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New Md. schools superintendent speaks on performance rankings, pays raises for teachers and more 05/07/2024 10:52pm • Dr. Carey Wright has only been the fulltime State Superintendent of Maryland Schools for two weeks but she's ready to make some changes. Maryland's public schools have often been ranked by various groups as some of the best in the nation. Previous state school leaders have touted the performance Alabama lawmakers approve tax breaks for businesses that help employees afford child care 05/07/2024 08:56pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ��� Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday gave final approval to legislation to provide state tax breaks to businesses that help their employees afford childcare. The Alabama Senate voted 31-0 for the bill that now goes to Gov. Kay Ivey for her signature. Supporters said that childcare TikTok sues US to block law that could ban the social media platform 05/07/2024 07:29pm • TikTok and its Chinese parent company filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new American law that would ban the popular video-sharing app in the U.S. unless it's sold to an approved buyer, saying it unfairly singles out the platform and is an unprecedented attack on free speech. In its lawsuit, Byt Drake and Kendrick Lamar's feud ��� the biggest beef in recent rap history ��� explained 05/07/2024 05:40pm • In one of the biggest beefs in recent hip-hop history, Drake and Kendrick Lamar are feuding ��� to the point that police were asked about their feud after a security guard was shot outside Drake's Toronto mansion on Tuesday. But it wasn't always this way. Over a decade ago, the pair collaborated on Music Review: Kings of Leon electrify with new album that nods to the past, 'Can We Please Have Fun' 05/07/2024 03:58pm • Kings of Leon pose an existential question to listeners on the first single from their new album: Are you a mustang or are you a kitty? Well, turning that around: Which Kings of Leon are we getting now? The purring arena-rockers or an edgy, untamed stallion? Judging from the 12 tracks on ���Can We P TikTok has sued the US over a law that could ban its app. What's the legal outlook? 05/07/2024 01:39pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A newly minted law forcing TikTok's parent company to sell the video-sharing platform or face a ban in the U.S. could be in for an uphill battle in court. The app���s China-based owner, ByteDance, filed a lawsuit Tuesday, calling the measure unconstitutional. Critics of the sell-or How TikTok grew from a fun app for teens into a potential national security threat 05/07/2024 12:36pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� If it feels like TikTok has been around forever, that's probably because it has, at least if you're measuring via internet time. What's now in question is whether it will be around much longer and, if so, in what form? Starting in 2017, when the Chinese social video app merged TikTok sues the US over attempts to force its Chinese parent to sell the social media platform, citing First Amendment 05/07/2024 12:22pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� TikTok sues the US over attempts to force its Chinese parent to sell the social media platform, citing First Amendment. A look at some of the turmoil surrounding the Boy Scouts, from a gay ban to bankruptcy 05/07/2024 11:28am • IRVING, Texas (AP) ��� Founded in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America achieved a vaunted status in the U.S. over the decades, with pinewood derbies, the Scout Oath and Eagle Scouts becoming part of the lexicon. Lore has it that American businessman William Boyce was inspired to start the organization af Judge dismisses lawsuit by mother who said school hid teen's gender expression 05/07/2024 10:02am • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ��� A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by a Maine woman who accused school officials of encouraging her teen���s gender expression by providing a chest binder and using a new name and pronouns, without consulting parents. U.S. District Judge Jon Levy acknowledged his de Luis Miranda Jr. reflects on giving, the arts and his son Lin-Manuel in the new memoir 'Relentless' 05/07/2024 09:08am • Luis A. Miranda Jr. was just 19 years old when he arrived in New York City from a small town in Puerto Rico, a broke doctoral student badly needing a job. It was 1974 ��� decades before ���Hamilton,��� the Tony Award-winning musical created by his son Lin-Manuel, became a sensation and brought his f Australian boy killed by police was in deradicalization program since causing school explosion 05/07/2024 07:34am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� A 16-year-old boy who was shot dead by police after stabbing a man in the Australian west coast city of Perth had been engaged in a deradicalization program since he detonated a homemade explosive device in a school toilet block two years ago, police said on Tuesday. Th George Weston: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 05/07/2024 07:32am • TORONTO (AP) ��� TORONTO (AP) ��� George Weston Ltd. (WNGRF) on Tuesday reported profit of $175.1 million in its first quarter. The Toronto-based company said it had profit of $1.28 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to $1.70 per share. The baked goods maker and parent of th One way to appreciate teachers: These schools provide their day care 05/07/2024 06:02am • NAMPA, Idaho (AP) ��� When Christina Zimmerman returned to teaching last year after maternity leave, she grappled with postpartum depression that she says could have led to quitting her job. But her school���s onsite day care made all the difference, as she knew her daughter was just a few classroom Australian woman denies murdering her former husband's relatives with poisonous mushroom lunch 05/07/2024 01:13am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� A woman accused of serving her ex-husband���s family poisonous mushrooms pleaded not guilty in an Australian court on Tuesday to three charges of murder and five charges of attempted murder. Erin Patterson, 49, appeared briefly in Latrobe Valley Magistrates Court by vid