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Barcelona acquires João Félix and João Cancelo on loan on final day of transfer market 09/01/2023 07:16pm • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona had a hectic final day of the summer transfer window on Friday, acquiring Portugal players João Félix and João Cancelo on loan while shipping out Ansu Fati and other players. Félix arrived from Atletico Madrid and Cancelo from Manchester City to reinforce a Ba UN chief is globetrotting to four major meetings before the gathering of world leaders in September 09/01/2023 07:16pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief is going globetrotting to four major meetings before the biggest meeting of all – the annual gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly starting Sept. 18. Secretary-General António Guterres heads first to Nairobi on Saturday for the Af DC restricts use of business space where dogs drowned; Bowser meets with pet owners 09/01/2023 06:30pm • D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's office announced Thursday that it would revoke the certification of occupancy for the space that once held the District Dogs dog day care. The "danger placard" placed at the business by D.C.'s Department of Buildings prohibits access to the space except for cleanup oper 5 former employees at Georgia juvenile detention facility indicted in 16-year-old girl's 2022 death 09/01/2023 06:29pm • DALTON, Ga. (AP) — Five former employees at a northwest Georgia juvenile detention center have been indicted following the August 2022 death of a 16-year-old who was in custody. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced Friday that a Whitfield County grand jury on Monday had indicted the forme Things to know about the latest court and policy action on transgender issues in the US 09/01/2023 05:53pm • On Friday, Texas became the most populous state with a ban in effect against gender-affirming care for minors. The law was allowed to kick in after a court ruling on Thursday, part of a flurry of action across the country on policies aimed at transgender people and their rights. A separate Texas rul No power and nowhere to stay as rural Florida starts recovering from Hurricane Idalia 09/01/2023 04:54pm • HORSESHOE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The worst of Hurricane Idalia left residents of a region of tight-knit communities trying to find places to live as they rebuild — if they decide it's even worth it — and waiting potentially weeks for electricity to be restored after winds and water took out entire In final hours before landfall, Hurricane Idalia stopped intensifying and turned from Tallahassee 09/01/2023 04:43pm • ATLANTA (AP) — In the final hours before Hurricane Idalia struck Florida the storm had grown into a Category 4 beast lurking off the state’s west coast, and the forecast called for it to continue intensifying up until landfall. An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft had recorded winds u NC State safety Ashford headed back to Raleigh a day after frightening injury 09/01/2023 04:22pm • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — North Carolina State safety Rakeim Ashford was cleared to return to Raleigh on Friday, a day after being taken off the field on a stretcher during the Wolfpack's season-opening win over UConn. Medical tests on Ashford came back “normal” on Friday and the 6-foot-1 grad st Medicines360’s long and winding, $82 million road to create and distribute $50 birth control 09/01/2023 03:48pm • Drugs and medical devices rarely come from the nonprofit world. There are more than 2,600 for-profit pharmaceutical companies in the United States, but only three nonprofits have products on the American market. One of them is Medicines360, which in 2015 became the first nonprofit to introduce a med Amrabat leaving Fiorentina is the biggest deal on quiet transfer deadline day in Italy 09/01/2023 03:39pm • MILAN (AP) — With the top Serie A teams having already completed most of their transfer business, the biggest move of Friday's deadline day in Italy was a player leaving the country. Fiorentina midfielder Sofyan Amrabat flew to England to undergo a medical with Manchester United, which is reported Ryan Preece cleared to race Darlington after scary Daytona crash last week 09/01/2023 02:23pm • DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — Ryan Preece has been cleared to race in the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway after his frightening crash at Daytona a week ago. “I'll see you at Darlington,” Preece said in a social media video posted Friday by his Stewart-Haas Racing team. “I'm sitting right here, Hong Kong, other parts of south China grind to near standstill as powerful Typhoon Saola passes 09/01/2023 01:45pm • HONG KONG (AP) — Most of Hong Kong and other parts of southern China ground to a near standstill Friday with classes and flights canceled as powerful Typhoon Saola passed along the coast. Many workers stayed at home and students in various cities saw the start of their school year postponed to ne Death toll from Johannesburg fire rises to 76 as city turns to tough job of identifying victims 09/01/2023 01:32pm • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Search teams finished checking a derelict Johannesburg apartment building a day after one of South Africa's deadliest fires broke out there as pathologists faced the grisly task Friday of identifying charred bodies and body parts that were transported in large trucks to mortuar Texas authorities say 2 people including shooter dead outside shopping center in Austin 09/01/2023 01:15pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A shooting outside a large shopping center in Austin, Texas, on Thursday killed one person and left another victim with critical injuries, authorities said. The shooter also died of a gunshot wound. The shooting near The Arboretum on the city’s north side started at 5 p.m., Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 09/01/2023 01:02pm • 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