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US vice president announces more than $100M to help Caribbean during official visit to Bahamas 06/08/2023 06:01pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris announced Thursday that the U.S. is investing more than $100 million in the Caribbean region to crack down on weapons trafficking, help alleviate Haiti’s humanitarian crisis and support climate change initiatives. The announcement wa Russia shells Ukrainian city inundated by dam collapse after Zelenskyy visit 06/08/2023 05:55pm • KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces Thursday shelled a southern Ukrainian city inundated by flooding in a catastrophic dam collapse, Ukrainian officials said, forcing a suspension of some rescue efforts hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went to the area to assess the damage. The fresh f Biden condemns wave of state legislation restricting LGBTQ+ rights, says 'these are our kids' 06/08/2023 05:49pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday condemned a wave of “cruel” and “callous” state laws curbing the rights, visibility and health care access of LGBTQ+ people, especially children, leaving them feeling under attack like never before and the White House with limited options t Live updates | Canada Wildfires 06/08/2023 05:42pm • Follow along for live updates on wildfires in Canada creating a haze in parts of the U.S. and Canada and into northern Europe: ___ What to know: — Air pollution cloaks eastern U.S. for a second day. Here’s why there is so much smoke — MLB, WNBA postpone games due to smoke from Canadian wildfi Ashish Jha, White House COVID-19 coordinator, to leave post next week 06/08/2023 04:21pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Ashish Jha, the White House’s point person on the COVID-19 response, will depart from the administration next week. The White House said Thursday that Jha will return to Brown University, where he had served as the dean of the university’s school of public health before joini Bipartisan deal reached to save Milwaukee from bankruptcy 06/08/2023 03:54pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin has handed cash-strapped Milwaukee a lifeline to stave off bankruptcy, allowing the city to raise sales taxes without voter approval as part of a larger local government and K-12 schools funding plan, according to a bipartisan deal announced Thursday Democratic Gov. Swarbrick to step down as Notre Dame's AD next year; NBC Sports' Peter Bevacqua will take over 06/08/2023 03:21pm • SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Jack Swarbrick will step down as Notre Dame’s athletic director next year after a 16-year run in which he helped the school maintain the football program's independent status amid unprecedented realignment by some of the top conferences in the nation. Notre Dame announced NC--Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 06/08/2023 01:56pm • 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 23 freight cars, new vehicles heavily damaged in train derailment in northern Arizona 06/08/2023 01:53pm • WILLIAMS, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities are trying to determine the cause of a freight train derailment in northern Arizona that heavily damaged 23 cars and a load of new vehicles. Coconino County Emergency Management officials said the derailment occurred around 11:20 p.m. Wednesday east of Williams, New lawsuit filed after Iowa building collapse; governor seeks federal aid with emergency response 06/08/2023 01:49pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A woman whose leg was amputated in order to free her from the rubble of the partially collapsed building in Davenport, Iowa, filed a lawsuit with her wife Wednesday, accusing the city and the building’s owner for “willful and wanton disregard” for their safety. Quanis Virginia Daybook 06/08/2023 12:29pm • Associated Press Virginia Daybook for Thursday, Jun. 08. 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. To see your Daybooks and events for Virginia and other St Norway domestic security agency had intelligence about imminent attack before LGBTQ+ Pride shooting 06/08/2023 09:01am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A report released Thursday into a deadly shooting during Oslo's annual LGBTQ+ Pride festival last year blasted Norway’s domestic security agency, saying it had intelligence an attack was imminent and could have prevented the bloodshed. The report focused on how the po Maryland board approves funds for abortion pill stockpile 06/08/2023 05:49am • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland board approved an emergency procurement of more than $1 million on Wednesday to pay for a stockpile of a widely used abortion pill due to uncertainty surrounding legal challenges against the drug's use. The Board of Public Works approved the funds to pay for 35, Flooding from dam break strands hundreds and leaves thousands with no drinking water in Ukraine 06/07/2023 09:57pm • KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities rushed to rescue hundreds of people stranded on rooftops and supply drinking water to areas flooded by a collapsed dam in southern Ukraine on Wednesday, in a growing humanitarian and ecological disaster along a river that forms part of the front line in the 15-m 6 arrested in alleged scheme to fraudulently collect millions in COVID aid meant for renters 06/07/2023 08:37pm • SEATTLE (AP) — Six people from Washington, Arizona and Texas have been arrested and accused of fraudulently obtaining millions of dollars of COVID-19 aid from an assistance program meant for renters, federal prosecutors said. U.S. Attorney Nick Brown, Western District of Washington, on Wednesday