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Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 01/22/2024 01:23pm • 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 Purported leader of criminal gang is slain at a beachfront restaurant in Rio de Janeiro 01/22/2024 01:00pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The purported leader of an organized group was slain at a beachfront restaurant in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, according to a statement from police. Sérgio Rodrigues da Costa Silva, 44, was fatally shot Sunday and found dead at the scene when Rio's military police Survey: Surprising number of managers want sick employees to come to work 01/22/2024 11:13am • Companies may have already begun to forget lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. A new survey of office managers shows an alarming lack of concern about employee access to sick leave. "Twenty percent of managers said they've encouraged workers who weren't feeling well to still come into the Insider Q&A: Small federal agency crafts standards for making AI safe, secure and trustworthy 01/22/2024 11:02am • BOSTON (AP) — No technology since nuclear fission will shape our collective future quite like artificial intelligence, so it’s paramount AI systems are safe, secure, trustworthy and socially responsible. But unlike the atom bomb, this paradigm shift has been almost completely driven by the priva WWE stars Cody Rhodes, Rhea Ripley, Bianca Belair headline 2K24 covers 01/22/2024 09:08am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cody Rhodes needs only to look at the wedding band tattoo on his finger for a reminder of the days when he was a big gamer: It’s the Triforce symbol from “Legend of Zelda.” “I have good love for the lore,” Rhodes said. The WWE star needs only to look at the gaming ais 'Get the kids out!': DC day care owner recounts evacuation of 16 children before explosion next door 01/22/2024 07:05am • Black, charred walls stand in place of a building in Southeast D.C. that was leveled Thursday after an apparent gas leak and explosion. A child day care center was housed next door to the now-leveled building on the 1200 block of Marion Barry Avenue. It, too, was severely destroyed by the bla English League Cup semifinals in the balance as Liverpool, Middlesbrough protect slim 1st-leg leads 01/22/2024 06:32am • The English League Cup semifinals remain in the balance after the first legs, with second-tier Middlesbrough taking a 1-0 lead to Chelsea and Liverpool protecting a 2-1 advantage heading to Fulham. Here's some things to know ahead of the return matches at Chelsea on Tuesday and Fulham on Wednesday: Much of US still gripped by arctic weather as Memphis deals with numerous broken water pipes 01/22/2024 02:56am • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Subfreezing conditions and treacherous roadways have contributed to dozens of deaths this month across the U.S., where states as far south as Texas and Florida remain gripped by deadly arctic weather Sunday. But the numbing cold is expected to ease up in the coming days. Na Auston Matthews scored league-leading 38th goal as Maple Leafs top Kraken 3-1 01/22/2024 12:30am • SEATTLE (AP) — Another Auston Matthews goal managed to get upstaged by what happened in the Toronto Maple Leafs' net. Toronto’s been waiting and hoping for this version of Ilya Samsonov to re-emerge. Matthews scored his league-leading 38th goal in the first period, Samsonov got his first win sin 7 Best Funds to Hold in a Roth IRA 01/21/2024 07:00pm • Investors often focus on the theoretical expected returns from their investments, but a crucial aspect that's frequently overlooked is the impact of taxes on these returns. The historical averages posted by funds are usually presented first on a pretax basis, and the actual net returns received by i In small-town Wisconsin, looking for the roots of the modern American conspiracy theory 01/21/2024 06:25pm • APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — The decades fall away as you open the front doors. It’s the late 1950s in the cramped little offices — or maybe the pre-hippie 1960s. It’s a place where army-style buzz cuts are still in fashion, communism remains the primary enemy and the decor is dominated by America At least 27 people are reported killed in an attack on Donetsk in Russian-occupied Ukraine 01/21/2024 02:51pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Moscow-installed officials said Ukrainian shelling killed at least 27 people and wounded 25 on Sunday at a market on the outskirts of Donetsk, a Russian-occupied city in the eastern part of the country. Among the injured in the suburb of Tekstilshchik were two children, said D Democrats believe abortion will motivate voters in 2024. Will it be enough? 01/21/2024 12:24pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — When Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said recently that he was “proud” to have a hand in overturning the abortion protections enshrined in Roe v. Wade, Democratic pollster Celinda Lake took it as a political gift, thinking to herself, “Oh my God, we just w 911 calls from Maui capture pleas for the stranded, the missing and those caught in the fire's chaos 01/21/2024 11:43am • The day after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century destroyed a seaside community on Maui, the barrage of 911 calls didn't stop: Reports of missing people, stranded family members and confused tourists trapped without food or water lit up the emergency lines every few minutes, interspersed with r Party at a short-term rental near Houston turns deadly overnight 01/21/2024 11:09am • Three people were killed overnight Sunday after a gathering in a short-term rental turned deadly near Houston, Texas. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said deputies responded to an emergency call around 2:15 a.m. at a suburban neighborhood in Katy, Texas, just 30 miles (48 kilometers) west of Houst