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G7 Hiroshima summit: Who's participating, what will be discussed? 05/18/2023 08:52pm • TOKYO (AP) — Leaders of seven of the world’s most powerful democracies are gathering for the Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima, the location of the world's first atomic attack at the end of World War II. From the emergence of crucial developing countries to security worries, including growing Russia fires 30 cruise missiles at Ukrainian targets; Ukraine says 29 were shot down 05/18/2023 08:43pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia fired 30 cruise missiles against different parts of Ukraine early Thursday in the latest nighttime test of Ukrainian air defenses, which shot down 29 of them, officials said. One person was killed and two were wounded by a Russian missile that got through and struck an How Much Money Should You Have in Checking? 05/18/2023 08:00pm • Having too little money in your checking account can be a problem, but so can having too much. Your checking account balance should be large enough to cover your monthly bills with a buffer to avoid overdraft fees and cover unexpected expenses. But keeping too much money in your checking account cou Judge not inclined to shut down pipeline, pleads with Wisconsin tribe to work with oil company 05/18/2023 06:56pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge said Thursday he is unlikely to force an energy company to shut down an oil pipeline in northern Wisconsin, despite arguments from a Native American tribe that the line is at immediate risk of being exposed by erosion and rupturing on reservation land. U.S. Dis UN warns that urgent funding needed to avert catastrophic hunger in northeast Nigeria 05/18/2023 06:16pm • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least $396 million is urgently needed to prevent widespread hunger and malnutrition in northeastern Nigeria from turning into a “full-blown catastrophe,” the United Nations office in the West African nation said Thursday. “We are ringing the alarm bell that there are Arlington Co. to outfit jail inmates with biometric wrist monitors 05/18/2023 06:07pm • The Arlington County, Virginia, Sheriff's Office is rolling out new technology that's the first of its kind in the D.C. area. Inmates booked into the county's detention center could eventually all be fitted for biometric wrist monitors to track their vital signs. "Once you come to jail, it's not Fire chief: 2 missing after massive blaze at North Carolina construction site 05/18/2023 06:04pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Two construction workers were still unaccounted for late Thursday after a massive, fast-moving fire broke out at a North Carolina construction site earlier in the day, the city's fire chief said. Fifteen workers, including a crane operator, were rescued by the more than 90 f Will dashboard AM radio be saved? Bipartisan bill would require automakers to keep it in new cars 05/18/2023 04:51pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are pushing to keep AM radio in the nation's cars. A bipartisan group in Congress has introduced the “AM for Every Vehicle Act." The bill calls on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to require automakers to keep AM radio in new cars at no New Jersey blinks in dune repairs standoff, allows emergency erosion fixes in defiant town 05/18/2023 04:43pm • NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey environmental officials will allow a shore town to carry out emergency repairs to its badly eroded beachfront, even as they continue a years-long fight with city officials over how best to protect the popular Jersey Shore resort's fragile coastline. On Wednes China's loans pushing world’s poorest countries to brink of collapse 05/18/2023 04:35pm • A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability and even collapse under the weight of hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign loans, much of them from the world’s biggest and most unforgiving government lender, China. An Associated Press analysis of a dozen countries most indebted to Chi Virginia Daybook 05/18/2023 04:31pm • Associated Press Virginia Daybook for Thursday, May. 18. 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 Tennessee commission holds off on decertifying former officer charged in Tyre Nichols death 05/18/2023 04:17pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee commission that enforces standards for police recommended Thursday that proceedings to bar an officer charged in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols from serving in state law enforcement be suspended until his legal case is resolved. A panel of the Tennessee Polic Storied rugby club Wasps forced to start again at bottom of English league pyramid 05/18/2023 03:13pm • LONDON (AP) — Wasps, one of England's most storied rugby teams and a two-time European champion, must begin rebuilding from the bottom of the country's league pyramid after having a license to play in the second-tier Championship revoked on Thursday. The club was expelled from the top-flight Premi Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 05/18/2023 01:07pm • 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 Looking for a house? High mortgages, few homes lead to biggest annual price drop in 11 years 05/18/2023 01:01pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A persistently low inventory of homes on the market held back U.S. home sales again in April, even as the national median sale price posted its biggest annual drop in 11 years. Existing home sales fell 3.4% in April from March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.28 millio