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Gov. Wes Moore to Maryland county leaders: 'I know that our trust is being tested' 12/08/2023 10:43am • Gov. Wes Moore (D) told a gathering of county leaders still reeling from news of deep cuts in transportation projects that he backs the proposal, describing it as hard medicine. For two days, officials from around the state have grumbled about $3.3 billion in cuts including deep reductions to 2023 in books: Protests, bannings and the rise of AI helped shape the story of publishing 12/08/2023 09:53am • NEW YORK (AP) — Book publishing in 2023 was a story of cooling sales and rising conflict, marked by legal action, protests, censorship and the impact of forces well beyond the industry. Print book sales continued to recede following the pandemic-era surge, but fiction remained strong, thanks in pa Asian Development Bank approves a $200M loan to debt-stricken Sri Lanka 12/08/2023 09:14am • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The Asian Development Bank said Friday that it has approved $200-million concessional loan to debt-stricken Sri Lanka to help stabilize the country’s finance sector following an unprecedented economic crisis that engulfed the Indian Ocean island nation last year. The ba Nvidia CEO suggests Malaysia could be AI 'manufacturing' hub as Southeast Asia expands data centers 12/08/2023 05:30am • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The CEO of technology giant Nvidia said Friday that he views Malaysia as a potential hub for artificial intelligence “manufacturing,” though he did not confirm the chipmaker is in talks with a local conglomerate to set up AI data centers in the Southeast Asian cou Bloodshed, fear, hunger, desperation: Palestinians try to survive war's new chapter in southern Gaza 12/08/2023 01:47am • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The roads are so ravaged that the dead and wounded arrive by donkey cart. Desperate relatives rush bloodied and dust-covered people, many of them children, to the hospital. Naseem Hassan, a 48-year-old Palestinian medic in the Gaza Strip's southern town of Khan Younis, sai Unai Emery could come back to hurt former club Arsenal's Premier League title hopes 12/08/2023 12:06am • MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Sitting atop the Premier League, Arsenal can rightly be happy with its direction of travel under manager Mikel Arteta. But it is fair to ask whether the London club acted too quickly when it fired his predecessor Unai Emery in 2019 after 18 months in charge. Emery has ma Donald Trump returns to court, lauds his defense expert who sees no evidence of accounting fraud 12/07/2023 07:39pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump returned to his civil fraud trial Thursday to spotlight his defense, renewing his complaints that the case is baseless and heaping praise on an accounting professor's testimony that backed him up. With testimony winding down after more than two months, Live updates | Widening Israeli offensive in southern Gaza worsens dire humanitarian conditions 12/07/2023 07:36pm • The Israeli military hit Rafah in southern Gaza twice overnight, residents said, as United Nations officials warned there are no safe places left in the besieged territory. The center of Gaza's second-largest city, Khan Younis, has also seen fighting amid Israel’s widening air and ground offensive What's the Cheapest Way to Travel for the Holidays in 2023? 12/07/2023 07:00pm • Are you looking for the cheapest way to travel during the upcoming holiday season? After two years of elevated costs and high interest rates, many Americans are pinching pennies. But that doesn't mean you have to stay home. Here are five ways to keep your travel costs down. 1. Comparison ShopBefore Deaths from tainted cantaloupe increase to 3 in U.S. and 5 in Canada 12/07/2023 06:19pm • A salmonella outbreak tied to tainted cantaloupe has now killed eight people — three in the U.S. and five in Canada, health officials reported Thursday. Dozens more illnesses were reported by both countries. In the U.S., at least 230 people have been ill in 38 states and 96 have been hospitalized Adults can now legally possess and grow marijuana in Ohio — but there's nowhere to buy it 12/07/2023 06:11pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohioans woke up Thursday in a land of limbo for recreational marijuana use: Adults can now legally grow and possess cannabis at home, but cannot legally buy it. On Wednesday night, Republican Gov. Mike DeWine urged lawmakers to quickly set parameters for Issue 2, the citizen Virginia Daybook 12/07/2023 04:31pm • Associated Press Virginia Daybook for Thursday, Dec. 07. 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 Two babies infected with dangerous bacteria sometimes found in powdered infant formula 12/07/2023 04:28pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) — The dangerous bacteria that sparked powdered formula recalls and shortages last year has infected two babies this year, killing a Kentucky child and causing brain damage in a Missouri infant. Federal health officials confirmed Thursday that two cases of invasive infections caused Mike Aresco retiring as AAC commissioner after long championing for leagues outside P5 12/07/2023 04:23pm • IRVING, Texas (AP) — Mike Aresco is retiring as commissioner of the American Athletic Conference at the end of the current academic year on May 31, after serving during a period of constant change in college athletics while championing for his and other leagues outside the Power Five. Aresco becam Liga surprise package Girona visits Barcelona in clash of Catalan clubs 12/07/2023 04:26am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona was the Spanish league champion last season. Now it is just the second-best team in the Catalonia region. Girona has upstaged its much more popular regional rival so far, winning 12 of 15 games to sit atop the table level on points with Real Madrid. Barcelona trai