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Audit shows Oklahoma likely misspent millions in federal relief funds 06/27/2023 06:29pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Improper oversight by state officials led to more than $29 million in federal funds being misspent that may have to be repaid to the federal government, Oklahoma Auditor & Inspector Cindy Byrd said Tuesday. Byrd's office released a scathing audit of about $14 billion in sp Honduras copies El Salvador's playbook in anti-gang crackdown 06/27/2023 05:52pm • TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — A crackdown in Honduras on gangs in the nation’s prisons is eerily similar to one carried out last year in neighboring El Salvador by President Nayib Bukele, observers said Tuesday. Like authorities in El Salvador, police in Honduras who launched a prison sweep Mond 'Rage giving' prompted by the end of Roe has dropped off, abortion access groups say 06/27/2023 05:37pm • The “ rage giving ” did not last. Abortion access groups who received a windfall of donations following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade one year ago say those emergency grants have ended and individual and foundation giving has dropped off. After the Dobbs decision, some major Hate crimes rose 20.2% in California in 2022 06/27/2023 04:55pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Reported hate crimes increased in California in 2022, including instances of violence motivated by bias, according to state data released Tuesday. Hate crimes involving racism against Black people, as well as homophobia and anti-Semitism, all rose last year, compared with 2021 d Prosecutors want to dismiss some charges for former Atlanta official in corruption case 06/27/2023 04:17pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Federal prosecutors plan to ask a judge to dismiss convictions for wire fraud and to resentence a former high-ranking Atlanta city official who is currently serving a 14-year prison sentence stemming from an investigation into corruption at City Hall, according to a court filing. Mi Billions are being spent to turn the tide on the US West's wildfires. It won't be enough 06/27/2023 03:34pm • DOWNIEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Using chainsaws, heavy machinery and controlled burns, the Biden administration is trying to turn the tide on worsening wildfires in the U.S. West through a multi-billion dollar cleanup of forests choked with dead trees and undergrowth. Yet one year into what's envisione Will a DC ambulance arrive quickly, or is it tied up dropping the last patient at the hospital? 06/27/2023 03:11pm • While they are improving, the wait times for ambulances to leave hospitals in D.C. and get back on the streets for more calls still need work, according to new data. According to numbers released by the D.C. Fire and EMS Foundation, on average, ambulances in the District have a 52-minute drop time, Struggling with a drug crisis, San Francisco wants Narcan available at every pharmacy 06/27/2023 03:04pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco could become the first city in the country to require every pharmacy within its boundaries to always carry naloxone, a drug that reverses overdoses caused by fentanyl and other opioids. San Francisco Supervisor Matt Dorsey will introduce a bill Tuesday that, if a Rescuers found body in rubble of Paris building that collapsed in explosion 06/27/2023 03:02pm • PARIS (AP) — French emergency workers found a body Tuesday in the rubble of a Paris building whose facade collapsed in an explosion last week and are working to remove the remains and identify the person, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. The discovery marks the first fatality in the blast, wh Parliamentary inquest into 'Vatican Girl' mystery moves forward as pope acknowledges family's pain 06/27/2023 02:45pm • ROME (AP) — Italy’s Parliament is poised to open a bicameral commission of inquiry into the disappearance of the teenage daughter of a Vatican employee, the third new investigation launched in the four decades since Emanuela Orlandi vanished on the streets of Rome. The Senate’s Constitutional Kevin Spacey is about to stand trial in London on sex charges. Here's what to know 06/27/2023 01:47pm • LONDON (AP) — Double Academy Award-winner Kevin Spacey, whose stellar acting career was derailed by sex assault allegations, goes on trial in London this week, accused of sexual offenses against four men in Britain. WHAT IS HE ACCUSED OF? Spacey, 63, faces a dozen charges, including of sexual assa Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 06/27/2023 01:36pm • 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 Power couple Zooey Zephyr and Erin Reed are spreading hope to fellow transgender people 06/27/2023 01:28pm • MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Zooey Zephyr and Erin Reed walk hand in hand at a Pride parade in the college town of Missoula, Montana, wearing smiles as sunny as the day is rainy. Adoring fans cheer them along the route. Reed stops and raises a small Pride flag. Zephyr cups her hands together in a heart US push to lower wildfire risk across the West stumbles in places 06/27/2023 01:20pm • DOWNIEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Using chainsaws, heavy machinery and controlled burns, the Biden administration is trying to turn the tide on worsening wildfires in the U.S. West through a multi-billion dollar cleanup of forests choked with dead trees and undergrowth. Administration officials in interv Still hiring: Big Tech layoffs give other sectors an opening 06/27/2023 12:50pm • For the thousands of workers who'd never experienced upheaval in the tech sector, the recent mass layoffs at companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta came as a shock. Now they are being courted by long-established employers whose names aren't typically synonymous with tech work, including