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Truck makers pledge to comply with new California rules phasing out gas-powered vehicles 07/06/2023 08:10pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Some of the nation's largest truck makers on Thursday pledged to stop selling new gas-powered vehicles in California by the middle of the next decade, part of an agreement with state regulators aimed at preventing lawsuits that threatened to delay or block the state's emi Greece pledges more high defense spending, seeks F-35 fleet 07/06/2023 07:30pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s conservative government promised late Thursday to continue a multi-billion euro defense modernization program during its second term in office, setting its sights on acquiring F-35 fighter jets in five years. “Our priority is to safeguard the country,” Prime Mi Connecticut lawmaker attacked after Muslim service says Hartford police downplayed assault 07/06/2023 06:18pm • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut lawmaker who was attacked last month while leaving a Muslim prayer service accused police in Hartford of downplaying the assault and called Thursday for a federal investigation of the department's handling of violent crimes, especially against women. Rep. Marya DC Council member pushes for independent review of harassment allegations against former deputy mayor 07/06/2023 05:34pm • D.C. Council member Brianne Nadeau introduced emergency legislation Thursday to further review sexual harassment allegations made against Mayor Muriel Bowser’s former chief of staff and deputy mayor for planning and economic development. Nadeau's Sexual Harassment Investigation Review Emergenc Russian cruise missile attack on Ukraine city of Lviv kills 6 people and injures dozens 07/06/2023 05:21pm • LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia fired cruise missiles Thursday at a western Ukraine city far from the front line of the war, killing at least six people in an apartment building in what officials said was the heaviest attack on civilian areas of Lviv since the Kremlin’s forces invaded the country la ACLU files suit against DC, citing 'unequal' police response to mental health crises 07/06/2023 04:58pm • Bread for the City has filed suit against the D.C. government for the city's practice of sending law enforcement officers to answer mental health crises — a policy the nonprofit said discriminates against residents with disabilities. The American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing Bre John Berylson, owner of English soccer team Millwall, dies in car crash at age 70 07/06/2023 04:42pm • BOSTON (AP) — John Berylson, an American businessman known for his enthusiastic ownership of the English soccer team Millwall, has died. He was 70. His death, the result of a car crash in Massachusetts on Tuesday, was announced by the second-division London team, which said Berylson presided over Movie Review: 'Insidious: The Red Door' fails to scare up a winning formula for franchise's finale 07/06/2023 04:38pm • The “Insidious” franchise folds back on itself for the fifth installment, returning to its roots with the movie equivalent of getting the (traumatized) band back together. Patrick Wilson, Ty Simpkins, Rose Byrne and Andrew Astor reunite for “Insidious: The Red Door,” and whether or not you'l Mid Atlantic Daybook 07/06/2023 04:31pm • Associated Press Mid Atlantic Daybook for Thursday, Jul. 06. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Mid-Atlantic bureau is reachable at 202-641-9660 Wisconsin health officials drop fine for 'Nutcracker' performance during COVID restrictions 07/06/2023 04:18pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Health officials in Wisconsin have dropped a fine against a dance studio that staged a performance of “The Nutcracker” in December 2020 despite COVID-19 restrictions on mass gatherings. Public Health Madison and Dane County canceled the penalty pending against A Leap Above Eagles QB Jalen Hurts says, 'There’s a thrill in not being satisfied' 07/06/2023 12:10pm • Jalen Hurts has no time to be satisfied. After a breakout season in which he nearly led the Philadelphia Eagles to a Super Bowl victory and earned him a record-setting contract, Hurts is working like a “madman” to be even better. “Everybody aspires to be the best and works to be the best, but United Methodists lose one-fifth of US churches in schism driven by growing defiance of LGBTQ bans 07/06/2023 12:06pm • More than 6,000 United Methodist congregations — a fifth of the U.S. total — have now received permission to leave the denomination amid a schism over theology and the role of LGBTQ people in the nation's second-largest Protestant denomination. Those figures emerge following the close of regular Review: 'Silo' is one of the best sci-fi TV series in years 07/06/2023 11:47am • All last week, I counted down my Top 10 New TV Series of 2023, but wouldn't you know it? As soon as I pressed "publish" on that article, I binged another 10-episode series that might have actually topped the damn list — if I had only seen it in time! "Silo" on Apple TV+ is easily one of the UK Conservative lawmaker faces ejection from Parliament for groping strangers at a London club 07/06/2023 11:35am • LONDON (AP) — A British lawmaker accused of drunkenly groping two men at a private members' club should be suspended from Parliament for eight weeks for “completely unacceptable” conduct, a standards watchdog said Thursday. The ruling will likely result in Chris Pincher being ejected from the 83,000 Hawaii homes dispose of sewage in cesspools. Rising sea levels will make them more of a mess 07/06/2023 10:08am • HONOLULU (AP) — The town of Hauula packs hundreds of homes into a narrow strip of land sandwiched between verdant, towering cliffs of the Koolau mountain range and the Pacific. But the stunning views obscure an environmental problem beneath the ground. This rural part of the island of Oahu is not