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Sudanese crowd at borders to escape amid shaky truce 04/26/2023 04:27pm • CAIRO (AP) ��� Sudanese families were massing Wednesday at a border crossing with Egypt and at a port city on the Red Sea, desperately trying to escape their country's violence and sometimes waiting for days with little food or shelter, witnesses said. In the capital, Khartoum, the intensity of fig Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 04/26/2023 01:26pm • 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 Editorial Roundup: United States 04/26/2023 12:31pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: April 21 The Washington Post on the politicization of the education system The old-fashioned way states craft learning standards for grade-school students is slow and sure: Committee upon committee of stakeholders, from teachers to mat 2024 race won't be like 2020. That's good and bad for Biden 04/26/2023 10:03am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� No honking geese are likely to interrupt his speeches this time. As President Joe Biden seeks a second term, he won't have to depend on glitchy Zoom connections, or deliver remarks in largely vacant theaters with attendees in chairs ringed by circle markings on the floor to ensur UN agency: Afghanistan needs $4.62 billion in aid for 2023 04/26/2023 06:51am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� Afghanistan needs $4.62 billion in humanitarian aid from the international community this year for nearly 24 million people in need, the U.N.'s humanitarian affairs agency said. Afghanistan is facing its third consecutive year of drought, its second year of severe economic hardshi Today in History: April 26, Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster 04/26/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Wednesday, April 26, the 116th day of 2023. There are 249 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On April 26, 1986, an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine caused radioactive fallout to begin spewing into the atmosphere. (Doz Sudan fighting eclipses new truce as aid groups raise alarm 04/25/2023 09:58pm • CAIRO (AP) ��� Sudanese and foreigners streamed out of the capital of Khartoum and other battle zones, as fighting Tuesday shook a new three-day truce brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia. Aid agencies raised increasing alarm over the crumbling humanitarian situation in a country reliant o UN warns of lab risk, more displacement amid Sudan conflict 04/25/2023 09:53pm • GENEVA (AP) ��� U.N. officials said Tuesday that one side in the Sudan conflict has seized control of a national health lab in the capital of Khartoum that holds biological material, calling it an ���extremely dangerous��� development. The announcement came as officials warned that more refugees cou New this week: David Bowie, 'Fatal Attraction' and Smokey 04/24/2023 02:15pm • Here���s a collection curated by The Associated Press��� entertainment journalists of what���s arriving on TV, streaming services and music and video game platforms this week. NEW MOVIES TO STREAM ��� Filmmaker David Lowery (���The Green Knight,��� ���Ain���t Them Bodies Saints���) brought a l Kimberly Palmer: How to bolster your financial confidence 04/24/2023 09:08am • Melinda Perez, a financial educator, still remembers the first time she felt financially confident. She had recently started investing money outside of her employer-sponsored retirement account because she was finally earning more than she spent. ���It was exciting because for once, I had what felt Confusion as Musk's Twitter yanks blue checks from agencies 04/21/2023 06:38pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Twitter has long been a way for people to keep track of tornado watches, train delays, news alerts or the latest crime warnings from their local police department. But when the Elon Musk-owned platform started stripping blue verification check marks this week from accounts that don' Biden 2024 splits Dems but most would back him: AP-NORC poll 04/21/2023 04:49pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Only about half of Democrats think President Joe Biden should run again in 2024, a poll shows, but a large majority say they���d be likely to support him if he became the nominee. The poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that 26% of Americans What You Can Do With a Nursing Degree 04/20/2023 08:00pm • When people imagine what nurses do, they often think of bedside nurses who tend to sick people in hospitals. Although there are many nurses who do this type of work, there are other job opportunities within the field. For example, private duty nurses go into patients' homes to provide care, and clin Stampede in Yemen at Ramadan charity event kills at least 78 04/20/2023 05:37pm • CAIRO (AP) ��� A crowd apparently panicked by gunfire and an electrical explosion stampeded at an event to distribute financial aid during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Yemen���s capital late Wednesday, killing at least 78 people and injuring at least 77 others, according to witnesses and Hout Mid Atlantic Daybook 04/20/2023 04:01pm • Associated Press Mid Atlantic Daybook for Thursday, Apr. 20. 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