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Plane that crashed in Virginia lost contact with air traffic controllers during ascent, feds say 06/06/2023 05:43pm • Only minutes into a doomed journey that ended on a remote Virginia mountain, the pilot of a business jet was not responding to air traffic control instructions and the situation was soon reported to a network that includes military, security and law enforcement agencies, according to federal aviatio Chris Christie, exgobernador de Nueva Jersey, se suma a la contienda por la candidatura presidencial republicana para 2024 06/06/2023 05:34pm • (CNN) -- El exgobernador de Nueva Jersey Chris Christie se postuló este martes a la candidatura presidencial por el Partido Republicano para las elecciones de 2024, en lo que representa su segundo intento por llegar a la Casa Blanca y un nuevo enfrentamiento con el expresidente Donald Trump, favori Atlanta project decried as 'Cop City’ gets funding approval from City Council 06/06/2023 05:22pm • ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta City Council early Tuesday approved funding for the construction of a proposed police and firefighter training center, rejecting the pleas of hundreds of activists who packed City Hall and spoke for hours in fierce opposition to the project they decry as “Cop City.” LGBTQ+ Americans are under attack, Human Rights Campaign declares in state of emergency warning 06/06/2023 05:17pm • The Human Rights Campaign declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. on Tuesday and released a guidebook pointing to laws it deems discriminatory in each state, along with “know your rights” information and resources to help people relocate to states with stronger LGBTQ+ protect Secretariat's jockey Ron Turcotte remembers Triple Crown winner who 'could fly' on 50th anniversary 06/06/2023 03:58pm • From the tiny village of Drummond, New Brunswick, Ron Turcotte rose to the top of horse racing, riding Secretariat to a sweep of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont in 1973. Their triumphs ended a 25-year Triple Crown drought. Now 81, Turcotte is the last surviving member of Secretariat's team LGBTQ+ pride flags at VA facilities in Mississippi draw GOP criticism, protests 06/06/2023 03:37pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — All the Republicans in Mississippi's congressional delegation are demanding that the Veterans Administration remove an LGBTQ+ pride flag from the Biloxi National Cemetery, and some residents on the Mississippi Gulf Coast are protesting a pride flag that's flying at a VA hospi Police: Fentanyl found in Waikiki hotel room, 2 men dead after suspected mass overdose 06/06/2023 02:52pm • HONOLULU (AP) — Two people died in what officials believe was a mass fentanyl overdose over the weekend involving five people in a hotel room in the Hawaii tourist mecca of Waikiki. Emergency responders were called to the Outrigger Reef Waikiki Beach Resort on Sunday morning and found five people With 'Across the Spider-Verse,' Phil Lord and Chris Miller 'blow the doors open' 06/06/2023 02:13pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Aside from the inverted skyline, the only giveaway that something is off in one of the most striking images of “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” is the ponytail that’s sticking straight up in the air. Gwen Stacy (voiced by Hailee Steinfeld) and Miles Morales (Shameik Moor Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 06/06/2023 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 Kuwait, only Gulf Arab nation with a powerful assembly, holds another election mired in gridlock 06/06/2023 01:29pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Voters in Kuwait cast their ballots Tuesday for a third time in as many years, with little hope of ending a prolonged gridlock between the ruling family and assertive lawmakers after the judiciary dissolved the legislature earlier this year. Kuwait is alone among Racist abuse of Vinícius Júnior highlights entrenched problem in soccer 06/06/2023 12:46pm • MADRID (AP) — Hanging from a highway bridge in Madrid, an effigy of one of the world’s most famous Black soccer players stands as a graphic reminder of the racism that sweeps through European soccer. In truth, the signs are everywhere. In Italy, where monkey chants swirled around the stadium in Apple unveils a $3,500 headset as it wades into the world of virtual reality 06/06/2023 12:22pm • CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple on Monday unveiled a long-rumored headset that will place its users between the virtual and real world, while also testing the technology trendsetter's ability to popularize new-fangled devices after others failed to capture the public's imagination. After years of s Novavax gets attention from Bill & Melinda Gates researchers 06/06/2023 11:30am • Gaithersburg, Maryland-based Novavax has signed a three-year agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute to make its vaccine adjuvant available for use in pre-clinical vaccine research. Its Matrix-M adjuvant is the basis for its protein-based COVID-19 vaccine, and is be Md. elections board postpones vote on new election administrator 06/06/2023 10:58am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Maryland’s State Board of Elections delayed on Monday an expected vote to name a new elections administrator. William Voelp, chair of Astrud Gilberto, singer of 'The Girl from Ipanema,' dead at 83 06/06/2023 10:50am • NEW YORK (AP) — Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer, songwriter and entertainer whose off-hand, English-language cameo on “The Girl from Ipanema” made her a worldwide voice of bossa nova, has died at age 83. Musician Paul Ricci, a family friend, confirmed that she died Monday. He did not pro