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Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 11/27/2023 01:10pm • 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 Many voters are weary about a Biden-Trump rematch in 2024. Third parties hope they can fill the gap 11/26/2023 07:33am • PHOENIX (AP) ��� The 2024 presidential election is drawing an unusually robust field of independent, third party and long shot candidates hoping to capitalize on Americans' ambivalence and frustration over a likely rematch between Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump. Those looking to bla Hamas releases 10 Thai hostages, 4 of whom had not been listed as abducted 11/24/2023 11:55pm • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Hamas freed 10 Thai nationals and a Filipino alongside Israeli hostages who were part of the first swap under a new cease-fire deal ��� including four Thais who had not been officially listed as abducted, Thailand's Foreign Ministry announced Saturday morning. Thais were the single Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 11/24/2023 01:03pm • 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 Humanitarians want more aid for Gaza, access to hostages under Israel-Hamas truce. And more time 11/22/2023 07:00pm • GENEVA (AP) ��� International aid groups say they are ready to deliver thousands of truckloads of food, water and other supplies to besieged Gaza if a temporary cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war takes hold. Some hailed an important first step, but many said Wednesday that a four-day truce isn't en Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 11/22/2023 01:11pm • 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 Nearly half of Americans think the US is spending too much on Ukraine aid, an AP-NORC poll says 11/22/2023 12:24pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� As lawmakers in Washington weigh sending billions more in federal support to Kyiv to help fight off Russian aggression, close to half of the U.S. public thinks the country is spending too much on aid to Ukraine, according to polling from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Publi South African leader accuses Israel of war crimes. Putin and Xi strike more cautious note at meeting 11/21/2023 04:49pm • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) ��� South African President Cyril Ramaphosa accused Israel of war crimes and acts ���tantamount to genocide��� in Gaza during a virtual meeting Tuesday of leaders of developing countries, including Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping. Ramaphosa also condemned On Thanksgiving week, a renewed push in Md. to require the sale of cage-free eggs 11/21/2023 08:57am • Half a dozen free-range chickens were scratching on a narrow patch of grass at a farm in Potomac Monday afternoon, looking for insects, seeds and other things to eat. The chickens, with names like Sophia Loren and Marilyn Monroe, seemed happily oblivious to the four cloth chicken dolls stuffed in Polish police arrest woman with Islamic extremist sympathies who planted explosive device in Warsaw 11/21/2023 04:59am • WARSAW, Poland (AP) ��� Polish authorities say that they have arrested and pressed charges against a 38-year-old Polish woman with Islamic extremist sympathies who planted an explosive device on a street in central Warsaw earlier this month. There were no injuries. Police said in a statement publish Senate panel subpoenas CEOs of Discord, Snap and X to testify about children's safety online 11/20/2023 07:27pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A Senate committee has issued bipartisan subpoenas to the CEOs of Discord, Snap and X, demanding that the heads of the three companies testify at a December hearing on protecting children online. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and South Carolina Sen. Li Biden celebrates his 81st birthday with jokes as the White House stresses his experience and stamina 11/20/2023 05:37pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden celebrated his 81st birthday on Monday by joking repeatedly about his advanced age, even as the White House strongly defended his stamina and batted away polling ��� and one prominent Democrat ��� suggesting that the issue could cost him votes in next year's e Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 11/20/2023 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 China welcomes Arab and Muslim foreign ministers for talks on ending the war in Gaza 11/20/2023 01:31pm • BEIJING (AP) ��� China���s top diplomat welcomed four Arab foreign ministers and the Indonesian one to Beijing on Monday, saying his country would work with ���our brothers and sisters" in the Arab and Islamic world to try to end the war in Gaza as soon as possible. The ministers from Saudi Arabia, A Montana farmer with a flattop and ample lobbyist cash stands between the GOP and Senate control 11/20/2023 08:47am • BIGFORK, Mont. (AP) ��� After 17 years in the U.S. Senate, Democrat Jon Tester is a well-known commodity in Montana ��� a plain-spoken grain farmer with a flattop and a carefully cultivated reputation as a moderate. The 67-year-old lawmaker smiled and laughed his way through the crowd at a Veterans