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Restaurant critic's departure reveals potential hazards of the job 07/21/2024 06:41am • Restaurant critics appear to have the best job in journalism, enjoying meals a few nights a week on someone else’s dime. But New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells had painted a more complicated picture. In a recent column, Wells announced he’s leaving the beat because the constant eating h Indonesian women assert themselves with martial arts as gender-based violence remains a challenge 07/20/2024 02:24pm • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An emotionally and physically abusive marriage of 11 years led Rani Miranti to join a fight club that has trained her in martial arts, enabling her to stand up against violence. Miranti is one of the growing number of Indonesian women who are taking self-defense classes a Do you really have to wait to go swimming after eating? 07/20/2024 02:24pm • Did your parents warn you against jumping in the pool right after eating? They were misguided. In most cases, there’s no need to wait at least 30 minutes after eating to go for a swim, doctors say. That old warning stems from worry that people might drown or struggle because blood will be diverted For Palestinian athletes, the Olympics is about more than sports 07/20/2024 10:00am • PARIS (AP) — Most of the athletes representing the Palestinian territories at the Paris Olympics were born elsewhere — Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Germany, Chile and the United States — yet they care deeply about the politics of their parents’ and grandparents’ homeland. They are eager to compete Migrant children were put in abusive shelters for years, suit says. Critics blame lack of oversight 07/20/2024 01:43am • MCALLEN, Texas (AP) — As allegations of sexual abuse built up at the largest housing provider for unaccompanied migrant children in the U.S., officials continued placing children in their care in a system that lacks adequate oversight, advocates say. A lawsuit filed Wednesday by the Justice Depar Israel-Hamas war latest: Drone strike hits Tel Aviv, killing 1 and injuring at least 10 07/19/2024 11:46pm • A drone attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels killed one person in the center of Tel Aviv, Israel's biggest city, and wounded at least 10 others near the United States Embassy early Friday, authorities said. Meanwhile, the top United Nations court issued a non-binding opinion that Israel’s presence in What Usha Vance's rise to prominence means to other South Asian and Hindu Americans 07/19/2024 07:44pm • Usha Chilukuri Vance, entered the spotlight this week as the wife of JD Vance, former President Donald Trump's running mate in the 2024 presidential election. Her rise comes at a time when, across the aisle, there's another prominent figure of South Asian descent: Vice President Kamala Harris, the n Largest housing provider for migrant children engaged in pervasive sexual abuse, US says 07/19/2024 07:32pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Employees of the largest housing provider for unaccompanied migrant children in the U.S. repeatedly sexually abused and harassed children in their care for at least eight years, the Justice Department said Thursday, alleging a shocking litany of offenses that took place as the Ten Commandments won't go in some Louisiana classrooms until at least November as lawsuit plays out 07/19/2024 06:03pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana won't take official steps to implement a law requiring the Ten Commandments be placed in all of the state's public school classrooms until at least November as a lawsuit makes its way through the courts, according to an agreement approved by a federal judge Friday Fairfax Co. approves update to school boundary policy despite criticism from some families 07/19/2024 05:31pm • Fairfax County Public Schools will be able to review school boundaries every five years, as part of an update to the Virginia school district's policy approved Thursday night. School district leaders say the change, the first to Policy 8130 in decades, will allow them to address overcrowding Police ID 2 men killed in DC shooting that also wounded 2-year-old girl on walk with day care classmates 07/19/2024 01:30pm • Police have identified two men killed in a shooting in Southeast D.C. on Thursday that also wounded a 2-year-old girl on a walk with her day care class and are offering a $50,000 reward. In a police news release Friday, the two men were identified as 29-year-old Lamont Street, of Capitol Heig Spectacle, spires and romance: The 'real suspense' behind Netflix doc ‘Skywalkers: A Love Story’ 07/19/2024 08:54am • It started out as a film about rooftoppers. The risk-takers who pose atop the world’s tallest buildings, without safety nets or permission, had long been a fascination for filmmaker Jeff Zimbalist. He’d dabbled in the activity, on a smaller scale in his youth, and was fascinated to learn that it 'We desperately need help': A DC day care owner's urgent plea after shooting wounded 2-year-old girl 07/19/2024 08:25am • At the Cre8tive Korner Early Learning Center on Alabama Avenue in Southeast D.C. on Thursday, teachers loaded a group of 2-year-olds into a red six-seat buggy and set out for a walk to take in the fresh air on what was one of few mild-weathered mornings this month. Sadly, the children and the Montgomery Co. student named Maryland's first-ever youth poet laureate 07/19/2024 06:44am • Eighteen-year-old Tara Prakash, a rising senior at Sidwell Friends School, was recently named Maryland's first-ever youth poet laureate. (Courtesy Tara Prakash) Tara Prakash is 18 years old and has already performed on the stage at the Kennedy Center. She's not a musician, but a rising senior As Virginia works toward statewide school cellphone policy, some are skeptical it’ll actually work 07/19/2024 05:15am • In Oveta Scott’s classroom at Unity Braxton Middle School in Manassas, Virginia, there’s a strict no-cellphone policy in place. If something’s wrong or there’s an emergency, Scott allows her students to send a message or make a call directly in front of her, before putting the device