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Maryland ranks sixth in states struggling with hiring, study says 04/20/2024 07:39am • Maryland ranks sixth on a list of states facing challenges filling job vacancies, according to a recent study by WalletHub.�� ���Many businesses in Maryland are still experiencing labor shortages,��� said Cassandra Happe, an analyst at WalletHub, in an interview with WTOP. ���They have this compa Verstappen takes pole for Chinese GP to extend F1 dominance. Hamilton 18th 04/20/2024 05:24am • SHANGHAI (AP) ��� Max Verstappen of Red Bull has completed a Formula 1 double, taking the pole Saturday for the Chinese Grand Prix just hours after winning the first F1 sprint of the season. Teammate Sergio Perez will start alongside Verstappen on Sunday on the front row with Fernando Alonso of Asto As Russia edges toward a possible offensive on Kharkiv, some residents flee. Others refuse to leave 04/20/2024 01:56am • KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� A 79-year-old woman makes the sign of the cross and, gripping her cane, leaves her home in a quaint village in northeast Ukraine. Torn screens, shattered glass and scorched trees litter the yard of Olha Faichuk's apartment building in Lukiantsi, north of the city of Kharki Verstappen wins again. This time he takes first Formula 1 sprint race of the season 04/20/2024 12:40am • SHANGHAI (AP) ��� Max Verstappen, continuing his dominance in Formula 1, took Saturday's first sprint race of the season ��� the prelude to the full-blown Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday. Verstappen passed Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes on the ninth of 19 laps and stretched out his lead to win by 13 second Haiti's former capital seeks to revive its hey-day as gang violence consumes Port-au-Prince 04/20/2024 12:20am • CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (AP) ��� They call it Okap, home to Haiti���s kings, emancipated slaves and revolutionaries. Sitting on the shimmering north coast, the city of Cap-Ha��tien was abandoned as a capital during the waning years of the French colonial era and again when the Kingdom of Haiti fell after Lawsuits under New York's new voting rights law reveal racial disenfranchisement even in blue states 04/20/2024 12:11am • FREEPORT, N.Y. (AP) ��� Weihua Yan had seen dramatic demographic changes since moving to Long Island's Nassau County. Its Asian American population alone had grown by 60% since the 2010 census. Why then, he wondered, did he not see anyone who looked like him on the county's local governing body, the Theater Review: 'Stereophonic' is a brilliant 'Behind the Music' play on Broadway 04/20/2024 12:01am • It's July 1976 in a Northern California recording studio and the rock ���n��� roll band cutting their latest album is exhausted and wary. The coffee machine is broken. Never mind, there's always cocaine ��� and heaps of it. ���That���s not the same thing,��� one of the musicians says. "It���s the ex Today in History: April 20, 2 students kill 12 at Columbine High School 04/20/2024 12:00am • Today is Saturday, April 20, the 111th day of 2024. There are 255 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On April 20, 1999, the Columbine High School massacre took place in Colorado as two students shot and killed 12 classmates and one teacher before taking their own lives. On thi US says a UN agency has agreed to help in distribution of aid to Gaza via sea route 04/19/2024 08:52pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The U.N. World Food Program has agreed to help deliver aid for the starving civilians of Gaza once the U.S. military completes a pier for transporting the humanitarian assistance by sea, U.S. officials said Friday. The involvement of the U.N. agency could help resolve one of the Final jurors seated for Trump's hush money case, with opening statements set for Monday 04/19/2024 08:36pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The final jurors were seated Friday in Donald Trump���s hush money trial, and an appellate judge rejected the former president���s latest bid to halt the case as a hectic day in court set the stage for opening statements to begin Monday. The panel of New Yorkers who will decide the Judge tentatively sides with California AG in fight over ballot measure on students' gender ID 04/19/2024 08:27pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� A California judge has tentatively sided with state Attorney General Rob Bonta in a dispute over the title of a proposed ballot measure that would require school staff to notify parents if their child asks to change gender identification at schools. A group backing the me Israel, Iran play down apparent Israeli strike. The muted responses could calm tensions -- for now 04/19/2024 07:58pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Israel and Iran on Friday both played down an apparent Israeli airstrike near a major air base and nuclear site in central Iran, signaling the two bitter enemies are ready to prevent their latest eruption of violence from escalating into a full-blown regional war. But the indecisi The Latest | World leaders call on Iran and Israel to avoid allowing conflict to worsen 04/19/2024 07:36pm • World leaders called on Iran and Israel to try to avoid escalating tensions following the apparent Israeli airstrike on Friday near an Iranian air base and nuclear facility. Group of Seven foreign ministers meeting in Italy warned of new sanctions against Iran for its drone and missile attack on Isr Mexico's president is getting a little sloppy in the rush to finish projects before his term ends 04/19/2024 07:32pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Mexico���s president is in a rush to finish the big legislative and building projects he promised before his term ends in September, and experts say officials are getting a bit sloppy amid all the haste. This week, legislators from the governing Morena party mistakenly submitte F2 champion Pourchaire to make IndyCar debut as Malukas' injury keeps McLaren driver on sidelines 04/19/2024 07:25pm • LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) ��� Reigning Formula 2 champion Theo Pourchaire will make his IndyCar debut on the streets of Long Beach with Arrow McLaren as the 20-year-old Frenchman becomes the latest replacement for injured driver David Malukas. Pourchaire said Friday that he was initially contacted abo