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Amazon begins mass layoffs among its corporate workforce 11/16/2022 05:20pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Amazon has begun mass layoffs in its corporate ranks, becoming the latest tech company to trim its workforce amid rising fears about the wider economic environment. On Tuesday, the company notified regional authorities in California that it would lay off about 260 workers at vario Storming Capitol was 'really stupid,' Oath Keeper testifies 11/16/2022 04:45pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A former Ohio bar owner who stormed the U.S. Capitol in a military-style stack formation with fellow members of the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group told jurors Wednesday that it was a ���really stupid" decision, saying she got swept up in what seemed to be a "very American Target's 3Q profit drops 52% as shoppers force price cuts 11/16/2022 03:10pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� An unexpected and potentially ominous pullback in customer spending ahead of the holiday shopping season pushed third-quarter profits at Target down 52% after it was forced to slash prices with Americans feeling the squeeze of inflation. The Minneapolis retailer voiced caution abo Paris march pays tribute to 12-year-old found dead in box 11/16/2022 01:24pm • PARIS (AP) ��� The family of a 12-year-old French girl who was brutally killed and had her body found in a plastic box led a silent march Wednesday in her honor through their Paris neighborhood. The parents of the girl, identified publicly only as Lola, delayed the march for weeks because their daug England's World Cup injuries ease as Maddison, Walker train 11/16/2022 11:04am • DOHA, Qatar (AP) ��� England's injury concerns are easing ahead of the World Cup, with Kyle Walker and James Maddison overcoming their previous fitness issues to take part in the team's first training session in Qatar on Wednesday. Walker has been recovering from groin surgery needed after getting i Ben & Jerry's board bemoans West Bank, east Jerusalem sales 11/16/2022 09:41am • Ben & Jerry's board of directors on Tuesday rebuked the sale of products bearing any of the ice cream maker's insignia in West Bank settlements, the latest salvo in the Vermont-based company's feud with its corporate parent over ice cream sales in the territories. Last year Ben & Jerry���s Bennett, Nawaz replacing Judy Woodruff on PBS 'NewsHour' 11/16/2022 09:06am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� In what's being portrayed as a generational change, PBS said Wednesday that Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz will replace Washington veteran Judy Woodruff as anchors of the weeknight ���NewsHour��� at the beginning of 2023. Woodruff, 75, is leaving the daily anchor job that she's been Review: ���Slumberland��� aims for enchantment, but gets lost 11/16/2022 09:01am • An early 20th century weekly comic strip created by Winsor McCay about Little Nemo���s dream world and adventures provides the very loose inspiration for Netflix���s latest big budget spectacle, ���Slumberland.��� It is a blockbuster children���s fantasy in the colorful over-the-top vein of ���Alice 'I feel gutted': Victims of parade crash speak at sentencing 11/16/2022 06:09am • Nearly a year after their lives were shattered when a man drove his SUV through a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee, dozens of people who were hurt or saw their loved ones killed or injured unleashed raw emotions and anger in court Tuesday as they begged the judge to put the driver away for lif Hall of Fame coach Jimmy Johnson reflects on his career 11/16/2022 06:00am • Jimmy Johnson won two Super Bowls as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys and a national championship at Miami. He���s in the Pro Football, College Football and NAB Broadcasting halls of fame. In his view, Johnson���s biggest success has nothing to do with football. The 79-year-old Johnson describes in Fairfax Co. weighs changes to high school grading policy 11/16/2022 04:49am • Virginia's largest school system has started the process of reevaluating its high school grading policy, after principals reported variation in grading processes from school to school. Sloan Presidio, Fairfax County Public Schools chief academic officer, said during a work session Tuesday that th Michelle Obama opens tour for new book, 'The Light We Carry' 11/16/2022 01:05am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Michelle Obama says it helps to focus on what you can control when you feel out of control. Among the things she could control during the death and isolation of the pandemic, the racial unrest and threats to democracy were her spools of yarn and her knitting needles. She la University of Virginia mourns for campus shooting victims 11/15/2022 10:12pm • CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) ��� The University of Virginia community mourned on Tuesday as new details emerged both about the three football players killed in a campus shooting this week and the criminal charges the suspect, a former player, faces. ���It feels like it���s a nightmare, to be honest wi Board fires schools chief after Parkland massacre report 11/15/2022 08:49pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) ��� The superintendent of Florida's second-largest school district was fired after a late-night motion from a board member appointed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis following a grand jury report into the Parkland school massacre. The board voted 5-4 to dismiss Broward Schools Help seniors safely get the most use out of a smartphone 11/15/2022 08:15pm • Abbie Richie helps residents use their smartphones at Friendship Village in Tempe, Arizona. (Courtesy Senior Savvy) Adjusting smartphone settings can be tricky for anyone under the best circumstances, and one tech specialist who works with seniors has some tips for adult children to help their p