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Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 10/04/2023 02:08pm • 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 New York City moves to suspend 'right to shelter' as migrant influx continues 10/04/2023 01:41pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York City is challenging a unique legal agreement that requires it to provide emergency housing to anyone who asks for it, as the city's shelter system strains under a large influx of international migrants who have arrived since last year. The city filed a request late Tu Sirens blare across Russia as it holds nationwide emergency drills 10/04/2023 12:51pm • MOSCOW (AP) — Sirens wailed across Russia and TV stations interrupted regular programming to broadcast warnings Wednesday as part of sweeping drills intended to test the readiness of the country's emergency responders amid the fighting in Ukraine. The exercise that started Tuesday follows Ukrainia 5 people were wounded in a shooting after a homecoming event at Morgan State University in Baltimore 10/04/2023 12:03pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — A shooting interrupted a homecoming week celebration at Baltimore's Morgan State University on Tuesday, wounding five people and prompting an hourslong lockdown of the historically Black college. Students hunkered down for several hours, as police went room to room looking for sus More than 650 migrants arrive on Spanish Canary Islands in 2 days. One boat carried 280 people 10/04/2023 12:02pm • MADRID (AP) — Emergency services on the Spanish Canary Islands said Wednesday that more than 650 migrants reached El Hierro island in five large wooden boats over the past two days. One of four boats that arrived Tuesday was carrying 280 migrants, the islands’ emergency service said on X, former Russia says it has foiled a major Ukraine drone attack as concerns grow over Kyiv's weapons supplies 10/04/2023 11:56am • Russian air defenses shot down 31 Ukrainian drones during a concerted nighttime attack by Kyiv's forces on border regions, the Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday, as uncertainty grew over Ukraine's future access to weapons and ammunition from Western allies. The drone attack appeared to be Kyiv Japan hopes to resolve China's seafood ban over Fukushima's wastewater release within WTO's scope 10/04/2023 10:14am • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Japan hopes to resolve China's ban on its seafood following the release of treated wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant within the World Trade Organization's scope, Agriculture Minister Ichiro Miyashita said Wednesday. Despite repeated assurances, Chin New Md. laws expanding transgender and low-income health care equity go into effect 10/04/2023 09:58am • In the new administration's first year, Gov. Wes Moore (D) and the state's top lawmakers supported legislation to bolster health care coverage, access and protections in Maryland. Moore signed several bills back in May that aim to do just that. Some of those bills, including measures to protect a A huge fire rages in a plastics factory in eastern Croatia and residents are asked to stay indoors 10/04/2023 08:03am • ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Firefighters in eastern Croatia were battling to contain a huge fire in a plastics factory on Wednesday, and authorities asked residents to remain indoors and keep their widows shut. The fire erupted early Wednesday in the Drava International factory complex in the town of O Judy Blume, James Patterson and other authors are helping PEN America open Florida office 10/04/2023 08:00am • NEW YORK (AP) — Judy Blume, James Patterson and Michael Connelly are among 24 prominent writers who have raised more than $3 million to help PEN America open an office in Miami and expand it efforts to counter Florida's surge in book bannings in recent years. “What PEN America is doing in Flori Shares in Scandinavian Airlines plunge to become almost worthless after rescue deal announced 10/04/2023 07:33am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Shares in Scandinavian Airlines dropped more than 90% on Wednesday after the ailing carrier announced new shareholders in a restructuring scheme that will see the company delisted and existing ownership stakes erased. The rescue deal involving airline alliance Air France Bus crash across lagoon from Venice's historic center kills 21 people, including Ukrainian tourists 10/04/2023 01:12am • ROME (AP) — At least 21 people were killed and 18 injured in a fiery bus crash in a borough of Venice, Italy, across the lagoon from its historic center, where firefighters and other emergency responders worked into the night trying to extract bodies and squelch the flames. The bus was carrying fo Cleanup from Maui fires complicated by island's logistical challenges, cultural significance 10/04/2023 01:02am • Cleanup of areas destroyed in the Maui wildfires could end up being one of the most complex to date, federal officials said, given the island's significant cultural sites, its rich history including a royal residence and possibly remains of people who died in the disaster. The first stage of cleanup Trump turns his fraud trial into a campaign stop as he seeks to capitalize on his legal woes 10/03/2023 10:27pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's court appearances are no longer distractions from his campaign to return to the White House. They are central to it. The dynamic was on full display this week as the former president and GOP front-runner returned to New York for the opening days of a civil fraud tria 2 facing charges in connection with suspected fentanyl overdoses at Wakefield High School 10/03/2023 10:09pm • Two people have been arrested and are facing charges in connection with two apparent fentanyl overdoses that took place at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia, last week. In a news release, Arlington police said they arrived at Wakefield High School last Wednesday around 11:45 a.m. for t