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How to prepare for the 'active' Atlantic hurricane season 08/11/2023 05:15pm • NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center has increased the prediction for the current Atlantic hurricane season from near-normal to above-normal activity. Ed McDonough, the public information officer with the Maryland Department of Emergency Management, said no matter what the expected level of activit Saints add veteran linebacker Jaylon Smith as Demario Davis continues to deal with a calf injury 08/11/2023 04:54pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Saints added veteran one-time Pro Bowl linebacker Jaylon Smith to their roster and he practiced in the Superdome on Friday in advance of Sunday's preseason opener against Kansas City. Saints coach Dennis Allen doubted Smith would play against the Chiefs. “I wou DeSantis is resetting his campaign again. Some Republicans worry his message is getting in the way 08/11/2023 02:01pm • CORALVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Ron DeSantis largely dismissed his own decision to replace his campaign leadership team as he returned to Iowa in the midst of a weekslong reset. The Republican presidential hopeful also made no mention of the two rounds of campaign layoffs he made recently in response to u Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 08/11/2023 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 St. Louis activists praise Biden's support for compensation over Manhattan Project contamination 08/11/2023 12:07pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis-area activists have been fighting for years to get government compensation for people with cancer and other serious illnesses potentially connected to Manhattan Project nuclear contamination. This week marked a major victory, with support coming from the president. Urani Tennessee hospital faces civil rights investigation over release of transgender health records 08/11/2023 11:50am • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Vanderbilt University Medical Center is facing a federal civil rights investigation after turning the medical records of transgender patients over to Tennessee’s attorney general, hospital officials have confirmed. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' investi Foundations seek to advance AI for good — and also protect the world from its threats 08/11/2023 11:32am • While technology experts sound the alarm on the pace of artificial-intelligence development, philanthropists — including long-established foundations and tech billionaires — have been responding with an uptick in grants. Much of the philanthropy is focused on what is known as technology for good 'Nothing left': Future unclear for Hawaii residents who lost it all in fire 08/11/2023 11:27am • WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — Retired mailman and Vietnam veteran Thomas Leonard lived in the historic former capital of Hawaii for 44 years until this week, when a rapidly moving wildfire burned down his apartment, melted his Jeep and forced him to spend four terrifying hours hiding from the flames behi Insurers won't cover new Alzheimer's treatment for some customers 08/11/2023 10:11am • Some private insurers are balking at paying for the first drug fully approved to slow mental decline in Alzheimer’s patients. Insurers selling coverage in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and New York, among other states, told The Associated Press they won’t cover Leqembi with insurance offered on t NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 08/11/2023 09:53am • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ___ No, a Dominion Voting Systems-owned bank didn’t More evacuations considered in Norway where the level in swollen rivers continues to rise 08/11/2023 09:21am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Authorities were on standby to evacuate more people in southeastern Norway Friday, where huge amounts of water, littered with broken trees, debris and trash, were thundering down the usually serene rivers after days of torrential rain. The level of water in swollen river UBS ends billions in taxpayer-funded support that paved way for Credit Suisse takeover 08/11/2023 08:39am • GENEVA (AP) — Swiss taxpayers are off the hook from a government-engineered rescue plan that doled out billions to help UBS, the country's largest bank, take over its ailing rival Credit Suisse. UBS said Friday that it has shut down state support that had made available up to 200 billion Swiss fra South Korea throws huge K-Pop concert for Scouts after storm Khanun disrupted their Jamboree 08/11/2023 08:15am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A day after a powerful tropical storm flooded dozens of homes and turned streets into muddy rivers, South Korea threw a huge K-Pop concert in Seoul for 40,000 Scouts whose global Jamboree was disrupted by the weather. Friday's concert at a wet soccer stadium featured var An Israeli army raid in the northern West Bank kills a Palestinian militant 08/11/2023 07:45am • TULKAREM, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli military stormed into a refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank on Friday, sparking a firefight with Palestinian gunmen and killing a Palestinian man, medics said. The raid into the Tulkarem refugee camp was the latest deadly Israeli military operati EPA weighs formal review of vinyl chloride, the toxic chemical that burned in Ohio train derailment 08/11/2023 07:14am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says it could soon launch a formal evaluation of risks posed by vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical that burned in a towering plume of toxic black smoke following the fiery train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. The Environmental Protection Age