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Donatella Versace slams Italian government's anti-gay policies from La Scala stage 09/26/2023 04:57pm • MILAN (AP) ��� Donatella Versace slammed the Italian government for what she described as anti-gay policies in a heartfelt and personal speech that referenced her late brother, Gianni Versace, while receiving a fashion award this weekend. ���Our government is trying to take away people���s rights to Jill Biden unveils dedicated showcase of art by military children in the White House East Wing 09/26/2023 04:56pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Visitors to the White House have something new to feast their eyes on, and perhaps learn from, too. Jill Biden unveiled a new display, The Military Children's Corner, in the East Wing hallway on Tuesday, featuring artwork by children from military families. It is part of her Whi Mandela's granddaughter Zoleka dies at 43. Her life was full of tragedy but she embraced his legacy 09/26/2023 04:46pm • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) ��� Zoleka Mandela, a granddaughter of Nelson Mandela whose life was tangled up in addiction, a suicide attempt, a battle with cancer and the tragedy of losing two young children before she came back from the shadows to embrace his legacy, has died. She was 43. Her death Not again. Federal workers who've weathered past government shutdowns brace for yet another ordeal 09/26/2023 04:06pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� John Hubert, an airport security officer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, recalls helping fellow Transportation Security Administration workers get essentials from food banks when they worked without pay during the last government shutdown. By the end of the 35-day ordeal, he needed Mississippi announced incentives for company days after executive gave campaign money to governor 09/26/2023 02:33pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� Mississippi announced financial incentives for a shipbuilder to expand in Gulfport in 2020, days after the president of the shipbuilder's parent company made a $10,000 campaign contribution to Republican Gov. Tate Reeves, records show. Gulf Ship LLC, which received the state Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 09/26/2023 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 3 bullets lodged in classrooms, no one injured at elementary school after Southeast DC shooting 09/26/2023 11:08am • Gunfire that struck an elementary school in Southeast D.C. sent students into a lockdown on Monday afternoon, according to the school's principal. Two classrooms at Stanton Elementary School were struck by bullets but no one was injured, according to a letter the school's principal wrote to paren Official Rules ��� WTOP October 2023 Instagram Swag Giveaway 09/26/2023 10:21am • NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE CHANCES OF WINNING �� When to Enter: You may enter the WTOP ���Instagram Swag Sweepstakes��� (���Sweepstakes���) from 8:00 AM Eastern Time (���ET���) on October 16, 2023 through 5:00:00 PM ET on October 29, 2023 (���Sweepstakes Period���). Musk's X is the biggest purveyor of disinformation, EU official says 09/26/2023 09:30am • LONDON (AP) ��� A top European Union official said Tuesday that the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, is the biggest source of fake news and urged owner Elon Musk to comply with the bloc's laws aimed at combating disinformation. Ahead of upcoming elections, Google, TikTok, Microsoft an Oregon's top court asked to decide if GOP senators who boycotted Legislature can be reelected 09/25/2023 08:34pm • SALEM, Ore. (AP) ��� The Oregon Court of Appeals on Monday asked the state's highest court to decide whether Republican state senators who carried out a record-setting GOP walkout this year can run for reelection. The senators are challenging a constitutional amendment approved by voters in 2022 tha Democratic Sen. Menendez rejects calls to resign and says cash found in home was not bribe proceeds 09/25/2023 07:21pm • UNION CITY, N.J. (AP) ��� Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey defiantly pushed back against federal corruption charges on Monday, saying nearly half a million dollars in cash authorities found in his home was from his personal savings, not from bribes, and was on hand for emergencies. Re David McCallum, star of hit TV series 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' and 'NCIS,' dies at 90 09/25/2023 06:47pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Actor David McCallum, who became a teen heartthrob in the hit series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." in the 1960s and was the eccentric medical examiner in the popular "NCIS" 40 years later, has died. He was 90. McCallum died Monday of natural causes surrounded by family at New York P More schools are adopting 4-day weeks. For parents, the challenge is day 5 09/25/2023 06:20pm • INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) ��� It's a Monday in September, but with schools closed, the three children in the Pruente household have nowhere to be. Callahan, 13, contorts herself into a backbend as 7-year-old Hudson fiddles with a balloon and 10-year-old Keegan plays the piano. Like a growing number of Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 09/25/2023 01:14pm • oto (AP) ��� 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 Questi Book Review: Rural Appalachian family���s dreams turn dark in new Ron Rash novel, `The Caretaker��� 09/25/2023 11:53am • Ron Rash has made the fog-shrouded ridges of Appalachia his fictional home in novels and short stories over a highly acclaimed career dating back decades. With ���The Caretaker,��� his first novel in seven years, he returns to this familiar mountain terrain and its remote hill culture. Set in the ea