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Maryland State House lockdown prompted by threatening call lifted, nothing suspicious found 03/01/2024 07:15am • Police locked down the Maryland State House for about two hours following an anonymous threat that prompted officials to close the legislative building and the surrounding area on Thursday evening. Law enforcement officials gave the all clear to reopen the area just before 7 p.m. after sweeping t The Philadelphia Phillies are scrapping $1 hot dog nights following unruly fan behavior 02/29/2024 10:58pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� For more than a quarter-century, Phillies fans considered dollar hot dog night among the best ballpark promotions ��� but the team has now decided it was the wurst. Those dog days of April ��� when Philly weather is cold and the wieners are a steal ��� are going, going, gone What Does Hiring a Lawyer Cost? 02/29/2024 07:00pm • Attorneys are infamously expensive, but it's often hard to know how much hiring a lawyer will cost. To shed some light on the field, two companies that provide attorney practice management tools have begun analyzing attorney rates and publishing their findings. Using anonymized data for thousands of Pentagon leak suspect Jack Teixeira expected to plead guilty in federal case 02/29/2024 06:24pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guard member accused of leaking highly classified military documents on a social media platform, is expected to plead guilty in his federal case, according to court papers filed Thursday. Prosecutors asked the judge to schedule a change o Indiana Legislature approves bill adding additional verification steps to voter registration 02/29/2024 05:45pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Indiana lawmakers passed legislation Thursday that expands the power of the state to verify voters' addresses and adds an additional residency requirement for first-time voters. The bill's Republican sponsor state Sen. Mike Gaskill called it a ���commonsense bill��� that adds Palestinian-American woman who faces trial in Israeli military court is released on bail 02/29/2024 04:20pm • OFER PRISON, West Bank (AP) ��� A U.S. citizen who was dragged out of her home and detained by Israeli authorities for over three weeks was released on bail Thursday to wait out the remainder of her trial in the West Bank, the latest in a case attracting international attention for prosecuting an Am The US is bracing for complex, fast-moving threats to elections this year, FBI director warns 02/29/2024 02:06pm • McLEAN, VA. (AP) ��� The United States expects to face fast-moving threats to American elections this year as artificial intelligence and other technological advances have made interference and meddling easier than before, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday. ���The U.S. has confronted forei Russian onslaught targets more Ukrainian towns and villages as Ukraine says it shot down 3 warplanes 02/29/2024 12:48pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Russian forces are pushing hard against more Ukrainian towns and villages in eastern and southeastern Ukraine as Moscow tries to press its current advantage in weapons and troops, Kyiv officials said Thursday. Despite Russia���s apparent offensive momentum on the ground, Ukrai Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge picked up last month in sign of still-elevated prices 02/29/2024 12:42pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� An inflation gauge favored by the Federal Reserve increased in January, the latest sign that the slowdown in U.S. consumer price increases is occurring unevenly from month to month. The government reported Thursday that prices rose 0.3% from December to January, up from 0.1% in t Putin warns that sending Western troops to Ukraine risks a global nuclear war 02/29/2024 10:04am • MOSCOW (AP) ��� Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed Thursday to fulfill Moscow���s goals in Ukraine and sternly warned the West against deeper involvement in the fighting, saying that such a move is fraught with the risk of a global nuclear conflict. Putin's blunt warning came in a state-of-the-n Wildfire grows into one of largest in Texas history as flames menace multiple small towns 02/28/2024 11:37pm • CANADIAN, Texas (AP) ��� A cluster of wildfires scorched the Texas Panhandle on Wednesday, including a blaze that grew into one of the largest in state history, as flames moved with alarming speed and blackened the landscape across a vast stretch of small towns and cattle ranches. An 83-year-old gra 16 Best Jobs for High School Graduates 02/28/2024 07:00pm • Careers for high school graduatesHigh school graduates have great options when it comes to careers. Here are 16 opportunities for those with high school degrees or equivalents. Some jobs on this list also require some postsecondary training, but there's no need to go into college debt for them.The j Medicaid expansion proposal advances through Republican-led Mississippi House, will go to Senate 02/28/2024 06:01pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� Mississippi's Republican-led House passed a bill Wednesday that would expand Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands more residents in one of the poorest states in the U.S. ��� a landmark shift after state leaders refused to consider the policy for years. The bill's passa UC Berkeley officials denounce protest that forced police to evacuate Jewish event for safety 02/28/2024 06:00pm • Leaders of the University of California, Berkeley, have denounced a protest against an event organized by Jewish students that forced police to evacuate attendees and a speaker from Israel for their safety after demonstrators broke through doors. A criminal investigation has begun, the university an Prince Harry loses a court challenge over being stripped of a UK security detail. He plans to appeal 02/28/2024 11:56am • LONDON (AP) ��� Prince Harry 's fight for publicly funded protection was rejected Wednesday by a London judge who said the U.K. government didn't act irrationally when it stripped him of security privileges after he quit working as a member of the royal family and moved to the United States. Harry p