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Labor laws largely exclude nannies. Some are banding together to protect themselves 05/15/2024 06:00am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Map all doors in the home and figure out how to escape. Make a list of items in each room that you can use to defend yourself. Shelves, dishes, night stands, kitchen knives -- all can be weapons if you are attacked. These are among the strategies Judith Bautista Hidalgo teaches he Loudoun Co. proposes 16 delayed-start days next year to allow teachers to meet training requirements 05/15/2024 04:33am • Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia is considering adding 16 delayed-start days to the calendar for the 2024-25 school year, as part of a plan to give teachers more time to complete critical trainings. The proposal, which Superintendent Aaron Spence presented to the school board Tuesday nig Maryland���s 6th District: Neil Parrott scores GOP nomination; early lead for April McClain Delaney tips Democratic nod 05/14/2024 11:18pm • Visit��WTOP���s Election 2024 page for comprehensive coverage. Listen live to 103.5 FM for WTOP���s team coverage of the Maryland primary.�� In the closely watched primary contest in Maryland's 6th District ��� considered the most competitive piece of congressional real estate in the state ��� fo Bronny James says he's 'grateful' to have NBA dream in reach after health scare last summer 05/14/2024 08:08pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Bronny James still has some lingering fears. He also has big dreams. Nearly a year after going into cardiac arrest during a workout, he is close to achieving his goal of playing in the NBA just like his famous father. ���It's just a great thing to happen to me, in terms of just bein 5 Best Bond Funds for Retirement 05/14/2024 08:00pm • Bonds make up the foundation of most successful retirement portfolios. These assets are debt-related instruments issued by governments and corporations that are looking to raise money. Think of them as the other side of the loan, where the "issuer" is the borrower and investors are collectively the TikTok content creators sue the US government over law that could ban the popular platform 05/14/2024 07:17pm • Eight TikTok content creators sued the U.S. government on Tuesday, issuing another challenge to the new federal law that would ban the popular social media platform nationwide if its China-based parent company doesn���t sell its stakes within a year. Attorneys for the creators argue in the lawsuit Man gets over 3 years in prison for posting video threatening school shooting in New Hampshire 05/14/2024 07:02pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� A man who posted a Snapchat video last year threatening to shoot up a New Hampshire high school was sentenced to a little over three years in prison on Tuesday. Kyle Hendrickson, 26, had pleaded guilty to charges of interstate threatening communications and possessing a firea Parishioners subdue armed teenager at Louisiana children's service 05/14/2024 06:58pm • ABBEVILLE, La. (AP) ��� Parishioners subdued a teenager with a gun who entered a Louisiana church during a service for dozens of young children, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. Officials in the Catholic diocese are weighing new safety protocols, including the possibility of someone carrying a firearm at Mining giant Anglo American to break up its sprawling business as it tries to fend off takeover 05/14/2024 05:05pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Mining giant Anglo American PLC plans to break up its sprawling worldwide business ��� including spinning off the DeBeers diamond operation ��� as it seeks to fend off a takeover and focus on minerals that are expected to boom amid the global shift to green energy. London-based Anglo How DC's deputy mayor is uniquely positioned to lead Chinatown revitalization 05/14/2024 03:40pm • All throughout May, WTOP is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with stories about the people and places shaping the D.C. region. As a child, one of Nina Albert's favorite foods was a dehydrated prune. The dried fruit is salted on the outside. She'd tear the skin off `Micropreemie' baby who weighed just over 1 pound at birth goes home from Illinois hospital 05/14/2024 03:02pm • NEW LENOX, Ill. (AP) ��� A baby girl who weighed just over one pound when she was born prematurely in November has beaten the odds and gone home with her parents after spending her first six months at a suburban Chicago hospital. Nyla Brooke Haywood was treated to a send-off party Monday at Silver C Alice Munro, Nobel literature winner revered as short story master, dead at 92 05/14/2024 03:02pm • Nobel laureate Alice Munro, the Canadian literary giant who became one of the world���s most esteemed contemporary authors and one of history's most honored short story writers, has died at age 92. A spokesperson for publisher Penguin Random House Canada said Munro, winner of the Nobel literary priz Alice Munro, Nobel literature winner revered as short story master, dead at 92 05/14/2024 01:44pm • Nobel laureate Alice Munro, the Canadian literary giant among the world���s most esteemed contemporary authors and short story writers, has died at age 92. A spokesperson for publisher Penguin Random House Canada said Munro, winner of the Nobel literary prize in 2013, died Monday at home in Port Hop American sought after ���So I raped you��� Facebook message detained in France on 2021 warrant 05/14/2024 01:38pm • LYON, France (AP) ��� An American accused of sexually assaulting a Pennsylvania college student in 2013 and later sending her a Facebook message that said, ���So I raped you,��� has been detained in France after a three-year search. A prosecutor in Metz, France, confirmed Tuesday that Ian Thomas Cle Analysis: David Puig left college for LIV. He's still playing in the majors and maybe the Olympics 05/14/2024 12:19pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� David Puig knew what he was signing up for when the Spaniard left Arizona State to join Saudi-funded LIV Golf, even if it really wasn't entirely about the money for him. The guarantee that LIV offered Puig was not so much a rich bonus ��� he played two events as an amateur b