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Over 1,000 people remain evacuated as crews dig containment line around Arizona brush fire 06/28/2023 08:06pm • SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — More than 1,100 people remain evacuated from their homes Wednesday as Arizona fire officials determine if a containment line will hold up in windy conditions. Crews successfully dug a containment line overnight around the brush fire in northern Scottsdale, a city just east Tennessee State ready to make history as the 1st HBCU to add ice hockey 06/28/2023 07:11pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee State University for so long has been best known in athletics as the place where Olympic gold medalist Wilma Rudolph and the Tigerbelles made track history and produced NFL talent like Super Bowl champ Ed “Too Tall” Jones. Now the university that's also the al Victims of gynecologist convicted of sex crimes urge judge to impose maximum prison term 06/28/2023 05:57pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Eleven victims of a gynecologist who practiced at prestigious New York hospitals before he was convicted of sexually abusing women over several decades made emotional statements about their continuing pain as they asked a federal judge Wednesday to keep him behind bars as long as p Bowser asks DC inspector general to look into sexual harassment allegations 06/28/2023 05:42pm • Mayor Muriel Bowser has asked the D.C. Office of the Inspector General to take a look at sexual harassment allegations surrounding her former chief of staff. In a letter sent June 27, Bowser asked Inspector General Daniel Lucas to consider if an outside review by his office might be helpful in d Indiana man confessed to murders of teenage girls in phone call with his wife, documents say 06/28/2023 05:19pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana man charged with killing two teenage girls confessed multiple times to the murders in a phone call to his wife while in prison, according to court documents released Wednesday. Richard Matthew Allen allegedly told his wife, Kathy Allen, in an April 3 phone call that Delta passengers exit flight using jet slide after plane lands without front gear extended 06/28/2023 03:58pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Passengers aboard a Delta flight disembarked using the jet slide Wednesday after the plane's front landing gear failed to deploy as it landed at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. The flight landed safely and no injuries were reported, according to officials. Photos f Officials identify firefighter killed battling Maryland blaze 06/28/2023 01:39pm • Firefighter Brice C. Trossbach. (Courtesy NAS Patuxent River) Officials at Naval Air Station Patuxent River have identified a firefighter who was killed while battling a blaze on Tuesday. Twenty-five-year-old Brice Trossbach "made the ultimate sacrifice" while responding to a mutual aid reque Michigan Legislature approves ban on 'conversion therapy' for LGBTQ+ minors 06/28/2023 11:47am • LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan lawmakers gave final approval to legislation banning so-called conversion therapy for minors as Democrats in the state continue to advance a pro-LGBTQ+ agenda in their first months in power. The legislation would prohibit mental health professionals from engaging you Sri Lanka's Cabinet approves a domestic debt restructuring plan in effort to solve economic crisis 06/28/2023 11:08am • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Cabinet on Wednesday approved a program to restructure the country's staggering domestic debt as the island nation struggles to emerge from an economic crisis that has engulfed it since last year. The domestic debt restructuring is required as part of a bail Recruitment of children by armed groups in Syria is on the rise, even as fighting subsides 06/28/2023 10:54am • QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — A 13-year-old Kurdish girl went missing on her way home from a school exam last month, after being approached by a man from an armed group. Her parents immediately feared the worst — that she had been persuaded to join the group and was taken to one of its training camps. How to negotiate with debt collectors 06/28/2023 10:35am • Whether you owe a debt or not, getting a phone call from a debt collector is never a pleasant experience. And it's one that may be happening more frequently in recent months. The hiatus that some states and companies put on debt collection activities at the height of the pandemic has largely ende Families worry over the future of Medicaid caregiver payments that were expanded during the pandemic 06/28/2023 09:15am • Nathan Hill started receiving $12.75 an hour from a state Medicaid program to help care for his severely disabled son during the pandemic, money he said allowed his family to stop using food stamps. The program was designed to provide a continuation of care and ease a home health worker shortage tha Editorial Roundup: United States 06/28/2023 08:56am • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: June 27 Washington Post on retired U.S. military officers working for foreign governments A bipartisan bill introduced by Sens. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) would close several loopholes identified by The ‘Understand the greater good’: Walensky reflects on time as CDC director 06/28/2023 08:03am • (CNN) — Dr. Rochelle Walensky on Friday will leave her post as director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she served for a relatively short but eventful 2 1/2 years. When she started in January 2021, more than 23,000 Americans were dying of Covid-19 each week. The nex Some Dutch people seeking euthanasia cite autism or intellectual disabilities, researchers say 06/28/2023 05:10am • LONDON (AP) — Several people with autism and intellectual disabilities have been legally euthanized in the Netherlands in recent years because they said they could not lead normal lives, researchers have found. The cases included five people younger than 30 who cited autism as either the only rea