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Work-Life Balance For Parents Of Children With Special Needs: How Organizations Can Help
Forbes
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A mother, a father, and their child sit at a day-nursery. The CEO of supermarket chain REWE Group ... More has opened the nursery for employees' children, which is supposed to facilitate achieving a work-life balance. Photo: Rolf...
Trump and Epstein's 15-year bond: Parties, jets and women
The Indian Express
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July 20, 2025
In the swirl of money and suntanned women that was their Palm Beach-and-Manhattan set, Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein spent nearly 15 years mingling side by side as public friends.There were lavish dinners with boldface names at Epstein’s...
Column: Distortions unfairly malign Virginia menhaden fishery
The Virginian-Pilot
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July 19, 2025
Steve Atkinson’s July 13 guest column (“Halt menhaden harvest until studies determine its effects”) is riddled with distortions about the menhaden fishery. While it claims to advocate for a “precautionary” approach, it would harm Virginia workers...
Column: Return Virginia to RGGI, a program that works
The Virginian-Pilot
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July 19, 2025
This week, Virginia’s State Air Pollution Control Board was in court asking the Virginia Court of Appeals to revive its ill-conceived plan to leave a pivotal climate change program, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). A trial judge had...
Letters for July 20: Whose vision is being built in Virginia Beach?
The Virginian-Pilot
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July 19, 2025
Doubling down Despite hours of expert testimony, data and heartfelt appeals, Virginia Beach City Council voted 9-2 on July 8 to approve a controversial rezoning — doubling down on a deal that many say violates the city’s core planning principles....
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin sparks 2028 presidential speculation with Iowa appearance
WTVR-TV - Virginia
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July 19, 2025
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin headlined the Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines, Iowa on Thursday night, fueling speculation about a possible presidential run in 2028. The Lincoln Dinner is one of the Iowa Republican Party's biggest...
They don't need Medicaid. But their kids do. Nearly half of the 78 million people who were enrolled in Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Programs at the start of the year were children, according to the federal government. Read Mo re »
Yahoo News
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Stacy Staggs's 11-year-old daughter will never eat or breathe on her own. Five times a day, Staggs or a nurse feeds her daughter, Emma Staggs, doctor-prescribed formula through a feeding tube at home. The formula comes at $25 per bottle, amounting...
21st SuperKids derby race gives chances to special needs kids
Akron Beacon Journal - Ohio
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The ceremonial first heat of the 21st National Soap Box Derby SuperKids Classic took off early the morning of July 18 as drivers raced to finish before each other and before the mid-summer rain. The SuperKids race gives kids with special needs the...
Children’s hospital halts transgender health care
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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July 19, 2025
Children's National Hospital announced Friday due to "escalating legal and regulatory risks" the D.C.-based medical system will no longer provide gender-transition care for patients. Effective Aug. 30, the hospital's providers will discontinue the...
Evolve or go extinct! Our guide to the best children’s books
The Times
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“Go extinct or survive? You decide!” Behold a brand new species of book that, very cleverly, takes the interactive concept behind the Choose Your Own Adventure stories and applies it to science. The result? An addictive romp through 570 million...
George Gwyn Church
Wilkes Journal-Patriot - North Carolina
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Former North Wilkesboro mayor, George Gwyn Church, 84, of North Wilkesboro, passed away, Thursday, July 17, 2025, at Atrium Health-Wilkes Medical Center. Mr. Church was born December 3, 1940, in Wilkes County to Dock and Nanny Johnson Church. He...
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin talks education, Iowa caucuses as 2028 rumors buzz
The Daily Iowan
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July 19, 2025
DES MOINES — Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who is rumored to be considering a 2028 presidential run, threw his support behind Iowa retaining its first-in-the-nation caucus status as Democrats reconsider their 2028 primary calendar. When...
Virginia State Police recruitment numbers vastly increase, new mustangs join the fleet
WSET - Virginia
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(WSET) — The Virginia State Police is celebrating a large increase in its recruitment numbers, providing more troopers to help keep you safe. VSP struggled to recruit new troopers from January 2020 until September of 2024. During this time, they...
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Woman Tells Mother-in-Law to 'Stop Worrying About My Womb' After Baby Pressure By Virginia Chamlee
People - New York
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NEED TO KNOW One woman says her mother-in-law won't stop pressuring her to have children Even after telling her mother-in-law they don't plan on having children, she keeps insisting The frustrated daughter-in-law snapped, but now wonders if she...
Meet the men who just became Catholic priests in Virginia
The Frederick News-Post - Maryland
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ARLINGTON, Va. — At a time when the U.S. Catholic Church is grappling with a severe shortage of priests, the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, recently ordained 12 new priests — its second-largest class ever — in a joyful Mass at its cathedral....
Virginia Republicans are still struggling to convince voters they’re a functional party
MSNBC
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July 18, 2025
Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears hoped winning the Republican nomination for governor of Virginia last month would help her party move past a primary season defined by lurid sex scandals and a boiling MAGA turf war. Instead, Earle-Sears is wrapping up...
Virginia Energy midyear report details new grants, project updates
The Center Square
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July 18, 2025
(The Center Square) – Virginia Energy reported $405 million in new grant funding and outlined project updates, planning tools and permitting changes in its 2025 midyear report. The agency says it is managing more than $830 million in active...
Virginia man admits to stockpiling pipe bombs and using Biden photo for target practice
The Indian Express
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July 18, 2025
A man from Isle of Wight County, Virginia, has pleaded guilty to owning an unregistered short‑barrel rifle and an unregistered destructive device, The Associated Press (AP) reported on Friday.Brad Spafford, who appeared in a federal court in...
Virginia man accused of stockpiling bombs, using Biden photo for target practice, pleads guilty
WTVR-TV - Virginia
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July 18, 2025
NORFOLK, Va. — A Virginia man pleaded guilty Friday in a federal case that accused him of stockpiling the largest number of finished explosives in FBI history and of using then-President Joe Biden’s photo for target practice. Brad Spafford pleaded...
Education Department to release funding for after-school programs
WYFF 4 - South Carolina
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July 18, 2025
Education Department will unfreeze some grants supporting after-school and summer programs This after school and summer learning program just outside of Washington DC is among more than 10,000 nationwide supported by federal funding that has now...