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In some states with laws on transgender bathrooms, officials may not know how they will be enforced 06/26/2023 03:54pm • BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — When North Dakota restricted which bathrooms transgender students can use in public schools and universities this year, the school district in the state's largest city promised to ignore the new rules. A Republican legislator then called for confiscating its state funding, bu Amazon wants small businesses to help make deliveries in rural areas and big cities 06/26/2023 01:11pm • Many small businesses have long relied on Amazon’s platform and delivery pipeline to boost their business. Now, Amazon wants to enlist them to help with deliveries, too. The e-commerce giant on Monday officially launched a program it has been piloting since 2020 that pays small business owners to How to Cut Costs in Retirement 06/25/2023 08:00pm • As if retirement wasn't hard enough, inflation and economic uncertainties are adding to the pressures. Money is a big part of the stress. Financial planners generally recommend that people plan on spending 70% to 80% of their preretirement income during retirement. But many people worry that they wo At least three dead and five injured at early morning shootings in Kansas City, Missouri 06/25/2023 06:20pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — At least three people have been found dead, and at least five others are thought to be injured, police in Missouri said while investigating two shootings with multiple victims in the same area of Kansas City early Sunday morning. Officers were called to the intersection of NYC gets $25M for e-bike charging stations, seeking to prevent deadly battery fires 06/25/2023 03:31pm • NEW YORK (AP) — After a series of fires involving faulty e-bike batteries including a recent blaze that claimed four lives, New York City officials announced Sunday that they are receiving a $25 million emergency grant from the federal government to fund scores of charging stations citywide. Mayor Drug abuse is soaring in Sao Paulo's downtown. Users, residents and shop owners are all suffering 06/25/2023 10:28am • SAO PAULO (AP) — The decline of the downtown area of Sao Paulo, Brazil has accelerated over the last year. Crack users seem to be everywhere, roaming the central streets of South America's biggest city. Shop owners worry about robberies and residents fret about muggings. And with a haphazard effor Hajj pilgrims perform final rituals in Mecca before heading to Mina 06/24/2023 05:20pm • MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Pilgrims streamed into Mecca’s Grand Mosque on Saturday to perform their final rituals before heading to Mina in preparation for the Hajj, the fifth pillar of Islam and one of the largest religious gatherings in the world. They moved through the white marble courtyards Rosie's Gaming Emporium eyeing Manassas Park for casino-like operation 06/24/2023 07:32am • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. Rosie's Gaming Emporium is looking to make a push into Manassas Park. Churchill Downs Inc., the operator of Rosie's, announced Fri In Iran, a restorer brings back to life famed Cadillac Sevilles once assembled in the country 06/24/2023 02:21am • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The sleek, polished dark blue 1978 Cadillac Seville eased slowly out of a showroom near Iran's capital, its driver carefully inserting the 8-track tape that came with it to blast the sounds of a time long since past. The Sevilles, once assembled in Iran, represented the height Nearly 1.5 million foreign pilgrims have arrived in Saudi Arabia so far for annual Hajj pilgrimage 06/23/2023 10:45pm • MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Muslim pilgrims streamed into the holy city of Mecca on Friday ahead of the start of Hajj next week, as the annual pilgrimage returns to its monumental scale after three years of heavy restrictions because of the coronavirus pandemic. Saudi officials say close to 1.5 mi New York City leans on public for help with e-bike crackdown after deadly fires 06/23/2023 07:51pm • NEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials called on the public to help with a crackdown on unsafe e-bike shops after a spate of deadly fires caused by lithium ion batteries, the latest of which killed four people in Manhattan’s Chinatown on Tuesday. In the days since, fire officials have issued c Mexico probes video showing gunmen demanding protection money from bar hostesses at gunpoint 06/23/2023 05:32pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in Mexico said Friday they’re investigating a video that appears to show gunmen from a drug cartel forcing female bar hostesses to kneel on the floor in a mock execution and extorting money from them. The video, posted on social media, shows one of the gunmen holdi Virginia Daybook 06/23/2023 04:29pm • Associated Press Virginia Daybook for Friday, Jun. 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 Stat $100M year-round water park gives families more to do in Atlantic City 06/23/2023 02:35pm • ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — It was awful weather for the first full day of summer Thursday: rainy, cold and windy. But it was perfect for what Bart Blatstein is selling. The Philadelphia developer is about to open Island Waterpark, a $100 million indoor aquatic recreation facility designed to appea Review: If you can stand the heat, get back into the kitchen for Season 2 of 'The Bear' 06/23/2023 12:52pm • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJPc-WBjvVo If you've ever worked in the service industry, you know the thrilling chaos of restaurant life. If you can't stand the heat, you may want to stay out of the kitchen, but you'll be missing one of the tastiest treats on television. Season 2 of "The