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Business Highlights: Amazon workers plan walkout over layoffs; UPS strike looms 05/23/2023 04:34pm • ___ Car seats and baby formula are regulated. Is social media next? The U.S. surgeon general is warning there is not enough evidence to show that social media is safe for young people. Dr. Vivek Murthy is calling on tech companies, parents and caregivers to take ���immediate action to protect kids n Virginia Daybook 05/23/2023 04:31pm • Associated Press Virginia Daybook for Tuesday, May. 23. 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 Sta Toddler shot by stray bullet at Utah day care while playing outside 05/23/2023 03:59pm • SPANISH FORK, Utah (AP) ��� A 2-year-old boy shot in the head by a stray bullet while playing outside at day care in Utah is in stable condition, the facility's owner and authorities said Tuesday. Spanish Fork police believe the bullet came from a pellet or air gun shot from a farming field across t What���s the best car to get your new teen driver? 05/23/2023 03:35pm • Is your teenager ready for their first car? Consumer Reports and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety are out with their 2023 list for best cars for young drivers. Unfortunately, crashes sometimes happen. "And we think that parents should want their kids to be well protected in that eventua Walter Royal, North Carolina chef who won on 'Iron Chef America' cooking with ostrich, dies at 67 05/23/2023 02:12pm • Walter Royal, the chef of a destination steakhouse in North Carolina who triumphed as a challenger on ���Iron Chef America��� by cooking mostly Southern dishes with ostrich meat, has died. The Angus Barn in Raleigh, where Royal served as executive chef since the 1990s, announced his passing on its w Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 05/23/2023 02:04pm • 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 8 tips for parents and teens on social media use ��� from the US surgeon general 05/23/2023 01:46pm • The U.S. surgeon general is calling for tech companies and lawmakers to take ���immediate action��� to protect kids' and adolescents' mental health on social media. But after years of insufficient action by both social media platforms and policymakers, parents and young people still bear most of th Parents of Native American basketball players file federal complaint over racist taunts at game 05/23/2023 01:26pm • BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) ��� The parents of two Native American players on a North Dakota high school basketball team are seeking a federal investigation into racist taunts their sons endured during a game in January. The parents of Andre Austin and Teysean Eaglestaff filed a discrimination complaint ear Police in Portugal resume search for Madeleine McCann, British child missing since 2007 05/23/2023 12:21pm • ARADE DAM, Portugal (AP) ��� Police on Tuesday renewed the search for Madeleine McCann, the British child who disappeared in 2007 in Portugal, with officers digging and scraping the surface of land near a dam close to where she went missing. About 20 officers with rakes and hoe-like tools spread out Timeline in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann 05/23/2023 11:19am • LONDON (AP) ��� The disappearance of 3-year-old Madeleine McCann in 2007 while her British family was on vacation in the Algarve resort region of Portugal has been a mystery for 16 years. Investigators renewed their search for her Tuesday at a reservoir not far from where she went missing. Divers s Wish you could tweak that text? WhatsApp is letting users edit messages 05/23/2023 11:18am • LONDON (AP) ��� Wish you could reword that snarky text message you just sent? WhatsApp is allowing users to do just that, for up to 15 minutes after they send a message. The popular chat app announced in a blog post Monday that users can correct misspellings, add more details or otherwise change wha From Xerox to TV box, long awaited adaptation of 'American Born Chinese' book hits Disney+ 05/23/2023 11:02am • Gene Luen Yang remembers feeling pumped in 2007 when Hollywood came calling about his trailblazing graphic novel ���American Born Chinese.��� But that excitement turned into exasperation when it became clear the interested party completely missed the point of the book. ���It came out that the reason High blood pressure plagues many Black Americans. Combined with COVID, it's catastrophic 05/23/2023 10:38am • DISTRICT HEIGHTS, Md. (AP) ��� Charles Thomas was unwell but he had no time for rest. He was on the cusp of a management promotion and a move to Florida to begin a new chapter that would alter his family���s financial future and break the cycle of generational poverty. Yet, as his family���s prospe Why do so many Black women die in pregnancy? One reason: Doctors don't take them seriously 05/23/2023 10:34am • BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) ��� Angelica Lyons knew it was dangerous for Black women to give birth in America. As a public health instructor, she taught college students about racial health disparities, including the fact that Black women in the U.S. are nearly three times more likely to die during pregna Car seats and baby formula are regulated. Is social media next? 05/23/2023 07:20am • The U.S. surgeon general is warning there is not enough evidence to show that social media is safe for children and teens ��� and is calling on tech companies, parents and caregivers to take ���immediate action to protect kids now." With young people's social media use ���near universal��� but its