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How to negotiate with debt collectors 06/28/2023 10:35am • Whether you owe a debt or not, getting a phone call from a debt collector is never a pleasant experience. And it's one that may be happening more frequently in recent months. The hiatus that some states and companies put on debt collection activities at the height of the pandemic has largely ende Rivalry between Trump and DeSantis deepens with dueling New Hampshire campaign events 06/28/2023 06:39am • HOLLIS, N.H. (AP) ��� The rivalry between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump deepened Tuesday as the two leading Republican White House candidates mocked each other during dueling events in the critical early voting state of New Hampshire. Addressing a town hall in Hollis Thai court acquits 5 who were accused of blocking the queen's motorcade during 2020 protests 06/28/2023 01:12am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� A court in Thailand on Wednesday acquitted a student activist and four other people of impeding the motorcade of the country���s queen during pro-democracy demonstrations in 2020, an offense that could have seen them sentenced to 16 years in prison or even the death penalty. The Ban Bernardo Ar��valo, Guatemala's electoral surprise, makes corruption fight top priority 06/27/2023 10:12pm • GUATEMALA CITY (AP) ��� Bernardo Ar��valo, the surprise candidate in Guatemala's first round of presidential voting, says the choice in the country's Aug. 20 runoff is a clear one: Continue living under a corrupt system with his rival or rebuild the country���s democracy with him. In an interview w Wagner chief walks free after armed revolt. Other Russians defying the Kremlin aren���t so lucky 06/27/2023 08:52pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin led an armed rebellion against the Russian military ��� and walked free. Others who merely voiced criticism against the Kremlin weren't so lucky. On Tuesday, Russia���s main domestic security agency, the FSB, said it had dropped the crimina TikTok forming a 'Youth Council' to make the platform safer for teens 06/27/2023 07:07pm • TikTok announced the formation of a global "Youth Council" on Tuesday, another step the company says it's taking to build a safer platform for its younger users. "Listening to the experience of teens is one of the most important steps we can take to build a safe platform for teens and their fam Honduras copies El Salvador's playbook in anti-gang crackdown 06/27/2023 05:52pm • TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) ��� A crackdown in Honduras on gangs in the nation���s prisons is eerily similar to one carried out last year in neighboring El Salvador by President Nayib Bukele, observers said Tuesday. Like authorities in El Salvador, police in Honduras who launched a prison sweep Mond Virginia Daybook 06/27/2023 04:30pm • Associated Press Virginia Daybook for Tuesday, Jun. 27. 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 Mid Atlantic Daybook 06/27/2023 04:29pm • Associated Press Mid Atlantic Daybook for Tuesday, Jun. 27. 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. The Mid-Atlantic bureau is reachable at 202-641-9660 a FBI and Homeland Security ignored 'massive amount' of intelligence before Jan. 6, Senate report says 06/27/2023 02:19pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security downplayed or ignored ���a massive amount of intelligence information��� ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S Capitol, according to the chairman of a Senate panel that on Tuesday released a new report on the intelligence fai After a far-right victory in German county, a man in neo-Nazi clothing hands balloons to children 06/27/2023 11:53am • BERLIN (AP) ��� German authorities are investigating a video showing a man in neo-Nazi clothing handing balloons to kindergartners a day after the country's main far-right party won control of a county administration. The video was taken Monday in front of a kindergarten in Sonneberg county, accordi A brazen sledgehammer robbery at an upscale jewelry store shocks Mexico City 06/27/2023 10:15am • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Three men armed with sledgehammers and hatchets walked into an upscale mall in Mexico City and spent about a minute bashing in reinforced plate glass windows at a luxury jewelry store, before snatching merchandise and fleeing. The bizarre scene was captured on video on Monday b Verdict due for 5 protesters accused of blocking Thai queen's car. Law allows the death penalty 06/27/2023 01:03am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� A Thai court is to deliver a verdict Wednesday in the case of five people accused of impeding the queen���s motorcade during a pro-democracy march in 2020, an offense that if judged egregious could bring a death sentence. Hundreds of criminal cases have arisen from the student-led p Guatemala voters send 2 presidential candidates on opposite sides of political spectrum to a runoff 06/26/2023 10:17pm • GUATEMALA CITY (AP) ��� Guatemala voters sent two presidential candidates from opposite sides of the political spectrum to an Aug. 20 runoff, giving hope to many disenchanted citizens that change might be possible, according to preliminary results Monday. With 98% of the votes counted from Sunday's Hackers steal personal information on thousands of pilot applicants at American and Southwest 06/26/2023 09:40pm • DALLAS (AP) ��� Personal information for more than 8,000 applicants to become pilots at American Airlines and Southwest Airlines was stolen when hackers broke into a data base maintained by a recruiting company. The breach at Austin, Texas-based Pilot Credentials occurred April 30, and the airlines