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Why you should give a poop about World Toilet Day 11/18/2022 06:52am • Saturday, Nov. 19 is World Toilet Day, a day officially recognized and observed by the United Nations to raise awareness of the 3.6 billion people without access to managed sanitation. Going to the bathroom is not something people think about or want to think about, but for many people in the wor More than 1,000 bicyclists expected for Saturday���s Ride For Your Life to Capitol Hill 11/18/2022 05:23am • The grieving process is no where close to finished for Daniel Langenkamp. It was back in August that his wife, 42-year-old Sarah Langenkamp, was struck by a truck while riding a bike along River Road in Bethesda, Maryland. Since then, there have been fundraisers and bike rides in her honor. This Are Northern Virginia students using virtual tutoring services? 11/18/2022 05:09am • Welcome to the School Zone, WTOP���s weekly feature about the latest topics and trends in education across the D.C. region. How many Northern Virginia students are using digital tutoring? What it is: In an effort to help students remain on track in the aftermath of the pandemic, several school sys Judge wins AL MVP in runaway; Goldschmidt takes NL prize 11/17/2022 10:12pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Aaron Judge's record-setting season with the New York Yankees turned that AL MVP debate into a decisive verdict. Paul Goldschmidt's steady production for the St. Louis Cardinals made him the clear choice in the National League. And after coming in second before, both prodigio Down to its last panda, Mexico ponders what could come next 11/17/2022 10:06pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Xin Xin, the last panda in Latin America, is not your average bear. A native of Mexico, she���s the only remaining member of a diaspora descended from giant pandas China gifted to foreign countries during the 1970s and 1980s. Mexico���s Chapultepec Zoo is one of only two zoos t Amazon CEO says layoffs will extend into next year 11/17/2022 09:01pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The mass layoffs that began in Amazon's corporate ranks this week will extend into next year, CEO Andy Jassy said Thursday. In a note sent to employees, Jassy said the company told workers in its devices and books divisions about layoffs on Wednesday. He said it also offered some o WVa Supreme Court issues opinion in scholarship ruling 11/17/2022 08:06pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) ��� West Virginia���s Supreme Court released a full opinion Thursday in an order it issued last month that allowed a non-public school scholarship program to continue. The five-member court on Oct. 6 reversed a lower court���s ruling that had blocked the Hope Scholarship Prog NFL shifts Bills' game vs. Browns to Detroit due to storm 11/17/2022 07:51pm • ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) ��� Mother Nature is forcing the Buffalo Bills to shuffle off to the Motor City. The NFL decided Thursday to shift the Bills' home game against the Cleveland Browns on Sunday to Detroit���s Ford Field because of travel and safety concerns stemming from a lake-effect snowstorm How to Adjust Your Tax Withholding 11/17/2022 07:00pm • You may not have thought much about the forms you filled out on your first few days in a new job. But you likely filled out a W-4 form, which helps to determine how much of your income your employer will withhold, or keep from your paycheck for federal taxes. Having too much tax withheld can mean sm Parents of Cuba protesters blocked from meeting US officials 11/17/2022 06:48pm • HAVANA (AP) ��� On the day Migdalia Guti��rrez was set to meet with an American delegation in Havana, Cuban state security were waiting outside her home in a white car at 6 a.m. sharp. Guti��rrez and at least five other parents of participants in Cuba's 2021 protests were temporarily detained and pr Review: ���She Said��� chronicles the scoop that fed a movement 11/17/2022 06:38pm • Those old Hollywood newspaper flicks are great, but today���s journalists don���t run around newsrooms yelling ���Get me rewrite!��� Nor do they sprint across the room shouting ���Stop the presses!��� over the click-clack of teletype machines and manual typewriters. But that doesn���t mean you can�� Man charged with arranging rapper Young Dolph's killing 11/17/2022 05:47pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ��� A man charged with arranging the killing of Young Dolph pleaded not guilty Thursday ��� one year after the rapper and record label owner was ambushed and shot to death while buying cookies at a bakery in his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. Hernandez Govan, 43, made a brief ap Parents, teachers criticize Virginia's proposed changes to history, social sciences curriculum 11/17/2022 05:28pm • After education officials in Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's administration released proposed changes to the way K-12 students in public schools learn history and social sciences, some parents and teachers are voicing their opposition. "The standards perpetuate a situation in which countless stude GOP eyes new priorities for House, starting with Biden probe 11/17/2022 04:47pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Republican Party���s capture of the House majority, though narrow, will soon transform the agenda in Washington, empowering GOP lawmakers to pursue conservative goals, vigorously challenge the policies of Democratic President Joe Biden ��� and plunge into Washington investiga Review: Fine young cannibals in the tender 'Bones and All' 11/17/2022 04:16pm • Zombies had a good run. Vampires had their day in the sun. Now, it seems to be cannibals' turn for their bite at the apple. Luca Guadagnino's ���Bones and All��� gives them that, and more, in casting Taylor Russell and Timoth��e Chalamet as a pair of young cannibals in a 1980s-set road movie that's