitamin industry markets its products so extensively that you'd be forgiven for thinking that everyone always needs to take a multivitamin. But that's not the case. As a general rule, kids don't need to take multivitamins, experts say. "The vast majority of children don' 17 Top Wisconsin Dells Resorts for Families and Adults 12/08/2022 07:00pm • An iconic Wisconsin vacation destination -- especially for families -- in the state's heartland, Wisconsin Dells touts two dozen water parks, earning it a reputation as the "Waterpark Capital of the World." And while the water parks are undoubtedly the most popular draw to this area, there are plent FTC sues to block Microsoft-Activision Blizzard $69B merger 12/08/2022 06:52pm • The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday sued to block Microsoft���s planned $69 billion takeover of video game company Activision Blizzard, saying it could suppress competitors to Microsoft���s Xbox game console and its growing games subscription business. The FTC���s challenge could be a test case How 'Boy in the Box' mystery will help solve other cases 12/08/2022 06:28pm • PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- For 65 years the nation has been waiting for investigators to determine the identity of the boy who became known as America's Unknown Child or "The Boy in the Box." Now, we know that child was Joseph Augustus Zarelli. Investigators used modern forensic techniques, includin New York Times journalists, other workers on 24-hour strike 12/08/2022 05:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� More than 1,000 New York Times journalists and other staff walked off the job for 24 hours Thursday, frustrated by contract negotiations that have dragged on for months in the newspaper's biggest labor dispute in more than 40 years. Hundreds of reporters, editors, photographers and Family of American prisoner Paul Whelan backs Griner deal 12/08/2022 05:20pm • The brother of an American detained in Russia since 2018 said Thursday that his family fears he will not be released for years, even as they supported the U.S. government's agreement to a prisoner exchange that freed WNBA star Brittney Griner but left Paul Whelan behind. Whelan, a Michigan corporate Interracial marriages to get added protection under new law 12/08/2022 03:27pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� One day in the 1970s, Paul Fleisher and his wife were walking through a department store parking lot when they noticed a group of people looking at them. Fleisher, who is white, and his wife, who is Black, were used to ���the look.��� But this time it was more intense. ���The FTC challenges Meta acquisition of VR company in court 12/08/2022 03:00pm • Federal regulators opened their campaign to block Facebook parent Meta's acquisition of a virtual-reality company Thursday in a San Jose, California, courtroom. In a landmark legal challenge to a Big Tech merger, the Federal Trade Commission has sued to prevent Meta's acquisition of Within Unlimite Smithsonian honors 4 legendary, diverse musicians with Smithson Bicentennial Medals 12/08/2022 02:13pm • The Smithsonian Museum of American History on Thursday honored Gloria Estefan; her husband, Emilio Estefan; Dave Grohl, and Susan Tedeschi with the James Smithson Bicentennial Medals. The ceremony was held in a small room on the second floor of the museum, and the artists who received the medals 1 teen in hospital, 1 arrested in shooting outside Suitland High School 12/08/2022 01:52pm • A 14-year-old ninth-grade student was shot on the grounds of Suitland High School, in Forestville, Maryland, Thursday morning, and another 14-year-old student at the school has been arrested in connection with the shooting, Prince George's County, Maryland, police said. Students are currently in FDA clears updated COVID-19 vaccines for kids under age 5 12/08/2022 01:47pm • U.S. regulators on Thursday cleared doses of the updated COVID-19 vaccines for children younger than age 5. The Food and Drug Administration's decision aims to better protect the littlest kids amid an uptick in COVID-19 cases around the country ��� at a time when children���s hospitals already are p Tom Cruise to get Producers Guild���s David O. Selznick Award 12/08/2022 12:00pm • Tom Cruise is getting his first major honor of awards season. In February, the ���Top Gun: Maverick��� star will receive the David O. Selznick Achievement Award from the Producers Guild of America, the group said Thursday. Cruise may not be best known for his behind-the-scenes work on movies, but h Review: 'The Whale' is a hard but astounding film to watch 12/08/2022 11:56am • The center of gravity of ���The Whale��� is obviously the 600-pound man at its center. Look closely, though, and he's the one with a soul as light as a feather. Charlie is a reclusive, morbidly obese English literature teacher unable and unwilling to stop eating himself to death. As his health woes US woman who killed UK teen in crash gets suspended sentence 12/08/2022 11:34am • LONDON (AP) ��� An American woman who left the U.K. after killing a teenager in a road accident was given an eight-month suspended prison sentence on Thursday, though she declined to come to Britain for the court hearing. Anne Sacoolas, 45, was sentenced over an August 2019 accident in which 19-year