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Spanberger-Vega congressional contest in Virginia is close ��� and closely watched 11/05/2022 10:31am • The political battle for Virginia���s 7th Congressional District is one of the most closely watched and costly U.S. House races in the country. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a Democratic centrist and former CIA officer, is seeking a third term. Spanberger and members of her party are facing fierce pol California tenants rise up, demand rent caps from city halls 11/05/2022 10:12am • ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) ��� Kim Carlson's apartment has flooded with human feces multiple times, the plumbing never fixed in the low-income housing complex she calls home in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Antioch. Her property manager is verbally abusive and calls her 9-year-old grandson, who has Private school vouchers open faith options for kids of color 11/05/2022 09:22am • MILWAUKEE (AP) ��� On break in the hallway between St. Marcus Lutheran Church and its attached school, eighth grader Annii Kinepoway had no hesitation in explaining what she���s learned to love best here ��� the good Lord and good grades. ���I like knowing there���s somebody you can ask for help if Groups say they'll sue Georgia over 'divisive concepts' ban 11/04/2022 07:42pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Education and civil rights groups said Friday that they will sue to overturn Georgia's law banning the teaching of certain racial concepts, claiming it violates First Amendment rights to free expression and 14th Amendment rights to equal protection. The Southern Poverty Law Center, Teacher asks court to restore suit on trans student pronouns 11/04/2022 07:25pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� Lawyers for a high school French teacher who was fired after he refused to use a transgender student's pronouns argued before the Supreme Court of Virginia Friday that the school violated his constitutional right to speak freely and exercise his religion. An attorney for the s More details released on Frederick Co. school lockdown, but questions remain 11/04/2022 04:39pm • Investigators released more details on what transpired Thursday at Green Valley Elementary School, in Frederick County, Maryland, but why it all happened is still not clear. The school was put on lockdown early Thursday afternoon after a report of a stabbing, but that report turned out to be fals Partisan mailer poses as Catholic newspaper in Arizona 11/04/2022 03:16pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� Nicole Leonardi initially thought a new newspaper had arrived in her mailbox this week. But a closer look at the ���Arizona Catholic Tribune��� revealed a different story. While it had all the attributes of a traditional print newspaper, including a tagline that read ���Real data. R From ���Enola Holmes��� to ���Extraction,��� Netflix bets on sequels 11/04/2022 12:51pm • It���s easy to forget that the Netflix original film department is still rather young. Five years ago, the streaming service didn���t even really have one. But things move quickly in the competitive streaming world, especially when starting from scratch. Now with a robust library of proprietary and Alex Jones trial moves to punitive damages phase 11/04/2022 12:10pm • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) ��� Infowars host Alex Jones faces the possibility of having more steep penalties heaped onto the vast amount he already owes for spreading conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, as the punitive damages phase began Friday in a lawsuit filed by the v Netflix's revamped 'Unsolved Mysteries' drops new batch of true-crime puzzles 11/04/2022 11:55am • True-crime junkies get their fix this week, as "Unsolved Mysteries" drops the remaining batch of its nine-episode season delivered in three chunks. It's the third season of the revamped series on Netflix and overall the 16th season of the long-running series that��became a staple of true-crim Prince William School Board considering parental consent for school-wide book readings 11/04/2022 11:14am • This article was written by WTOP���s news partner, InsideNoVa.com, and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com���s free email subscription today. The Prince William County School Board is considering a proposal that would require school administrators to notify parents ahead of an Schools clash with parents over bans on student cellphones 11/04/2022 07:34am • Cellphones ��� the ultimate distraction ��� keep children from learning, educators say. But in attempts to keep the phones at bay, the most vocal pushback doesn't always come from students. In some cases, it's from parents. Bans on the devices were on the rise before the COVID-19 pandemic. Since sc What are the calendar options for Northern Va. schools, and what does that mean for snow days? 11/04/2022 07:14am • Welcome to the School Zone, WTOP���s weekly feature about the latest topics and trends in education across the D.C. region. What to know about calendar options for some DC-area school systems What it is: The current school year is barely a few months old, but school boards across the D.C. region a Indian capital battles dangerous levels of air pollution 11/04/2022 03:08am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� Indian authorities on Friday shut factories and construction sites, restricted diesel-run vehicles and deployed water sprinklers and anti-smog guns to control haze and smog enveloping the skyline of the capital region. The Delhi government closed primary schools and restricted out Anger, tears at vigil for teen killed on Halloween 11/03/2022 09:42pm • Dozens of people ��� a majority of them children ��� came together Thursday night for a vigil on a Capitol Hill athletic field to honor 14-year-old Antoine Manning, the teenager who was shot and killed on Halloween. Everyone gathered on Watkins Field, where Antoine used to play youth football