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Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 05/19/2023 02:14pm • 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 Judge shows willingness to release some records in Tyre Nichols beating death 05/19/2023 02:01pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge on Friday continued to temporarily block the release of more video footage and records in the investigation into Tyre Nichols' death, but said he does want to make public information that would not interfere with the rights to a fair trial for five Memphis p Potomac Yard Metro's 1st-day riders say full impact is further down tracks 05/19/2023 01:36pm • Most of the first riders boarding and departing on Blue and Yellow line Metro trains at the brand new Potomac Yard station on Friday morning were holding festive pennants to celebrate the opening, but some said the full impact of the station won't be felt for years to come. Metro user Emmet Ryan 93-year-old grandma and grandson visit every U.S. national park 05/19/2023 12:57pm • ▶ Watch Video: Grandma and grandson visiting all 63 U.S. National Parks By the time she was 85 years old, Joy Ryan of Duncan Falls, Ohio, had never seen the ocean or mountains. Now, she's 93 years old and has seen every corner of the U.S. – after visiting al Pakistan's Imran Khan dials down campaign of defiance, allows police search of home for suspects 05/19/2023 12:47pm • LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan dialed down his campaign of defiance on Friday, saying he would allow a police search of his home over allegations that he was harboring suspects wanted in recent violence during anti-government protests by his supporters. Khan After 27 years, NASCAR returns to once-abandoned North Wilkesboro Speedway for All-Star race 05/19/2023 12:45pm • NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. (AP) — When Dale Earnhardt Jr. entered the gates of North Wilkesboro Speedway on a cold December day in 2019, he took one look around the dilapidated track and thought it would never host another NASCAR race. Weeds were growing up through cracks in the track's asphalt surfac What to stream this weekend: Jack Harlow's acting debut, Kesha, Scott brothers on HGTV 05/19/2023 10:34am • This week's new streaming options include rapper Jack Harlow's acting debut, the return of Kesha and new projects for an heart-warming HGTV show. Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music and video gam Videos show gunman saying 'kill me' to onrushing officers in New Mexico rampage 05/19/2023 09:53am • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Videos released Thursday of this week’s deadly rampage in northwest New Mexico recorded a voice said to be the shooter urging police to “kill me” and officers rushing toward the 18-year-old gunman before fatally shooting him outside a church. “He is yelling on the Ri Former Italian Premier Berlusconi leaves hospital after 45 days 05/19/2023 07:47am • MILAN (AP) — Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was discharged on Friday from a Milan hospital, nearly a month and a half after he was admitted with a lung infection. Berlusconi waved at journalists from behind a closed window as his car drove away from the San Raffaele Hospital. He arrived Britain unveils $1.2B strategy to boost computer chip industry 05/19/2023 06:16am • LONDON (AP) — Britain's government unveiled its long-awaited semiconductor strategy Friday, catching up with similar efforts by Western allies seeking to reduce reliance on Asian production of the computer chips that are essential to modern life. Under U.K. plan, the country's semiconductor indus Push for transit, walkable communities growing across US 05/19/2023 12:08am • ATLANTA (AP) — On the weekend in March when Brittany Glover would have turned 34, her mother stood on the same busy road in Atlanta where her daughter died six months earlier. Glover, a flight attendant with a passion for clothes, was coming from an entertainment venue during the early morning Today in History: May 19, Anne Boleyn beheaded 05/19/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Friday, May 19, the 139th day of 2023. There are 226 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 19, 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England’s King Henry VIII, was beheaded after being convicted of adultery. On this date: In 1780, a mysterious More than 30 million US drivers don't know if they're at risk from a rare but dangerous airbag blast 05/18/2023 11:51pm • DETROIT (AP) — More than 33 million people in the United States are driving vehicles that contain a potentially deadly threat: Airbag inflators that in rare cases can explode in a collision and spew shrapnel. Few of them know it. And because of a dispute between federal safety regulators and an ai Teenager injured in Riverdale, Md., shooting, police say 05/18/2023 10:04pm • Prince George's County, Maryland, police said a teenage girl is in the hospital after she was shot in Riverdale. Police told WTOP the shooting happened Thursday at around 5:40 p.m. in the 6800 block of Riverdale Road. Officers said they found the girl shot outside an apartment complex in a nea Car rushes Vatican gate, is fired on by gendarmes; driver apprehended after reaching courtyard 05/18/2023 09:38pm • ROME (AP) — A car driven by someone with apparent psychiatric problems rushed through a Vatican gate Thursday evening and sped past Swiss Guards into a palace courtyard before the driver was apprehended by police, the Holy See said. Vatican gendarmes fired a shot at the speeding car’s front tire