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Russian strikes wound at least 20 in Ukraine's capital as child is killed in separate attack 10/10/2025 02:17pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Russian drone and missile strikes wounded at least 20 people in Kyiv, damaged residential buildings and caused blackouts across swaths of Ukraine early Friday, authorities said. A child also was killed in separate attacks in the southeast of the country. In the heart of the U Prince Harry and Meghan invite families to join their push against predatory social media practices 10/10/2025 01:43pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Prince Harry and Meghan urged parents to stand against social media companies that they said lure children with predatory algorithms designed to exploit their data amid the ���explosion of unregulated artificial intelligence.��� ���Like so many parents, we think constantly about ho Melania Trump says 8 kids displaced by Russia-Ukraine war reunite with families after Putin talks 10/10/2025 01:27pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Melania Trump announced Friday that eight children displaced by the Russia-Ukraine war have been reunited with their families following ongoing talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The first lady in August wrote to Putin and had her husband hand-deliver the letter when he An AP photographer shares the stories behind some of her most poignant Gaza images 10/10/2025 10:14am • CAIRO (AP) ��� After two years of war in Gaza, and as a ceasefire raised hopes for the end of the conflict, Associated Press photographer Fatima Shbair looked back at some of her most poignant images. Shbair has seen conflict and violence in the territory since she was a young girl, and when Hamas�� Giro d���Italia to start in Bulgaria next year 10/10/2025 07:02am • TRENTO, Italy (AP) ��� Next year���s Giro d���Italia will start in Bulgaria. The tourism minister for the Balkan country had announced the news in August but it was confirmed on Friday by Urbano Cairo, president of RCS MediaGroup ��� the parent company of race organizer RCS Sport. ���Next year we wi The DC region is becoming more diverse. Where are Latinos moving? 10/10/2025 06:21am • The D.C. region is becoming increasingly diverse, and it���s drawing a large number of Latinos in because of the opportunities available, experts said. According to a WTOP analysis of 2024 census data released this summer, every D.C.-area suburb added to its Hispanic population. In Virginia, Fair The West Bank's dwindling Palestinian Christian communities continue to struggle amid violence 10/10/2025 02:18am • TAYBEH, West Bank (AP) ��� Early on Sundays, bells call the faithful to worship at the three churches in this hilltop village that the Gospel narrates Jesus visited. It is now the last entirely Christian one in the occupied West Bank. Proudly Palestinian, Taybeh���s Christians ��� Catholics of the R Tony Blair is revered in Kosovo for helping end its war. Many ask if he can succeed again in Gaza 10/10/2025 01:36am • PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) ��� A U.S. peace plan has propelled former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to the forefront of efforts to end the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. While his legacy in the Middle East is controversial, especially given his role in taking the U.K. to war as part of the 2003 U.S.-led i Candidates in Virginia governor's debate clash over shutdown and violent rhetoric 10/09/2025 09:18pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� Virginia gubernatorial candidates Republican Winsome Earle-Sears and Democrat Abigail Spanberger faced off Thursday for the first and only time on the debate stage in a fiery affair that was combative from the very first answer. Earle-Sears, perceived by operatives in both Judge tosses out Drake's defamation lawsuit against label over Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us' 10/09/2025 09:16pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A defamation lawsuit that Drake brought against Universal Music Group was tossed out Thursday by a federal judge who said the lyrics in Kendrick Lamar's dis track ���Not Like Us��� were opinion. The feud between two of hip-hop���s biggest stars erupted in the spring of 2024, with 9 Steps to Plan Ahead for Long-Term Care 10/09/2025 08:00pm • Are you prepared for the possibility of needing long-term care in the future? This may include care in a nursing home, an assisted living facility or home health care. According to the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance, more than half of women over age 65 will require some form of lo Why hundreds of Fairfax Co. elementary schoolers are taking high school math this year 10/09/2025 07:42pm • After students eagerly entered Amanda Blevins��� classroom at Mosaic Elementary on Thursday afternoon, she returned a graded assignment and then shifted their attention to a series of warmup problems projected in the front of the room. The sequence tested students��� knowledge of exponents an Texas appeals court again pauses execution of Robert Roberson in shaken baby case 10/09/2025 06:18pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� Texas��� top criminal court on Thursday again paused the execution of Robert Roberson, just days before he was set to become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. This was the third execution date that Roberson Judge upholds North Dakota's ban on gender-affirming care for kids 10/09/2025 03:59pm • BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) ��� A North Dakota judge has upheld the state���s ban on gender-affirming care for children, in a blow to families who have had to travel out of state to obtain the medical treatments they said are crucial for their kids��� well-being. District Judge Jackson Lofgren said in his d Losing a family pet gives parents a chance to teach children about death and grieving 10/09/2025 02:36pm • Losing a pet is the first time many children encounter death. The experience can become an opportunity for profound emotional learning and influence how young people understand and process grief when they are adults, according to psychologists and pet bereavement specialists. Parents and guardians t