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Honors Colleges and Programs: What to Know 04/25/2024 08:00pm • For students wanting to be challenged more academically and experience an intimate learning environment in college, many institutions have an honors college or honors program. "I think in a day and age in which so many students, especially high-ability students, are coming in to college feeling root SJW: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 04/25/2024 07:58pm • SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — SJW Corp. (SJW) on Thursday reported profit of $11.7 million in its first quarter. The San Jose, California-based company said it had profit of 36 cents per share. The parent of San Jose Water Co. posted revenue of $149.4 million in the period. SJW Tennessee lawmakers OK bill criminalizing adults who help minors get gender-affirming care without parent's permission 04/25/2024 05:53pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee lawmakers OK bill criminalizing adults who help minors get gender-affirming care without parent's permission. Google parent reports another quarter of robust growth, rolls out first-ever quarterly dividend 04/25/2024 05:52pm • Google’s corporate parent Alphabet Inc. on Thursday released a quarterly report showing it’s still reaping double-digit revenue gains from its digital advertising empire while sowing potentially lucrative new ground in artificial intelligence. The results for the first three months of the year p A high-profile murder trial in Kazakhstan boosts awareness of domestic violence 04/25/2024 04:54pm • The CCTV footage shown at the domestic abuse trial was disturbing: The defendant is seen dragging his wife by her hair, and then punching and kicking her. Hours after it was recorded, she died of brain trauma. The trial of businessman Kuandyk Bishimbayev, Kazakhstan's former economy minister, in the Meta Platforms, O'Reilly Automotive fall; Chipotle, TransUnion rise, Thursday, 4/25/2024 04/25/2024 04:22pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Thursday: Meta Platforms Inc., down $52.12 to $441.38. Facebook's parent company gave investors a disappointing revenue forecast. International Business Machines Corp., down $15.19 to $168.91. The technology and consult Prince George's Co. to enforce youth curfew at National Harbor starting Friday 04/25/2024 03:18pm • Following a flurry of incidents involving teenagers at National Harbor, Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks said that a youth curfew will be reinstated to control crime along the waterfront starting Friday evening. Most recently, a group of around 800 young people at the National H USA Track & Field expands its maternity policy to give athletes more time to work their way back 04/25/2024 02:49pm • U.S. Olympic hurdler Christina Clemons sent numerous emails to those in the track community raising concerns over a gap in health care insurance coverage for new mothers who still wanted to compete. Those baby steps turned into big strides as USA Track & Field unveiled a program Thursday that ex Loudoun Co. school board seeks parents' input on student phone policy 04/25/2024 12:50pm • The Loudoun County School Board wants to hear from parents as it develops a new policy on when and where students can use cellphones and other personal electronic devices during the school day. "Students and teachers may not agree on what the policy should say, but they definitely agree that it n Venezuela broke its HPV vaccine promises, and there's barely any sex ed. Experts say it's a problem 04/25/2024 10:27am • PUTUCUAL, Venezuela (AP) — Some of the 10 women and teenage girls who recently came to a medical clinic in eastern Venezuela for free contraceptives fidgeted a bit when a community health worker taught them how to use an IUD, condoms and birth control pills correctly. The health worker also asked US applications for jobless claims fall to lowest level in 9 weeks 04/25/2024 08:53am • Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market continues to hold up despite higher interest rates imposed by the Federal Reserve in its bid to curb inflation. The Labor Department reported Thursday that unemployment claims for the week ending April 20 fell by 5,000 t What do weight loss drugs mean for a diet industry built on eating less and exercising more? 04/25/2024 05:52am • NEW YORK (AP) — Ever since college, Brad Jobling struggled with his weight, fluctuating between a low of 155 pounds when he was in his 30s to as high as 220. He spent a decade tracking calories on WeightWatchers, but the pounds he dropped always crept back onto his 5-foot-5-inch frame. A little ov Blinken raises Chinese trade practices in meetings with officials in the financial hub of Shanghai 04/25/2024 05:29am • SHANGHAI (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken raised what the U.S. describes as unfair Chinese trade practices during his first full day of meetings in China on Thursday with local government officials in the financial hub of Shanghai. Blinken met with the city's top official, Communist P Matt About Town x Make-A-Wish Mid-Atlantic: The unsung heroes of the Wish process; honoring the parents of Wish Kids 04/25/2024 05:20am • .in-article-vertical-video {float: right; padding-left: 10px;}@media only screen and (max-width: 767px) {.in-article-vertical-video {float: none; padding-left: 20px;}}#tnvbNcaMHUrl {margin-bottom: 10px;padding: 20px 10px;background: #D30000;text-align: center;font-weight: bold;color: #fff;border-r Rwanda's Hope Hostel once housed young genocide survivors. Now it's ready for migrants from Britain 04/25/2024 01:46am • KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwanda says it's ready to receive migrants from the United Kingdom after British Parliament this week approved a long-stalled and controversial bill seeking to stem the tide of people crossing the English Channel in small boats by deporting some of them to the East African co