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Biden's reelection pitch that he can govern well faces daunting challenges with debt, border, more 05/13/2023 03:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A showdown with Congress that has the nation���s creditworthiness at stake; a frenzied scene at the border as pandemic restrictions ease; a pivotal foreign trip meant to sustain support for Ukraine and contain a more assertive China in the Indo-Pacific. Three weeks since launchin Moore signs expansion of veteran retiree tax credit into law; Republicans push back on other issues 05/13/2023 12:40pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP���s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for��Maryland Matters��� free email subscription��today. Military veterans will now be able to claim a larger income tax credit if they retire in Maryland. Gov. Wes Moore (D) traveled to Warfi Governor says California's budget deficit has grown to nearly $32 billion 05/12/2023 08:51pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� California's budget deficit has soared to nearly $32 billion, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday as he announced a plan that would cover the shortfall this year while potentially leaving the state with multibillion-dollar deficits in the future. Newsom, a Democrat in his secon US Postal Service honors civil rights leader, Ponca tribe Chief Standing Bear, with stamp 05/12/2023 06:14pm • A Ponca tribe chief whose landmark lawsuit in 1879 established that a Native American is a person under the law was honored Friday with the unveiling of a U.S. Postal Service stamp that features his portrait. The release of the stamp of Chief Standing Bear comes 146 years after the Army forced him a Virginia Daybook 05/12/2023 04:31pm • Associated Press Virginia Daybook for Friday, May. 12. 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 Stat Historically Black medical schools urge more spending in hearing with Bernie Sanders 05/12/2023 03:43pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� To train more Black doctors, the federal government needs to bolster funding and make more training slots available for historically Black medical schools, leaders of those universities told U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday. ���Our HBCU medical schools are the backbone of training Palestinian militants fire more rockets, as Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza despite cease-fire efforts 05/12/2023 02:33pm • GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� Israeli airstrikes killed a senior militant commander in the Gaza Strip and Palestinian militants fired rockets toward Jerusalem on Friday, further escalating the most violent flare-up in months despite efforts to broker a cease-fire. An Israeli airstrike killed two Pa Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signs bills to help veterans 05/12/2023 02:27pm • Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed legislation on Friday to help veterans, including tax relief on retirement income. With a National Guard aircraft behind him, the former U.S. Army captain and paratrooper signed the bills in a hangar at Martin State Airport, which is home to the Maryland Air National G Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 05/12/2023 01:37pm • 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 Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 05/11/2023 01:15pm • 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 UNICEF warns that aid shortage will push Afghanistan's children further toward deadly malnutrition 05/11/2023 10:33am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� A U.N. agency warned Thursday that critical food aid in Afghanistan is being handicapped by a lack of funding, as the country faces a widespread humanitarian crisis. ���Thousands of children could die from severe acute malnutrition,��� said Melanie Galvin, chief of nutrition at th Climate calling: Maryland plans multi-agency approach to climate change 05/11/2023 10:10am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP���s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters��� free email subscription today. Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller (D) and other top state officials gathered at the University of Maryland Baltimore County on Wednesday to discuss how Hong Kong newspaper to stop publishing drawings by prominent cartoonist after government complaints 05/11/2023 06:54am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� A Hong Kong newspaper announced Thursday it will stop publishing drawings by the city���s most prominent political cartoonist after they drew government complaints, in another example of restrictions on speech and media after a Beijing-led crackdown. Chinese-language newspaper Min India's Modi to visit White House in June as Biden seeks stronger ties amid competition with China 05/10/2023 03:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden will host Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House next month, courting an Indo-Pacific leader with whom he has sought stronger ties as the United States looks to blunt China's growing assertiveness in the region. Modi's visit June 22 ���will af Officer who killed mall attack shooter hailed as a hero 05/09/2023 05:20pm • ALLEN, Texas (AP) ��� The shooter with neo-Nazi leanings who killed eight people at a suburban Dallas shopping mall brought eight legally purchased guns to the scene, apparently chose his victims randomly and was shot dead by police within four minutes, authorities said Tuesday. The Allen police off