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Will Smith addresses 'horrific' Oscars slap: 'I lost it' 11/29/2022 08:11am • Eight months after the slap heard around the world, actor Will Smith sat down with "The Daily Show" host Trevor Noah on Monday to address his confrontation with Chris Rock on the Oscars stage. In March, Smith went on the Oscars stage and slapped Rock across the face after Rock made a joke about Loudoun school board to vote on sexually-explicit materials notification policy 11/29/2022 08:07am • Virginia's Loudoun County School Board is set to vote on a new policy regarding the notification of parents before sexually-explicit materials will be used in classrooms. The proposed policy, which is expected to be voted upon Tuesday, would require parents and guardians be notified 30 days befor Ways for you to help on #GivingTuesday 11/29/2022 07:17am • D.C.-area residents looking to support others after indulging on Thanksgiving dining and Black Friday shopping can participate in #GivingTuesday. Giving Tuesday encourages radical generosity ��� everything from making someone smile, to volunteering time to donating to organizations that support t John Waters brings naughty 'A John Waters Christmas' to The Birchmere 11/29/2022 01:16am • Hear our full conversation on my podcast ���Beyond the Fame.��� Legendary cult filmmaker John Waters is most synonymous with his Baltimore hometown, but folks in the D.C. area can catch his live holiday show��"A John Waters Christmas" at The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia, on Dec. 21 -- ju Buffalo gunman pleads guilty in racist supermarket massacre 11/28/2022 10:58pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) ��� The white gunman who massacred 10 Black shoppers and workers at a Buffalo supermarket pleaded guilty Monday to murder and hate-motivated terrorism charges, guaranteeing he will spend the rest of his life in prison. Payton Gendron, 19, entered the plea Monday in a courthouse ro City holds vigil, honors 6 dead in Virginia Walmart shooting 11/28/2022 10:11pm • CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) ��� Hundreds gathered Monday in Virginia���s second-largest city to honor six people killed in a mass shooting at a Walmart, with the state's governor pledging to confront a ���mental health and a behavioral health crisis.��� Chesapeake's candlelight vigil paid tribute to a div 7 Ways to Invest in Water 11/28/2022 07:00pm • Water is one of the most essential resources in the world. Unfortunately, it is increasingly scarce in certain regions, creating shortages that could become a big problem in the coming decades. The global population just hit 8 billion, yet the total amount of fresh water on the planet has remained c Where Does My Money Go When I Pay for a Nursing Home? 11/28/2022 07:00pm • Nursing homes are expensive and becoming more so. A private room in a nursing home facility costs $297 per day on average nationwide, according to the 2021 Cost of Care Survey conducted by Genworth. A semi-private room carries a rate of $260 per day. As a nursing home resident or the responsible fam How a Gap Year Prepares Students for College 11/28/2022 07:00pm • While many students head directly to college after graduating from high school, a smaller cohort chooses an alternative: a gap year. What may have previously been seen as an unconventional path has become more accepted in recent years, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic. When colleges either s 'We the People' at heart of White House holiday decorations 11/28/2022 06:59pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� ���We the People��� is Jill Biden's holiday theme with White House decorations designed for ���the people��� to see themselves in the tree ornaments, mantel displays, mirrors and do-it-yourself creations that have turned the mansion's public spaces into a winter wonderland. ���Th Prosecutor: Triggerman or not, find man guilty in 8 slayings 11/28/2022 06:32pm • WAVERLY, Ohio (AP) ��� The first defendant to face trial in the slayings of eight people from another Ohio family should be convicted regardless of whether he was a triggerman, a prosecutor told jurors Monday as closing arguments began. George Wagner IV, his brother and parents were charged in south Safety policy not enforced before Michigan school shooting 11/28/2022 06:30pm • OXFORD, Mich. (AP) ��� Policies and procedures that could have prevented a mass shooting that left four students dead at a Michigan high school last year were approved earlier but never implemented, two former school board officials said Monday. Tom Donnelly and Korey Bailey, who recently resigned a Judge accepts insanity plea deal for man in face-biting case 11/28/2022 05:54pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) ��� A judge accepted a plea deal Monday for a man who randomly killed a Florida couple in their garage six years ago and then chewed on one victim���s face that will send him to a mental hospital for treatment. Austin Harrouff, 25, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity Uvalde mom sues police, gunmaker in school massacre 11/28/2022 05:10pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The last conversation Sandra Torres had with her 10-year-old daughter was about her nervous excitement over whether she���d make the all-star softball team. Hours later, Eliahna Torres was one of 19 children and two teachers massacred at their elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Court: Cop who shot Castile wrongly denied teaching license 11/28/2022 04:51pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a state board must reconsider its rejection of a substitute teaching license for the former police officer who shot and killed Philando Castile in 2016. Jeronimo Yanez applied to be a substitute teacher in 2020, but his applicati