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Transgender minors in Nebraska, their families and doctors brace for a new law limiting treatment 09/30/2023 12:10am • LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) ��� As Nebraska's new law restricting gender-affirming care for minors goes into effect this weekend, families with transgender children and the doctors who treat them are steeling themselves for change. But exactly what and how much change is anyone���s guess. A key aspect of the Prince William Co. voters could decide control of the House of Delegates in ���competitive��� race 09/29/2023 10:08pm • Voters in western Prince William County will decide one of the most closely-watched General Assembly races this cycle on Nov. 7, and one that could ultimately decide the partisan control of the House of Delegates. The 21st House District race features a familiar face to longtime county residents Mississippi sees spike in child care enrollment after abortion ban and child support policy change 09/29/2023 08:38pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� Mississippi has seen a consistent rise in the number of families accepting public assistance for child care since lawmakers banned abortion in almost all circumstances, with the sharpest increase coming after a child support policy change in May, the state human services dire McCarthy's last-ditch plan to keep the government open collapses, making a shutdown almost certain 09/29/2023 08:29pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's last-ditch plan to keep the federal government temporarily open collapsed in dramatic fashion Friday as a robust faction of hard-right holdouts rejected the package, making a shutdown almost certain. McCarthy���s right-flank Republicans refused to s A weed hangover? Why Thailand���s having second thoughts about decriminalizing cannabis 09/29/2023 08:09pm • (CNN) — Opening a cannabis dispensary wasn���t always top of the list of Wassaya Iemvijan���s ambitions. The former lawyer, from the Thai capital Bangkok, first turned to the plant as a form of ���alternative care��� to cope with stress and settle her mind. ���I struggled with depression for m Dad who won appeal in college admissions bribery case gets 6 months home confinement for tax offense 09/29/2023 06:30pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� A former Staples Inc. executive whose fraud and bribery convictions in the sprawling college admissions cheating scandal were thrown out by an appeals court was sentenced on Friday to six months of home confinement for a tax offense. John Wilson, 64, of Lynnfield, Massachusetts, was Michigan teen shooter eligible for life prison sentence for killing 4 students, judge rules 09/29/2023 04:08pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� A teenager who killed four fellow students at Michigan���s Oxford High School is eligible for life in prison with no chance for parole, a judge ruled Friday, finding only a "slim" chance for rehabilitation after the 2021 attack. Judge Kwam�� Rowe announced the decision over video co Looming shutdown rattles families who rely on Head Start program for disadvantaged children 09/29/2023 02:21pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� As Monette Ferguson braces for the looming government shutdown to strip funding from her Head Start program for disadvantaged children in Connecticut, she harkens back to a decade ago when another congressional budget fight forced her to close preschools. This time aroun Judges maintain bans on gender-affirming care for youth in Tennessee and Kentucky 09/29/2023 02:13pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Tennessee and Kentucky can continue to ban gender-affirming care for young transgender people while legal challenges against those state laws proceed, federal appeals judges ruled. In a 2-1 decision by a 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel late Thursday, the majority wr Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 09/29/2023 01:20pm • 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 What to know as fall vaccinations against COVID, flu and RSV get underway 09/29/2023 01:01pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Updated COVID-19 vaccines may be getting a little easier for adults to find but they���re still frustratingly scarce for young children. Health officials said Thursday the kid shots have started shipping ��� and reminded most everyone to get a fall flu shot too. About 2 million A At the New York Film Festival, a sluggish fall movie season seeks a higher gear 09/29/2023 12:38pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Momentum has lately been hard to come by at the movies. The big trio of fall film festivals ��� Venice, Telluride, Toronto ��� came and went without the usual amount of buzz. With actors on strike, red carpets have been mostly bare. It's almost like since the heady highs of ���Barb Judge says she is ending conservatorship between former NFL player Michael Oher and Memphis couple 09/29/2023 12:25pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ��� A Tennessee judge said Friday she is ending a conservatorship agreement between former NFL player Michael Oher and a Memphis couple who took him in when he was in high school, but the highly-publicized dispute over financial issues will continue. Shelby County Probate Court J Hawaii authorities arrest man who fled with handgun after getting into a scuffle on Army base 09/29/2023 11:11am • HONOLULU (AP) ��� Hawaii authorities have arrested a man who fled with a handgun after getting into a scuffle while trying to talk to soldiers at an Army base on Thursday, officials said. No shots were fired but the Army treated it as an ���active shooter situation��� and two military bases on Oahu 804,000 long-term borrowers are having their student loans forgiven before payments resume this fall 09/29/2023 09:45am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Karin Engstrom thought she���d be paying off her federal student loans for the rest of her life. The 82-year-old was shocked when she logged on to check her balance ahead of payments resuming in October and found that more than $175,000 in debt had been erased. She's one of 804,