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Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 08/02/2023 01:53pm • 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 Halted Ukraine grain deal, funding shortages rattle UN food aid programs 08/01/2023 03:56pm • BEIRUT (AP) — A halted landmark grain deal that allowed Ukrainian grain to flow to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, along with donor's fatigue, is rattling the operations of the United Nations food agency, its deputy executive director said Tuesday. “What we have to do now is to lo Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 08/01/2023 02:29pm • 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 Aung San Suu Kyi has some of her prison sentences reduced by Myanmar's military-led government 08/01/2023 01:38pm • BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military-led government reduced the prison sentences of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a clemency connected to a religious holiday in the Buddhist-majority country, state media said Tuesday. Former President Win Myint also had his sentence reduced as part of the cleme COVID hospitalizations climb for 2nd week. Is it a summer surge? 08/01/2023 10:13am • ▶ Watch Video: Doctors warn COVID hospitalizations are rising Weekly COVID-19 hospitalizations have risen by more than 12% across the country, according to new data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, marking a second straight week of t Brain fog and other long COVID symptoms affect millions. New treatment studies bring hope 08/01/2023 02:55am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Institutes of Health is beginning a handful of studies to test possible treatments for long COVID, an anxiously awaited step in U.S. efforts against the mysterious condition that afflicts millions. Monday’s announcement from the NIH’s $1.15 billion RECOVER projec Toyota's profits rise 78% on strong sales as the parts crunch eases 08/01/2023 02:34am • TOKYO (AP) — Toyota’s profit for the first fiscal quarter jumped to 1.3 trillion yen ($9 billion) — a quarterly record for Japan’s top automaker — as sales grew and parts shortages related to the coronavirus pandemic eased. Toyota Motor Corp.’s April-June net profit rose 78% from 736.8 b Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 07/31/2023 01:56pm • 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 RFK Jr. says he’s not anti-vaccine. His record shows the opposite. It’s one of many inconsistencies 07/31/2023 10:34am • Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rose to prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic because of his strident opposition to vaccines. Yet, he insists he’s not anti-vaccine. He has associated with influential people on the far right – including Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon and M Biden goes west to talk about his administration's efforts to combat climate change 07/31/2023 08:57am • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will travel to Arizona, New Mexico and Utah next week and is expected to talk about his administration's efforts to combat climate change as the region endures a brutally hot summer with soaring temperatures, the White House said Monday. Biden is expected t All About Public Service Loan Forgiveness 07/30/2023 08:00pm • Many student loan borrowers received some relief when the U.S. Department of Education paused payments, collections and interest on most federal student loans in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. That relief is coming to an end. After multiple extensions of that administrative forbearance, Paperwork problems drive surge in people losing Medicaid health coverage 07/28/2023 09:29pm • JEFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The nation's top health official implored states to do more to keep lower-income residents enrolled in Medicaid, as the Biden administration released figures Friday confirming that many who had health coverage during the coronavirus pandemic are now losing it. Though a de Millions of Shiite Muslims across the world commemorate the mourning day of Ashoura 07/28/2023 06:20pm • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Millions of Shiite Muslims in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and around the world on Friday commemorated Ashoura, a remembrance of the 7th-century martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, that gave birth to their faith. In Afghanistan, the Taliban cut mobile phone Bengals QB Joe Burrow could miss 'several weeks' with calf strain, coach Taylor says 07/28/2023 04:48pm • CINCINNATI (AP) — Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow could miss “several weeks” with a right calf strain, coach Zac Taylor said Friday. The 26-year-old franchise quarterback hobbled on one leg and then went to the ground after a scramble play near the end of Thursday's practice. He rode off the fi IOC assures Ukraine fencer of Paris Games spot after DQ for not shaking hands with Russian opponent 07/28/2023 03:58pm • GENEVA (AP) — The IOC assured Ukrainian fencer Olga Kharlan on Friday that she will have a place at the Paris Olympics next year after she was disqualified from a key ranking event for refusing to shake hands with a Russian she had beaten. In a letter to Kharlan, International Olympic Committee pr