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Federal Reserve raises rates for 11th time to fight inflation but gives no clear sign of next move 07/26/2023 07:31pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate Wednesday for the 11th time in 17 months as part of its ongoing drive to curb inflation. But it provided little guidance about when — or whether — it might hike rates again. Wednesday's move raised the Fed’s benchmark short-t Bills receiver Stefon Diggs says any lingering concerns are water under the bridge 07/26/2023 06:00pm • PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Reiterating his desire to retire as a member of the Buffalo Bills, Stefon Diggs was largely reassuring but short on specifics over any lingering concerns from last season, saying he and the team were back on the same page as training camp opened Wednesday. Diggs said whateve NATO will step up security in Black Sea region after Russia declares parts are unsafe for shipping 07/26/2023 05:03pm • NATO said Wednesday it was stepping up surveillance of the Black Sea region as it condemned Russia’s exit from a landmark deal that allowed Ukrainian grain exports through the Black Sea. The announcement came after a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council, which was launched at a NATO summit in Lithu Detroit-area woman gets 1-5 years for leaving scene of accident that killed Michigan State student 07/26/2023 04:55pm • PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A Detroit-area woman who fled to Thailand after killing a Michigan State University student in a New Year’s Day hit-and-run crash was sentenced Wednesday to one to five years in prison. Tubtim “Sue” Howson, 57, of Oakland County, pleaded no contest last month to failin New electric vehicle charging network being built by major automakers could lure more buyers to EVs 07/26/2023 04:51pm • DETROIT (AP) — The announcement Wednesday that seven major automakers are joining to build a large North American electric vehicle charging network should pull people off the sidelines to at least consider shifting away from gas-powered vehicles. That's how auto industry analysts see the move by G Texans WR Metchie on field for 1st day of camp after missing last year following cancer diagnosis 07/26/2023 03:38pm • HOUSTON (AP) — Houston Texans receiver John Metchie III returned to practice on Wednesday, the first day of training camp, after missing his entire rookie season following a leukemia diagnosis. Metchie was a full participant in the almost two-hour workout after being cleared to return a little mor Mother punched in face while she held her baby sues Los Angeles sheriff's department 07/26/2023 03:00pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman who was punched in the face by a deputy as she held her baby sued the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, alleging excessive force and wrongful arrest. Yeayo Russell filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the department and the deputies involved in the July 2022 tr Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 07/26/2023 02:09pm • 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 Text of the policy statement the Federal Reserve released Wednesday 07/26/2023 02:09pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Below is the statement the Fed released Wednesday after its policy meeting ended: Recent indicators suggest that economic activity has been expanding at a moderate pace. Job gains have been robust in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained low. Inflation remains ele Review: Boots Riley still not sorry to bother you in absurdist comedy 'I'm a Virgo' on Amazon Prime 07/26/2023 01:54pm • Are you looking for something fresh to watch after your "Barbenheimer" double feature of "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer?" Amazon Prime recently dropped all seven episodes of "I'm a Virgo," proving that Boots Riley ("Sorry to Bother You") is one of the wildest, most creative filmmakers today when i Israel's top court will hear challenges to a law that weakens its power, escalating political crisis 07/26/2023 01:32pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's highest court said Wednesday it will hear legal challenges to a divisive new law that weakens its power, putting the country's top justices in the position of defending their own independence and escalating a political crisis that has unleashed the country's biggest prote Residents are at a loss after newspaper that bound community together shuts in declining coal county 07/26/2023 12:44pm • WELCH, W.Va. (AP) — Months after Missy Nester ended The Welch News' 100-year run, she can barely stand to walk through the office doors of the newspaper her mother taught her to read with growing up in West Virginia's southern coalfields. It’s still too painful. The Welch News owner and publishe Nature, history and imagination infuse new wallpapers that help a room tell a story 07/26/2023 11:51am • In the Emmy-nominated opening credits of HBO’s “White Lotus,” wallpaper-like images told a story: The tropical prints started off innocuously enough, but then turned ominous. Fruit started rotting, fish got tangled in seaweed, and a sense of foreboding set the whole premise of an exotic paradi Before Oppenheimer: How DC became the unlikely birthplace of the atomic age 07/26/2023 08:19am • Years before Robert Oppenheimer led the Los Alamos lab that developed the first nuclear weapons, physicists in D.C. thrust the world into the atomic age — inside a narrow, zigzagging tunnel running underneath Chevy Chase. "Totally by coincidence," said Shaun Hardy, a librarian at the Carneg Actor Marla Gibbs, 92, will tell her life story in the memoir 'It's Never Too Late' 07/26/2023 08:00am • NEW YORK (AP) — Marla Gibbs has waited a long time to tell her life story. The Emmy-nominated actor known for her roles on “The Jeffersons” and “227” among others has a deal with Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers dedicated to Black stories, for a memoir coming out in fall 20