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10 High-Tech College Campuses 06/28/2023 08:00pm • Universities are using advanced technology on campus.Universities are often some of the first places to adopt new technological advancements, and access to the latest technology can enhance the college experience for students.While schools with a reputation for strong science, technology, engineerin A look at some of Simone Biles' career highlights as she plans a return to competition 06/28/2023 05:40pm • USA Gymnastics announced Wednesday that Simone Biles plans to return to competition at the U.S. Classic outside Chicago in August. Here are some of the highlights of her career: ��� 2016 Olympic all-around champion ��� 5-time world all-around champion (2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019) ��� 7-time U.S. n Superman is not flying in to save your life: It's these medevac crews 06/28/2023 04:56pm • Former patients met with a flight crew on Wednesday. (WTOP/Luke Lukert) Medstar Health is celebrating their Transport Air Medical Service���s 40th anniversary. If you have been on death's door over the past four decades, there���s a good chance they picked you up.��What started as a single he Olympic leaders in Brisbane promote policies to keep 2032 Games safe from financial wrongdoing 06/28/2023 01:50pm • GENEVA (AP) ��� Olympic organizers from Australia said Wednesday they have safeguards in place to stop the 2032 Brisbane Games ever joining Paris, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro under investigation for financial wrongdoing. One week after Paris authorities raided offices and homes linked to organizing the Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 06/28/2023 01:11pm • Here���s a look at how AP���s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP���s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov Charter school lost case over skirts rule for girls, but debate over charter autonomy isn't over 06/28/2023 11:52am • Bonnie Peltier was at her daughter's kindergarten orientation in North Carolina when she learned all girls at the charter school must wear skirts. ���I was stunned," Peltier said. ���I���m looking around the room at the other parents and nobody seemed to mind. And I was like, ���I can���t be the Trump wants to keep 'communists' and ���Marxists��� out of the US. Here���s what the law says 06/28/2023 12:18am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Donald Trump has announced a new campaign proposal on United States immigration ��� barring ���communists��� and ���Marxists��� from entering the country. The Republican former president, who is making another bid in 2024, on Saturday said he would use ���Section 212 (f) of the I Bernardo Ar��valo, Guatemala's electoral surprise, makes corruption fight top priority 06/27/2023 10:12pm • GUATEMALA CITY (AP) ��� Bernardo Ar��valo, the surprise candidate in Guatemala's first round of presidential voting, says the choice in the country's Aug. 20 runoff is a clear one: Continue living under a corrupt system with his rival or rebuild the country���s democracy with him. In an interview w US arrests 4 Mexican nationals in 2022 deaths of 53 migrants trapped in hot tractor-trailer 06/27/2023 08:19pm • SAN ANTONIO (AP) ��� U.S. authorities on Tuesday announced the arrests of four men they say were part of a human smuggling effort last year that ended in the deaths of 53 migrants, including eight children, who were left in a tractor-trailer in the scorching Texas summer. Authorities said on the ann Wildfire smoke returns: 'Code Orange' air quality for DC area Wednesday 06/27/2023 06:51pm • Listen to WTOP for weather updates on the 8s. Fast-moving thunderstorms rolled through parts of the D.C. area Tuesday afternoon, bringing heavy winds, reports of hail and "blinding downpours." But smoke gets in your eyes Wednesday, when smoke from the Canadian wildfires comes back. Some of the The Great Grift: More than $200 billion in COVID-19 aid may have been stolen, federal watchdog says 06/27/2023 06:43pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large COVID-19 relief initiatives, according to new estimates from a federal watchdog investigating federally funded programs that helped small businesses survive the worst public health crisis in more than a hundred years. The Pennsylvania caseworkers ignored years of child abuse, now face felony charges, prosecutor says 06/27/2023 06:38pm • A child welfare agency in Pennsylvania failed to protect children from horrific abuse and neglect, allowing them to languish for years in homes overtaken by animal waste and garbage, a prosecutor said Tuesday as he announced criminal charges against five caseworkers. Three caseworkers and two superv Italian soccer players banned from wearing No. 88 on jerseys in campaign against antisemitism 06/27/2023 02:48pm • ROME (AP) ��� Soccer players in Italy will be banned from wearing No. 88 on their shirts as part of an initiative combating antisemitism announced Tuesday. The No. 88 is a numerical code for ���Heil Hitler.��� In March, a fan wearing a Lazio shirt with the name ���Hitlerson��� and the No. 88 on it w Lawsuit claims Virginia's felony disenfranchisement violates Reconstruction-era federal law 06/27/2023 09:47am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� People who have been disqualified from voting in Virginia because of their criminal records filed a lawsuit Monday against Gov. Glenn Youngkin and state elections officials challenging the state's automatic disenfranchisement of people with felony convictions. Virginia is o Verdict due for 5 protesters accused of blocking Thai queen's car. Law allows the death penalty 06/27/2023 01:03am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� A Thai court is to deliver a verdict Wednesday in the case of five people accused of impeding the queen���s motorcade during a pro-democracy march in 2020, an offense that if judged egregious could bring a death sentence. Hundreds of criminal cases have arisen from the student-led p