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Tenants say a 3-year ban on evictions kept them housed. Landlords say they're drowning in debt 06/26/2023 09:39am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Retiree Pamela Haile has paid property taxes, insurance and other bills on a house she lets out in Oakland, but for more than three years her tenants have paid no rent thanks to one of the longest-lasting eviction bans in the country. The eviction moratorium in the San Franci Analysis: Donald Trump's war on truth confronts another test with voters 06/24/2023 03:19pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The cherry tree folklore is too good to be true, but it's no lie that George Washington had a thing for the truth. “I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy,” he wrote in his farewell address. A few decades later, Nearly 1.5 million foreign pilgrims have arrived in Saudi Arabia so far for annual Hajj pilgrimage 06/23/2023 10:45pm • MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Muslim pilgrims streamed into the holy city of Mecca on Friday ahead of the start of Hajj next week, as the annual pilgrimage returns to its monumental scale after three years of heavy restrictions because of the coronavirus pandemic. Saudi officials say close to 1.5 mi FIFA delays campaign and vote to pick men's 2030 World Cup hosts; women's 2027 vote set for Bangkok 06/23/2023 04:20pm • GENEVA (AP) — FIFA's search for the men’s 2030 World Cup hosts was postponed on Friday after failing to agree on rules for bid campaigns and a date for the final vote. The vote by about 200 FIFA member federations was moved to the last quarter of 2024 instead of a previously expected meeting in Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 06/23/2023 01:43pm • 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 United States picked to host 2025 Club World Cup, an expanded soccer tournament with 32 teams 06/23/2023 01:12pm • GENEVA (AP) — The United States will host the Club World Cup in 2025, the first time the FIFA tournament will have 32 teams. Real Madrid, Manchester City and Chelsea already earned places as recent Champions League winners for the expanded tournament lineup that is set to test stadiums and operati Capital One shuts down student-run bank branch in Md. high school 06/23/2023 02:23am • Students at Parkdale High School in Riverdale, Maryland, can no longer open a Capital One bank account on their way to the cafeteria. Capital One built a new branch within the Prince George's County public school in 2014, staffed by 10 student interns, as a way to increase financial literacy and Debt-plagued Zambia reaches deal with China, other nations to rework $6.3B in loans, French say 06/22/2023 04:29pm • PARIS (AP) — Zambia and its government creditors, including China, have reached a deal to restructure $6.3 billion in loans, the French government announced Thursday on the sidelines of a global finance summit in Paris. The agreement covers loans from countries including France, the UK, South Afri Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 06/22/2023 01:06pm • 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 Who's running for president? See a rundown of the 2024 candidates 06/22/2023 11:28am • With roughly a year and a half until the 2024 presidential contest, the field of candidates is largely set. Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have dominated the early Republican race as the other candidates look for an opening to take them on. President Joe Biden faces a co EU's top court says Hungary broke the law by forcing migrants to go abroad to start asylum process 06/22/2023 05:36am • BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top court ruled Thursday that Hungary flouted the bloc’s laws and infringed on migrants' rights by forcing asylum seekers inside the country or at its borders to start the process at its embassies in Serbia and Ukraine. Hungary’s anti-immigrant government Ambitious Saudi plans to ramp up Hajj could face challenges from climate change 06/22/2023 02:04am • MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia has ambitious plans to welcome millions more pilgrims to Islam's holiest sites. But as climate change heats up an already scorching region, the annual Hajj pilgrimage — much of which takes place outdoors in the desert — could prove even more daunting. T Modi flexes India’s cultural reach on Yoga Day with backbends and corpse poses on the UN lawn 06/21/2023 08:59pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Praising yoga as “a way of life," Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi performed poses ranging from cobra to corpse alongside a multinational crowd Wednesday at the U.N. headquarters as he kicked off the public portion of his U.S. visit. With a checkerboard of made-in-India MLB sued by 17 ex-scouts who say they were discriminated against because of their age 06/21/2023 05:34pm • DENVER (AP) — Seventeen former Major League Baseball scouts who say they were discriminated against because of their age sued the league, its teams and Commissioner Rob Manfred on Wednesday. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Denver. The former scouts allege violations of the federal Healthy Delle Donne contributing on both offense and defense during Mystics' strong start 06/21/2023 04:53pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The only thing that's ever really stopped Elena Delle Donne is her health — particularly her balky back. That doesn't appear to be much of an issue this year. The two-time WNBA MVP has missed only one game so far this season, helping the Washington Mystics to a solid star