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Georgia's prime minister joins tens of thousands in a march to promote 'family purity' 05/17/2024 12:57pm • TBILISI, Georgia (AP) ��� Georgia's prime minister joined tens of thousands of people on a march through the capital on Friday to mark the Day of Family Purity, which celebrates so-called traditional family values in the country where animosity toward sexual minorities is strong. Observances of the The last pandas at any US zoo are expected to leave Atlanta for China this fall 05/17/2024 12:51pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� The last U.S. zoo with pandas in its care expects to say goodbye to the four giant bears this fall. Zoo Atlanta is making preparations to return panda parents Lun Lun and Yang Yang to China along with their American-born twins Ya Lun and Xi Lun, zoo officials said Friday. There is Last student who helped integrate the University of North Carolina's undergraduate body has died 05/17/2024 12:19pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� Ralph Kennedy Frasier, the final surviving member of a trio of African American youths who were the first to desegregate the undergraduate student body at North Carolina's flagship public university in the 1950s, has died. Frasier, who had been in declining health over the pas Pennsylvania school district's decision to cut song from student concert raises concerns 05/17/2024 12:07pm • ROARING SPRING, Pa. (AP) ��� A Pennsylvania school district's decision to remove a song from a recent student choral concert has divided the community and spurred a review by a civil rights group. ��� Lift Every Voice And Sing,��� a late-19th century hymn sometimes referred to as the Black national Mexico's cartel violence haunts civilians as the June 2 election approaches 05/17/2024 11:28am • HUITZILAC, Mexico (AP) ��� Tailed by trucks of heavily armed soldiers, four caskets floated on a sea of hundreds of mourners. Neighbors peered nervously from their homes as the crowd pushed past shuttered businesses, empty streets and political campaign posters plastering the small Mexican town of H Japan passes a revised law allowing joint child custody for divorced parents for the first time 05/17/2024 11:21am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Japan���s parliament on Friday passed a revision to the country���s civil code that will allow divorced parents the option of joint child custody, a change that brings the nation in line with many other countries. The revision, the first to custody rights in nearly 80 years, is to tak Anne Arundel Co. elementary school teacher charged with sex abuse of multiple students 05/17/2024 09:52am • A third grade teacher in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, is under arrest and being held without bond on dozens of sex abuse charges. Authorities said the charges against 44-year-old Matthew Scott Banks Schlegel of Severna Park involved students and dated back as far as August 2022. The abuse alleg 'Greatest of All Time' youth mental health expo is in Maryland this weekend 05/17/2024 09:26am • Mental health continues to be a big priority for young people, with increasing rates of depression and anxiety reported among adolescents in recent years. But accessing resources that can help someone get the help they need can also be extremely difficult. The National Alliance on Mental Illness German parliament approves plans to relax strict restrictions on family names 05/17/2024 09:12am • BERLIN (AP) ��� The German parliament on Friday approved plans to relax strict restrictions on family names ��� clearing the way, among other things, for couples to take double-barreled surnames and pass them on to their children. The reform of Germany's rigid rules is due to take effect at the begi Latinos found jobs and cheap housing in a Pennsylvania city but political power has proven elusive 05/17/2024 01:17am • HAZLETON, Pa. (AP) ��� Latinos seeking jobs and affordable housing have transformed Hazleton, Pennsylvania, in recent decades, but a federal lawsuit argues the way representatives are elected to their local school board is unfairly shutting them out of power. Nearly two-thirds of students in the Haz For the children of Gaza, war means no school ��� and no indication when formal learning might return 05/17/2024 01:10am • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) ��� Atef Al-Buhaisi, 6, once dreamed of a career building houses. Now, all he craves is to return to school. In Israel's war with Hamas, Atef's home has been bombed, his teacher killed and his school in Nuseirat turned into a refuge for displaced people. He lives in a cramp AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean 05/17/2024 12:08am • May 10-16, 2024 As young Haitians are increasingly exposed to violence, the country is undergoing a wider push to dispel a long-standing taboo on mental health services teaching parents how to put a smile on their children���s faces. Family and friends hold a vigil in Oaxaca for Manuel Perez Rios, o 70 years after Brown v. Board, America is both more diverse ��� and more segregated 05/17/2024 12:01am • On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court laid out a new precedent: Separate but equal has no place in American schools. The message of Brown v. Board of Education was clear. But 70 years later, the impact of the decision is still up for debate. Have Americans truly ended segregation in fact, not just in l Scottie Scheffler opened the PGA Championship with a bang before settling for an opening 4-under 05/16/2024 09:13pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� Scottie Scheffler began his pursuit of the second leg of the grand slam with a slam dunk. The rest of his opening round at the PGA Championship wasn't exactly a layup. The world's top-ranked player posted a somewhat pedestrian ��� by his current standard anyway ��� 4-under 6 How to Build Generational Wealth 05/16/2024 08:00pm • Generational wealth is the preservation and transfer of assets from one generation to the next. Providing your children or grandchildren with even a small financial safety net as they become adults may make it easier for them to achieve milestones, including going to college or purchasing a house. "